Thursday, 19 March 2020

CORONAVIRUS: UK HAS 3RD HIGHEST COVID-19 DEATH RATE IN EUROPE - ON A PAR WITH CHINA

 
The United Kingdom has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, latest data reveals.
It has reported 104 deaths and 2,626 total cases of COVID-19 up to 17 March, meaning a fatality rate of around 40 per 1,000 infections - similar to China's.
When compared to all countries that have reported more than 1,000 cases, it is the third highest in Europe and the fifth highest overall.
But the UK has the 10th highest number of infections globally.
The UK government has received criticism for its response to the pandemic as other countries have declared national emergencies, closing bars, restaurants and schools and banning large gatherings.
The highest death rate affected is in Italy, where more than 83 cases out of a 1,000 are fatal.
On Wednesday, t​he number of deaths in the country rose by 475 in one day to nearly 3,000.
Iran, China and Spain all have higher death rates than the UK, per 1,000 cases.
Meanwhile in Germany, where there are more than 12,000 active cases of coronavirus, only 31 deaths have been reported. With this ratio, just 2 of every 1,000 people who are diagnosed with coronavirus die.
Among European countries with more than 1,000 confirmed cases, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland all have a low mortality rate for COVID-19.

CORONA VIRUS: SENEGALESE STUDENTS IN WUHAN WILL NOT BE REPATRIATED


After the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the coronavirus a "public health emergency of international dimensions", many African governments took restrictive measures within their own borders, from sanitary precautions in several countries to lockdown in Ghana.
The Senegalese government decided not to repatriate its citizens who are students in Wuhan, the Chinese city at the epicentre of the pandemic.
President Macky Sall declared that repatriation was not possible due to "logistics completely out of Senegal's reach."
"Senegal does not have the technical, logistical and financial means," he said.
The announcement led to angry reactions on social media, especially from parents and relatives of the students.
Bécaye Cissokho Ndiaye, President of the Senegalese Students Association in China, told French Radio RFI that there were still 13 Senegalese students remaining in Wuhan.
"On our level, we don't think about ourselves, because what worries us is our fellow countrymen who are in Wuhan, because they are more under threat. We have a representative there who we speak to frequently. We are pretty calm over here in Beijing, though," he said.
Ndiaye also criticised President Sall's inaction in a tweet on March, 14. "I can assure you that there are at least hundreds of contaminated people peacefully wandering around in Senegal," he wrote.

Bécaye Cissokho Ndiaye, President of the Senegalese Students Association in China, told French Radio RFI that there were still 13 Senegalese students remaining in Wuhan.
Ibrahima Niang, a PhD student in Wuhan, said the Senegalese government offered the students US$1,000 each as help, which they refused to accept.
"How could they propose to each of us this amount and keep saying they do not have the financial means? We do not need their money, we just want to go home," Niang said.
Senegal under heavy restrictions
On March, 14, after Senegal reported its 20th coronavirus case, President Sall decided to strengthen restrictive measures.
The government banned public gatherings for the next 30 days, and cancelled religious events. Schools and universities were closed on Monday, and cruise ships were no longer allowed into Senegalese ports.

CORONAVIRUS: WUHAN FOOTBALL TEAM LEAVING SPAIN TO ESCAPE VIRUS




The Chinese football team that was originally stuck in Spain because of the coronavirus outbreak is going back home to try to avoid its rapid spread in Europe.
Wuhan Zall was expected to return to China on Saturday, nearly 1 1/2 months after it arrived in Spain for pre-season training.
The team had not been able to leave because of the restrictions in China but expedited its departure because of the worsening situation in Spain.
The team initially planned to leave Spain mid-February but had extended its stay in the southern region of the country until at least the end of March. That plan changed this week because of the sharp spike in the number of cases in Spain and Europe generally.
“Things are well over there (in China) now,” José González, the team's Spanish coach, told The Associated Press on Saturday.
“The Chinese league will likely start at the beginning of May. We will have to enter quarantine when we arrive, so the sooner we leave, the better.”
The team will first go to the city of Shenzhen, where it is expected to finish its preseason training for the Chinese Super League, the country’s main first-division soccer competition. The league was supposed to start on February 22 but was suspended because of the virus.
The city of Wuhan was the epicentre of the outbreak that rapidly spread to other countries and infected more than 145,000 people worldwide, with 5,400 deaths.
Spain was set to follow Italy on Saturday in declaring a nationwide lockdown as European countries took ever more sweeping measures to reduce contact among people and slow the accelerating spread of the coronavirus. Health authorities in Spain said more than 5,700 people were infected and the number of cases could reach 10,000 in the coming days.
For most people, the new coronavirus causes only mild or moderate symptoms, such as fever and cough. For some, especially older adults and people with existing health problems, it can cause more severe illness, including pneumonia. The vast majority of people recover.
The number of new cases has dwindled in China, where more than 65,000 people recovered from the virus. The nation has been easing up on lockdown measures in its hardest-hit region that included the city of Wuhan.
None of the Wuhan Zall players were infected when the team arrived in Spain, but the grandmother of one player was among the coronavirus-linked deaths back home.
Players have been away from home for several months because the team began its preseason in the Chinese city of Guanghzou, nearly 1,000 kilometres away from Wuhan.
Although the team was far away from the initial outbreak, Spanish health authorities had to come out publicly to say there was no reason for local citizens to be concerned about the squad’s arrival in January. Three players arrived from China later and had to stay in quarantine and be tested for the virus before joining the rest of the group.

HOSSEIN DEHGHANI: CORONAVIRUS, US UNILATERAL SANCTIONS AND IRANIAN PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO LIFE



HOSSEIN DEHGHANI IS THE AMBASSADOR OF THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN TO BELGIUM.

Opinions expressed in View articles are solely those of the authors. 
 
