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Nearly half of all children in developing countries have infections or disease associated with inadequate water supply and sanitation. This study aimed at assessing sanitation practices and available sources of water supply in selected primary schools in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria. A descriptive cross sectional survey was used in this study. The primary schools and pupils were selected by random sampling. Results revealed that sanitation facilities in the schools were grossly...

Taraba State, Nigeria (NERDC) (2007).To achieve this and other objectives, the teacher needs to use the inquiry approach in presenting instruction to the learner (NERDC 2007).However, the use of this approach in Nigeria as a developing nation needs competent teachers for implementing the recommended inquiry-based approach for curriculum delivery.Competence can be referred to as the ability to perform or complete a given task effectively.It is defined as excellent capability that includes...

Higher Education in South Africa has been in crisis over recent years. University systems in many parts of South Africa have witnessed student protest, as well as ongoing violence, resulting in many campuses turning into spaces of violent confrontation between students and police. This paper examines student social activism in the higher education sector in South Africa, especially the Nelson Mandela University, as well as the patterns that exist and frame student social activism in pursuit...

This paper assesses the effects of government expenditure components on both equity and growth, especially whether it is possible to design public spending to promote a more equitable society without sacrificing economic growth. We employ a panel VAR technique to use a large annual dataset on 10 sub-Saharan African countries over the period 1990-2015. The VAR approach addresses the problem of endogeneity by allowing endogenous interaction between system variables. The panel has a medium time...

African radio is seen as a powerful instrument capable of integrating ordinary voices in democratisation debates. Mobile phones and social media applications such as Facebook and WhatsApp are seen as widening access to public debates, and this has recently been celebrated as inculcating ‘participatory cultures’ in Africa’s public spheres. This paper provides new evidence on the dynamics structuring talk radio in Zimbabwe within the context of the ongoing incorporation of digital media...

The study assessed the prevalence of diarrhoea among infants of Child Welfare Clinics at two University Teaching Hospitals using a semi-structured questionnaire to collect information from mothers on socioeconomic characteristics, infant care practices and diarrhoeal experience of mothers with their infants. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science Software (SPSS version 16.0) in frequencies, percentages and Pearson correlation at 5% level of significance. The...

This volume contains contributed articles of Track 4, Track 5 & Track 6, presented in the conference CEST-2018, organized by Faculty of Engineering Garaboulli, and Faculty of Engineering, Al-khoms, Elmergib University (Libya) on 25-27 September 2018. Track 4: Industrial, Structural Technologies and Science Material Track 5: Engineering Systems and Sustainable Development Track 6: Engineering Management Other articles of Track 1, 2 & 3 have been published in volume 1 of the proceedings at this link

This article is an attempt to bring theoretical concepts offered by decolonial theories into conversation with ‘humanising pedagogy.’ The question that drives this analysis is: What are the links between humanisation and the decolonisation of higher education, and what does this imply for pedagogical praxis? This intervention offers valuable insights that reconfigure humanising pedagogy in relation to the decolonial project of social transformation, yet one that does not disavow the...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is associated with diabetic nephropathy and hyperlipidemia. Gender, age, medication adherence, lifestyle, culture and socioeconomic status could be sources of diversity in T2DM leading to differences in predisposition, development and clinical presentation.Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the influence of gender, age and treatment duration on kidney and lipid-related biochemical indices of T2DM patients attending Ekiti State University Teaching...

Garcinia kola is an indigenous multipurpose tree species commonly found in the tropical rain forest zone of West and Central Africa. Providing economic, ecological, and socio-cultural benefits for people, they have potentials to improve the regional and local income generation to the farmers but the cultivation of the species is very limited in Nigeria. The study investigated cultivation and farmers’ perceptions on the impacts of climate change on goods and services provided by G. kola in...

The study investigated the information literacy competencies possessed by Library and Information Science (LIS) postgraduate students in Federal Universities in South East Zone Nigeria with a focus on the Knowledge and skill level. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. Seventy two students which included all 2011/2012 PhD and Masters degree students from the Departments of LIS in Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Data was collected using...

The relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in African American students who have experienced geographic mobility was the focus of this study. Specifically, this study used quantitative methods to assess African American students from counties in Iowa to obtain information about the students’ relocation from urban to rural school environments and to understand how such moves influenced their academic performance and academic self-concept. Gender and length of time...

Understandings of disability are rooted in contexts. Despite the world's significant contextual diversity, postcolonial power dynamics allow influential actors from the global North to imagine that most people across the global South understand disability in one generalised way. When it informs programmes and services for persons with disabilities in the global South, this imagining of a single generalised view could reduce effectiveness while further marginalising the people for whom the...

This study provides a comprehensive assessment of firms' operation and environmental protection polices in Nigeria and Ghana, where there has been a rising industrial growth amidst low regulatory and institutional frameworks. We analyze the extents to which firms' adoption of environmental protection policies affect their performances. We use firm-level data of 842 firms (447 for Nigeria and 395 for Ghana) distributed across different regions of both countries for our descriptive and...

Voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) is a critical component of HIV prevention. VMMC policies have achieved initial targets in adult men yet continue to fall short in reaching younger men and adolescents.We present the cost and scale-up implications of an education-based, VMMC intervention for adolescent street-connected males, for whom the street has become their home and/or source of livelihood. The intervention was piloted as part of the Engaging Street Youth in HIV Interventions...