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  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Abstract The importance of IT evaluation is not in doubt as all companies seek a Return on Investment in this modern technology intensive economy. The challenge is how to evaluate IT investment in an effective way to improve performance. Although it is clear that ultimately it is the IT user who creates value with the technology through the work done it has been assumed implicitly in evaluation that IT users could be treated as a homogeneous whole when it comes to IT use and evaluation. Recently, researchers have found that user predispositions play a part in cognitive tasks and since evaluation relies heavily upon cognition the outcome of the evaluation would vary based on user disposition. This mini review traces the models for evaluating IT success and highlights the resurgence of individual differences in IT evaluation research. It selects an area (“Need for Cognition”) that might serve as a usef

  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Abstract This study reviewed impact of government expenditure and bank credit on domestic agricultural sector output in Nigeria. It used OLS regression analytical method to evaluate relationship between agricultural output and several factors influencing agricultural productivity in Nigeria such as government expenditure to agriculture, bank loans and advances to agriculture and index of agricultural production. Results showed that there existed a negative and significant relationship between government expenditure and agricultural output in Nigeria, while banks credit to agriculture and index of agricultural production had a positive and significant correlation with agricultural productivity. The study therefore recommends an increase in government expenditure to agricultural sector to counter its negative effects or trends over the years to raise agricultural output and thereby beef up growth of the domestic econ

  Annals of Social Sciences & Management Studies-Juniper Publishers Abstract Sustainable Development Goals is a global partnership that tends to set the world on the path of inclusive and sustainable development. The seventeen goals, one hundred and sixty-nine targets, as well as three hundred and four indicators, are set to achieve three broad objectives that include a global scale economic development, environmental sustainability and social inclusion. Transforming our world on the path of sustainable development constitute the hallmark of United Nation Assembly’s Open Group that set the vision to be accomplished by the year 2030. Agenda 2030 is universally applicable to all nations of the world, which implies that no nation can localize and implement Sustainable Development Goals successfully while working in isolation. The implication is that the global agenda would be defeated. Going by what is obtainable in the literature, submission of the 17th goal of Sustainable Developmen