Since the WHO confirmed coronavirus as pandemic, the virus has gone global and afflicted all countries indiscriminately. Containing such a fast-spreading virus requires action, not only at national but also at international level.
First and foremost, each country must take appropriate measures domestically through enforcement of rigorous containment strategies. This, in turn, demands enormous national resources and a robust economy to cater to the needs of the many who might have been suffering from the disease, or its collateral damage and side-effects.
Secondly, at the international level, specialised organisations, namely the World Health Organization, and other relief agencies have a lot to offer; both in terms of breaking new grounds in discovering a vaccine, offering expert medical assistance to afflicted countries and mass logistic coordination. In the meantime, however, all countries, particularly the developed ones, both individually and collectively, have a crucial role to play in capacity building and helping others deal with the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak in their territories and the virus’ final defeat.
Considering the above, the case of Iran is a peculiar one; Iran is the third most severely hit country in the world after China and Italy, yet the latter two, face none of the predicaments that Iran has found itself in.
Since the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, the Iranian economy has lost around $200 billion, making it increasingly difficult to effectively mobilise the scarcely available and sanctions-strained resources to put up an effective battle against the virus.
Hossein Dehghani
Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Belgium
Since the US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, or JCPOA, the Iranian economy has lost around $200 billion, making it increasingly difficult to effectively mobilise the scarcely available and sanctions-strained resources to put up an effective battle against the virus. The rather high death toll among the medical staff is indicative of this grim fact. While a robust domestic economy is essential for enforcing rigorous measures in containing coronavirus at the national level, the US unilateral sanctions, amounting to over 100 restrictive Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) actions only after 8 May 2018, have drastically reduced the economic capacity to fight the virus in Iran, thereby putting the entire country and the region at risk. The $1.67 billion of Iranian assets blocked in Luxembourg is but an example of the vast Iranian assets illegally blocked abroad, the release of which would go a long way towards the containment of the virus in Iran.
In line with WHO health regulations, Iran has taken all measures in full transparency to curb the outbreak which has now become a pandemic. As a matter of fact, WHO officials have commended Iran’s efforts in containing coronavirus. Despite all, a clique of anti-Iranian US officials and their affiliated lobbyists are capitalising on the misery of the people of Iran, by resorting to coercive and illegal measures, including the urge to continue unilateral sanctions and to impose their demands on other countries at a time when even the most acute hostilities should cease in a collective effort to put an end to a threat that knows no bound.
The choice for the European Union and its members is clear: will they make the legal and moral decision and come to Iranian people’s aid by defying the US illegal sanctions and honouring their multilateral commitments under the JCPOA, Security Council Resolution 2231 and the EU law itself?
Hossein Dehghani
Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Belgium
Apart from the inhumane nature of US sanctions, their extraterritorial application is not even recognised under EU law. The choice for the international community, the European Union and its members is clear: will they make the legal and moral decision and come to Iranian people’s aid by defying the US illegal sanctions and honouring their multilateral commitments under the JCPOA, Security Council Resolution 2231 and the EU law itself?

Sunday, 15 March 2020

Readings at Mass OF 3RD SUNDAY OF LENT


Liturgical Colour: Violet.

First readingExodus 17:3-7 ©

Strike the rock, and water will flow from it

Tormented by thirst, the people complained against Moses. ‘Why did you bring us out of Egypt?’ they said. ‘Was it so that I should die of thirst, my children too, and my cattle?’
  Moses appealed to the Lord. ‘How am I to deal with this people?” he said. ‘A little more and they will stone me!’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘Take with you some of the elders of Israel and move on to the forefront of the people; take in your hand the staff with which you struck the river, and go. I shall be standing before you there on the rock, at Horeb. You must strike the rock, and water will flow from it for the people to drink.’ This is what Moses did, in the sight of the elders of Israel. The place was named Massah and Meribah because of the grumbling of the sons of Israel and because they put the Lord to the test by saying, ‘Is the Lord with us, or not?’

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 94(95):1-2,6-9 ©
O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
Come, ring out our joy to the Lord;
  hail the rock who saves us.
Let us come before him, giving thanks,
  with songs let us hail the Lord.
O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
Come in; let us bow and bend low;
  let us kneel before the God who made us:
for he is our God and we
  the people who belong to his pasture,
  the flock that is led by his hand.
O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’
O that today you would listen to his voice!
  ‘Harden not your hearts as at Meribah,
  as on that day at Massah in the desert
when your fathers put me to the test;
  when they tried me, though they saw my work.’
O that today you would listen to his voice! ‘Harden not your hearts.’

Second reading
Romans 5:1-2,5-8 ©

The love of God has been poured into our hearts

Through our Lord Jesus Christ, by faith we are judged righteous and at peace with God, since it is by faith and through Jesus that we have entered this state of grace in which we can boast about looking forward to God’s glory. And this hope is not deceptive, because the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given us. We were still helpless when at his appointed moment Christ died for sinful men. It is not easy to die even for a good man – though of course for someone really worthy, a man might be prepared to die – but what proves that God loves us is that Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

Gospel AcclamationJn4:42,15
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!
Lord, you are really the saviour of the world:
give me the living water, so that I may never get thirsty.
Glory to you, O Christ, you are the Word of God!

