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Objective – Objective of this study is to analyze the lockdown effect on economic activities in Nigeria as the lockdown response measure to COVID-19 pandemic claim to pose a serious and potentially long term socio-economic threat to individuals, households, businesses as well as public sectors in Nigeria. Design/methodology – This study considered four regions in Nigeria (Northwest, North-Central, South-South and Southeast) and adopted a quantitative research approach which entails systematic evaluation of individuals’ behavior towards an unprecedented economic shock and their response to the manner in which the situation might unfolds by lifting the lockdown measure in Nigeria. This is achievable with a systematic random sample and a well-structured survey questionnaire. All these regions experienced the imposition of lockdown measure by their respective state authorities. Results – The results indicated that most socio-economic challenges including job loss, increase social vices, rise in poverty level, fall in economic activities, as well as fall in the level of GDP faced by individuals was not a resultant of the lockdown. Consequently, authority’s inefficiency was also challenged in spite of their efforts to mitigate and control the emerging economic consequences faced by households during the lockdown periods.Recommendation - The study recommends that lifting of lockdown would be the best action for the government to take for socio-economic resilience. The study also revealed that both public and individuals need to establish democratic preferences, and trust on health professionals or experts. Further to this, government should decide on effective measures needed to contain the continuous spread of the virus especially through development of research based and healthcare institutions.

PurposeDrawing from tripartite theory of attitude, this study examined whether interaction effect of psychological ownership (cognitive component) changes the nature of the relationship between job satisfaction (affect component) and job performance (behavioral component) toward a higher or weaker relationship. Furthermore, the study draws from psychological ownership theory to find support whether job satisfaction is nurtured by the feeling of psychological ownership.Design/methodology/approachLongitudinal data from 211 academic and non-academic employees was randomly collected and partial least square-structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was used for data analysis through SmartPLS version 3.3.2.FindingsThe study found a positive interaction effect of psychological ownership on the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance. Furthermore, the study found that feeling of psychological ownership nurtures employees' satisfaction with their job.Practical implicationsThe findings of the study explicate to human resource managers and practitioners the mechanism through which job satisfaction affects job performance and how feelings of psychological ownership nurtures employees' satisfaction with their job.Originality/valueThe study provides new insight into the relationship between job satisfaction and job performance by drawing on the tripartite theory of attitude perspective, and concluded that job performance as overall employee attitude toward the organization is predicted by the interaction and interplay of job satisfaction, psychological ownership and job performance as components of attitude. To the authors’ best knowledge, none of the previous literatures on job satisfaction–job performance relationship draws its conclusions from the perspective of tripartite theory of attitude. Furthermore, the study found empirical evidences that psychological ownership nurtures employees' job satisfaction.

Influence of Factors on Crop Cultivation Efficiency: Regional Aspect Introduction. Literature was extensively reviewed in crop cultivation and other related fields for a better understanding of past, present and future needs in the study area. Although their relationships have generated considerable both farmers as well as public and scholarly interest. Agriculture is essential to economic growth in Nigeria and it is a major source of employment and poverty reduction as well as contributing significantly towards the gross domestic products. Purpose. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between bank loan supply, land size, technology, cost-plus and crop cultivation in Nigeria. Based on a theoretical consideration this study was proposed to examine these relationships to improve cultivation. Method. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted and the unit of analysis was the individual farmer in Nigeria. The study employed a systematic random sampling technique in data collection, with a sample size of 764 farmers. Partial Least Squares (PLS) algorithm and bootstrap techniques were used to test the stated hypotheses. Result and Recommendation. The findings of this study are that bank loan supply, technology, cost-pus have a direct and significant positive relationship with Crop cultivation, while, land size is not a predictor of Crop cultivation in Nigeria. Finally, the study's implications for theory and practice, conclusions as well as direction for future research were provided and discussed.

In this paper, the insertion effect of a woven wire mesh to cross flow heat exchanger will be studied under steady state laminar flow conditions. 3-D numerical model was developed for the bare heat exchanger and the other wire mesh modules. The mesh wire diameter is 2.5 mm, porosity of 0.75, permeability of 10-10 and layer-to-layer spacings of (3,5,10,15,20 and 25 mm). Air flows with velocity range up to 3.5 cm/s through rectangular duct of 50 cm X 25 cm with inlet temperature of 25 o C before it is heated with corrugated water tube (19 mm in diameter) with hot water inlet velocity of 1 m/s and temperature of 50 o C. The thermal and hydraulic performance were evaluated. Results showed that an enhancement in overall heat transfer coefficient was achieved of 250 % for the 3 mm spaced module while the air pressure drop increases significantly.