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The paper investigated the local implementation of the National Policy of Education (NPE) on the use of mother tongues or the languages of the immediate community. Using a case study approach of Yoruba medium of instruction in Ikire in the south-western part of Nigeria, data were collected from 50 teachers from both private and public schools. These respondents were selected on being able to satisfy the following conditions: first, they should be able to communicate in Yoruba; second, they...
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The paper investigated the local implementation of the National Policy of Education (NPE) on the use of mother tongues or the languages of the immediate community. Using a case study approach of Yoruba medium of instruction in Ikire in the south-western part of Nigeria, data were collected from 50 teachers from both private and public schools. These respondents were selected on being able to satisfy the following conditions: first, they should be able to communicate in Yoruba; second, they...
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Agriculture was the key economic sector of Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan/Jordan during the first half of the 20th century. Local and colonial administrators alike saw increasing agricultural productivity as indispensable, emphasising the development of education as one of the most effective ways of developing agriculture, and improving the status of cultivators overall. British and Jewish narratives of development went a step further, linking the ability to modernise agriculture with the...
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Background: Prematurity is a common complication that contributes significantly to high neonatal mortality. In spite of many efforts by the government and other partners, non-significant decline has been achieved in the recent past. Globally, 15 million babies are born preterm (<37 weeks gestation) each year, and more than 1 million of those do not survive their first month of life. Preterm birth accounts for 75% of all perinatal mortality in some series thus identifying the determinants...
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 Objectives: These were to determine obstetric outcomes associated with adolescent pregnancies and those of older women at the UTH, identify factors associated with and compare the obstetric outcomes between the two age groups with determining the scale of adolescent pregnancy.
 Materials and methods: This was a comparative prospective cross sectional study with a purposeful sample of 200 pregnant adolescents and women aged between...
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In 2014 the cultural agency of the United Nations issued a dismal assessment of education in Africa.The report noted that while, globally, a quarter of a billion children are failing to learn basic reading and math skills, resulting in an education crisis that costs governments $129 billion per year, the situation in Africa could only be described as catastrophic.Education on this continent had failed so miserably in its mission that 'four in 10 African children "cannot read a sentence"'...
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Many of the secondary schools have had threats to safety from within originating from fires, insect bites, loose and sharp objects, poorly constructed buildings inadequate and poorly ventilated rooms all these among others makes the learner, the teacher and the workers insecure while in school. The study aimed at assessing the influence of the principal’s training on safety management in all the public schools in Nzaui sub-County, Makueni County Kenya. A mixed method was used consequently...
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Project 1808, Inc. is a multi-generational and multi-layered One Health based school-community-university partnership model for sustainable development in Sierra Leone. The country, Sierra Leone has faced successive years of war, a deadly Ebola outbreak, and in 2017 severe environmental disasters in the form of floods and landslides. It was precisely for these reasons that Project 1808, Inc. was conceived in 2011 to help break these logjam of community challenges and build sustained health...
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Advancing the Intellectualization of AfricanLanguages in Higher Education.The position paper examines the challenge of how to intellectualise African languages and bring them up to speed with the linguistic techniques of modernity and advanced contemporary thought.
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Samples of Citrullus colocynthis shoots were collected from nine stands during two seasons (winter and summer 2015) in two tributaries of Wadi Qena (W. El-Atrash and W. El-Ghuza) in the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Soil of these stands was characterized by slight alkalinity and low soil moisture and organic matter percentages. Soil macronutrients were arranged as Ca>K> Na>Cl>SO4>Mg>PO4. However, in C. colocynthis tissues, these nutrients accumulated in the following order: SO4 >K > Ca > Mg > Na>...
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Climate variability and change poses significant threats to sustained economic growth and agricultural development, poverty reduction, food security and political stability globally. The threats are compounded by repeated food price spikes, a growing food crisis in many parts of the world, high fossil fuel and fertilizer prices, and increasing environmental degradation and competition for food and water. Notably, food insecurity is a threat multiplier; it is hardly ever the only and direct...