GospelJohn 4:5-42 ©

A spring of water welling up to eternal life

Jesus came to the Samaritan town called Sychar, near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well is there and Jesus, tired by the journey, sat straight down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink.’ His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘What? You are a Jew and you ask me, a Samaritan, for a drink?’ – Jews, in fact, do not associate with Samaritans. Jesus replied:
‘If you only knew what God is offering
and who it is that is saying to you:
Give me a drink, you would have been the one to ask,
and he would have given you living water.’
‘You have no bucket, sir,’ she answered ‘and the well is deep: how could you get this living water? Are you a greater man than our father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his sons and his cattle?’ Jesus replied:
‘Whoever drinks this water
will get thirsty again;
but anyone who drinks the water that I shall give
will never be thirsty again:
the water that I shall give
will turn into a spring inside him,
welling up to eternal life.’
‘Sir,’ said the woman ‘give me some of that water, so that I may never get thirsty and never have to come here again to draw water.’ ‘Go and call your husband’ said Jesus to her ‘and come back here.’ The woman answered, ‘I have no husband.’ He said to her, ‘You are right to say, “I have no husband”; for although you have had five, the one you have now is not your husband. You spoke the truth there.’ ‘I see you are a prophet, sir’ said the woman. ‘Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, while you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.’ Jesus said:
‘Believe me, woman,
the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
You worship what you do not know;
we worship what we do know:
for salvation comes from the Jews.
But the hour will come
– in fact it is here already –
when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth:
that is the kind of worshipper the Father wants.
God is spirit,
and those who worship
must worship in spirit and truth.’
The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah – that is, Christ – is coming; and when he comes he will tell us everything.’ ‘I who am speaking to you,’ said Jesus ‘I am he.’
  At this point his disciples returned, and were surprised to find him speaking to a woman, though none of them asked, ‘What do you want from her?’ or, ‘Why are you talking to her?’ The woman put down her water jar and hurried back to the town to tell the people. ‘Come and see a man who has told me everything I ever did; I wonder if he is the Christ?’ This brought people out of the town and they started walking towards him.
  Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, ‘Rabbi, do have something to eat; but he said, ‘I have food to eat that you do not know about.’ So the disciples asked one another, ‘Has someone been bringing him food?’ But Jesus said:
‘My food is to do the will of the one who sent me,
and to complete his work.
Have you not got a saying:
Four months and then the harvest?
Well, I tell you:
Look around you, look at the fields;
already they are white, ready for harvest!
Already the reaper is being paid his wages,
already he is bringing in the grain for eternal life,
and thus sower and reaper rejoice together.
For here the proverb holds good:
one sows, another reaps;
I sent you to reap a harvest you had not worked for.
Others worked for it;
and you have come into the rewards of their trouble.’
Many Samaritans of that town had believed in him on the strength of the woman’s testimony when she said, ‘He told me all I have ever done’, so, when the Samaritans came up to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed for two days, and when he spoke to them many more came to believe; and they said to the woman, ‘Now we no longer believe because of what you told us; we have heard him ourselves and we know that he really is the saviour of the world.’
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Saturday, 14 March 2020

OVERVIEW OF STUDENT INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME(SIWES 2020 EDITION)



CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1              An overview of Student’s Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES)
The Student Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) is a skill-training program designed to expose and prepare students of universities, Polytechnic/colleges of technology/college of Agriculture and college of Education for the industrial work situation they are likely to meet after graduation. It expresses the participants to work methods and experience in handling machineries that are not available in their institutions. It can be undertaken in industries, companies, ministries, banks etc. The students apply the basic principles and techniques already learnt in their respective fields of study to real practical work under the joint supervision of the industrial and institution based supervisors. The Scheme was re-appraised by the Federal Government in 1984 to ensure that industrial attachment was properly organized and adequately funded. This is why the management of the scheme was entrusted to the Industrial Training Fund (ITF) in collaboration with the National University Commission (NUC), which is the only agency charged with the responsibility of approving courses for funding by the Federal Government to the participants in Nigerian Universities.

1.2              Aim and Objectives of SIWES
                                  i.            To give students the ability to try and apply his given knowledge.
                               ii.            To provide students with industrial skills and needed experience while the course of study.
                             iii.            To prepare specialists who will be ready for any working situations immediately after graduation.
                             iv.            To teach students the techniques and method of working with facilities and equipment that may not be available within the wall of an educational institution.
                               v.            To make the transition from school to the world work easier and thus enhance student’s contacts for later job placements.

1.3              Historical Background of Federal Medical Centre Keffi
1.3.1       Background (brief history)
Federal Medical Centre Keffi came into being April 2000 on the facility of the old general hospital keffi build in 1957 by Premier of the defunct Northern Region; late Sir Ahmad Bello Sardaunan Sokoto. This development – i.e. the takeover, was sequel to a pronouncement by President Olusegun Obasanjo the previous year 1999, shortly assuming office as the democratically elected president. He announced then, that 44 Federal Medical Centers would be established across the country with a view to bringing healthcare delivery service to the people at the grassroots level. FMC was one of those 44 announced by Mr. President in 1999.

Handover ceremony took place April/28/2000 at a brief ceremony in Federal Ministry of Health led by then Minister of Health, Dr. (Mrs.) Amina Ndalolo, on Formal the Federal Government side and her team, on behave of Nasarawa State Government.

However, prior to this period, the former general hospital had been managed by the Benue-Plateau, Plateau and Nasarawa State still April 2000, when it was handed over to the Federal Government and assumed a new status as a tertiary Health institution.

First batch of employees in the center came on board April 2001 following a recruitment exercise conducted earlier in the year for the shortlisted candidates to fill in the advertised vacancies. The recruitment was done by the pioneer governing Board of the center headed by its chairman.

1.3.2       Vision Statement
To emerge as a Centre of excellence in health care and delivery, sustained by dedication to duty, unity of purpose and respect to humanity.

1.3.3       Mission Statement
                      i.            To utilize available resources most judiciously and efficiently towards achieving remarkable optimum results characteristic of high professionalism.
                   ii.            To be known for hospitality and high level of professional practice commensurable with the technological age in delivery of health service.
                 iii.            To install hope in the community towards encouraging stakeholder’s participation and patronage for the growth and well-being of the Centre and the community.


CHAPTER TWO
MICROSOFT EXCEL
2.1    Microsoft Excel (Ms. Excel)
Introduction
This chapter presents basic steps in using Ms. Excel (spreadsheet) in processing complex mathematical calculation, matrix calculation, computation of result sheet, preparation of budgets. This chapter highlights the full meaning of Microsoft Excel, uses of Excel, features of Excel, Excel Formula.

