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A retrospective study of a large number of eclamptic patients (n=845) treated in the Lagos University Teaching Hospital over a 20 year period. 1967-86 was carried out on available inpatient records in the hospital. The areas of interest included clinical profile of eclampsia as seen in Lagos, prognostic outcome in eclampsia in relation to treatment modalities, cesarean delivery, maternal and perinatal mortalities, primary causes of maternal deaths in eclampsia, and morbidity rate, including...
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Summary This paper examined the extent to which gender, academic achievement in social studies and the occupation of the parents of the students may be intervening variables in the citizenship behaviour of students within the school purview. An observational scheme, using Mehlinger's and Okunrotifa's posit, was used to observe 60 students for 3 weeks by trained raters. While the general picture appears satisfactory and gender has no significant influence, academic achievement in social...
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Cognitive function was assessed in 930 elderly Nigerians living in an urban community by trained medical students who were blinded to the educational status of the subjects. They used a pretested and validated questionnaire. The subjects were later evaluated for the presence of dementia according to DSM-IIIR criteria by neurologists who then determined the educational status of the subjects. There were 361 males and 569 females with a mean age of 58.5 years (SD = 14.8). One hundred and...
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Since the 1950s, the governments of the western and eastern regions of Nigeria have invested more of their revenues in education than in any other sector of development. This was a shift from the old Colonial system in which education, consisting mainly of literacy and numeracy, served only to provide workers for the Colonial Civil Service. According to the National Policy on Education: Education in Nigeria is no more a private enterprise, but a huge Government venture that has witnessed a...
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The meaning of and requirement for adult education in Nigeria are examined. The shortcomings of current adult literacy programmes are indicated and the role of libraries in Nigeria in consolidating and sustaining literacy skills in relation to adult education campaigns is discussed.
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Abstract In this paper an attempt is made to show that although the problems currently facing the teaching and learning of English Language in the developing English speaking countries are numerous, the major threat comes from lack of professionalism in ESL teaching. Using the Nigerian situation by way of illustration, it is argued that the ineffectiveness of ESL teaching and learning activities results primarily from chronic teacher related factors such as: shortage of well trained...
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This article describes the activities of an international training workshop for health workers involved with the Africa Child Survival Initiative (CCCD), a workshop characterized by its emphasis on participatory needs assessment. A 1983-84 evaluation of CCCD revealed a number of problems, including a lack of cooperation between managers and educators, and inadequate planning and evaluation skills on the part of health educators involved in large scale child survival programs. In order to...
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Nigeria is faced with the problems and challenges of pluralism in respect of its ethnic, social, political and religious diversity. This thesis argues that in order to reconcile the conflicting interests and tendencies in the country, an integrated approach to moral education is required. The first chapter clarifies the current situation in Nigeria by showing historically the roots of the present diversity. The second chapter is an introduction to some concepts -- of morality, education,...
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Many recent studies have reported a convergence in the scores of males and females on spatial tests; however, these studies also indicate different amounts of convergence. There are indications that spatial differences continue to exist. It was decided to study such differences in spatial ability on two different tests for two groups of South African first-year university students (ns = 60), one from arts and one from the sciences. In all comparisons statistically significant differences were found between the sexes.