This study investigated the Child Rights Act in the education of orphans and vulnerable children in Junior Secondary Schools in Rivers State, Nigeria as an imperative for sustainable development. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive research design was adopted. The population comprised all the 7,492 teachers in the 322 public Junior Secondary Schools in Rivers State.
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Responsible travel is gradually becoming a major source of tourism demand, due to greater awareness on the need for biodiversity conservation for the survival of man. Edo State is endowed with numerous centres for responsible travels of which the Ogba Zoological garden seems to be among the prominent ones. However, the stages of the development of services offered by the Ogba Zoological garden Benin City as a centre for responsible travels remains largely unexplored.
Education is the major pivot on which the entire gamut of national development is placed in the third world countries. Although western education was introduced into the shores of Nigeria in the 1840s by the Christian missionaries, its growth and development subsequently have been influenced by both political and military leaders from pre-independence period to date. This paper examined the leadership factor in the provision of education in Nigeria and its attendant contributions to national development.
Issues concerning morality and moral development have become a source of concern to all and sundry in Nigeria today. Due to the high level of moral decadence in our society today, one begins to question the nature, contents, theory and practice of our education. Some scholars have established the links between what we experience in the society and what education had given to its products. Of course scholars and educationists have hinged the incidence of moral decadence on our educational practice.
Issues concerning morality and moral development have become a source of concern to all and sundry in Nigeria today. Due to the high level of moral decadence in our society today, one begins to question the nature, contents, theory and practice of our education. Some scholars have established the links between what we experience in the society and what education had given to its products. Of course scholars and educationists have hinged the incidence of moral decadence on our educational practice.
Rural communities in Nigeria are plagued by attendant underdevelopment characterized by abject poverty and lack or inadequate social amenities such as health facilities, good roads, portable water, schools, shelter etc. However, successive governments in Nigeria mapped-out several programmes in order to bring about rural development but to no avail owing fomarity to lack of involvement of the people concerned in such programmes. It is against this background that this paper examines the role of community development in promoting sustainable rural development in Nigeria.
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.