2.1.1    What is Microsoft Excel?
Microsoft Excel is a software program produced by Microsoft that allows users to organize, format, calculate data with formulas using a spreadsheet system. This software is part of the office suite and is compatible with other applications in the office suite.

In addition, Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program included in the Microsoft office suite of applications. Spreadsheets present tables of values arranged in rows and columns that can be manipulated mathematically using both basic and complex arithmetic operations and function.

Data is entered into a space called cell on a worksheet. Excel cells accept both numeric and non-numeric data. Excel can only do arithmetic with numeric data and because of that, calculations involving multiplication, addition, division, subtraction and exponential can be carried out on numbers in a worksheet easily.

2.1.2   Uses of Microsoft Excel                
Ø   It is used to create grids of text.
Ø   It is use to create grid of numbers and formulas specifying calculation.
Ø   Preparation of examination result.
Ø   Analyzing and storing of data.
Ø   Help businessmen in developing future strategy.

2.1.3  Advantage and Disadvantage Microsoft Excel
Advantages of using Excel
Ø Streamlines calculation.
Ø Organizing data.
Ø Multiple user access.

Disadvantages of Using Excel
Ø User Bias.
Ø Learning the syntax takes skill.
Ø Lack of security.

2.1.4   Using Microsoft Excel 2016 to perform matrix operations
PURPOSE: The purpose is to provide you the step-by-step instructions on how to perform various matrix operations when using Microsoft Excel 2016.
Many of the Microsoft Excel functions that you will be using to complete this Matrix are array function – returning more than one value at a time.
To enter an array function into Microsoft Excel worksheet, you must hold down CTRL and SHIFT keys then press ENTER key: i.e.(CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER).
How to arrange (enter) data in matrix:
A computer spreadsheet is a series of small blocks (cells) where the columns are labeled with capital letters and the rows are labeled with numbers. To enter a matrix into Microsoft Excel, simply type each matrix element into its own small block (cell).
Pressing ENTER after each entry will usually make the cursor go down to the next block. Pressing the RIGHT ARROW key after each entry will make the cursor move to the next cell to the right.

How to add two matrixes:
1.                 Enter the values of each matrix.
2.                 Highlight another section of the worksheet that has the same dimension as the answer matrix. That is if we are adding two matrix of 3×3 or 2×2 matrices, then the sum matrix will also be 3×3 or 2×2.
3.                 Type: = (A2:C4) +(E2:G4) (This will appear in the formula bar).
4.                 You will need to CNTR+SHIFT+ENTER since the answer will result in an array.



Example
We type in the formula and press the CNTR+SHIFT+ENTER get our final result.




 
How to multiply two matrices:
1.                 Enter the data of each matrix to be multiplied.
2.                 Highlight another section of the worksheet (near the given matrices) that has the same dimensions as the answer matrix.
3.                 Type: =MMULT (A2:C4, E2:G4) (this will appear in the formula bar).
4.                 Since the answer will result in an array (matrix), you will need to: CNTR+SHIFT+ENTER.


Example:

We then Type: =MMULT (A2:C4, E2:G4) (this will appear in the formula bar). Since the answer will result in an array (matrix), you will need to press: CNTR+SHIFT+ENTER.

How to find the determinant of a square matrix:
1.                 Enter the data of each matrix to be multiplied.
2.                 Highlight another section of the worksheet (near the given matrices) that has the same dimensions as the answer matrix.
3.                 Type: =MDETERM (A2:C4) (this will appear in the formula bar).
4.                 Since the answer will NOT result in an array (matrix), of more than one answer, you may just press ENTER to get the result
 
2.2     Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS)
SPSS is a user-friendly program that facilitates data management and statistical analysis. Originally developed as a programming language for conducting statistical analysis, it has grown into a complex and powerful application which now used both a graphical and a syntactical interface and provides functions for managing, analyzing, and presenting data.

2.2.1 The SPSS Windows and files
SPSS Statistics has three main windows, with a menu bar at the top. The windows are:
·                    Data Editor (save file)
·                    Output Viewer (spv files)
·                    Syntax Editor (sps file)

Data Editor the data editor window is divided into two, name:
                   i.                        The Data Viewer
                 ii.                        The variable viewer window
The Data Viewer is made of grids with rows and columns.
Ø    The rows represent subjects (cases or observation) and the columns represent variable whose names should appear at the top of the columns.
Ø    In the grid, the intersection between a row and a column is known as a cell. A cell will therefore contain the score of a particular case on a particular variable.
Ø    This window displays the content of data file, we create new data file or modify existing ones in this window. This window opens automatically when SPSS is started.

This view, allows one to see the data. A change made to data is not until they are saved. To save, we go to file- save or save as data files are saved with a file type of .sav

Below is a figure, showing how the data view window look like.
                                      Columns represent variables
   

Data view      variable view   Rows represent variables

                          Fig. a: Data View Window
The variable Viewer window is a window with rows and columns.
Ø    This window contains the description of the attributes of each variable that make up the data set.
Ø    In this window, rows are variables and columns are variables attributes.
Ø    There are eleven columns altogether namely: Name, Type. Width, Decimal, Label, Value, Missing, Columns, Align, Measures and Roles
Ø    The numbers of rows in the variable view window corresponds to the numbers of columns in the data view window.
                                                                                               
      Fig. b: variable view window
  
Output viewer/viewer windows
The output viewer window is where the result are displayed after a statistical procedure has been performed. It is divided into two main sections:
Ø The left pane contains an outline view of the pull put contents and
The right pane contains statistical table, charts, and text output. One can edit the output in this window and save it.
 
