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This research investigated techniques used by senior secondary school teachers in inculcating moral character on Islamic Studies students in Kwara Central Senatorial District, Nigeria. The aim of the study was pointing out whether or not gender, qualification level and experience of teachers were linked to techniques used to inculcate moral character on Islamic Studies students in Kwara Central Senatorial District. The paper was a quantitative research by using questionnaire as instrument...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Impaired lung development in early childhood increases risk for future pulmonary disease. Millions of people worldwide are exposed to household air pollution (HAP), however the impact of early life HAP on childhood lung development is poorly described. Leveraging the Ghana Randomized Air Pollution and Health Study (GRAPHS) birth cohort, we examined associations between prenatal and early life HAP exposure, as indexed by carbon monoxide (CO), and age four lung function....

Learning Management System (LMS) is a common platform where students and teachers can interact digitally, most especially in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) institutions. However, it has been discovered over time that most of the distance learners with poor study habits lag behind in its utilization. The purpose of this study was to investigate the Perception of Learning Management System among Distance Learners’ in South-West, Nigeria. Emphasis was on gender and field of study using an...

The study examined implications of counselling, psychological and social services on academic performance of primary school pupils in Southwest, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population consisted of all primary school teachers in Southwest out of which 1006 teachers were selected from the three sampled states in Southwest, Nigeria. Multistage sampling procedure was used to select sample for the study. The instrument used for data collection was tagged...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Ambient air pollution is a growing public health concern in sub-Saharan African (SSA) cities. Yet, effective air quality management is hampered by limited data and modelling of spatial trends. METHODS: We measured outdoor weekly gravimetric (filter-based) concentrations of PM2.5 at 146 locations in a city-wide measurement campaign from April 2019 to June 2020 comprising of 10 yearlong and 136 weeklong sites. We used these data together with geospatial predictors to...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: In recent times, there has been a proliferation of low-cost air quality sensors (LCS). In Africa, where air quality monitoring systems are very weak, LCS offer a great opportunity for bridging the huge air pollution data gaps in countries. METHODS: The Ghana Urban Air Quality Project (GHAir) initiated in May 2019 and presently covering five cities of Ghana leverages PurpleAir sensors, clarity nodes, and Real-Time Multi-Pollutant sensors (RAMP) to monitor air pollution in...

This chapter discusses a number of well-known African Philosophies of Education (APE) that could significantly improve the development of an international educational leadership curriculum. These include Preparedness/Preparationism, Utilitarianism/Functionalism, Communalism; Holisticism and Perennialism, Ethnophilosophy, Ubuntu, Community, Reasonableness, Moral Maturity, Maat or Ma'at African philosophies discovered from papyrus manuscripts including Imhotep, The Teachings of the Vizier...

As the HIV/AIDS epidemic in South Africa accelerates, HIV sero-prevalence studies report increasing risk among young people in the general population. These young people are found predominantly in schools. It is for this reason that the researcher embarked on this study. The emphasis of the study is to evaluate the management of HIV/AIDS in secondary public schools in South Africa, particularly, an overview of the policy

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Despite the majority of ambient air pollution-related deaths occurring in low-and middle-income countries, most of the studies that have investigated the relationship between ambient air pollution and cardiorespiratory outcomes were not conducted in Africa. This study investigated the relationship between ambient air pollution exposure and self-reported cardiorespiratory outcomes amongst adults residing in four informal settlements of the Western Province of South Africa....

The rapid evolution of technology around the world has created a rapid growth and efficient learning environments. In Mauritius, for example, the government is investing huge amount of money in the educational sector with initiation of programming at an early stage. The ideology behind this push is to strengthen the link between the younger generation and the technological growth that will continue to have an ever-increasing impact on their lives and to fuel the pace of innovation. One of...

Purpose: The present study analyses the possible impact on gender equality when using a language familiar to students in tests at primary schools in Sub-Saharan Africa where a European language is the unique medium of instruction and assessment.
 Methodology: To this aim, students at grades 3 and 6 (83 girls and 66 boys) in primary schools in rural Senegal were given two different tests: Mathematics problem-solving tasks and multiple-choice questions of Social Sciences. They were...

The study has been designed to investigate how floods affect primary education in the flood plains in Zambia. Both qualitative phenomenological and quantitative comparative methods were used for the study. Two communities with primary school going children (those affected by floods and those not affected by floods within a 5 years period) were investigated and compared. It was found out that children in the flood plains compared to those in the upper land have low net school enrolment, the...

Program evaluation is an important tool to inform policy makers about the effectiveness of programs and the efficient allocation of resources.Several studies have examined the impact of school feeding and deworming programs on educational outcomes in developing countries.However, conflicting evidence still exists regarding the effectiveness of these programs on school performance.Also, there are little evidences on the cost effectiveness of these programs.Although nutritional and health...

This study aims to examine the proficiency level of Libyan EFL (English as a Foreign Language) undergraduate students in terms of the types of subject-verb agreement errors they commit. It also attempts to identify, analyze and categorize the frequency errors related to subject-verb agreement into three categories. These errors are statically analyzed and classified into: subject-verb agreement (SVA) errors with third person singular subjects (TPSS), with third person plural subjects (TPPS),...

In this paper we have investigated the effects of geomagnetic storm on the variation of interplanetary magnetic field(IMF Bz), disturbance storm time (Dst), solar wind speed and total electron content (TEC) over Ethiopian ionosphere. Atotal of 17 geomagnetic storms have analysed by using ground based Global Positioning System (GPS) stations at Bahir Dar(11o N, 38o E), Debark(4.32o N, 109.48o E), Armi (3.03o N, 109.29o E), Nazret (8.57o N, 39.29o E), Robe(7.60o N, 40oE),Assosa (1.14o N,...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: With climate change and globalization, range and intensity of exposures to aerosol pollutants and the number of people exposed to them is increasing. Research has shown that incidence of asthma and chronic bronchitis is increasing in much of the world. Less well understood, however, is how asthma and chronic bronchitis is characterized in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA.) This research systematically reviewed the literature on asthma and chronic bronchitis and how...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Personal monitoring can enhance exposure-response studies. Prior studies employ a wearing compliance minimum threshold to reduce exposure misclassification. Leveraging the full range of device wearing data illuminates important exposure outcomes in the context of a large household air pollution cookstove intervention study with three arms (control, liquified petroleum gas (LPG), and improved biomass). METHODS: Evaluating the association between accelerometer-derived...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Household air pollution (HAP) is associated with adverse human health impacts. During COVID-19 Hard Lockdown Level 5, South Africans remained at home, potentially increasing their exposure risk to HAP. This study was conducted to investigate changes in fuel use behaviours / patterns affecting HAP exposure and associated HAP-related health outcomes during the COVID-19 Hard Lockdown that started 23 March, 2020. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional online and telephonic...