scholarly journals An Assessment of Environmental Awareness in Selected Areas of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-544
Author(s):  
T. Lawuyi ◽  
P. Yohanna
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Informal Education ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Tertiary Level ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
School Students ◽  
Plateau State

Environmental awareness is understanding the fragility of our environment, its susceptibility to the devastating impact of human activities and the how to protect and preserve it. The research work assessed the Environmental Awareness in selected areas of Jos North Local Government area of Plateau State as its objective. The survey covered a sample population of 300 drawn from the three selected areas namely; Terminus (CBD), Faringada/University of Jos and Tudun Wada areas. The studied variables included the demographic characteristics of respondents including their ages, sex, educational attainment, family size, types of energy sources for home and industrial use, environment predispositions, knowledge of localised and general environmental facts and issues. The result showed that of the respondents, 42.86% are secondary school students, 68.22% have attained tertiary level of education, 46.72% comply with views on proper waste disposal, 38.66% dump waste into the stream, 35.37% and 27.95% of households use electricity from the mains and kerosene for cooking while 4.80% and 13.68% reported their planting and felling trees respectively. The results further showed that of the respondents, 61.57% do not ride bicycle, 99.56% use some form of renewable energy, 61.28% crave green life style while 67.62% and 1.75% rely on electricity from the mains and on solar panel as primary source of energy generation. The null hypotheses I, II and III were rejected at 0.0005 (p<.05), degrees of freedom = 3,3 and 1, p-values = 48.023, 190.614 and 24.563 with respondents of tertiary level education having the highest number for knowledge of environmental awareness, age range of 36 – 55 years having the highest number of environmentally friendly life style and who received enlightenment on environmental issues through informal education higher than those who received enlightenment through formal education respectively.

scholarly journals Reading to Write: A Strategy for Improving the Writing Performance of Students of English Language: A Case Study of Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Anthony Ugboja ◽  
Rosemary Eze Ifunanya ◽  
Moses Offor
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
English Language ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
School Students ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Test Study ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Rivers State

This study focuses on Reading to Write as a strategy for improving the writing performance of students of English language in Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State. An intact class was used to investigate reading to write as a way of improving the writing performance of secondary school students. The research focused on a single class, that is, the entire population of the students in SS 2, which is made up of 56 students. This research work has adopted the transactional theory of writing and reading as the theoretical framework. Two types of questionnaires were used because of pre-test and post-test, study four essay topics were used to test the students initial competent in writing skills before we started  the training through reading to improve writing. Simple percentage was used for the pre-test and post-test study. Mean and Standard Deviation was used to analyze the student’s achievement test for both pretest and posttest while ANCOVA was used to test the hypothesis at 0.5 level of significant.From the result from pre-test and post-test, it is crystal clear that reading to write as a strategy can help to improve writing performance of the students and majority of the students has confirmed that this method should be apply in their class room in other to improve their writing skills. Recommendations are also provided.Key 

scholarly journals An Investigation on Some Hepatic Enzymes and Haematological Variables among Alcoholic Volunteers in Kadima District of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-40
Author(s):  
Yohanna Denkok ◽  
Vincent Gambo Linus ◽  
Kehinde F. Oyebade ◽  
Abara S. Ukeme ◽  
Samuel Y. Gazuwa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Alcoholic Beverage ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Full Blood Count ◽  
Group A ◽  
Plateau State ◽  
Hb Concentration ◽  
The Impact

Aim: This research work investigated the impact of the differences in duration of alcoholic beverage consumption on hepatic and heamatological parameters. Methods: Fifty (50) healthy male volunteer subjects were recruited for this study from Kadima district of Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State, Nigeria and were coded according to the years of alcohol consumption: 1-7, 8-14, 15-21, and 22-28 for groups B, C, D and E respectively with each having ten (10) volunteers. Group A was christened as the control having human subjects that have neither drank Burukutu nor factory- based lager beer. Full blood count was done using haematology analyser while spectrophometric method was used to assay for the activities of AST, ALT, ALP, GGT as well as various levels/concentrations of TB, DB, TP, urea and creatinine. Results: Result obtained showed that AST and ALP were raised (p < 0.05) in all the groups when compared to the control. ALT was elevated in group E only while GGT was increased (p < 0.05) in groups D and E. Total and direct bilirubin were both elevated (p < 0.05) in groups B, C and E but equal control in group D. Total protein was higher in groups B and C but lowered in groups D and E relative control. Concentrations of urea was statistically significant (p < 0.05) in groups C and E. Creatinine was only statistically significant in group C but equal control in other groups. Results of the haematological parameters showed that RBC and WBC were reduced in all the groups’ relative control. Hb concentration was increased (p < 0.05) in groups C, D and E. PCV was found to be reduced in groups B, C and D when compared to the control. Conclusion: This study has shown that prolong ingestion of local brew impacts negatively on hepatic biomarkers as well as some haematological indexes like WBC, RBC and PCV.

Proximate Analysis and Mineral Composition of Jatropha curcas Seeds Obtained from Pankshin Local Government Area of Plateau State of Nigeria

2018 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Magu Thomas Odey ◽  
Louis Hitler ◽  
Nzeata Ibe Nelson ◽  
Sunday Esther Aniedi ◽  
Udowo Victor Malachy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Mineral Composition ◽  
Jatropha Curcas ◽  
Proximate Analysis ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Plateau State

Attitude of Secondary School teachers towards Physical Fitness for Sports in Ekiti State, Nigeria

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Olurotimi Marcus BOLARINWA
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Secondary School Teachers ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Local Government Area ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Sports Activities

This research work investigated the attitude of Secondary School Teachers in the Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria towards Physical fitness for sports. The research design used for the study was the descriptive type of research. A simple random sampling technique was used to select two hundred (200) secondary school teachers selected from all the secondary schools in Secondary Schools in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. The instrument for data collection for the study was a self-structured questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to a validity and reliability mechanism and it was found to be appropriate for the study. Four (4) research questions were raised and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The data collected were analysed using Chi-Square (X2) statistical analysis package. The findings of the study revealed that the disposition of secondary school teachers’ influences their attitude towards physical fitness programme and sports activities, the interest of secondary school teachers’ influences their attitude towards physical fitness programme and sports activities, availability of sports facilities influence the attitude of secondary school teachers’ toward physical fitness programme and sports activities and, secondary school teachers’ perception of health benefits of physical fitness influences their attitude towards physical fitness participation and sports activities in secondary schools in Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Nigeria. Based on the findings, appropriate conclusions and recommendations were made.

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