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Epistemic Unfairness in Barry Hallen’s Account of Agency in Yoruba Moral Epistemology
No full textThis paper exposes the problem of unfair treatment and discrimination against epistemic agents in knowledge production, knowledge sharing, and consensus practices in Hallen’s account of Yoruba epistemic thought. It does this to contribute to Barry Hallen’s account of Yoruba moral epistemology which it substantiates with some explanations from Fricker’s epistemic agency. The paper contends that understanding epistemic agency is pivotal to exploring the depth of epistemic harm and occlusion latent in Yoruba epistemology. It shows that three kinds of epistemic agencies – human agency, communal agency, and divine agency – which result in structural and cultural epistemic injustice, are identifiable in Yoruba epistemic space. The paper is significant because it shows that there exists an alarming endogenous epistemic injustice in Yoruba thought, which is exogenously complicated by the structural imbalance and institutional hiccup in the distribution, accessibility, and sharing of globally produced knowledge in contemporary Africa
Discursive Strategies in the Tweets and Comments of Virtual #Endsars Protesters
No full textThe #EndSars protest surfaced as a social movement that vociferously agitated the disbanding of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Nigeria. While there are existing language-based literatures on formal and functional analyses of electoral campaigns, manifestoes, inaugural speeches, speeches by political icons, civil unrest and other socio-political movements; this study attempts to investigate an innovation of public protest discourse using the #EndSars tweets and comments as data. The study, therefore, examines discursive strategies in tweets and comments of virtual #EndSars protesters. One hundred (100) tweets and comments hashtagged #EndSars between October 1 and 31, 2020, were purposively extracted, representing the data for the study. Theoretical insights from Fairclough's socio-cultural approach to Critical Discourse Analysis and Halliday's Systemic Functional Grammar guide the study into linguistic and discourse analyses. Findings show that tweeters and commenters employed linguistic and
discourse styles such as vocative interpersonal resource, prevalence of imperatives, repetition, praise, deictic expressions for inclusion and exclusion, allusions, slanguage, prayer, amongst others to project their focus, as well as call for youths' participation in governance with respect to 2023 elections. These discursive strategies projected by lexical and discourse elements, advance the politics of language within the context of power imbalance and abuse, extra-judicial practices, marginalisation, and other social injustices. The study concludes that virtual protesters deploy these discursive strategies to sensitise, persuade, motivate and mobilise the virtual community on the goal of the #EndSars protest, to sustain their solidarity in the struggle and to coordinate the protest
PERCEPTION OF POST GRADUATE DIPLOMA IN EDUCATION STUDENTS ON FOOD SAFETY AMONG FOOD HANDLERS IN FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS IN ZARIA
No full textThe study investigated postgraduate diploma in education students’ perception of food safety and personal hygiene practice of food handlers in fast-food restaurants in Zaria. A descriptive study of six sections scale questionnaire was used. A total of 188 questionnaires were distributed during this study to the postgraduate diploma in education students at the National Teachers’ Institute, Kaduna. Among the distributed questionnaires, 151 were correctly filled, retrieved, and analyzed. Sixty-seven respondents (44%) were male while 84 (56%) were females. Forty-seven respondents (31%) did not patronize any of the restaurants. Among factors influencing the choice of restaurants are closeness to the residence, price of food and quality of food were the most important factors 49 (32%). Twenty-four (16%) eat in restaurants because of the similarity of the food to home food. Of the most preferred food, Fried rice, 25 (17%) top the list, next was pounded yam, 24 (16%) and Jollof rice, 19 (13%). Amala 2 (1%) and Fufu 0 (0%) were the least food preferred. A total of 93 (62%) respondents believed handlers kept short nails, 53 (35%) do not pick their nose, and 80 (53%) stated that food handlers do not cough or sneeze while handling food. Seventy-nine respondents (53%) also stated that serving food with unprotected hands were not observed. The result of this study showed that although food handlers are aware of the need for personal hygiene, more awareness needs to be create
INFLUENCE OF PARENTAL ECONOMIC STATUS ON EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ IN ETI-OSA, LAGOS STATE
No full textThis study investigated the relationship between parents’ socio-economic status and their children’s educational attainment. The main objective of the study was to know about different socio-economic factors (parents’ income level, parents’ education level, parents’, and occupational status) that affect students’ educational attainment in Eti-Osa local government secondary schools. This study was a descriptive study and co-relational in nature. Two hundred (200) students were sampled from the sampled schools. Demographic data of the respondents were analyzed with the use of frequency and percentages. To answer the research hypotheses, ANOVA and t-test were used at a 0.05 level of significance. Finally, the study unveiled significant differences in parents’ income as regards the academic attainment of the students. It was recommended that government should take some serious initiatives in uplifting the socio-economic status of people, especially focusing on the increase of their family income, and providing education to their children to achieve good status in the society
COLLEGES OF EDUCATION LECTURERS USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA FOR TEACHING OF OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (OTME)
No full textThe need to access a reliable digital infrastructure for teaching and learning has become increasingly important in a period of isolation like COVID 19 era and beyond. The study was carried out to determine the effective teaching of Office Technology and Management Education (OTME) Courses by Lecturers in Colleges of Education using social media during pandemic era and beyond in Lagos State. The study was conducted in Lagos state with a sample size of 40 lecturers that was also used as the total population due to the small and manageable size from a Federal and State Colleges of Education. The instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire titled: Relevance of the use of social media by Teachers during pandemic era and beyond. (RUSMTDPEAB)”. Two research questions were formulated. Mean and standard deviation were used to analyze the data for answering research questions based on Lecturer’s utilization and challenges for using the new technologies like social media in teaching and learning Office Technology and Management programmes. Based on the data analyzed, shows Lecturers utilizes the new technologies like Pinterest, Twitter, Instagram, Zoom, WhatsApp, Facebook to stream Live lectures, YouTube, Email to teach but also faced with challenges in the use of the new learning technologies for the implementation of Office Technology and Management programme in the college of education. It was recommended that Government, Institutions, and civil society should encourage, promote and provide ICT facilities in the teaching and learning of OTM
