317 research outputs found
Growth and yield attributes of soybean (<i>Glycine max</i> L) in response to cassava peel compost and inorganic fertilizer
No full textField experiments were conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm, Ladoke, Akintola University of Technology in Nigeria for the evaluation of soybean performance on the soil amended separately or in combination with cassava peel compost (CPC) and inorganic fertilizer applied. The experimental design was a randomized complete block design with three replicates. Soybean growth parameters and yield were examined. Data collected were subjected to analysis of variance and significant means compared using New Duncan Multiple Range Test (DMRT) at 5% probability level. Soybean growth parameters and crop physiological indices were significantly influenced by applied treatments. Combined application of NPK and CPC performed better than sole inorganic fertilizer application. The stem height and girth, number of leaves per plant and leaf area (46.08 cm2) were all significantly (P<0.05) influenced by the treatments. The highest leaf area was obtained with 50 kg NPK/ha+3.5 t/ha CPC, while the least (22.04 cm2) was observed from control. The physiological indices of soybean were significantly influenced by applied treatments. Application of 100 kg NPK/ha+2.5 t/ha CPC gave highest net assimilation rate. It was concluded that combined application of 100 kg NPK/ha+2.5 t/ha CPC was sufficient for optimum growth and yield of soybean based on the condition of the soil used in the Southern guinea Savannah of Nigeria
Leading the African agenda or following the African consensus? South Africa's implementation of the African agenda in the United Nations Security Council
No full textSTRATEGIES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN NIGERIA
No full textPage 1. 5th of October, 2018 ICERI2018 Local Organising Committee ABSTRACT ACCEPTANCE LETTER This is a confirmation that the abstract entitled: “STRATEGIES FOR THE PRESERVATION OF ELECTRONIC RECORDS IN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES IN NIGERIA” Author(s): Promise Ilo, Michael Fagbohun, Jerome Idiegbeyan-Ose, Ugwunwa Esse, Nwanne Nwokeoma, Ifeakachuku Osinulu, Olajumoke Olawoyin, Oyeronke Adebayo has been accepted as ORAL presentation at ICERI2018. Name of event: ICERI2018 (11th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation) Dates: 12th-14th of November, 2018 Place: Seville (Spain) Organising entity: IATED IATED Academy. email: [email protected] – Tel.: (+34) 96 344 62 37 – Fax: (+34) 96 206 59 18 iated.or
Ha-Joon Chang to give Annual Adedeji Lecture 2016
No full textThe 2016 Annual Adedeji Lecture will be delivered by renowned Development Economist Ha-Joon Chang and author of widely discussed policy books, most notably Kicking Away the Ladder and 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, and Economics. Chang’s new book Smart Industrial Policy for Africa in the 21st century will be launched alongside the 2016 Economic Report on Africa on 3rd April during the ECA-AU Africa Development Week. ECA launched the Adebayo Adedeji lecture series in March 2014 to honour and recognize the intellectual contribution to development, service to Africa and humanity of Professor Adebayo Adedeji ECA Executive Secretary from 1975-1978 and UN Under-Secretary General from 1978-1991
The national policy on women and the challenges of mainstreaming gender issues in Nigeria, 1985-2005
No full textThis thesis examines the relevance of the National Policy on Women (NPW) to the aspirations of Nigerian women through their eyes. It also investigates the extent to which state institutional capability exists to implement the policy (and to mainstream gender perspectives as the policy stipulates). The study is based on six months of field
work carried out between 2002 and 2004. It combined qualitative and quantitative methods using mainly participatory research techniques.
Nigeria has acceded to several regional and international covenants promoting the rights and well-being of women. Finally, in 2000 it made an official statement of intent to
promote gender equality by approving the NPW. Yet, successful implementation of policy objectives remains elusive in the absence of comprehensive measures to reverse
significant g ender disparities in access to socioeconomic resources, opportunities and benefits. The thesis explores the experiences, perspectives and collective agendas of
women from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds to ascertain the nature of their interests and needs and how they compare with the NPW.
The study found a considerable degree of compatibility between women's aspirations and the NPW, particularly in terms of addressing immediate practical necessity.
However, awareness of the policy is low among most women. Consequently, there is no concerted agenda to push for its implementation. The Gender Management System put
in p lace by the Federal Ministry of Women Affairs to
oversee the mainstreaming of gender policy is undermined by institutionalised and routinised gender bias and by
distortions in the wider policy environment
The program of physical education and its effect on the primary health care in selected secondary schools in Lagos state, 1990
No full textThe benefits derived from taking part in Physical Education lessons were directly related to the health of the school age children. The component of Education, such as physical, social, mental, and emotional aspects have been related to the growth and development of the individual child to maintain a healthy state. In the schools, one of the ways to achieve this goal is through the Physical Education program which is also an aspect of the School Health Program. It is also a part of Basic Health Care Program. This appraisal of health of the school children has been in operation for a long time in Lagos State Secondary Schools. However, there is a new global change from Basic Health Care to Primary Health Care. It was on this basis that this work was designed to look into the new health area and determine the contribution of Physical Education program to Primary Health Care. 12 schools were used in this study. Questionnaires were sent to selected schools in Lagos State and to some medical officers in some Local Government Areas of the state. The 240 school respondents and the 70 medical and para-medical respondents indicated among other things that the program of Physical Education was reflected in the Primary Health Care in Lagos State Secondary Schools
Sustaining Soil Organic Matter for Okra Production in a Forest Ecology of Nigeria
No full textOkra production in Nigeria is particularly under smallholder and resource-poor farmers. This study therefore investigated the influence of aerobically composted cowdung (CWD), singly and in combination with Ogun rock phosphate (ORP) applications on the yield of okra and soil organic matter maintenance in typical forest ecology of Nigeria. The study was conducted during two different okra cropping seasons. The experiment was in a randomised complete block design of four, 27.0 m x 4.0 m blocks; each was divided into seven plots of 4.0 m x 3.0 m with an alley of 1.0 m between blocks and 1.0 m within plots. The treatment plots were made up of crop with: 100% CWD, 100% ORP, 20% CWD + 80% ORP, 40% CWD + 60% ORP, 60% CWD + 40% ORP, 80% CWD + 20% ORP and zero percent application served as control. The seven organic fertilizer treatments were applied at planting, and at the rates of 6.0 and 0.3 t ha-1 for 100% CWD and 100% ORP respectively. Each of the treatments was replicated four times to give a total of 28 plots. Highest fresh okra mean yield of 22.9 ± 1.3 t ha-1 obtained with 60% CWD + 40% ORP was only significantly (p = 0.05) different from 14.2 ± 1.2 t ha-1 obtained with zero treatment application. This experiment was repeated two more times, but without treatment applications. About 5% reduction and over 100% increase in soil organic carbon and available P respectively were achieved after third consecutive okra cultivation. We therefore concluded that aerobically composted cowdung when complemented with Ogun rock phosphate enhanced the quantity of okra and soil organic matter of the study area
INFLUENCE OF POVERTY ON FEMALE YOUTH PROSTITUTION IN UGANDA: THE EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG WOMEN RESIDING IN KIGONGI WARD, KABALE MUNICIPALITY.
