INTRODUCTION
The position or role of computer in management information system, cannot
be under estimated. Their work in
intended to highlight the place or
position of management information
system mis or the role of computer in management information system and its
implications on economics
activities or development in the
Nigeria economy. It is meant to
examine the various areas computer could be applied in the
everyday transactions of the economy and how the various applications have impacted on the development of the macro
economy.
Indeed computer
could be applied in initially all areas
of human endeavor. The numerous
applications of computer have made the computer to be described as
an inheritable belonging by right to everyone who chance to be born into our civilization . the applications of
computer create new worlds and explore the worlds so created for the computer users
Today the
applications of computer are too numeric to mention: computers can be used to
transfer tn predict tomorrows heather, guide a space craft
store rest information, scan
pictures into documented for
publishing etc
Computers are
applied in education, industries,
companies and hospitals, government court (Law),
home , military, economics, finance and accountancy science,
engineering, business , administrator,
market, planning and for
carting
It could be used
to audit government account, store information and results for fatigue
uses give information to soldier
at war, locate and rescore stolen vehicles, conduct accurate
census etc. the use of which
computer could be put in indisputably in exhaustible and
this has gone a long way to
transform the feed, accuracy relionsiblity, completeness, conciseness or precession, ease, understand ability
of business transaction
in the Nigeria economy
WHAT IS COMPUTER?
Compute has been
defined variously by several people
computer could be defined as an dectronic device that is made up fo
physical parts called the hardware and the non=physical parts called the software.
It accepts data, instructions a
commands, processes data and produces
result. It can equally be defined as an
electronic machine that can be used
to carry out various functions with the aid of l a programme or software
l. others see computer as a programmable automatic electronic machine
capable of processing
particular data sent
to it and come out with the result
or output which can be scored for futuse or immediate use as the case
may be.
CONCLUSION
The various computer, drawbacks indicated above, not withstand , computer
stands one of the most beneficial scientific
discovery of the present age. It is an
indispensable tool in the economic development of Nigeria. It has contributed immensely toward the growth and stability of the economy
because the merits far outweighs
the limitation in all its
application areas hence
the study recommends that
continued use of computer should be encourage in all sectors of the macro economy in Nigeria .
Ways traditional media can be used to facilitate self –help
development in the village include the followings1. Through music /song
media in traditional ways
For instance different traditional music or song
can be used to covey messages in the village,
some times when there is enterement ,
new born , a lost but found
Child or adult
may be the person has travel out of the village for long.
People have assumed that the person is
dead or something must have happen to him/her is happen there is no news or
information or the way about of the person for many years.
The person
happen to show himself to the village or the family there will be a kind of
song or music to draw people attention about the person .
Music or song in other way round can also
be used to criticize or satirize .For example in this cause when somebody is debtor
if there is any sad news like a young girl getting pregnant is the fathers
compound without a husband or suitor and
she is still single than in the olden days, there is a kind of music
usually sang by people I the village by her
age grade to attract people
attention to ask what is happening
With the song or
music there will be a kind of mockery in
the song . to the extend that the person
name and
what the person that pregnant her
is working will be included in the song
Immediately the
song is heard not somebody
will tell you that something
is wrong and the girl will be very sashmed of herself
In some parts of
igboland, when somebody dies, women send
across the message of the death through the singing of a derge. The moment
the song is heard, people know someone
has passed on.
When the government
of Alhaji Shehu Shagari put the legalization of abortion to
debate, an Igbo minister, prince Morocco Maduka, through song
and music called on the people to reject
the legislation of abortion in Nigeria
2. the use of signals which include fire,
gunshots, and canon shots help in self traditional media in my village
The gun is one
of the universal non –verbal instruments of communication throughout igboland .
A gun shot at night coveys the unmistakable message that an important
person has died and that burial rites are to commence.
The during must be done repeatedly and at intervals and can last for
days when a very important person dies, in some
areas . firing of a gun behind a woman being led to her
The firing of a gun during social ceremonies like
traditional marriage ceremonies meansnothing but the arrival or exit of a very
important personality 3. Native white chalk (NZU ) has facilitated in the
development of traditional system in Africa
White chalk is
used to intertent vistors and also sent
messenger and young froinds of the oil
palm tree (OMU) asking to choose between peace and war
The white chalk
prepesent peace. While the omu
represents war danger. When they is a
misunderstanding between two
communities there will present the
white chalk and the (Omu) young founds to choose if they choose the white chalk means they want peace not trouble so the matter will be settle amicably.
Jugumen or native
doctors make ritualistic use of the white chalk. When the chalk
is rubbed across the left eye,
it conveys the information to all, especially
perspective clients, that these
men are oracles of great powers,
able to divine hidden mysteries and also
to remove evil spirits by remote control
through herbal medication, talisman and sacrifices of eggs or live animals. On the other hand, in a
traditional home in many parts of igboland,
white chalk is offered to quest
to rub on his wrist or foot as a mark of welcome. A woman visiting a fellow woman, who had just had a baby, expresses her joy by
robbing her face with white chalk offered by the new mother. In some parts
of igboland, white chalk is offered to quest to rub on his wrist or foot
as a mark of welcome. A woman
visiting a fellow woman, who had
just had a baby, expresses her joy by robbing her face with white chalk
offered by the new mother, in some parts of igboland, nzu or white chalk is kept at the entrance to any compand