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Information literacy is considered an essential skill that every society is expected to acquire in the modern knowledge-based global economy.Schools play the vital role of producing future citizens who are expected to be creative, critical thinkers, and lifelong learners.To accomplish this objective, schools are expected to implement information literacy programmes that are explicitly designed to equip students and teachers with the necessary aptitude that would help them become independent...

Objective : To describe the pattern and outcome of childhood illnesses seen in a paediatric emergency ward of a tertiary centre in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Methods : Admission records of all children seen in the Children’s Emergency Ward (CHEW) between the 1st of January 2008 and 31st of December 2011 were retrospectively reviewed and analysed. Results : A total of 1756 children were admitted into the emergency ward over a four year period (1st January 2008 to 31st December 2011)....

Nigeria is likely to be one of the most negatively impacted countries in the world as a result of climate change.Nigeria is plagued with many ecological problems of varying magnitude.Whilst the people living in the southern part of the country are being ravaged by flood and gully erosion, their counterparts in the north are contending with the menace of desertification, deforestation and drought, among others.These environmental challenges have direct and indirect effects on the social and...

Due to the increase in the number of universities and other tertiary education service providers in the country, prospective students are faced with unlimited options. As a result the students are becoming very demanding and disloyal moving from one university or education provider to another seeking better service. This study seeks to evaluate the marketing strategies being employed by Zimbabwe Open University to recruit new students. The main aim of the paper was to evaluate the marketing...

This study seeks to determine a set of attributes that influence the adoption mobile banking innovation among university students in Ghana since most banks have started reaching their customers directly via mobile phones. A quantitative approach was used to obtain data collect from cohort of 550 undergraduate students who are frequent users of mobile phone devices. Data was analysed with SPSS software which measured factors such as relative advantage, compatibility, observability,...

This study seeks to examine the role of region, religion and education on contraceptive use in Ghana. The study also observes how gender affects the relationship between region, religion, education (independent variable) and contraceptive use (dependent variable) in Ghana. This study employs a data with the sample size of 11,888 from the 2008 Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) on Ghana. The dependent variable of the student is contraceptive use and the independent variables of the study are...

This investigation describes the factors that impede the realisation of the objectives of the South African Schools Choral Eisteddfod (SASCE) in the Motheo district of the Free State Province. The challenges of the SASCE are consistent with those facing the national education system with regard to policy implementation, institutional organisation and human resources. In addition, the SASCE is impeded by entrenched counterproductive musical practices. Hierdie ondersoek beskryf die faktore wat...

A study to describe the types of obesity and its effect on blood pressure of secondary students in rural and urban areas of Cross River State(CRS) was carried out.The design of the study was a cross sectional descriptive survey involving the sampling of secondary school students within the age 12-21 in Cross River State, Nigeria.A simple random sampling was used to select four schools from 25 urban and 14 rural secondary schools in Southern Senatorial District of Cross River State.Systematic...

This research was aimed at studying teacher’s perception of female principal leadership role in secondary schools in Calabar Municipality, Cross River State, Nigeria. Twenty schools were selected from a total of forty schools in Calabar Municipality using simple random sampling. Ten teachers were selected from each of the selected schools using systematic sampling technique. A total of two hundred (200) teachers were selected from a total of seven hundred and eighty 780 teachers. The result...

The study assessed the contribution of farmer field school training to the knowledge of Cocoa farmers on selected farm practices in Edo State. The specific objectives were to: describe the socioeconomic characteristics of the respondents, identify the practices where FFS has enhanced farmers’ knowledge, ascertain the level of contribution of FFS training to their knowledge of cocoa cultivation practices and determine the percentage of farmers who have benefited from FFS training in terms of...

Introduction: Fingerprint patterns are genotypically determined and remain unchanged from birth till death. Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study was to determine fingerprint patterns in relation to gender and blood group among students of Delta state University, Abraka, Nigeria. Materials and Methods: A total of 490 subjects, aged 17-30 years were drawn using the systematic random sampling technique. The blood group of each subject was obtained from the records in the medical...

The end of the 19th century witnessed an increase in mean global temperature, with rising sea levels, due to discernible human influence on the global climate, causing untoward effects on lives and properties. The study determined the knowledge, attitude and practice towards climate change among the residents of Ifo LGA, Ogun State, South West, Nigeria. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was done among 410 residents in Ifo L.G.A, using an interviewer – administered questionnaire. Almost...

Abstracts-Technology acceptance has been studied in different perspectives.Though a few empirical studies on acceptance of Web 2.0 as a social networking tool in teaching and learning exist, none of such studies exist in Nigeria which is the focus of this study.This paper reports on a pilot study that begins to fill this gap by investigating the perceptions, attitude and acceptance of Web 2.0 in e-learning of this country.Based on literature review and initial primary study, a conceptual...

Climate change has become one of the most exigent concerns of human race today. The effect of climate changes connected to human activities has become alarming since our ecosystem is not naturally adapting quickly to this phenomenon that depends on natural and human causes. As the key climate change indicators such as increasing temperature and intensity of rainfall are being verified in Nigeria, the consequent impacts of climate change connected to these symptoms are to be expected in...

The relationship between soil-transmitted helminth infections and the knowledge and practice of preventive measures among school children in rural communities in Igbo-Eze South Local Government Area of Enugu State, South-Eastern Nigeria, was investigated.Stool samples were obtained from 1,296 school children (ages 4 -15 years) from six schools randomly selected from the study area.Structured epidemiological questionnaires were administered to the children.Out of 1,296 school children...