February 2023

Mathematics is an important subject that must be passed at credit level by students before gaining admission into any tertiary institution in Nigeria. Despite the importance of Mathematics, the persistent high rate of students’ low performance is of great concern. This study therefore investigated selected teachers’ and students’ variables as correlates of senior school students’ …

SELECTED TEACHERS’ AND STUDENTS’ VARIABLES AS CORRELATES OF SENIOR SCHOOL STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA Read More »

Traditional health care services are age long health care render by traditional healers, traditional birth attendant, debiars and so on. The health care services have been fraught with some inadequacies that often resulted to different debilitative conditions. This study examined health workers perceived implications of traditional health services on wellbeing of people in Ilorin South …

PERCEIVED IMPLICATIONS OF TRADITIONAL HEALTH SERVICES ON WELLBEING OF PEOPLE IN ILORIN SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE Read More »

Potassium, sodium and calcium as a macro nutrient governs important mechanism and physiological strength that ensure optimum plant growth and produce quality. This study aims at the effect of NPK fertilizer and organic manure on the growth corn under high nitrogen (N) nutrition with optimum and reduced irrigation. Organic manure (OM) was applied as source …

THE EFFECT OF NPK FERTILIZER AND ORGANIC MANURE ON GROWTH PARAMETERS OF ZEA MAYS Read More »

Health risk factors such as smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, inadequate nutritional status, and low levels of physical activity have direct behavioural links to chronic disease. Modification of these health-risk behaviours can enhance health and lessen the risk of chronic illnesses later in life. This research was design to evaluate the perception of students about health …

PERCEPTION OF STUDENTS ABOUT HEALTH CONCERNS IN AHMADU BELLO
UNIVERSITY ZARIA. Read More »

Liberia is well known for the consumption of vegetables. However, the nation depends on importation from neighboring countries especially during lean seasons. It has always remained food self-insufficient for decades. There are steps to be taken to become food self-sufficient including in vegetable production. This paper investigates into the factors that determine production of okra …

DETERMINANTS OF OKRA (ABELMOSCHUS ESCULENTUS) PRODUCTION IN
LIBERIA: CASE STUDY OF MARGIBI COUNTY Read More »

Nigeria is among the largest fish consumers in the continent and the largest producer of African catfish. However, there is a gap in production–consumption which necessitates massive importation of frozen fish. Hence, for this study was carried out. It comprised of six pairs of adjoining ponds to Aigbe stream. Six ponds were dug on each …

WEALTH CREATION THROUGH EARTHEN FISH PONDS: CASE STUDY OF AIGBE STREAM IN OSOGBO, NIGERIA Read More »

The 1986 Constitution of Liberia, Chapter IV, Citizenship Article 27 states: (a) All persons who, on the coming into force of this Constitution were lawfully citizens of Liberia shall continue to be Liberian citizens. (b) In order to preserve, foster and maintain the positive Liberian culture, values, and character, only persons who are Negroes or …

DE-RACIALIZATION OF THE LIBERIAN CONSTITUTION: A PRECONDITION FOR POST CONFLICT CULTURAL DIVERSITY, RACE RELATIONS AND DEMOCRACY Read More »

Poor biosecurity and disease infections continue to be a major constraint to the poultry production system in Nigeria. This study was conducted among 343 poultry egg farmers to assess the level of biosecurity practices in Southwestern, Nigeria. The multi-stage sampling procedure was employed in data collection while descriptive statistics, fuzzy logic model, and multinomial logic …

FACTORS INFLUENCING THE LEVEL OF BIOSECURITY PRACTICES AS SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES IN POULTRY EGG PRODUCTION IN SOUTHWESTERN, NIGERIA Read More »

Educational institutions that are committed to serving students are often focused on the continuous improvement of the students’ experience. Therefore, this study assessed teachers’ demeanor in selected public secondary schools in Ogun State, Nigeria. It adopted the survey method of an ex-post facto type. A sample of 392 (185 males and 207 females) senior secondary …

AN ASSESSMENT OF TEACHERS’ DEMEANOR IN SELECTED PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS OF OGUN STATE, NIGERIA Read More »

People in residential and commercial structures have encroached too closely to infectious disease treatment centres over time. This may pose great risks. This study investigated the knowledge and perception of health risks of people who live and work in close proximity to infectious disease treatment centres, using Ebola isolation centre as a case study. Survey …

PERCEPTION OF HEALTH RISKS OF PEOPLE LIVING IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO
INFECTIOUS DISEASE CENTRES AND THEIR WILLINGNESS TO RELOCATE Read More »