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Teaching in Nigeria is not a profession. The word is only a universal term, and does not need to be considered in the absolute sense. A universal term would apply to everyone and every society. On the other hand, an absolute term does not permit exceptions. To say that teaching is a profession in the universal sense means that this ought to apply to all people and all societies; and to view it in the absolute sense as is often the majority belief in Nigeria means that there are no...
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This study examined factors leading to low employment rate of people with physical disability in Tanzania. Specifically, it looked at how the education system cater for people with disability, the treatment of people with disability at the workplace and identified environmental barriers of people with disability. The work also determined the challenges facing people with disability at the workplaces. The study findings showed that there were several factors which lead to low employment rate...
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This thesis examines Rwandan University EFL teachers’ perceived difficulties in implementing Communicative Language Teaching (CLT). The data were collected using an online survey questionnaire that was completed by 16 teachers. The results indicated that participants faced several challenges including overly large classes, students’ lack of opportunities to use English outside the classroom, the students’ tendency to always use their L1 in pair and group work, students’ passive learning...
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The aim of this research was to investigate teachers’ perceptions of education acts, policies, teaching strategies and the relationship of the aforementioned to learner dropout at public senior secondary schools within the South-Central education region of Botswana. A mixed method research design was adopted in which a questionnaire and interviews were selected as the research instruments. A total number of 94 respondents participated in the study. The results based on the questionnaire...
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Following the recent incident of lead poisoning in Zamfara State of Nigeria, interest in the levels of heavy metals in environmental samples from the affected areas has increased. In this regard, we collected and analysed water and soil/sediment samples of Bagega artisanal gold mining region using flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry (AAS) to assess the levels of heavy metals. Samples were obtained from different water sources (wells, boreholes and surface pond) and soil/sediment of Bagega...
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Climate change has gained increased attention in recent times due to its perceived negative repercussions on a range of activities, chiefly agriculture. These events are ample evidence of what climate change may unleash if attempts are not made to mitigate and adapt to its impacts. For instance, Dai et al. (2004) and Trenberth et al. (2007) point out that many third world countries have already experienced extreme weather events in terms of floods, droughts, heat waves and tropical cyclones...
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The biggest challenges of Nigeria today are youth unemployment.Nigeria, being the giant of Africa has the largest number of youths who are yet to be properly mobilized and empowered for gainful economic activities.This can only be tackled through entrepreneurship education which involves teaching and learning of the needed skills and knowledge that equip one to become self-reliant through being an effective and successful initiator, manager, innovator and risk bearer of business...
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The crises rocking the foundations of this world and threatening its existence have assumed a horrifying dimension. This situation is compounded by the increasing drift by young people into radicalized violent extremist militant groups. This paper attempts a conceptual analysis of the term radicalisation, the processes involved in it, its components, as well as the rationale behind the influx of young ones into radicalized violent extremist groups. It also highlights the implications of...
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The current climate change is affecting the environment in diverse ways. Some of the effects are good and some others bad. The good side has not been given its deserved attention in Nigeria, nor has it in most parts of the world. Some areas are becoming warmer and wetter, which could enhance agriculture. This paper therefore examined the rainfall and temperature trends as tools of climate change over Kano State, north-western Nigeria, which is an area well known for agriculture. Rainfall and...
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There is often the tendency for the component of a system to respond to perturbation whether from within or outside.Climate, itself a system, is never static because of some internal and external perturbations.Similarly, the bigger earthatmosphere system to which climate belongs is never stable due to its components that are ever changing.As climate is affected by changes, other components of the earth-atmosphere system (Vegetation and Soil, for example) might respond to influences exerted...
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Religious configuration of Nigeria has shown that Igboland has the highest concentration of catholics in the country. This has been attributed to the evangelization strategies employed by the church especially during the early period. One of such strategies is creative art. Unfortunately, the latter like the strategy of education is people-driven and could not take evangelization beyond the search for numerical strength in the church. Consequently, nearly a century and half, the church in...
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BACKGROUND Prevalence and risk factors predisposing to intestinal helminthic infections vary widely. Risk factors to intestinal helminthic infections among children have not been documented in Gwagwalada, Nigeria which necessitated present study. OBJECTIVE To determine risk factors to intestinal helminthiasis among children aged 1 - 15 years in Gwagwalada, Nigeria. METHODS Cross-sectional study was carried out from June to November, 2011 in public schools using multi-staged, random sampling....