Dialog Boxes
Although each dialog box is unique, they have many common features. A fairly typical example is the dialog box for producing frequency tables. To bring up this dialog box from the menus, click on Analyze- Descriptive statistics
                                                                         
Frequency
On the left is a variable selection list with the entire variable in the data set. Select the variable you want to analyze by clicking on them, then click the arrow button to the right of the selection list and the variable are moved to the analysis list on the right. If one change his mind about a variable already selected, click on the selection list. At the button of the dialog box, click ok to issue command to SPSS, OR Paste to have the command written to a Syntax Editor.
                  
2.2.2 Variable names and value labels
By default SPSS will name the variable, calling the first variable var00001, the second variable var00002 and so on. Meaningful names should always be given to all variables. The rules to follow when selecting variable names are:
Ø Must not end with a full stop.
Ø Must not be one of the keyboard used in SPSS (e.g. AND, NOT, EQ, and ALL)
Ø Must not exceed 32 characters.
Ø Must not begin with a letter.
Ø Must not contain any of the following:!,?
Ø Could have a mixture of letters, digits and any of the following: @,#,.
With value label one assign name to arbitrary code numbers. One may want to perform a statistical procedure on three groups that given tom the code numbers such as:
1.     =group 1
2.     =group 2
3.     =group 3
SPSS Menus and Icons
Below is a review of SPSS menus and Icons.

File includes all of the option you typically use in other programs, such as open, saves, new. One can open or create new file or multiple types.

View allows you to select which toolbars you want to show, select from size, add or remove the gridlines that separate each piece of data, and to select whether or not to display tour raw or the data labels.

Data allows you to select several options ranging from displaying data that is sorted by a specific variable to selecting certain cases for subsequent analysis.

Transform includes several options to change current variables. For example, you can change continuous variables categorical variables, change score into rank scores, add a constant to variable, etc.

Analyze include all of the commands to carry out statistical analysis and to calculate descriptive statistics.

Graphs include the commands to create various types of graphs including box plots, histograms, line graphs, and bar charts.

Utilities allow you to list file information
Help has many operations including a link to the SPSS homepage, a statistics coach, and a Syntax guide.
2.2.3 Data Entry
When we create a new data set, it is typical to start by defining the names and other properties of the variables first and then entering the specific values into each variable view tab in the data window. Then we can create or edit each of the properties below.
·        Name
The name of each SPSS variable in a given file must be unique, following the rules in naming a variable.
·        Type
The two basic types of variable are numeric and string. Numeric variables may only have numbers. Strings variables may contain letters or numbers.
·        Width
The width of a variable is the number of characters SPSS will allow to be entered for variable. You can change the width by clicking in the in the width cell for the desired variable and typing a new number.
·        Decimals
The decimals of a variable are the number of decimal places that SPSS will display. If more decimal have been entered, the additional information will be retained internally but not displayed on screen. For whole numbers, you reduce the number of decimals to zero.
·        Label
The label of a variable is a string of text to identify in more detail what a variable represents. Unlike the name, the label is limited to 255 characters. For instance, if there is a variable for each question on a questionnaire, you would type the question as the variable label
·        Values
Although the variable label goes a long way to explaining what the variable represent, for categorical data (discrete data of both nominal and ordinal levels of measurement), we often need to know which numbers represent which categories.
·        Missing
We sometimes want to signal to SPSS that data should be treated as missing, even though there is some other numerical code recorded instead of the data actually being missing
·        Columns
The columns property tells SPSS how the column should be for each variable. The column size indicates how much space is allocated rather than degree to which it is filled.
·        Align
The alignment property indicates whether the information in the data view should be left-justified, right-justified, or centered.
·        Measure
The measures property indicates the level of measurement. It may be ordinal or nominal scale.

2.2.4  Types of Statistics
·        Descriptive statistics: Descriptive statistics are statistics that quantitatively describe or summarizes features of a collection of data. Descriptive statistics are distinguished from inferential statistics, in that descriptive statistics aim to summarize a sample rather than use the data to learn about the population that the sample of data is thought to represent.
     Descriptive statistics provides simple summaries about the sample and about the observation that have been made. The two types of Descriptive statistics are measures of central tendency (mean, median, and mode) and measure of dispersion (range, variance, standard deviation)
     Inferential statistics (induction statistics): Inferential statistics makes inference about population using data drawn from the population. Suppose we want to know the average height of the entire mean in a city with a population of 7 million residents. It is not very practical to try and get the height of each of the men, this is inferential statistics comes into play.

Data
Data can be defined as unprocessed or raw information.
             
Types of Data
·        Qualitative Data: Are data which “levels of measurement”, or scales of measure are expression that typically refer to the theory of scale types. E.g. nominal, ordinal, interval, and ration scales.
Qualitative data are extremely varied in nature, which includes virtually any information that can be capture this is not numerical in nature. In-depth interviews include both individual interviews (e.g. one-one-one) as well as “group” interviews. The data can be recorded in a wide variety of ways which include stenography, audio recording, video recording or writing notes.
·        Quantitative Data: is to describe type of information that can be counted or expressed numerically. This type of data is often collected in experiment, manipulated and statistically analyzed.It can be represented visually in graphs, histograms, tables and charts.
·        Experimental data: refer to data generated within the context of scientific investigation by observation and recording. The data is produce by measurement, text method, and experiment design. In clinical research any produced as a result of clinical trial. Experimental data may be quantitative or qualitative, each being appropriate for different investigations.

2.2.5  Performing Descriptive statistics on sample questionnaire
We will consider a small sample question on a questionnaire, and carryout some descriptive statistics on it, showing at each time the various outputs.

