The objective of this study was to find out the impact of doing teaching practice and receiving lectures on student teacher's academic performance in UNILAG, Nigeria. The relative impact of each of the two independent variables on the dependent was also investigated. A survey design was adopted and the study sample consisted of 21 graduating student teachers and 14 education graduates selected across all departments in faculty of education, UNILAG using random sampling techniques. Two hypothe...
This study was aimed at investigating the factors associated with street hawking among children of school age in Enugu North Local Government of Enugu State. To guide the study, four research questions were formulated. The design adopted for this study was survey design. The population of the study consists of 779 teachers. This includes 690 female teachers and 89 male teachers in the 9 government secondary school in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu state (PPSMB 2017).Out of the nin...
Abstract In the general discourse on the local government system in Nigeria, two major influences are notable: the intervention of the military in politics, and the 1976 reform of local government. However, the 1979 constitution, which provided the legal framework for the 1976 reforms, plunged the local government system into a crisis of identity, and ever since local government in Nigeria has remained an idea in search of relevance. This paper examines both the inherent weakness of the cons...
The research work investigates into the economic implications of electronic banking which technology has brought about among Nigeria banks using Diamond Bank Plc as a case study.
ABSTRACT The failure of government programmes for the control of crime informed private citizens playing a variety of roles that is making a decisive difference in the prevention, detection and prosecution of crime around the world. Private Citizens represent an underutilized source of assistance in crime control and social decay management. While law abiding citizens are willing and potentially capable of assisting the police, they lack direction and experience. However, with proper supervi...
ABSTRACTThis project work examined the effectiveness of multimedia facilities in improving students’ performance in computer in Federal College of Education, Eha Amufu, Enugu State. The work explained the conceptual background of thestudy such as effectiveness, multimedia,facilities, performance, education and computer. The work statistically analyzed four research questions focusing on availability of multimedia facilities, usage of multimedia facilities, hindrances of multimedia faciliti...
Abstract This study x-rayed the attitudes of undergraduates of Social Studies Unit towards entrepreneurship education in Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki. Four research questions were posed to guide the study. Survey research design was used for the study. The population for this study consisted of 151 (one hundred and fifty-one) students of Social Studies Unit of the Department of Arts and Social Science Education, Ebonyi State University. There was no sampling since the population w...
The study examined the learning environment as a challenge to the provision of quality early childhood education in public primary schools in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for this study while a total of 117 teachers were sampled from a population of 468 in all the public primary schools in the locality. Data was collected using random sampling. The instrument used was a questionnaire entitled “Challenges of Early C...
INTRODUCTION The complexity and sophistication of business decision making requires strategic management and planning skills. Managing various and multi-faceted internal activities is only part of the modern executive’s responsibilities. The firm’s immediate external environment poses a second set of challenging factors. This environment includes competitors, suppliers of increasingly scarce resources, government agencies monitoring adherence to ...
INTRODUCTION Motivation is a human psychological characteristic that contributes to a person's degree of commitment (Stoke, 1999). The Concept of motivation has therefore led different scholars in research about ‘motivation’. Some scholars were able to come out with their theories of what motivation is, types of motivation and factors of motivation. This paper shall attempt to examine the different types of motivation theories as propounded by different scholarsINTRODUCTION Mo...
.ABSTRACT Economic integration (EI), which is an embodiment of custom unions, tradeblocs, and free trade area, has the ultimate aim of promoting tradeparticipation of Members and in the long-run enhancing economicperformance and welfare of their citizenry. Economic Integration cannotoperate in a vacuum, it requires some sort of components such as transportand communication...
ABSTRACT Boko Haram has been evolving in north-eastern Nigeria for over a decade. An extremely violent Islamist movement, it has in 2014 entered a new transitional phase. The inability of Nigeria’s armed forces to obstruct its onslaught, combined with a higher international profile, have lent it a confidence and ambition that appear to have prompted increasingly strategic behaviour, alongside its ongoing indiscriminate and widespread attacks against civilian and stat...
ABSTRACT Effective strategic thinking requires a clear understanding of one’s external environment. Therefore, looking at the Nigerian environment of the 21st century, it would not be an exaggeration to say that the Nights of some African Countries e.g. Ghana, is safer and more secure than the day in Nigeria (over 200 girls were kidnapped in Chibok in April 2014 in broad daylight). It is no news anymore that the state of security in Nigeria is in a deplorable condition...
OVERVIEW (UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF LEADERSHIP) “It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” Nelson Mandela (1990) Gary Yukl (2006) defines leadership as “the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what needs to be done and how to do it, and the process of facilitating individual and coll...
ABSTRACT The main thrust of the study was to examine the role of education in ensuring gender equality and its effect in the society. Specifically, the study was set out to find out how education has changed values and promote gender equality, determine how sex segregation in education is a risk to the society among others. Five research questions and five hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. Relevant literature were reviewed. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study an...