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There has been a sustained increment in young people initiating smoking in low middle income countries like Nigeria. Health warnings on cigarette packages are a prominent source of health information and an effective means of communicating specific disease risks to adolescents and young adults alike. This study evaluated the perceived effectiveness of selected graphic warnings on smoking initiation amongst in-school adolescents.This was a cross-sectional study conducted amongst secondary...

Teaching used to be a well-respected profession, which many people used to love in the past.Many children, when asked what they wanted to be when growing up, indicated that theywanted to be teachers. This is why – even when children were play-acting – most of them likedto play the role of a teacher. It is disturbing to learn that this profession has grown to be hated bymany people today. This is evidenced by the mass resignations of teachers from many publicschools over the past few years in...

Abstract At Stellenbosch University there is a drive to integrate the development of graduate attributes and the use of emerging technologies in the curriculum. With the aim of discovering the role of emerging mobile technologies in learning a qualitative research project was undertaken with a senior‐student cohort. An inductive thematic analysis was done using Ng's ( ) mLearning literacies framework (cognitive, socio‐emotional and technical), and situating it within the field of...

The University of Eastern African, Baraton (UEAB) mission is concerned with providing a religious education in a holistic environment. This includes education in the gospel globally by recruiting students from all spheres including those of other faiths. The aim is witnessing to them during their four-year stay at the institution with the hope of introducing them to the Adventist faith. The main focus of this study was to establish whether the UEAB was true to its basic philosophy of...

Background: To determine critical factors associated with severely malnourished children under five this casecontrol study was conducted. Methods:The data of a total of 433 children aged 0-59 months and admitted to the Hospital Yalgado Ouedraogo, (CHU -YO) between January 31, 2009 to January 31, 2013, were included in the analysis: 72 for the case group and 361 for the control group.Clinical and treatment records were accessed and data were analyzed.Results: For clinical signs, determinants...

Not much is considered by most musical performances adjudicators during competitions other than to select the best three groups and dismiss all other entrants into the competition with a wave of hand. Against this background, this duo examines in detail musical performances adjudications within the Nigerian context. In the course of this investigation it opined that while the musical awareness of donor agencies maybe limited, the onus is on the performances adjudicators to give technical...

Adverse childhood experiences can show lasting effects on physical and mental health. Major questions surround how children overcome adverse circumstances to prevent negative outcomes. A key factor determining resilience is likely to be cognitive interpretation (how children interpret the world around them). The cognitive interpretations of 1025 school children aged 10-12 years in a rural, socioeconomically disadvantaged area of South Africa were examined using the Cognitive Triad Inventory...

At the invitation of the director of The National Eye Center, Kaduna, Nigeria and The Makkah Eye Hospital of Khartoum, Sudan I visited both these institutions to teach phacoemulsification surgery to their aspiring surgeons on Visalis 100 (Carl Zeiss Meditec, Germany). This article highlights the experience of teaching phacoemulsification surgery in foreign African countries like Nigeria and Sudan. In Nigeria I had the opportunity to give training in both wet lab and live surgery settings...

There are no locally derived growth charts in Nigeria, and so, health workers rely on international reference charts. We therefore compared the growth characteristics of 4350 school-age Nigerian children (SNC) (2243 girls, 2107 boys) (4-16 years) from three ethnic groups (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) to both the UK (UK 1990) and US (2000 CDC) reference data.Height of SNC was similar to international references at the start of school age and then started to decline. The decline appeared to peak at...

Abstract This paper investigates the impact of exogenous shocks to household income, assets and labour supply on children's school attendance in Madagascar. The analysis uses a unique data set with 10 years of recall data on school attendance and household shocks. We find that the probability of a child dropping out of school increases significantly when the household experiences an illness, death or asset shock. We propose a test to distinguish whether the impact of shocks on school...

Much has been written and reported, especially by the media about African Leadership and governance. A major coverage has focused on corruption and the lack of transparency; both issues emerging from the media within Africa and the West. The related literature suggests that the African people and the international community have levied the blame on African political leadership and Governance. Equally important is a growing public concern about African higher education. For example, the 2015...

Research in applied linguistics emphasizes the significance of learners’ errors in SLA and EFL contexts. Despite the continuous interest in error analysis, to the best of our knowledge, no study has provided a systematic analysis of lexical errors committed by Tunisian learners of English at the ISEAH Institute of Kef (Tunisia). This paper tries to fill up this gap by investigating the lexical errors made by 20 EFL learners of Business English at the ISEAH Institute of Kef.  The participants...

Media like radio plays a very significant role in the society. The main objective of this paper was to understand media preferences and choices of university students in a large public university-University of Nairobi. Survey research method was used through questionnaires to find the listening habits and their favorite radio stations and programs. A total of 103 students of University of Nairobi were the sample size for this paper. From this research work, it was found that students have an...

Higher education in Kenya has experienced tremendous growth since independence. With only one public university with an enrolment of less than 1000, the number stands at twenty two public universities with student population of over 150,000. This growth has been attributed to the introduction of module II programs and increased private and public funding for university education. However, despite the increase in enrolments, there has been no commensurate development and/or improvement of the...