GPH-International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research

INDIGENOUS ORTHOPAEDICS SYSTEM AMONG THE JUKUN OF WUKARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, TARABA STATE

2026-04-02T09:53:20+00:00

This paper examines the nature and practice of indigenous orthopedics system among the Jukun in Wukari Local Government Area. Pre-colonial Africans were highly innovative, inventive and development conscious, and this is confirmed by their ability to independently use herbs, roots, bark of trees, animals, soil and medical ideas or techniques in healing or solving medical problems. Wukari has been one of the areas or places in northern Nigeria where man was able to engage in ethno-medical doctoring. The paper, however, assesses the practice of indigenous or traditional orthopedics system among the Jukun. It establishes that traditional orthopedics system plays important roles in health care delivery. However, some factors like dearth of practitioners, loss of interest by the young ones, Christian beliefs and teaching, urbanization, and deforestation have been factors militating against the effective practice of traditional orthopedic system among the Jukun in Wukari Local Government Area. Methodologically, both primary and secondary sources of historical data were adopted. The paper concludes by asserting that enormous potentials and opportunities exist in the traditional orthopedics system among the Jukun as a veritable tool for health care delivery.

EARNINGS MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND CORPORATE VALUE OF LISTED PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN NIGERIA

2026-04-04T09:16:33+00:00

This study investigated the relationship between earnings management practices and the corporate valuation of listed pharmaceutical companies in Nigeria. The ex post facto research design was adopted as the appropriate research design. Data was collected from a sample of six relevant companies for a period of thirteen years - from 2010 to 2022. Data was extracted from the audited annual reports of the selected companies. Earnings management practices was measured using discretionary accruals management (DAC), and real activities management (REC) while corporate valuation was measured using company specific market capitalization (MCP), and book value (BKV). Additionally, firm size, measured by the log of total assets was included in the modelling to account for the effects of moderating variables. In addition to several diagnostic tests, the panel least square (PLS) estimation method was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that discretionary accruals management had a consistently negative but statistically insignificant relationship with both measures of corporate value - suggestive of its limited impact on corporate valuation in the sector. In contrast, real activities management reported significant relationships with all firm value measures. It positively influenced market capitalization indicating short-term boosts to market-based valuation metrics. However, it had a significant negative effect on book value, reflecting the depletion of resources and erosion of intrinsic asset value associated with operational manipulations. Based on the findings, the study recommended that companies adopt balanced earnings management practices, and also reduce excessive reliance on real activities management. It is further recommended that regulators should strengthen oversight mechanisms to reduce earnings manipulation and ensure compliance with financial reporting standards.

Peer Relations As Predictors of Emotional Promiscuity Among Undergraduate Students

2026-04-09T13:01:36+00:00

The study investigated peer relations as predictors of emotional promiscuity among undergraduate students. Ninety-five (95) undergraduate students comprising 59 females and 36 males with a mean age of 20.96 and SD of 2.15 were selected using multi-stage (cluster, simple random: by balloting and purposive) sampling techniques as participants from Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu. Jones (2011) Emotional Promiscuity Scale (EPS) and Aydoğdu (2022) Peer Relationship Scale were used for data collections, correlational design was adopted, while Hierarchical Multiple Regression statistics with the aid of SPSS version (27) to manage the data. Findings shows that peer relation (popularity Stβ= .201, t= 1.214, trust Stβ= -.137, t= -.671, insightfulness Stβ= .148, t= .790 at p< .05) did not predict emotional promiscuity. Hence, future researchers should investigate other variables that can cause or bring about significant prediction of emotional promiscuity.

Green Selling Antecedents and their effects on Business Performance of Fast-Food firms in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

2026-04-08T12:25:53+00:00

This study investigated the relationship between green selling and business performance of fast-food firms in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. In response to the growing environmental consciousness and the increasing emphasis on ecological business activities, firms are delving into green strategies as source of competitive advantage. Particularly, this study examines the effect of green innovation and eco-labeling on some of the critical performance metrics. The study adopted a cross-sectional research design and primary data were collected and analyzed to determine the extent of relationships among the study variables. The aftermath findings of the study shows that green selling practices, particularly green innovation and eco-labeling have significant and positive outcomes on business performance proxies on well as staff drive and organizational goodwill. The study concludes that adopting green selling strategies would enhance firm’s performance and reinforce competitive positioning among fast-food firms. It therefore recommends that business executives and owners prioritize inventive and environmentally responsible reforms to improve organizational performance.

AN ARDL APPROACH TO MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN DEBT IN NIGERIA

2026-04-11T10:41:03+00:00

Following the desire to investigate the macroeconomic determinants of foreign debt in Nigeria, the study used the Autoregressive Distributive Lag (ARDL) with the help of gross domestic product, consumer price index, domestic credit, productivity index, population, foreign reserve and balance of payment account as the utilised macroeconomic determinants. The secondary data used was the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin and was used between the year 1981 and 2023 and unit root test augmented Dickey Fuller test was used to test the stationarity of the data set used. The unit root test value indicated that after the initial differencing, the data set were stationary whereas the ARDL value indicated that in the short term, the consumer price index, gross domestic product and population were significant in explaining the external debt in Nigeria whereas balance of payment, domestic credit, productivity index and external reserve were not. The result that should have been obtained in the error correction is that the rate of error correction during the period was at 51.3. The study concludes that the macroeconomic variables that are critical in explaining the foreign debt of Nigeria include gross domestic product, consumer price index and population and recommends that among others, deliberate effort should be consciously made by the government in providing environment that will enable business strive being a striving business will help contribute to the overall gross domestic product which have been seen to be a key determinant of foreign debt in Nigeria.