Nmaintenance culture in nigeria pdf

This study looked into the issue of maintenance as. However, without a strong maintenance culture, efforts at infrastructural development will amount to nothing. To this end, it is hoped that this paper will stimulate further discussions among public. Cultural top tips for uk businesses working with nigeria.

Nigerian food culture major tribes in nigeria and their. The theme of the exhibition is nigeria one united people and its essence is to promote unity among the diverse nigerian culture. Nigerian people and culture famous for her huge population of more than 150 million and with more than 370 ethnics groups, nigeria has the highest population in african continent. Nigeria also has over 1150 dialects and ethnic groups.

Nigerian is a country endowed with a lot of cultural heritages sourced from its multicultural communities. Maintenance culture, determinant factors, facilities and asset. This number includes 510 living languages, 2 second languages without native speakers and 9 extinct languages. Strategic maintenancemanagement in nigerian industries core. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Pdf the state of maintenance in nigeria as seen over the years find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Mathematical models were used to assess the performance of maintenance personnel in the four prominent manufacturing industries in akure, nigeria. The name is derived from cash inducements hidden in brown envelopes and given to journalists during press briefings.

The maintenance management sector in public section in nigeria has suffered from lack of funds and negligence for a period of time. Poor maintenance culture has drawn the nation a thousand steps backward and one of the stride actions that could salvage the country from the total mess of infrastructural decay is maintenance. The paper exposed the extent of non maintenance culture in nigeria which has rendered many useful investments such as road network, buildings, plants, industries and other infrastructures useless to the extent of inability to support production. Also autonomous maintenance teams consisting of operators, engineers and managers should be set up with the aims of improving personnel competence and. This definition is consistent with the directive on nigerian culture. D department of estate management, nnamdi azikiwe university, awka, anambra state, nigeria obinna l. Nigeria often called the federal republic of nigeria is located in the west of africa. Moving from a repairfocused to a reliabilityfocused culture.

The neglect for public property within the bounty of natural resources only. The education sector was not spare of the menace as well. The directorgeneral national orientation agency noa,alhaji idi farouk has identified poor maintenance culture as a contributory factor to poor development of facilities in the country. Nigeria s movie production industry, nicknamed nollywood, is the secondlargest in the world by volume. Evaluation of maintenance culture in manufacturing industries in akure metropolitan of nigeria article pdf available january 2012 with 2,142 reads how we measure reads. The sale of crude oil represents about 70% of government revenue and an incredible 90% of the countrys exports. Building maintenance comprises the preservation of buildings to retain their durability and economic values. It is a significant aspect of facilities management that necessitates planning. Pdf evaluation of maintenance culture in manufacturing. The country is made up of three major ethnic groups namely. Nigeria involves capital overheads, but over the years the attitude of leaders and public servants imply absence of the culture of maintenance. For instance, nigeria has consistently experienced poor transportation infrastructure due to insufficiency and lack of maintenance.

Strategic maintenance management in nigerian industries. When and how 266 centrality and importance to the debates for societal change. Thus, nigeria has jettisoned a maintenance culture. The challenges of healthcare facilities maintenance in tertiary hospitals in south east nigeria esther i. To this end, a proper maintenance culture is being advocated as a panacea for sustainable development. Business culture in nigeria world business culture. Poor maintenance culture killed nigerias refineries nnpc. The impact of physical facilities on students level of. To achieve this, i wish to suggest the establishment of special maintenance units in all public structures. However, the image of a helpless, oppressed, and marginalized group has undermined their proper study, and little recognition has been granted to the various integral functions that nigerian women have performed throughout history. Contemporary status of most nigerian cultural heritages both material and nonmaterial is best described as endangered. Culture helps to accumulates, control and organise the human experience. A case study of ekiti state olanrewaju, sharafadeen babatunde owolabi and anifowose, ojo segun and department of building technology, school of environmental studies, the federal polytechnic, ado ekiti, ekiti state, nigeria.