The Impact of Oil Price Fluctation on the Economic Growth of Nigeria
No full textThis study examined the impact of oil price changes on Nigeria's economic expansion. The aims of the study were to evaluate how oil price changes effect Nigeria's revenue generation and overall economic growth. Additionally, the impact of demand and supply market dynamics on Nigerian crude oil revenue generation was evaluated. Secondary data were gathered from CBN Statistical Bulletins and utilised for the study between 1997 and 2020. The Multiple Econometric Method was used to analyse the hypotheses, and a significance level of 0.5 was applied to the results. This research demonstrated that oil price changes have a significant impact on Nigeria's economic expansion. In addition, it was shown that the interest rate and inflation rate had a significant negative effect on Nigeria's economic growth. Based on the findings, it was established that the government should ensure that oil price changes are factored into the budget at manageable rates and implement macroeconomic policies that will reduce the level of inflation
An Assessment of Effect of Liquidity Management on the Return on Assets of Insurance Companies in Nigeria
No full textFundamentally, the liquidity management in the insurance industry entails managing organizational funds in a way that the company is able to maintain sufficiently adequate (but not excessive) cash meet their financial commitment to their customers, shareholders and other stakeholders as when due. To this end, the purpose of this research work is to assess the effect of liquidity management on the return on assets of insurance companies in Nigeria. The study is anchored on Shiftability and Liability Management Theory and ex-post facto research design is adopted. The Current ratio (CUR), Total Sales (TSL), and Leverage ratio (LER) were computed from nine years (2011- 2019) data sourced from the annual reports and accounts of various insurance companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. The study employed panel regression analysis of ordinary least square (OLS) estimation technique in analysing the data obtained while return on assets (ROA) is used as dependent variable to measure financial performance. Major findings from the study show that the total sales, degree of leverage, and liquidity ratio exert a significant positive effect on return on assets. This has demonstrated that total sales, leverage, and liquidity have a long-term goal. Therefore, it becomes important for insurance companies to avoid sales and profit fluctuations risks as well as any other form of liquidity risk by operating in excess of the break-even point. It is recommended therefore that the insurance industry should avail itself with maximum benefit of economies of scale and also bring to the barest minimum the cost associated with expansion. The industry should focus on improving the return on assets by considering other quantitatively and qualitatively
INTERPLAY OF TEACHERS’ CHARACTERISTICS AND THEIR TEACHING-LEARNING ACTIVITIES IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS
No full textTeachers are recognized as the propelling force in the educational process and an indispensable human resource among other educational resources. The teachers’ characteristics such as gender, qualifications and years of experience were examined to establish the interplay of the characteristics in teaching-learning activities. The quantitative research method of survey design was adopted for this study. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. It was revealed that gender, years of experience, an interaction effect of gender and years of experience, three-way interaction effect among gender, qualification and years of experience have a statistically significant effect on secondary school teachers’ teaching-learning activities. While qualification, the interaction effect of gender and qualification, and the interaction effect of qualifications and years of experience do not have a statistically significant effect on secondary school teachers’ teaching-learning activities
STAKEHOLDERS’ INVOLVEMENT IN TRANSFORMATION OF RURAL COMMUNITIES IN OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
No full textThe process of development is not complete if all sectors be it the formal or informal sector of the society has not contributed their quota to the economy. In the same vein, until everyone contributes their quota to the development, the cycle is not completed yet. However, there is hierarchy in the way people contributes to the development. While some contribute immensely as the major stakeholders’ others contribute passingly and their contributions may not be fully noticed. The study seeks to unravel the involvement of stakeholders, their effectiveness and challenges emanated because of their involvement in rural community transformation. The study adopted descriptive design to have a full glance of the study. Data was collected through close ended questionnaire from the stakeholders in different sectors in Ogun state. Two hundred and ten (210) respondents were selected through Purposive sampling technique to ensure stakeholders are selected from all sectors in seven local governments being one-third of the twenty local governments in Ogun state and the data were analyzed with frequency and Pearson Product Moment Correlation. The study found that stakeholders’ involvement in development project is not felt in all sectors, the study therefore recommended the involvement of stakeholders in major development project meant for the community
Forecasting Nigeria annual yam production using Grey System Model
No full textDemand for reliable and accurate annual crop production forecast has been on the increase in recent time, because it avails the famers and the government opportunity to plan ahead of time, with regard to import or export in the event of shortfall or surplus to ensure food security of the respective nation. A GM(1,1) system model that forecast the Nigeria annual yam production has been developed and tested on known data. The data used in the research were collected from the archive of Central Bank of Nigeria for a period of Nine years (2010-2018). The fitted result from the model showed 98:97% accuracy, this indicate that, the model is reliable and dependable. Therefore, results from the model could serve as a guide to the yam farmers andthe government to plan strategies for high yam production in the country.