he researchers used case study which cover all the 2007/2008 computer and integrated science final year student of the school of science education, Enugu State college of education (Technical), Enugu. A sample of 110 final year students were selected for the study through proportionate simple random sampling techniques from all the department unde school of science education. Questionnaires were used to collect data after scrutining for face validation by research experts including the researc... read more

It is hoped that this study will inspire teachers and inspectors of the State and Federal Ministries of Education to improve their competence and performance by adopting instructional audio – visual materials to suit their proper use in the classroom. This will improve the teaching and learning of English language in particular and other subjects in general. This study also will help educational planners to lay more emphasis on teachers’ use of the audio – visual instructional materials wh... read more

and Nwachukwu (1997) stressed that teachers’ quality constraints constitute a crucial problem towards the successful implementation of the basic technology. If this is not checkmated, our Science and Technology related subjects graduates from the post-primary schools may not be employable and those who may further in their University Education may experience difficulties because of their background. Consequently, our educational system will not attain its objective of producing qualified and ... read more

tudents misconduct in the classroom interferes with teaching and learning and is thought to be precursor to later school dropout and similar negative social out-comes. Student’s behaviour problems are also thought to be a leading contributor to teacher’s stress and attrition (Making somebody weaker). Teacher’s subjected to abuse report experiencing fears for their intense feeling of anger, humiliation or shame, Isolation and depression. Some teenagers may never reveal the nature of the in... read more

examinations. Worried by this trend of events, the researchers took an in-depth investigation into students variables and how there influence students academic performance in Physics Education in Secondary Schools in Calabar Municipality, Nigeria. Using questionnaire and student’s academic achievement test, the researchers carefully collected data on the variables viz: sex, age and attitude towards Physics Education. Independent t-test and One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used for data... read more

The guinea pig (cava parellus), also called cavy, and the genus cavia. Despite their common name, these animals are not in the pig family, nor are they from guinea, they originated in the Andes, and earlier studies based on biochemistry and hybridization suggested they are domestic descendants of a closely related species of cavy such as Cavia aperea, C. fulgida, or c. tschudii and therefore do not exist naturally in the wild (Ounnum 2010). Guinea pigs were popular laboratory animals until th... read more

he use of self-help approach in community development is considered as a process of social action in which the people of the community organized themselves for planning action, making groups and individual plans to meet their needs and solve their problems. They execute the plans, with a maximum reliance upon community resources and effort. Self-help approach involve the fullest participation of all the members in the community. Participation of individual in rural development activities is an a... read more

The significance of the year 2012 flood disaster in Nigeria lies in the fact that they were unprecedented in the past forty years. Most parts of the central states of Nigeria and other adjoining states along the river Niger and Benue are devastated by these floods causing huge destruction to the rural and urban infrastructures (farmlands/crops, roads, buildings, damages, bridges, power lines e.t.c ) and socioeconomic lives of the areas. Floods occur when the soil, stream channels and man-made re... read more

Global warming is putting pressure on ecosystems, the plants and animals that co-exist in a particular climate. According to Riebeek (2007: 14), global warming will impact life on earth in many ways, but the extent of the change is up to us. Scientists have shown that human emissions of greenhouses gases are pushing global temperatures up, and many aspects of climate are responding to the warming in the way that scientists predicted they would. Ecosystems across the globe are already affected an... read more

Even if the raw material locally available in commercial quantities and at reasonable cost, and with other advantage, natural product must be used in other to achieve a certain richness and natural character in perfumes. Although study is progressing material and in reconstructing them by synthesis the moment is still far of when gravity, solubility, refractive index, optical rotation, acid value, ester value, iodine value and among other. A knowledge of these physical characteristics help in t... read more

In this world of competitive resource application and technological development, the banks have been totally computerized. This project work Design and Implementation of computerized banking system is concerned with the analysis and design of a computerized system aimed at supporting the whole banking operation provides an interface which enables the user or the customer to lodge in money into his or her account and make withdrawals as the need arises. It will also provide the basis for the impl... read more

The public and private organizations generate staff records. Staff records play an imperative role in providing the information needed by organizations to manage and pay their staff members, plan their workforce requirements and monitor staff performance. Ultimately, any organization’s development and sustainability will depend on sound and effective human resource management, and the approaches it chooses to follow will be derived in part from an analysis of the information contained in staff... read more

Point of sale (POS) (also sometimes referred to as Point of purchase (POP) or checkout is the location where a transaction occurs. A "checkout" refers to a POS terminal or more generally to the hardware and software used for checkouts. Most large retail stores have migrated from the old trusty cash register to more modern computerized point of sale (POS) systems. This Application Guide explores computerized POS technology and provides a roadmap for anyone contemplating acquiring POS systems f... read more

Security is defined in many ways due to the many contexts of its existence. In other words, security generally has to do with protection. It might be protection from undue access. Some attributes security to safe guiding from that, which may or may not lead to destruction. It might also be interesting to understand that security has to do with protection of the environment. It also has to do with valuables; this means that anything has to be secured must have value. Things of less importan... read more

Caritas University, Amorji Nike, Enugu, is a private University approved by the Federal Government of Nigeria on December 16 2004. It was officially opened on January 21, 2005 by the Federal Ministry for Education, Prof. Fabian Osuji. The formal opening was on January 31, 2005. The pioneer students of 250 matriculated on May 28, 2005 in beautiful ceremony that attracted dignitaries both church and state. It is the second Catholic University in Nigeria founded by Rev. Fr. Prof. Emmanuel Paul Math... read more

Storage facilities may hold aggregations of learning things as a circulation focus may store books, or they could hold collections of information about learning articles as a library record may hold portrayals about books. Storage facilities offer parts to bolster the disclosure, exchange and re-usage of learning articles (Richards, McGreal and Friesen, 2002). The School of Information and Communication Technology (SICT) repository, Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna is an online ap... read more

Organizational effectiveness rests on the efficient and effective performance of employees. The efficient and effective performance of the workforce in turn, rest on the richness of the knowledge, skills and abilities possessed by the workforce. Manpower training and development in most organizations is a continuous act/exercise. The inexorable march of time and the ceaseless glamour for social change combine to make adaptability and continuing preparation of the workforce as inevitable as the i... read more

Over the years government has been grappling with the administration of bloated workforce and the attendant workers welfare. Various methods had been applied and all seemed to have failed. The 1979 Pension Act of the Federal Republic of Nigeria puts the retirement age of workers at either the attainment of 60 years of age or 35 years in service, which ever is earlier. The Act also spelt out the criteria for qualification of gratuity and pension on a voluntary retirement from service at attainmen... read more

Profit maximization was regarded as the primary mission and over-reaching economic motive of any business enterprises little or no attention was paid to the fact that, in pursuit of their profit objective, business enterprises have to be ask to assemble the resource from the local environment and have the stable socio-political and investment climate in which to operate successfully. If business organization relies on society for existence, it is only logical that this environment be acculturate... read more

It has been observed that the way to have good and safe government is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among many, distributing to every one exactly the function he is competent to. This is why local government as the third tier of government is very important. In recent times, local governments in Nigeria have been assigned specific development roles by the constitution. But this should not be taken to suggest that in the past local governments did not contribute to eco... read more