Career choice has been a recurrent problem among the students all over the world including Nigeria. It was a common practice in those days to find particular careers associated with particular families, where a blacksmiths son was destined to become a blacksmith and a leader’s son a born leader. This study therefore, examined the roles of parents and peer group on career choice of students of Technical schools with the hope of encouraging positive career choice. A non experimental research type of ex-post-facto was adopted in this study.
Nigeria is blessed with some of the best Gospel musicians making distinct marks in Gospel music entertainment around the globe. The Midnight Crew, a Nigerian Gospel group has blazed the trail with the composition Igwe, a song that shot them to the limelight in 2008music. The paper trails the evolution and development of the group over the years. Through detailed musicological analysis, it investigates the unique elements in the songs, examining the techniques adopted in creating the song that has revolutionized the Praise worship concept in Nigeria.
The study examined the effect of semantic mapping strategy on lower primary school pupils’ reading comprehension, reading speed and reading fluency in Ekiti State. The study adopted the pretest -posttest control group quasi experimental research design. The population for the study consisted of lower primary three pupils in Ekiti State. The sample consisted of 30 (thirty) primary three pupils in two intact classes in lower primary schools selected using random sampling technique. Two local government areas were used for this study.
This paper examined the psycho-social predictor of anti-social behaviours among adolescents in secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State, Nigeria. two hypotheses were developed by the researcher. The descriptive research design of the ex- post facto type was adopted for this study. The population of this study comprises of all adolescent students in public secondary school in Ijebu North Local Government Area of Ogun State. The study sample consisted of one hundred and fifty (200) respondents from five public secondary schools in Ijebu North Local Government.
The misuse and abuse of substance by in-school adolescents has become a global issue and Nigeria is not exempted. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of substance abuse on psycho-social behaviour and academic performance of senior secondary school students in Ilorin Metropolis. Two research questions and two research hypotheses were answered and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The sample for the study comprised 220 SS1-3 students. The data collected were analyzed using mean, percentage and PPMC.
This paper looks into improving students’’ self-concept through teaching strategies and comic packages in comprehension and sentence construction in English language. As an experimental study, the study adopted a three-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design. The population consisted of 16,477 Junior Secondary School students in Ekiti State during the 2016/2017 academic session. The sample consisted of 243 Junior Secondary class II students from six Junior Secondary Schools in Ekiti State.
Sales of Alcohol, Marijuana, Indian hemp and other dangerous herbs that can easily be purchased from unregistered drug vendors in the Community, especially in school surroundings encourage drug abuse. Similarly, failure of Government to strictly enforce its existing laws against drug abuse through its regulatory agencies is also a contributory factor to youths getting involved in drug abuse specifically, Secondary School students who will be our future leaders.
The study examined creativity, ego-identity and self efficacy as predictor of entrepreneurial aspiration of university undergraduate in Ogun-East Senatorial district in Ogun State Nigeria. Three hypotheses were formulated for the study. The survey research design of the ex- post facto type was adopted for this study.
The continuous search for cost effective and almost low or no price fees course materials by staff and students to better their learning and research activities has been an issue for sometimes now. Therefore, Ex-post facto descriptive survey was used to study attitudes towards uses, development and barrier to open educational resources. The sample consisted of 384 samples 37 Study Centres of an Open University in Nigeria. Staff and Student Attitudes, Uses, Development and Barrier towards Open Educational Resources (SSAUDBOER) scale was used for data collection.
Entrepreneurship education has been described as a great tool for job creation. With unemployment on the rise, this paper examines how strengthening entrepreneurship education in tertiary institutions can bring about job creation and sustainable development. The study was descriptive survey in nature. Three research questions were raised to guide the study. The population of the comprised all the entrepreneurs (registered business owners in Imo State) and entrepreneurship education lecturers/instructors in the 6 tertiary institutions in Imo State.