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To estimate the level of impact of climate change on grain yield of Maize, climate change scenarios of precipitation and temperature were developed for future time period which spans from 2001 until 2099. The outputs of HadCM3 coupled atmosphereocean GCM model for the A2 and B2 SRES emission scenarios were used to produce the future scenarios. These outputs were downscaled to the production site scale through the application of the SDSM model.

The paper focuses on the role played by parents and Teachers in examination malpractice in Plateau Nigeria.400 secondary school students were randomly sampled for the study.Three null hypotheses were raised.A 15 item questionnaire titled "students Attitude towards Examination Malpractice (SATEMQ) was developed by the researcher and administered to the selected sample.The data generated were analyzed using the Chi Square.The result showed that there was no significant effect of parenting...

The study is designed to investigate the affective work skills needs of Engineering and Technology Education students of universities in North Central States of Nigeria. A 18 items questionnaire was developed and used to collect data from 60 Engineers, 100 technicians and 150 lecturers. Purposive sampling techniques was used to get these respondents from industries and universities that offer Engineering and Technology Education programmes. Mean, standard deviation and one-way analysis of...

The study reviews the potential threats of climate change in sub-Sahara Africa. It paints a picture of how the major green house gases (GHGs)-CO2, CH4 will grow in the sub-continent before the year 2015. The study also highlights the potential causes of climate change in the sub-continent based on anthropogenic and physical factors. It further examined the impacts of climate change in the sub- region based on the sensitivity, vulnerability and adaptations opened to the sub –region....

This paper discusses a sociolinguistic phenomenon, 'diglossia' and how it relates to code-switching in bilingual and multilingual societies.It highlights the characteristic features of diglossia by discussing the functions and status of languages or varieties of languages that are involved in diglossic situations.The paper goes on to relate diglossia to the Nigerian situation by highlighting the diglossic situations that exist in Nigeria.Finally, it points out the implications of this...

This paper provides an analysis of politeness strategies used by Students of the National University of Lesotho. The study examines how NUL students respond to, communicate with and address their lecturers. The paper thus illustrates how and when NUL students make use of address forms such as titles, kinship terms, nicknames, personal names, and other strategies like “face principle” in their verbal interactions with their lecturers. The paper equally examines the various moods of greetings...

Until recently, Foreign Language Teaching (FLT) failed to give sufficient emphasis to cultural specificity and its linguistic reflections.Emphasis was just on the mechanical learning of the traditional components of the language system without reference to their functional usefulness.This, at times, has led to abysmal performance of the students in the target language.For functional education in Nigeria, English as a Second language (ESL) pedagogy requires developing socio-cultural...

This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The results of the study show that the regions most exposed to climate change and variability do not always...

This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The results of the study show that the regions most exposed to climate change and variability do not always...

This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The results of the study show that the regions most exposed to climate change and variability do not always...

This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The results of the study show that the regions most exposed to climate change and variability do not always...

This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The results of the study show that the regions most exposed to climate change and variability do not always...

This paper analyses the vulnerability of South African agriculture to climate change and variability by developing a vulnerability index and comparing vulnerability indicators across the nine provinces of the country. Nineteen environmental and socio-economic indicators are identified to reflect the three components of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. The results of the study show that the regions most exposed to climate change and variability do not always...

This article traces the development of moral education (ME) in Botswana from pre‐colonial times to the present day. It shows how during this time ME has undergone three distinct phases of development, each emphasising a particular ideology. In pre‐colonial times ME was offered as part of indigenous education in the home and community, both formally and informally, directly and indirectly. During the missionary/colonial period (1870s–1966) and in the first three decades of Botswana’s...

This study investigated the demand and supply of teachers to secondary schools in Anambra State of Nigeria due to school type. The survey design approach was adopted for this study. The population of the study comprised of all the secondary school principals, numbering 259 in the six education zones of Anambra State. Through random sampling, 137 were selected from four education zones for the research work. A questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Two research questions...

This study was an investigation into the status of facilities in the physical environment of primary schools in Nigeria. Empirical studies that covered several States in Nigeria were reviewed. Then the study went ahead to analyse the physical environment in primary schools in Anambra State. The study, which was based on five research questions, was a survey. Forty eight primary schools where randomly selected as sample while seven hundred and teachers were sampled from these schools as...