No full textBackground:
The study aimed to investigate the influence of poverty on female youth prostitution in Kigongi Ward, Kabale Municipality. The study was guided by specific objectives, which include the influence of poverty on female youth prostitution, the experiences and perspectives of the female youth involved in prostitution, and the degree to which poverty influences prostitution among female youths in Kigongi Ward, Kabale Municipality.
Methodology:
This study adopted a case study research design utilizing both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Using simple random and purposive sampling techniques, a total of 100 respondents were used in the study.
Results:
It was found that a majority of 30% of the respondents reported that a woman might live a simple life or earn a lot of money as a prostitute, while 20% of the respondents mentioned parental neglect and youth laziness as the factors that push female youth into prostitution. Also, (30%) of respondents mentioned that prostitution affects a community's reputation, standard of living, and property. On the degree to which poverty influences prostitution among female youths, the majority of the respondents (45%) said that poverty causes female youth prostitution in Kigongi Ward.
Conclusion:
It was concluded that poverty contributes majorly to female youth prostitution in the Kigongi ward of Kabale Municipality. And there is no supportive empowerment policy that can alleviate poverty.
Recommendation:
People from developing nations must be given legal chances to migrate, with consideration for the economic interests of both the receiving nation and the immigrants themselves
Working mothers' attitudes toward domestic and work roles a case study of some working mothers in Nigeria, 1984
No full textThis study aimed to determine mothers' attitudes toward occupa-tional work roles and domestic roles in Bida, Nigeria. The variables used were feelings of life satisfaction, job status, attitudes toward occupational work roles, a wife's perceptions of her husband's attitude toward her work roles and attitudes toward domestic work roles. Systematic random sampling was used to select the study group for this research. A sample of sixty (60) working mothers was selected out of a population of one hundred and twenty (120) at the Federal Poly�technic, Bida, Nigeria. The questionnaire used for data collection had three sub-scales which measured the mother's attitudes toward employment and domestic work roles, and the strain which may be generated by the interaction between members of this role set. The main findings of the survey showed that there was a signifi-cant difference between the attitudes of professional and non-professional mothers. The non-professional mothers tend to show that their families take all that they do at home for granted. Also, there was a strong relationship between job status and the feeling that the family appre�ciates all that a mother does at home. There was no significant relationship between life satisfaction and attitudes toward occupational roles, but there was a significant relationship between a mother's working hours that do not allow for her child care and her belief that her boss takes the work she does for granted. However, there was no significant relationship between a wife's perception of her husband's attitude toward her work roles and her home role attitudes. It is concluded that among the sample of women used in this study, job status has no relevance to their attitudes toward the roles the mothers perform at home. However, there is a relationship between job status and family appreciation of what a mother does at home. Finally, the findings showed that attitudes toward occupational work roles have no relationship with feelings of life satisfaction
“Outrageous, Audacious, Courageous, [and] Willful”: A Womanist approach to re-imagining resistance in public Black education, 2021
No full textThis study investigates the instructional traditions of three black women educators in South Carolina from 1862, when the first school for formerly enslaved Africans was established, to 1951, during the onset of the statewide “equalization schools'' campaign. Conceptualization of the instructional methods of black women establishes a historical context for black women educators as activists and serves as a counternarrative to the overwhelming dominant discourse of “whiteness” in education theory and praxis. Furthermore, it reveals ways in which these educators re-imagined the function of education through “everyday methods of problem-solving''. This study asserts that black women occupy a unique intersectional space, and as educators, especially, they can meaningfully and effectively contribute to pedagogy as a tool for resistance and empowerment. It further argues that the black women educators in this study primary educational approaches derived from a womanist framework, centering of black women’s perspectives, grassroots and collective agency, spiritual orientation, and the universality of rejecting systems of oppression including and beyond sexism. A qualitative narrative analysis of the subjects’ autobiographical publications, through a critical life history approach, is used to determine the characteristics of their instructional traits and the context that influenced them. The purpose of this research is to inform and contribute to current pedagogical practices and advocate for the canonization of instructional traditions of black theorists for teacher replication. Education inequity in the United States disproportionately affects black students, therefore, solutions specific to the educational needs and values of black communities are needed to address it
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