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The adoption of various information and communication intervention measures offers a veritable tool in creating public awareness on climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa which is most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Such intervention in climate change information and communication strategy include: use of Research Extension Farmer Information Linkage System (REFILS), which makes use of village extension workers to disseminate climate change information to rural dwellers, use of...

Hands and anterior nares of Health Care Workers may serve as sources for transmission of pathogens causing nosocomial infection.The importance of hands in the transmission of nosocomial infection is known worldwide.However, it is difficult to induce hand washing behavior in health-care workers.This work is designed to ascertain the frequency of bacterial colonization and the antibiotic sensitivity pattern of the isolates from the anterior nares and hands of healthcare workers in University...

This paper assessed secondary school chemistry teachers’ quality with respect to identification and use of seventy-one (71) laboratory pieces of apparatus. Four hundred and fifty-four (454) teachers purposively selected from the three educational zones in Cross River State was the main study sample. An instrument titled Laboratory Apparatus Identification and Use Questionnaire (LAIUQ) was used to gather data from the subjects. By using simple percentage and independent t-test to analyze the...

The role of information technology in any environment is simple to support the short and long term goals of the organization.In the academic world it means supporting the institution's mission, vision, and goals articulated in its strategic plan.The final result of any strategic plan is typically a set of high-level objectives that contain specific goals with detailed timelines for their completion.This study was carried out to ascertain the Nigerian experience in re-engineering university...

The study investigated the roles being played by higher education institutions in the development of the communities and the society at large in Nigeria. Some selected Federal, States and Private Universities that have drawn so much benefit from the environment were studied. Literature revealed that higher institutions in Nigeria are endemic with corrupt practices, tribal and ethnic sentiments and individual academic pursuits of goals rather than empowering the society with their research...

Studies have shown that students and the young people misuse the internet facilities in the society. This study was conducted, therefore, to investigate the mis-use of internet facilities among the students of tertiary Institution in Nigeria. A survey of design was implemented in carrying out the research with emphasis on quantitative method. Questionnaires were administered among the students (n = 100) as research tool of gathering information and data from them. The research setting (Ogun...

Entrepreneurial studies are inter-displinary training that focuses on the tools needed to start a new business or vocation. Because Nigeria is fast becoming a predominantly youthful society with high rate of unemployment requires training the youth in entrepreneurial skills in Technical Vocational Education and Training to tackle the unemployment which has reached alarming proportions. This is because the youth represents a tremendous potentials development of human capital which the society...

The transformation of a surgical trainee into a surgeon is strongly influenced by the quality of teaching in the operating theater. This study investigates the perceptions of residents about the educational environment of the operating theater and identifies variables that may improve the operating theater education of our trainees.Residents in the department of surgery anonymously evaluated teaching in the operating room using the operating theater education environment measure. The...

This study investigated the effects of two modes of concept mapping instructional strategies on secondary school students' retention level in mathematics in Niger State.A pretest-posttest randomized group design was adopted.Two research questions were raised and two null hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 significant level.Two hundred and four senior secondary school year one (SSS I) students in six randomly selected co-educational secondary schools in Niger State formed the...

This study was designed to determine the gender difference in the performance of Bricklaying and Blocklaying practical skills among the National Technical Certificate (NTC) III Boys and Girls in Niger state.Three research questions and three hypotheses guided the study.

The study examined the energy use for vegetable production under Fadama in north central Nigeria with a view to assess the likelihood of the production system contributing to climate change. The data for the production of two major vegetables produced under Fadama (Onion, and Tomato) were collected from 200 Fadama farmers using a questionnaire. The results show that Tomato production was the most energy intensive among the two vegetables investigated. For all the vegetables, the usage of...

This study investigated the effectiveness of video presentation techniques (VPT) on the learning grammatical structures among senior secondary school students of Sokoto State, Nigeria.  The main objective was to find out whether presentation of grammar lessons in form of video activities would promote the learning of Noun, Adjectival and Adverbial Phrases among the senior secondary school students in the State.  The population of the study was the senior secondary school students in Sokoto...

3 Abstract: The water quality and heavy metals (Cu, Fe, Pb, Cd, Mn and Zn) concentrations in the water of El-Rahawy drain and River Nile at El- Kanater El-Khyria (as a reference site for comparison) were seasonally estimated. In addition to that, samples of Clarias gariepinus fish were collected from the two sites to assess the effects of the water quality and heavy metals concentrations in El-Rahawy drain on the fish liver enzymes and some biochemical parameters. Also, the histological...

Globalization has led to more and more students taking advanced degrees from different continents. These continents in most cases have different curriculum, different educational philosophies and different teaching methods at the undergraduate levels. Students from developing countries such as Nigeria take their first degrees from their home countries and several advanced degrees from developed countries. These students get to compete with graduates from other countries (developed and...

The paper examines the worrisome issue of unemployability among Nigerian graduates in recent times. Certain factors such as unplanned expansion, unnecessary duplication of courses/programmes, deterioration of physical facilities, overstretching of teaching, research and managerial capacities, massification of student numbers, upsurge of various forms of ills, etc, have been implicated. The paper went further to identify some employability skills and suggested how university can be...

As we move into a technology-based society, the use of technology-based teaching strategies in the training of tomorrow’s workforce has become inevitable. The purpose of this study is to examine undergraduates’ level of exposure to technology-based teaching strategies, and to further determine if such level is a function of their area and year of study. A sample of 624 students was randomly selected from Cross River University of Technology students. A questionnaire was the instrument for...

Background: Neonatal deaths are generally attributed to suboptimal standards of health care. Health care worker region. Methods: A descriptive study using a semi-structured interview for health care workers at a tertiary referral hospital and peripheral health facilities (regional referral, district hospitals and health centres).was used. Health Care Workers (HCW) were asked to recall a scenario of a critically ill neonate admitted in the wards and the treatment that was provided. The WHO...