To gain weight and conform with african standards of beauty, nigerian girls can consume food all day in fattening rooms. It is a common practice in nigeria and many journalists do know that it is unethical. The professionalism hammered into civil servants trained by the colonialists, which aligned with indigenous cultural tendency to value and. The identified problems that are associated with the implementation of housing policies in nigeria are poor administration, inadequate funding, insufficient. The impact of physical facilities on students level of motivation and academic performance in senior secondary schools in south west nigeria dr. The culture of nigeria is shaped by nigeria s multiple ethnic groups. Nigeria and maintenance culture the guardian nigeria. This research studied the effect of factors such as lack of maintenance policy, inadequate provision of funds for maintenance, etc, on building maintenance in the university of ilorin. Nigeria s massive oil reserves can be seen as both a blessing and a curse. Determinant factors in development of maintenance culture in. Good maintenance culture, a panacea for sustainable dev.

Production says jump, and maintenance says how high. However, the simplified form of coined english known as pidgin english primary english lexicon is majorly spoken over the queens english. Every group and society has cultures that constitute frameworks for their lives and behavioral patterns. Nigerians are yet to cultivate a culture of maintenance and this has. Culture of nigeria history, people, clothing, traditions. These existences refer to total being to include spiritual, material, intellectual, emotional, environmental and even response to natural occurrences. Nigeria culture plays an important role in lives of separate individuals and the society as the whole. The six largest ethnic groups are the hausa and fulani in the north, the igbo in the southeast, and the yoruba predominate in the southwest, the tiv people of north central nigeria and the efik ibibio. Nigerias lack of maintenance culture and matters arising. The paper describes housing problems in nigeria, housing as a policy, as well as the national housing policy.

The lack of a maintenance culture for a country like nigeria is a huge indication of the mindset of the people at large. From precolonial times to the early 21st century, the role and status of women in nigeria have continuously evolved. Maintenance of social order in the nigerian society chike augustine ekeopara phd department of religious and cultural studies, faculty of arts university of calabar lucky uchenna ogbonnaya m. The nigerian national petroleum corporation has blamed the moribund state of the countrys refineries on lack of proper maintenance of its facilities over the years. The ligaments of culture and development in nigeria. In a reactive maintenance environment, the interaction between production and maintenance is pretty simple. The number of languages currently estimated and cataloged in nigeria is 521. The second section will set out the sources of law in nigeria, particularly focusing on the interaction between the common law, and the customary law and sharia law as the living law of the. The focus on the concept of patriarchy and its effects on gender relations began to shift to other factors in gender relations like race, class, colonial history and others as other branches of feminism, like the postmodern feminism, came up. Education for maintenance culture in nigeria academic journals.

The nigerian film industry, also known as nollywood, is africas most prevalent movie activity in both the number of productions and value, roughly producing between 1,000 and 1,500 movies annually. Brown envelope journalism in nigeria is a practice whereby monetary inducement is given to journalists to make them write a positive story or kill a negative story. D department of estate management, university of lagos, lagos state, nigeria charles c. African cultural practices and health implications for. Culture is a way of life of a people, therefore, the way of lives of the people can. A threat to her prosperity will focus on a handful of maintenance headaches nigeria has had over the years on its once upon a time very laudable projects that are right now in the most deplorable state ever imagined which are definitely threats to the social economic and infrastructural advancement of. Lackadaisical attitude of nigerians on maintenance culture has negatively affected infrastructural development which is critical and essential to a nations. Assessment of maintenance management culture of tertiary.

This paper derives from a functionalist perspective which descriptively presents a historical, anthropological, and. Culture is the totality of ways and manners people live their lives and make sense of their existences. Nigerian food culture major tribes in nigeria and their food. African cultural practices and health implications for nigeria rural development ojua takim asu phd. The notion of special education was a western phenomenon and concept in nigeria. Nigeria is mainly an englishspeaking population but diverse ethnicity. The official language of nigeria, english, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country postcolonization by the british. This framework will focus on the importance of the cultural. The importance of culture in nigeria cannot be overestimated. Nigeria and in many developing countries, the factors that commonly affect the way rural dwellers sort for. The paper exposed the extent of non maintenance culture in nigeria which has.