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The study compares FFS extension approach with other major participatory approaches practiced in Edo and Ondo States, Nigeria. By means of a well structured and validated questionnaire, data were collected from 145 FFS farmers who had also been exposed to other participatory approaches. Data collected were analysed using various statistical tools like means, standard deviation and analysis of variance.  The result shows that respondents perceived FFS as a better extension approach than any...

This study assessed the level of research productivity of teaching faculty members in Nigerian federal universities. The findings of the study show that the research productivity of the teaching faculty members in Nigerian federal universities is high in journal publications, technical reports, conference papers, working papers, and occasional papers. The research productivity is higher in Northeast (M=22.53; SD=25.73), and Southwest (M=21.74; SD=87.28), and North Central (M=20.69; SD=31.24)...

This study set out to find out the impact of user education and information literacy handling on information resources use among undergraduate students at the University of Lagos as it relate to use of information resources in library. Two hundred and two questionnaires were randomly distributed to library users. The data gathered were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The result revealed that different responses were given on their mode of skill acquisition ranging from...

The provision of competent professionally trained social studies teachers in adequate numbers has been a major challenge in the successful implementation of the social studies curriculum in junior secondary schools in Nigeria.In-service training of social studies teachers while still on the job has been identified as a functional strategy to enhance the professional competence of these teachers.This study was designed to evaluate the impact of in-service education on the knowledge of...

The challenges of the information age make collaboration among the information management stakeholders imperative. The Librarians’ Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN) carried out some of its professional regulatory functions and training of information professionals to deliver quality information services through collaborative effort and by fostering enduring local and international partnership. This study assesses some of the successful collaborative projects of LRCN with local and...

Today the developments of Nigerian educational system and students’ academic achievements have placed many demands on the effectiveness of business teachers. One of the demands is that schools should graduate students with employable skills. In this study, principals of schools rated the effectiveness of secondary school business studies teachers’ in the use of selected teaching techniques for employable graduate output. A population of 261 public secondary school principals in Anambra State...

In South-eastern Nigeria, the deep seated gender-role socialization has never made gender equality a reality despite the immense contributions of women to the development of Nigeria in every sphere of life. This traditional gender-role orientation has always accorded the female gender an inferior status even when women are more qualified than men. Thus, this study investigated the influence of gender and level of education on attitude towards gender equality. The study was a cross-sectional...

It is forty-five years since the Zaria Art Society was founded at Nigeria College of Arts, Science and Technology, Zaria. One of its founding members, Uche Okeke, is in his eight decade of life. The artistic revolution he engineered as a student in Zaria was not the kind that devours its children. If anything, it turned him into a pathfinder and today he is canonized as one of the heroes of modernism in Nigeria. Without prejudice to the contribution of Onabolu and the historic activities of...

The demand for competent engineering graduates from Nigerian Universities is high and the solution to a large extent depends on the effectiveness of their curriculum. This paper therefore proposes a functional engineering curriculum which is anchored on the key interacting elements of a curriculum. These elements include: what to learn, how to teach it, the means of instruction, the feedback on what has been learnt, the implementers and the learners. In the paper, areas that need review were...

Dysmenorrhoea is defined as painful menses in women.1 Dysmenorrhoea is frequently encountered in young women around adolescence. It affects the quality of life (QOL) of women during reproductive age. The aetiology of primary dysmenorrhoea is not precisely understood, but most symptoms can be explained by the action of uterine prostaglandins, particularly PG F2α. It may be associated with other symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, back pain, fatigue, headache, dizziness, and...

Objectives: The aims of the present study were to assess the drug prescribing patterns and rational use of drugs. Materials and Methods: Data were collected through a retrospective method between January and March 2012. The out-patient prescription sheets of 12 months period of 2009 were randomly sampled and assessed using WHO prescribing indicators. Results: The average number of drugs per encounter was 3.4 ± 1.4; percentage of drugs prescribed by generic names and percentage of drugs...

This study examined the relevance of adequate teachers in the effective implementation of migrant fisherfolks’ children education programme in Rivers State of Nigeria, The population for the study was made up of all the teachers. All the 179 teachers constituted a sample for the study which is census from the 59 schools. The researchers designed a migrant fisherfolks education questionnaire (MFEQ) for teachers to gather data for the study. The questionnaire consisted of Likert-type items to...

Education is considered by many as an agent of human development, social mobility and socio-economic development of any society. However, it is arguable that the type and quality of education a nation offers to its citizens is a function of the level of progression of that nation.  In this context, technical and vocational education and training (TVET) has been recognized as the wide-diversified education system instrumental in making the remarkable contribution to economic growth of a...

This paper tries to emphasize the necessity of a skill – oriented curriculum as a sine –quo-non of Nigerian education of the 21st century. It examined skill oriented curriculum as a very important component of Nigerian education in the 21st century. The concepts and purposes of skill-oriented curriculum were discussed within the context of entrepreneurship studies. The place of skill – oriented curriculum in functional education was x –rayed as seen in countries like Japan and Asian Tigers....

University students represent an attractive segment of customers for retail banks  in many countries including Nigeria. The objective of this study is to find out the determinants of the choice of commercial banks by university students, using Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU). MOUAU is selected due to the plurality of its student mix, being the only federal university in Abia State. Data were collected through self-administered questionnaire to 250 final year...