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A research thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for a Degree of Master of Education (Leadership, Management & Policy Studies)

Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction, though a desirable rehabilitation procedure has remained an uncommon procedure in most resource-limited environments. Most breast cancer patients in our environment undergo total mastectomy, however only a few of them seek or have access to breast reconstruction. Breast reconstruction has potential for improving the psychosocial wellbeing of a patient post-mastectomy. The availability of expertise for breast reconstruction and increased societal...

Background: There has been a world-wide reduction in under-five mortality rate since 1990 by almost half. Despite this global reduction, about 17,000 children under the age of five years die daily, and a significant proportion of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa, with Nigeria having an U5MR of 117/1,000 live births. The study aims to identify the age at death and cause of death of hospitalized children in this center, as well as describe the pattern of mortality.Methods: The study...

The high rate of unemployment of vocational education graduates in Nigeria was one of the major reasons for the introduction of Stunents' Industrial Works Experience Scheme (SIWES). Based on the high rate of unemployment, this study was undertaken to recommend the needed changes to be made in SIWES to facilitate decrease in unemployment rate of business education graduates in Nigeria. Two research questions were answered by the study, while two null hypotheses were formulated and tested. The...

This paper intended to provide a brief overview of the issues and challenges in the educational leadership in Nigerian schools and the political involvement in the managerial structure.Tracing down the history of education during and after the colonial era, were indications of types of schools within the stated period, whether public or mission schools, and the political involvement in the management, leadership and students' admission.Many concerned citizens have written on the educational...

The interaction between poverty, inequality and unemployment still constraints inclusive growth in Africa. The classification of SSA countries as upper, lower middle income and least developed as basis for the allocation of foreign aid based on per capita income fails to recognise their vulnerabilities and the relevance of other social relations. The objectives of this study are to utilise a structural GAPS approach to classify African economies in order to highlight their vulnerabilities...

The interaction between poverty, inequality and unemployment still constraints inclusive growth in Africa. The classification of SSA countries as upper, lower middle income and least developed as basis for the allocation of foreign aid based on per capita income fails to recognise their vulnerabilities and the relevance of other social relations. The objectives of this study are to utilise a structural GAPS approach to classify African economies in order to highlight their vulnerabilities...

This study assessed students teachers’ attitude towards teaching practice exercise in the faculty of Education, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom of Nigeria. The study was guided by three research questions and two hypotheses. The survey design was adopted for the study. A sample of 163 student teachers constituted the study. A questionnaire tagged Student Teachers Attitude Questionnaire (STAQ) was used to collect data on the attitude of student teachers while performance of student teachers...

The purpose of this study is to investigate into the acute and perennial under-representation of women in Nigerian Politics. In Nigeria women make up half of the population and they have been known to have contributed in no small measure to the development and sustenance of the society yet they are hardly there in the political scene. We have tried in this paper to establish the ethical and theoretical basis for women active participation in Nigerian politics which among other things border...

The study assessed the speaking efficiency of the Igbo second language (L2) learners from Colleges of Education located in the Northern, Western and Southern parts of Nigeria. It compared the mean achievement score of Igbo L2 learners in speaking based on the location of their colleges. It also compared the Igbo L2 male and female students' mean achievement score in the speaking test. A sample of 68 participants was drawn by purposive sampling technique (24 from the North, 22 from the West...

The study assessed the speaking efficiency of the Igbo second language (L2) learners from Colleges of Education located in the Northern, Western and Southern parts of Nigeria. It compared the mean achievement score of Igbo L2 learners in speaking based on the location of their colleges. It also compared the Igbo L2 male and female students' mean achievement score in the speaking test. A sample of 68 participants was drawn by purposive sampling technique (24 from the North, 22 from the West...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence and pattern of amblyopia in primary school pupils in Kosofe town of Lagos State with a view to providing baseline data that may facilitate the establishment of routine school eye screening programs in primary schools in Lagos State. Materials and Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted among pupils from public and private primary schools in Kosofe town. The pupils underwent visual acuity assessment...

The first case of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria was imported on 20th July 2014, by an air traveller. On 8th August, 2014, WHO declared the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This study aimed at assessing the knowledge, perception and attitude of secondary school students towards EVD and adopting disease preventive behaviour.A descriptive cross sectional study of 440 students from a mixed secondary school in Owo, Ondo State was...

The cross-sectional survey was utilized to determine the health problems among adolescent boys and girls in secondary schools in Obollo-Afor education zone of Enugu state. Employing the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), 1463 self-completed copies of questionnaire (98.3% of those distributed) were used for data analysis, using percentages and chi-square ( p < .05). Results showed that boys reported higher rates of skin rashes, accidents and sexually transmitted diseases than did...

The study investigated how teaching of study skills and use of library resources can provoke effective utilization of available information resources in secondary schools. The survey research methodology was adopted for the study while the questionnaire and the experiment were used as data collecting instrument. Using the simple random sampling technique, the senior secondary students were grouped to two. Eighty (80) students were selected for the study. Each group comprised of 40 students...

This study explores senior secondary school (SSS) students' imagined community and identities against the language ideologies of English portrayed in the discourse on education in Nigeria. There has been lots of research done in the areas of identity, imagined community and L2 teaching from different perspectives and contexts (Norton, 2000; Ilori, 2013, Sung, 2013). However, no studies have under a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) angle, explored how learners' identities /imagined community...

Background: Profiling of stroke types in sub-Saharan Africa until recently has been done in part with the clinical diagnosis, where neuroimaging is not affordable or accessible. Objective: To profile all first-ever stroke using cranial computed tomography (CT) scan. Methods: Three hundred and thirty-four first-ever stroke had demographic data as well as the duration of admission or time to event (outcome), stroke type and severity, volume of hemorrhage in cases of parenchymal hemorrhage...

Calabar, Nigeria, looms large in recounting of history of western education in Nigeria. Western education here predates coming of missionaries. The quality of pre-missionary was, however, considered incapable of producing kind of manpower that Efik needed in braving challenges of British abolition of slave trade. In their search for a better quality in education, Efik invited missionaries in 1842. Thenceforth, brunt of providing education in Calabar rested on Christian missions. Despite...