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VIRTUAL REALITY RELEVANCIES TO MOTIVATIONAL AND COMFORTABLE PEDAGOGY IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
No full textVirtual Reality is a technology that allows a user to interact with an environment (Computer-based-Simulation) whether the environment in question is a replicate of real-world or it is an imaginary world; it is the answer to touching, feeling, and experiencing what has happened in the past, currently and the future, likewise VR is simply seen as a way to simulate an environment and give the user a sense of being participated in the event, take control, and involve in the interaction with the environment with one body. Therefore, this study was conducted to change student’s attitudes toward learning because of Virtual Reality implementation, to highlight major opportunities associated with the use of Virtual Reality, to show the best way to present context by teachers to achieve educational goals and objectives and to determine the relationship between technology implementation and teacher teaching effectiveness and comforts. The study used a descriptive survey design approach where teachers within Alimosho and Ojo Local Government Areas of Lagos state formed the target population with a total of 100 students and 50 teachers formed the sample for this study totalling 150 population samples used. The questionnaire was the major instrument used to collect information from the samples. The questionnaire items were validated, and the reliability index got confirmed that the instrument was reliable for the study. The results showed that virtual reality is useful to implement a change in students’ attitudes to learning, to motivate students to learn, to present context by teachers in a virtual environment to achieve educational goals and objectives and enhance technology implementation and teacher teaching effectiveness and comforts. Conclusively, virtual reality implementation in education will help to determine the relationship between technology implementation and teacher teaching effectiveness and comfort
SOCIO-ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES AS PERCEIVED FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO ABSENTEEISM AND TARDINESS AMONG LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES IN EKITI STATE, NIGERIA
No full textEvery organization and institution expect their employees to be regular and punctual to work to meet the needs of their organizations and accomplish the organization's vision statement. The study investigated the extent to which socio-economic variables and demographic variables can affect absenteeism and tardiness among the local government employees in Ekiti state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised all local government employees in Ekiti state. Four hundred and fifty (450) respondents were sampled using a simple random sampling technique. The study was guided by three (3) research questions and three hypotheses. A 15 – item questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The instrument was validated by three experts. Cronbach’s alpha technique was used to establish reliability before administering the instrument to the respondents. A reliability coefficient of 0.82 was obtained. The data collected was analyzed using the mean score for the research questions and a t-test was used for the hypotheses. The findings among others were that training and development programmes are tools for correcting local government employees’ absenteeism and tardiness. The study concludes with some far-reaching recommendations as a way forward
A Survey on Approximation of Common Fixed Point of Countably Infinite Family of Nonexpansive Mappings
No full textIn this paper, strong convergence theorems for approximation of a common fixed point of countably family of nonexpansive mappings in strictly convex reflexive real Banach space with uniformly Gâteaux differentiable norm are proved. Consequently, strong convergence theorems for approximation of a common fixed point of countably infnite family of k-strictly pseudocontractive mappings are proved in strictly convex q-uniformly smooth real Banach spaces. Numerical example is generated to demonstrate workability of an algorithm developed. Our theorems extend, improve and generalize some existing results
INFLUENCE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION ON JOB PERFORMANCE AND STAFF MORALE OF NON-ACADEMIC STAFF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS
No full textEducation is a veritable tool that can be used for the development of all societies. Continuing Education is an instrument that can be an avenue to have a learning city and ultimately gain the benefits of having such which are directly related to performance and boosting of staff morale. The University of Lagos Non-academic staff are divided into three, and the study examined the level of Continuing Education of the staff and its influence on their job performance and staff morale. Three research questions and two hypotheses were answered and tested, respectively. The study adopted an analytical survey. A stratified random sampling technique was used to select 121 respondents from the University of Lagos. A validated self-developed questionnaire was used for data collection. The data were analysed using percentages and mean. The hypotheses were statistically tested at a 5% level of significance with the Chi-Square test of independence. The study's result showed a significant relationship between the Continuing Education training of non-academic staff of the University of Lagos and their job performance. Also, the Continuing Education training of non-academic staff of the University significantly influenced their morale, and that staff morale affected their job performance
A Two Strain Mutation Model with Temporary and Permanent Recovery