Sample questionnaires
1.     What is your date of birth?...............................
2.     What is your gender? Please tick 1: Male or Female
3.     What is the total number of years you completed in an educational establishment?.....................
4.     Which employment category do you belong to? Please select one: Manager, Clerical, Custodial
5.     What is your current salary? …………………
6.     What was your beginning salary?.................
Before entering any data, first we have to code the questionnaire. To code, we enter the following information in the table below in the variable view window of SPSS.
STEP 1 click the tap for variable view window at the bottom left hand corner and code each question using the information
Creating the first variable:
Ø  Gender
1.     Under the column name and in row 1 type in gender and press return on the keyboard. To the right of the cell, gender under column type click on Numeric and click on the little blue square in the cell.
2.     Select string and click OK from the displayed dialog box.
3.     Skip the next two cells i.e, cells under columns width and Decimals. Click on the next cell under column label and type respondents’ sex.
4.     Click on the next cell under column values and click on the title blue square in the cell. On the displayed dialog box type m next to value and type Male next to label and click on Add. Then click OK.
5.     Leave the remaining columns as they are. You have successfully created your first variable.

Creating the second variable
Ø Bdate
1.     Under the column name and row 2 type in bdate and press return on the keyboard. To the right of the cell bdate under column type click on Numeric and click on the little blue square in the cell.
2.     Select Date and accept the default date format of dd- mm- yy by clicking ok from the displayed dialog box
3.     Skip the next two cell i.e cell under column s width and decimals. Click on the next cell under column label and type in date of Birth.
4.     As date of birth is unique for each person there is no need to provide value and labels for this variable.
5.     Skip the next three columns and under the columns measure clicks on the cell Unknown and select scale.
6.     Leave the last column as it is. You have successfully created the second variable.

Following the same method create the remaining four variables using the information on the table coding of questionnaire above:

Step 2: Go to the data view and type in the data shown on the table below save the file, give it a name and save it in the folder of your choice.
The Descriptive procedure
With Descriptive you can quickly generate summary statistical measures such as mean, standard deviation, variance and minimum values, range and sum for a given variable. Follow this instruction

1.     From the menu bar, select Analyze->Descriptive statistics->Descriptive…. The Descriptive dialog box will appear on the screen.
2.     Transfer the variable current salary [salary]; employment category and beginning salary into the variables box
3.     Select the option pushbutton. The descriptive: options dialog box will appear on the screen
4.     Select the following: mean standard deviation and variance.
5.     Select continue to return to the Descriptive dialog box
6.     Select OK to run the procedure


Below is an example of descriptive statistic using SPSS
The data of people gender and height in a given certain is given below:
The gender of male and female is been represented by numbers, in this note, I used coding scheme process of 1for female and 2 for male. To obtain this coding Go to variable view on the bottom of the spss page, click on label and code as wish, the return back to data view to see as coded. See illustrations below:
We are now going to obtain the frequency of the above data. To obtain the frequency of the above data: we go to analyze at the top page of the Spss page, a dialog box will appear where you will click on Gender as data that you wish to analyze, then dialog box will appear, then click frequency, then click ok to see your result. See result below:
Interpretation of the result of gender
The N(which s the data size) is 10, with 6 female and 4 male without  missing value, since we have no missing values all the percentage are exact, that is 60 percent for female and 40 percent for male and the valid percent is 60 for female and 40 percent for male. The cumulative percent is 60 percent for female and 40 percent for male which sum it all to 100 cumulative.
The result below is the descriptive of Height of both genders (male and female) of the given set of data.
Interpretation:
The total score (N) is 10, the minimum height is 61 which falls under the gender of female, the sum of them all are 692 and mean is 69.2 and standard deviation is 6.26808.
We can also test to know height of people in different gender of the given data.
Procedures: Go to Analyze at the top of the Spss page, a dialog box will appear, click on compare means, then click on mean, a categorical box will appear, which height is the dependant variable and gender independent variable. See illustration below
Interpretations of the table:
In the second report above, the analysis shown that 68.3333 of 6 female with standard deviations of  6.88961 and 70.5 of  4 male and standard deviation of 5.91608, this mean that male are little bit taller than female in the given set of data. 69.2000 is total that shows how tall people can be in a given set of data
To find the range, maximum and minimum of Height and Gender.
1.     From the menu bar, select Analyze->Descriptive statistics->
Descriptive…. The Descriptive dialog box will appear on the screen.
2.     Transfer the variable gender and height, into the variable box
3.     Select the option pushbutton. The Descriptive options dialog box will appear on the screen
4.     Select the following: range, minimum and maximum.
Select continue to return to the Description which is list of all variables, there label, values, locations in the data file, and type. See illustration below

Add-icons are programs that can be added to the base SPSS package.

Windows can be used to select which window you want to view (i.e Data Editor, Output Viewer, or Syntax)
5.     Descriptive Dialog box.
6.     Select OK to run the procedure


Interpretation: The total score (N) is 10, the minimum height is 61 which falls under the gender of female, the sum of them all are 692 and mean is 69.2 and standard deviation is 6.26808.

2.3     The Audit Department
2.3.1  What is Auditing?
The word audit is derived from a Latin term “AUDIRE” which means to hear because in ancient times auditors listen to the oral report of the officials to owners or those having authority and confirmed the accuracy of the reports. Over the years the role evolved to verify written records. To hear demand total attention in order to be accurate in taking records.
Definition: Audit is the process of examine an organizations or individual financial records to determine if they accurate and in accordance with any applicable rules including accepted accounting standard regulations and laws.
  
Types of Auditing
1.     Internal Auditing: Internal auditing work for the organizations as internal employees to examine records and help improve internal process such as operations, internal controls, risk management, and governance.
2.     External Auditing: External auditing comes in from outside the organizations to examine accounting and financial records and provide an independent opinion on these records. Law requires that all public companies have their financial statements externally audited.

The Audit Department
The audit department creates and implements procedures and controls to ensure that the finance of the organizations (federal medical centre keffi) is managed accordance with established principles. It also conducts periodic audit to check the accuracy of record keeping and accounting to ensure that procedures and controls are working.

