Books

  • Private Sector Investment in Tanzania: A Viewpoint in the Creation of Employment Opportunities

    This study assessed private sector investment and the creation of employment opportunities in Tanzania. The study employed a cross-sectional research design.The questionnaire was completed by 181 people, and the semi-structured interview was conducted by 16 people. The objective one, which assessed the level of private sector investment in the creation of employment opportunities,was analysed descriptively. With the aid of SPSS version 21, responses on the level of private sector investment in the creation of employment opportunities were captured using a five-point Likert scale. Objectives two on the challenges facing the private sector's investment and three on the best actions to be taken to improve the private sector's investment towards the creation of employment opportunities were analysed through content analysis.The study found that there was evidence that private sector investment in the study area resulted in job creation.However,private sector investment is hampered by difficulties that hinder Tanzania's efforts to create the required job opportunities.Hence,policymakers and the government should improve the operating environment for private sector investment and improve the communication mechanisms to capture private sector potential in employment creation in Tanzania.

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  • THE ECHOES OF ORE SECTOR

    ‘The Echoes of Ore Sector of the Nigerian/Biafran Civil War,’ reminds one of the encounters between the Nigerian and Biafran soldiers during the 30 month’s old civil war (1967-1970). The narratives presented by the author, disclosed how the Biafran troops ventured to liberate the Mid-West Region of Nigeria, and perhaps, capture Lagos, the then capital of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, where Dodan Barracks, which housed the Nigerian Army Headquarters, and the abode of the, then, Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, (Lt.-Col.)General Yakubu Gowon, was situated. The Biafran Leader appointed a Military Governor for the Region, in the person of Major Albert Okonkwo, and thereafter, the Region was renamed the ‘Republic of Benin.’...

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  • I HATE DIVORCE: An Insight into the Nature of Marriage and Causes of Family Crises and Divorce

    One of the institutions that have faced multiple challenges in our modern time is the institution of marriage. For so many in the west, marriage is outdated, accounting for the crashing of several marriages annually. For some who come into marriage, there is the difficulty of remaining in marriage, accounting for the rise in divorce cases. In the face of several questions emerging about marriage, from where shall come the answers needed? In this book titled: I Hate Divorce: An Insight into the Nature of Marriage and Causes of family Crises, Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip, has not only shown the value and potential of marriage but responded to emerging fundamental questions bordering on divorce...

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  • EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS

    I consider writing this foreword beyond mere honor done me, for two broad reasons; firstly, having spent twenty-five (25) years in the university system, Professing for over a decade now and still counting, I was tempted to rationalize that very little is left unstudied in the field of Educational Management and Policy. This text titled EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT AND POLICY ANALYSIS; APPLICATION OF BASIC CONCEPTS IN ADMINISTRATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION has proven this axiom that I considered germane by default very dogmatic and otherwise. The advent of this creative approach in this new addition to the subject, authored by Very Rev. Fr. Dr. Bakwaph Peter Kanyip, an Associate Professor in Educational Management, has not only educated me and my co-travelers, who hold the same shade of opinion on the subject, but has equally through this humbled effort made us comprehend in lucid language through its logical analysis that much is yet to be covered and indeed studied in the discipline that has today become very sophisticated at a higher level of scholarship, and even much subscribed, at postgraduate level. Secondly, this in itself has exemplified the beauty of knowledge generation that cannot be pidgin- held or compartmentalized...

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