No full textMutation occurs when there is a change in the sequence of the genetic code of an organism. Such changes pose some challenges especially in the development of drugs. A good understating of the dynamics of the strains will help to understand the variant of concern. In this research work, we examined a two strain mutation model in which the first strain has a SIS dynamics and the second strain a SIR dynamics. The disease-free equilibrium, endemic equilibrium and the basic reproduction number of each strain are derived. Suitable Lyapunov functions are used to determine the global stability of the disease free equilibrium of each strain. The equilibrium point and the basic reproduction number of the joint model are determined. The possibility for the coexistence of the endemic equilibrium is also determined. It was found out that both strains have direct variation between them. However, it will be difficult to eradicate the disease in the population if the basic reproduction number of strain 1 is greater than strain 2. The effect of degree of transmissibility of the two strains on the population is carried out through numerical simulation
Derivation of the Reproduction Number and Simulation of the Tuberculosis-Lymphatic filariasis Co-infection Model with Treatment for both Diseases
No full textAn Ordinary Differential Equation(ODE) co-infection model of Tuberculosis-Lymphatic filariasis is proposed with 17 mutually disjoint compartments. We showed that the model is Mathematically and Epidemiologically well-posed and the disease-free equilibrium(DFE) of the co-infection model is locally asymptotically stable if Ro<1, it is unstable if Ro>1. The numerical results show that lymphatic filariasis infection increases susceptibility to tuberculosis infection. This is in agreement with literature that, persons with lowered immunity such as HIV, diabetes, immune disorder etc are at a higher risk of contacting infectious diseases. We also found that increasing the rate of diagnosis and treatment of active tuberculosis and symptomatic lymphatic filariasis cases, the incidence of co-infection in the community can be reduced, and that if resources are limited, efforts should be targeted at treating only the co-infected cases
Comparative Literature in Nigeria: A Thematic Examination of Gogol’s The Government Inspector and Osofisan’s Who’s Afraid of Solarin?
No full textComparative literature is the study of a people in prints beyond the author’s national boundary with a view to cross-pollinate them for local advantages. Its scope in Nigeria includes the source, the influence, and the affinity to the original text using the tool of adaptation. Its primary interest is in literary importation for socio-political, cultural dialogue and development. This paper discusses comparative literature, intertextuality, and modern drama in Nigeria by drawing a distinction between literary adaptation and translation. It analyses the thematic thrust of Femi “Osofisan’s Who’s Afraid of Solarin?” which paints the picture of leadership failure and corruption among the political elites and leaders in Nigeria during the first phase of political independence in the 90’s some of which are still prevailing in the Twenty-first century. It also examines the sociopolitical similarities such as grant, bribery, corruption, and political structural failure in Nigeria and Russia during the period depicted in Nicolai Gogol’s “The Government Inspector”, which also captures the same phenomenon in Nineteenth century Tsar Russia. The paper recommends dramatisation of literary texts for sociopolitical re-orientation in Nigeria’s political institutions and its inclusion in the school curriculum at the primary and secondary levels
The Impact of “Ghana-Must-Go” Returnees on the Agricultural and Community Development of Ghana in the 1980s
No full textAlthough the mass expulsion of West African immigrants by Nigeria in 1983 has attracted major scholarly assessments, the aspect of the contributions of Ghanaian returnees to the agricultural and community development of their country during the period has remained largely neglected in the mainstream literature. This paper fills this critical gap in knowledge by interrogating the impact of the returnees on the Ghanaian society at a time of major food crises in the country. It relies heavily on the assessment of useful archival materials, especially extant newspaper reports collected at the Public Records and Archive Administration Department (PRAAD), Accra, Ghana to critically analyse the activities of the returnees in the areas of agricultural and community development. It argues and concluded that the contributions of the returnees assisted in no small measures in reducing the humanitarian crises and food scarcity associated with the mass expulsion, the unprecedented migrations from Nigeria, as well as the famine that afflicted Ghana in the 1980s
Preliminaries and Content
No full textIhafa: A Journal of African Studies
Volume 12 Number 1, December 2021
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© Department of Linguistics, African and Asian Studies
Faculty of Arts, University of Lagos
Akọka, Lagos, Nigeria
Website: http://ihafa.unilag.edu.ng/
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ISSN: 1117-525
A Comparative Study of Yoruba Traditional Religion and Morality Differentia
No full textYoruba cultural notions such as ẹ̀sìn nìwà ìwà lẹ̀sìn ‘religion is morality, morality is religion’ often equate Yoruba traditional religion with morality, which may not necessarily be a truism. This paper reviews the reasons underlying such thinking using philosophical theology to provide concise clarifications on the interface between cultural and religious beliefs. Data for the study is sourced from Daramọla and Jẹjẹ (1975), Aderibigbe and Basua (1999), Adéoyè (1985), and other relevant textual materials. The paper does not argue that religion is superior to morality or vice versa. Rather, it argues that both concepts are not necessarily the same. It establishes that the two concepts can be independent of each other and can be used to proffer solutions to the challenges of multi-ethnic societies