Branch of auditing
Audit on financial section: To audit the treasury department financial records for the year
Audit on outside section: to examine the records of the revenue collecting divisions of government in particular the customs and excise divisions

Objectives:
·        To verify all receipts of revenue and ensure that the normal procedures and practices are followed.
·        Verify that all monies collected are lodged at the treasury department
·        Verify expenditures payments and ensure that all normal procedure and practices are followed.

2.3.2  Functions of Audit
                   I.            To verify all receipts of revenue and ensure that the normal procedures and practices are followed.
                II.            To verify the expenditure payment and ensure that all normal procedures and practice are followed.
             III.            To cross examine or physical verifications of project submitted by the organizations(federal medical centre)

Internal Audit Program Chart 2019
Audit program is a list of specified work schedule to be done by auditors. This way, duplication of work is avoided and compliance to laid down financial rules and regulations is ensured. The work to be carried out is arranged on daily, monthly, quarterly and half yearly or once in a year.

S/N
Code
Job Title/Audit Task
Frequency
Responsibility Officer
1
001
AUDITING OF REVENUE USING EMR PLATFORM: Reversal, Reconciliation and weekly Report
Daily, Monthly and Quantity Basis
Supervisors and all the Principal Officers
2
002
100% PRE-PAYMENT AND POST PAYMENT AUDIT:
Ensuring Initiation, process, and approval.
Checking  to ensure supporting document are genuine.
Ensuring 100% compliance to financial regulations with respect to pre-payment Audit.
Daily Monthly and Quarterly Basis
All Principal Officers
3
003
·        Evaluation and assessment of the system of internal control
·        Appraise and review the accounting system of the organization to ensure checks and balance.
·        Checking the adequacy of financial & accounting system.
·        Identifying areas of deviation and weakness from the set standards.
Daily,
Monthly, and Quarterly Basis
Principal Auditor (TAMIN)
4
004
PHYSICAL VERIFICATION/INSPECTION OF MATERIAL, HUMAN AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND VALUES FOR MONEY AUDITING (PRICE/MARKET SURVEY)
Daily, Monthly, and Quarterly Basis
All the Principal Officers.
5
005
AUDITING OF STAFF SALARIES(PAYROLL) USING IPPIS PLATFORM:
·        Checking to ensure that variation orders are strictly adhered to:
Audit variation orders as issued for salary payment, deduction & stoppage
·        To ensure compliance to approved salary table in order to guard against over payment and or under payment
Monthly, Quarterly,
Half yearly and Yearly Basis
SEO AUDIT
(Mr. Silas)
06
006
MAN POWER AUDITING
Checking compliance with laws instructions and directives.
Identifying inflow and outflow of personnel as it affects salary payment.
Audit variation orders as issued for salary.
Daily,
Monthly,
and
Quarterly
Basis
PEO I AUDI
(Mr. Musa)
07.
007
GENERAL STORE/STOCK TAKING EXERCISE & STORES ACCOUNTING CUSTODY:
·        Ensuring store requisition & issuance are updated in the store ledger & tally card
·        Ascertaining position of stock balance as often as possible.
·        Examination of problems associated with the stores most especially scrap.
Daily,
Monthly,
and
Quarterly
Basis
SEO AUDIT
(YAHAYA)
08
008
INTERNAL AUDIT REPORT:
·        To ensure prompt, monthly report.
·        Timeliness of the report.
To ensure findings/observations are accurate & recommendations identified for corrective measures & management attention.
Monthly,
Quarterly,
Bi-Annual
and
Annually
SUPERVISOR &
ALL PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
09
009
REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF INTERNAL CONTROL AND INCLUDING SECURITY SEGMENTS:
·        Ensuring on these pot assessment of internal control & security networking
Daily,
Monthly,
and
Quarterly
Basis
SIA
(HASSAN)
10
010
PROJECT AUDIT, MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF CAPITAL EXPENDITURE.
Monthly,
Quarterly,
Bi-Annually,
and
Annually
Supervisors & all the Principal Officers
11
011
Budget & Budgetary control cutting across revenue & expenditure in line with IPSAS ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING
Monthly, Quarterly,
Bi-Annual
and
Annually
PRINCIPAL AUDITOR
(FATIMA)
12
012
REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF THE ADOPTION AND COMPLIANCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SCHEMES IN THE CENTRE, i.e EPR, BIO METRIC TIME ATTENDANCE MANAGEMENT
Monthly
Basis
Auditor I &
HEO Audit
(MR. ALABI ARUWA)
13.
013
AUDIT TRIAL AND INVESTIGATION
WHEN THE NEED ARISES
ALL THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS
14
014
DEPARTMENT PRESENTATION ON TOPICAL ISSUES RELEVANT TO ACCOUNTING/AUDITING
MONTHLY
BASIS
SUPERVISORS & ALL THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS

Application (software) at internal audit department, federal medical centre keffi.
1.     health in a box
2.     care plus
3.     integrated personal payroll information system (IPPIS)
·        Health in a box: Health a box is a program designed to carry out or discharge service to the public and the organization itself. It is an online programming that an outsider cannot have access to it. Also Health in a box is used to manage the service rendered to FMC patient or general management in term of fund being conciliation, refund, multiple revisal or trace history of any patient payment and monitoring the payment system of any patient admitted at  federal medical centre keffi.
·        Care plus: Care plus is also a programmed package used at the centre, before the discovering of and lunched of Health in a box. Its also used to meet to the patient challenges at the cause of payment, either over paid or refunding of fund due to poor attention given.

How to get started on the both program health in a box and care plus.
                               i.            A user name and pass word will created to any qualified individual(staff) of the centre(federal medical centre keffi) from CITU(computer information and technology unit) and afterword the user may wishes to change the created password in order to make it confidential for him/her to avoid unknown trance passes to his personal portal. It’s just similar with when someone is been an ATM card from bank and he will be asked to change the pin to make it confidential for him/her.
                             ii.            Get the portal: logon using your password and user name, then get the code or address of the patient that will help you to indentify if it is care plus or Health in a box.
                          iii.            Login web as it is designed for health in a box is 10.0.0.9 whiled care plus 10.0.0.8 as a demo access point.

