FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

This study examined the impact of gender inequality on women's employment opportunities in Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State. The study used quantitative research methods, and a survey design was adopted as the research design. A random sample of one hundred (100) respondents was randomly selected using a simple
random sampling technique. The research instrument used to collect data was the questionnaire, which is the basic instrument for data collection. Content validity was used for validation, and the test-retest method was used to determine the reliability of the instrument. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data. The study used frequency distribution and the simple percentage method. The study found that most women are highly qualified for employment in Nigeria but are not in the workforce due to various factors, such as gender inequality.

The study provided an insight the impact of bureaucracy in Nigeria public service: A case study of Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The objectives were to identify the major environmental challenges confronting FIRS performance in tax generation of Nigeria and to suggest ways of improving its efficiency, to find out if there is a significant relationship between the quality of FIRS, bureaucracy and its tax revenue generation in Nigeria, and to identify the major environmental challenges affecting bureaucratic performance in Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The population of the study was divided into two groups, first, the FIRS staff, and taxpayers and then FIRS management staff in a major branch of the Federal Inland Revenue Service in Benin City. The study adopts the simple random sampling method in selecting 175 respondents. Descriptive statistical analysis was used to analyse the data collected with the aid of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 21. The study revealed that the introduction of Information Communication Technology initiative has led to improve productivity at Federal Inland Revenue Service. Also, the study shows that, operations and management of work activities at Federal Inland Revenue Service are carry out by specialized individuals.

The 1983 coup d’état that ousted the Shehu Shagari government out of power gave to justify their action with the poor health condition of across the country. The master minders claimed that the country’s hospitals had become “mere consulting clinics. “In the speech announcing the overthrow of the government, Sani Abacha (then a brigadier- general) lamented, “Health services are in (a) shambles as our hospitals are reduced to mere consulting clinics without drugs, water and equipment.” Depressingly, 40 years after, the last 24 years under civilian rule, not much improvement has been witnessed in the sector. (Source Punch Newspaper 14 September, 2021. page 14). Things have deteriorated in the sector so much that even the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), alongside the political elite, does not trust the country’s hospitals enough for their medical needs. Instead, have resorts to medical tourism in the United Kingdom at huge public huge expense. The British Broadcasting Corporation says Nigeria spends about $1 billion annually on medical tourism, particularly to India. This poor health infrastructure no doubt is the basic reason for the high-level exit of skilled medical workers from the county. The study examined the health implications of globalization of skilled Medical Health workers with evidence from post Covid -19 Brain Drains in Edo State Nigeria. It was discovered that globalization has produced significant shifts everywhere. Healthcare is undergoing dramatic globalization. This research is about the high level of brain drain as experience in the post covid -19 in Edo State Nigeria. With the mass exodus of doctors fleeing an increasingly hostile work and economic environment, if care is not taken, there will be nobody to consult at the decayed “clinics” again. Health is not valued until sickness comes. The study revealed that despite the risks of frontline workers during the pandemic –migration to high income countries remain attractive to medical skilled and health workers from Edo State due to better working conditions including remuneration and workload. The implications is that if not managed well, increased demand for health workers will leave considerable gaps in Edo already weak health system. (Nation Newspaper on Apr 25, 2022). It is recommended that government should intensify effort in the proper funding and encouragement of health
workers in Nigeria in order to arrest the continuous increase of brain drain in Edo State
and in Nigeria.