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Climate change is already impacting on every aspect of man life on earth especially in the agricultural sectors of developing nations. In Nigeria, and indeed the world over, seasons are shifting, temperatures are rising, landscapes are changing and sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events like drought and flood are becoming more frequent and pronounced.[3] stressed on the fact that Agriculture will suffer from major damage caused by changes in climate especially in the African...

Taha Hussein is one of the greatest thinkers of Egypt, who was provided with high intelligence and extensive knowledge in different areas. Formation of his personality coincided with the dramatic moments in the history of the country associated with the British occupation of Egypt. The author of paper traces the role of T. Hussein in the development and reform of education in Egypt in the early thirties of the 20th century. Moreover, the author analyzes the pedagogical concepts of T....

The political-military crisis of 2013 destroyed the Central African education system. Armed groups occupy 80% of the territory. They often use school buildings as base camps, playgrounds as shooting ranges and transform desks and chairs into firewood. Due to insecurity, most of the qualified teachers have abandoned their posts to stay in Bangui, the capital of the country. School-age children are left to their own devices without education. This constitutes a danger to peace, security and...

The political-military crisis of 2013 destroyed the Central African education system. Armed groups occupy 80% of the territory. They often use school buildings as base camps, playgrounds as shooting ranges and transform desks and chairs into firewood. Due to insecurity, most of the qualified teachers have abandoned their posts to stay in Bangui, the capital of the country. School-age children are left to their own devices without education. This constitutes a danger to peace, security and...

As a developing country in Africa, the effect of climate change is one of the sufferings of Ghana. The effect is much felt in rainfall variability because of the country over reliance on rainfall for agriculture. Over the past forty years, historical analyses of the cropping systems in Ghana indicated that there has been a shift from cocoa based to maize based cropping system. The shift was as a result of decline in the yield of cocoa due to changing rainfall pattern, lack of agricultural...

COVID-19's impacts on the socio-economic activities across the globe have been gruesome, horrifying, dramatic and traumatic for every human being.The purpose of the study is to reexamine the impact of the novel coronavirus on university education in Nigeria.The research sample consisted of five males and five females aged 18-35 years who were undergraduates from different tertiary institutions in Nigeria.Purposive sampling was used.In-depth interviews were used to collect primary data that...

In the tropics, the domestic water supply depends principally on ecosystem services, including the regulation and purification of water by humid, dense tropical forests. The Yangambi Biosphere Reserve (YBR) landscape is situated within such forests in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Surprisingly, given its proximity to the Congo River, the YBR is confronted with water issues. As part of its ecosystem function, the landscape is expected to reduce deterioration of water quality....

Climate change or climate variability is one of the big challenges facing the world development.If this climate variability increases, it is negatively affecting people's livelihood in Rwanda.This paper revaluates the impacts of climate variability analysing in Bugesera district and propose solution to hunger crisis and migration of the local population of Bugesera district.The first data have been collected in Meteo Rwanda for analysing air temperature, Rainfall in Bugesera district then...

Schistosomiasis is a Neglected Tropical Disease (NTD) that constitutes a public health problem in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), including Nigeria. There is need for updated information on the extent of the disease burden at community level to facilitate effective prioritization and monitoring of the disease.A cross-sectional study was conducted among school-aged children in Obudu Local Government Area (LGA), one of the 18 LGAs in Cross River State, Southern Nigeria. Seven schools from seven...

Purpose: The study investigated the effects of reflective inquiry teaching method on students’ academic achievement in domestic installation modules in technical colleges of Yobe State, Nigeria. Methodology/Approach/Design: The study is quasi-experimental in design. A pre-test and post-test were conducted for both control and experimental groups. Two classes from four Technical Colleges were selected to give a sample size of 88. Electrical Installation and Maintenance Work Trade Achievement...

Abstract Training of quack nurses by health care workers across all levels in Nigeria is gradually becoming the new normal and major malpractice worsening the country's health care system. This article addresses the causes and effects of this malpractice. The proliferation of quackery in the nursing profession can be linked to many sources. This includes doctors and nurses' greed and selfishness in the need to make mega‐profits from practice in private hospitals and clinics; lack of...

The Gaza coastal aquifer is a critical resource for the supply of water to the Gaza Strip and continues to be depleted as a result of the effects of climate change and the anthropogenic activities. Therefore, this study tends to investigate the impact of climate change and groundwater withdrawal practices on the oscillation of the Gaza Coastal Aquifer water table level by recruiting the power of the stochastic time-series models in exemplifying the autoregression of data and by leveraging...

Liberal education is a product of the Western academy and is today most prominent in the USA, but in recent years has been described in various national contexts where it has seldom existed before. However, the spread of liberal education has been underexplored in some regions, such as sub-Sharan Africa, and empirical research is limited on how liberal education curricula are adapted in African contexts. In this qualitative case study, I explore the global, national, and local forces that...

Ethiopia recently scaled up the implementation of a school feeding programme (SFP). Yet, evidence on the impact of such programmes on academic outcomes remains inconclusive. We evaluated the effect of the SFP on class absenteeism and academic performance of primary school students (grade 5-8) in Sidama zone, Southern Ethiopia.This prospective cohort study enrolled SFP-beneficiary (n 240) and non-beneficiary (n 240) children 10-14 years of age from sixteen public schools and followed them for...

Abstract Background Pain is one of the most prevalent symptoms in people living with HIV/AIDS and is largely undermanaged. Both a peer-led exercise and education Positive Living programme (PL programme) and the PL programme workbook alone were previously found to be effective in reducing pain in urban amaXhosa Women Living With HIV/AIDS (WLWHA). A therapeutic relationship was hypothesised to have contributed to the efficacy of both interventions. The aim of the study was to determine the...

This edited volume reveals how the journey of transformation at the University of the Free State (UFS) became interwoven with student leadership development and global learning.The UFS initiated two intersecting co-curricular programmes, namely: the First-Year Leadership for Change (F1L4C) programme in 2010; and the triennial Global Leadership Summit (GLS) in 2012.Although these programmes changed over time, their core focus remained the development of transformational student leaders...