How to differentiate the both packages(Health in a box and careplus)
o   Care plus start with 100 continuously as patient payment code, address number, user name.
o   Health in a box always start with 200 continuously as code, address number, patient payment number, user name
·        NB: The numbers start with 100 as for care plus and 200 as for health in a box but the continuations differs because it is peculiar to individuals and ones you are unable to get the number patient number correctly, you cannot access the patient portal.
·        Both health in a box and care plus are called EMR(Electronic medical record).

Advantages of both care plus and health in a box
                               i.            Reduces stress and brood files are been controlled
                             ii.            Its reduces rate of excess spending due to unable to revises fund
                          iii.            Its faster in transactions to the patient

Disadvantages of the both packages
                               i.            They location biased
                             ii.            Bad network since its internet based package
                          iii.            High rate of traffic due to much access on the platform

3.     Integrated personal payroll information system (IPPIS)
Integrated personal payroll information system (IPPIS) is internal audit programmed software that is used to monitor the increment and decrement of staff’s salaries. It’s also monitor the stoppage or promotion of staff in the organization. Stoppage like: death, retirement, promotion from one level to another.
Benefit of IPPIS
                               i.            To checkmate staffs salaries
                             ii.            To be sure of any stoppage of any staff salary
                          iii.            To allow free access to staffs issues concerning salaries and any change in level.

Advantages of IPPIS
                               i.            It conserves funds for government. I.e organization that made used of base workers on their own, the use of IPPIS helps federal government to monitor such act.
                             ii.            It helps government with the summary of all her active staffs still in service with that it minimized cost of excess released of salary.
                          iii.            It paperless and information are access easily.

Disadvantages of IPPIS
                               i.            It does not give adequate rule for pre-payment auditing
                             ii.            Since it is internet base network failure at times slow the work or process may occur
                                                   CHAPTER THREE
Summary, conclusion, Recommendations and Reference
3.1     Summary
SPSS (Statistical Packages For Social Science) is a user-friendly program that facilitates data management and statistical analysis. Originally developed as a programming language for conducting statistical analysis. It has grown into a complex and powerful application which now uses both graphical and a syntactical interface and provides functions for managing, analyzing, and presenting data. It has three main windows, with a menu bar at top. The windows are:
o   Data Editor (.save files)
o   Output Viewer (Sps file)
o   Syntax Editor (sps file)
Data Editor: The data editor window is divided into two, the Data View and the variable view windows
The data views window is made up of grids with rows and columns.
o   The rows represent subject (cases or observation) and the columns is represented variables whose names should appear at the top of the columns.
o   In the grids, the intersection between a row and a column is known as a cell. A cell will therefore contain the score of a particular case on a particular variable.
o   This window displays the content of data file or modifies existing ones in this window. This window opens automatically when SPSS is started

The variable View window is a window with rows and columns.
·        Microsoft Excel: Is a spreadsheet program including in the Microsoft Office suite of applications. Spreadsheet present tables of values arranged in rows and columns that can be manipulated mathematically using both basic and complex arithmetic operations and functions. In addition to its standard spreadsheet features, Excel also offers programming support via Microsoft’s Visual Basic (VBA), the ability to access data from external sources via Microsoft’s Dynamics Data Exchange (DDE), and extensive graphing and charting capabilities. It can also be said to be an electronic spreadsheet application for storing, organizing, and manipulating data and is made easy by Microsoft for Mac and Windows users. An Excel starts with a grid of cells where you place Excel information’s. Data is entered into a space called cell on a worksheet. Excel cells accept both numeric and non-numeric data. Excel can only do arithmetic with numeric data and because of that, calculations involving multiplication, addition, division, subtraction and exponential can be carried out on number in a worksheet easily.
·        Health in a box: is an ERN software used at the centre (federal medical centre keffi) to meet up to the patient depend and payment respectively.
·        Care plus: it is a similar application as health in a box. All are used to meet to patient demand at the centre most especially at the point of payment of any chargers.
·        Integrated personal payroll information system (IPPIS): its used to monitor the activities of federal government concerning deductions in salary and many others.
3.2     Conclusion
It is an indisputable fact that SPSS, MICROSOFT EXCEL play                important role in the society and in the field of science especially when it comes to mathematical symbols or terms. Like SPSS, it helps in solving our statistical analytical problems such as questionnaire which involve proper labeling, coding, and analysis (deduction, inference, hypothesis and conclusion of results), it give insight into data gathering, data collection and data management and also helps in correlation and regression of analysis etc. The last but not the list is the Microsoft Excel, Excel is a spreadsheet program consist of rows and columns for performing mathematical calculations, arithmetic, financial and other numerical operation. It creates room for storing, organizing, manipulating and computing of data. It also helps in computation of company pay roll and the preparation of budget.

3.3     Recommendation
·        In wish to recommend to the department of statistics in all Nigeria Universities to create an enabling environment where students can learn properly and if possible established well standard mathematical laboratories where students can don the practical aspects of their courses of study.
·        Also it would be beneficial to student if SPSS and EXCEL are included in the syllabus as courses to be taught in Nigeria Universities.
·        I also wish to urge the ITF Management to see how they can be of help to students financially that is paying or giving them their stipends as this will encourage and motive them not to take the programmed for granted and relieve them of some financial burdens, this is cope with the fact that most students are not financially buoyant.
·        This is also to urge the ITF Management to serve as backing to students especially when it comes to place of attachment as many reputable organizations turn down student `offers, so if there is anything you can do to make sure students are not rejected when they apply to Government established industries or organizations, it will go a long way in relieving students of the stress of where to do their industrial training. Thanks


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