Dating and pre-marital sex has given birth to ceaseless questions, being known as a practice that is hugely affected by the time, period, social conditions, construct, biology, cultural nuns and institutional frame that wraps around the people. Dating is an act that is practiced and known by too many people, but just a few are acquainted by or knows the exact meaning. Apparently, it is an activity that a good number of college aged students are interested and engaged in. According to Longman Eng... read more

Economics we all know deals with the human behaviour which can further be explained as the way we earn our living and make choices to satisfy our needs. It thereforeconcentrates on the research of organizations and the government whose day to day transactions are focused on the production of goods and services in other to satisfy of human needs since economics is has to do with human behavior. Budhwar (2002).Economics is a social science, just like other science subjects, the procedures or the ... read more

Academic performance is a factor found among students and is it a function of many factors, some of which are within the student and the class room while others are out of the class room while academic objectives are paramount to students’ success in school attainment, goal commitment is sensitive to factors like hope and specifically agency hope and confidence in one’s abilities. Students’ engagement is the ability of an individual to be in control of his or her own learning which mean... read more

So far, we have seen education is an extremely important and necessary tool for personal and social growth and enhancement. Countries, families, individuals all around the world see education as a good investment for national growth. This is because it is required to yield the required quantity and quality of human resources for the economic growth using the right mixture of inputs. Coming down to Nigerians, we expect school system to be very active and productive in a way that a given good r... read more

Home environment is a major factor that determines the health of any child, student. How clean or dirty the environment is will largely determine if the child will be healthy or not. Most of the Nigerian parents raise their children in unclean, unhealthy environments; these could be a choice or because they cannot afford a better, clean and healthy space. Every second in the country, about 10 children are infected; die from diverse diseases contacted from their home environment or as a resul... read more

Science is a means of solving human problems (Abimbola 2010). He further emphasized that the progress of science is not marked only by accumulation of facts but by the emergence of scientific methods, translated in practical terms, into technology. (Onyeso et al 2009) posits that the ultimate way of teaching and learning sciences is by evidence based, practical methods. Sciences in this regards is with particular reference to integrated and computer sciences. Computer education is... read more

From time immemorial, man has always needed some form of guidance in order to properly manage life issues. In the days of old, young people received guidance concerning life issues and this was known as informal or traditional education. In Africa, this traditional type of guidance was administered by families, priests and church leaders. According to Anagbogu (1988.1), traditional guidance was a means “to direct, lead, guide, pilot, show, inform, advise, help and instruct”. The people w... read more

The new paradigin shift of moving from teacher centre education to Inquiry Based System of Education is a dramatic change in methodology which involves engaging participants in learning experience, that are designed not only to enable them to learn the process of learning how to learn, developing and empowering life long learning skills. Therefore using Inquiry Based system of education in primary schools to control the factors militating against teaching and learning of social studies is a ... read more

Traditionally, taxation is a main source of revenue to government all over the world, tax thus becomes a burden that every citizen must bear to support the government. According to Olaofa (2008), the government has certain functions to perform for the benefits of those its government. The scope of these functions will depend on the political and economical orientation of the members of the society, their needs aspiration, unwillingness and ability to pay amongst others. Among the tr... read more

Gender, according to Longman Dictionary (2000) is defined as the fact of being male or female. Oxford Dictionary 5th edition (1998) defines gender as the condition of being male or female. The New International Webster’s Comprehensive Dictionary of the English Language (2004) has it that “gender corresponds to sex. Animate beings are either masculine or feminine. Britannica volume 5 (2005) defines gender as self-conception of being a male or female as distinguished from actual biology sex. ... read more

Measuring of academic performance of student is challenging since student performance is the product of socio-economic, psychological and environmental factors. Education ought to be growing as a profitable industrywith prime objective of maximizing profit by delivering high quality education that produces well educated, skilled mannered students according to needs and requirements of the dynamically growing market. There are two groups of students as generally perceived, that is those who impro... read more

The world today is assuming a global village through the use and application of information and communication technology (ICT). Ughamadu (2008) rightly notes that one will be in his office or residence and monitor the events that happen all over the world. This scientific discoveries and manipulations are made possible through the use of computers and other modern and ultra-modern and invention in the filed of science and engineering. Computer as a tool has been exposed and it’s being utilized... read more

Oil is said to be a mixture of organic chemical derived mainly from the remains of microscopic plants and animal that lives in sees millions years ago. Special condition and great length of times were needed for these remains to undergo complex chemical changes to for oil. These are sometimes concentrated in accumulations which man can detect and exploit. Oil exploitation began more than a hundred years ago, when drilling was carried out near oil seeps which indicated that oil lay below th... read more

The sole aim of every organization is the achievement of high productivity. To get at this according to Atuemyi (2001:24) depends very much on the performance of the workers, performance being a function of motivational ability, tools, moral and integrity that motivation according to O’ Donnel (1999:81) is a means of including people to work in a desired meaner. It is the process that causes, channels, and sustains people’s behaviour. Human beings are the neck that holds the head of an organ... read more

Class size appears to be one of the crucial elements that is often considered by educational planners in order to achieve the set out objectives in any educational system. This is because of the obvious negative implication of our crowded classroom on the teacher and the learner. Ozochie (2009) opined that to make the correct estimate of the resources needed is the function of population. This point suggests that the essence of having a definite number of learner in a classroom is to ensure ... read more

According to Horny (2000), the word “Identification is defined as the process of showing, providing or recognizing who or what somebody or something is”. Therefore, the identification of difficult teaching and learning topics in SS3 physics, chemistry and English language curricula in Nigeria can be seen as the process of showing or providing or recognizing the difficult topics in teaching and learning physics, chemistry and English language in SS3 curricula in Nigeria. ... read more

Paslorelli, [2001] stressed that individuals undertaking the process is influenced by many factors, including the context in which they live their personal aptitudes , and educational attainment . Rapid changes in information and communication technologies, increasing globalization and greater competition are contributing to dramatic change in working life, which do not have anything to do with an individual career, the concept of a job for life is no longer a reality. Young people are n... read more

Nigeria is an agricultural country before and after the discovery of petroleum. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of United Nations, (1999) agriculture is usually the mainstay of the economy and level of food consumption are relatively low. How, Lawal (2000), noted that agriculture is perhaps the greatest single innovation that made it possible for man to live in settled community which grew gradually in complexity from families through village and Cities to modern... read more

English is a language of the people of England. It originates from the Jute, Angles and Saxon, who are the early settlers in Britain. It is part of the Germanic branch of the Indo European language family. At the initial state, English was confined to Britain alone. Later, it grew wide within the British Empire as a Prestigious Core Language among all other European languages in the upper classes of London, Oxford, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Cambridge and England. It further developed and got to ... read more

Every now and then, there is always the need for a man to get an optimum result in the most convenient and safest manner. Nothing has ever contributed more to the spread of knowledge than man's invention of the ways of recording his thoughts in lasting form. Of all the qualities that make man an inventor, imagination is the foremost. It is the imagination that allows man to transcend his passive environment into the active form and meet up with other challenges within man's environment. As man h... read more