SIMULATING PORT HARCOURT CITY MASS TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 10, NUMBER 4 2018

Denor Dennis Popnen

Department of Architecture,

Rivers State University, Nkpolu Oroworukwo, Port –Harcourt

E-mail: popdenor@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Transportation in engineering deals with the movement of goods and people.  In this work transportation as a major problem in Nigeria and Port Harcourt city axis in particular is identified.  The major types of transportation were road, water, rail and air in the country were discussed.  How the oil industry has contributed to the congestion of Port Harcourt and that government controlled bus transportation system is the solution is identified.  The transportation problem is a queuing problem and requires simulation solution; hence computer is used to solve this problem.  Therefore, in this research work computer software was developed to tackle the problem.  Some constraints were established and the developed software was tested with life data to ascertain the usefulness of the computer programme and a print out is included.  Finally, conclusions and comments were made on the research work and areas government should assist are also stated.

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A THEME APPROACH TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE WATERFRONT DEVELOPMENT – A CASE STUDY OF IKURU TOWN IN RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA.

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 10, NUMBER 4 2018

Peterside, Gift David

Department of Architecture,

Faculty of Environmental Science,

River State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Email: peterside_gift@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Water bodies and Rivers are important natural resources for human life, the environment and national development. Recognition of water resources as national heritage will contribute towards more long term sustainable property development. Waterfronts are characterised as a place integrating land with water and having a natural attraction to people. This paper reviews the benefits of water front development in Ikuru Town, Rivers state. It is aimed at applying the concepts of sustainability to enhance the coastlines of the area. It also focus on revitalizing the waterfront with a view of reintroducing Aquaculture to a ranking industry which plays a vital role in the culture of Rivers people and also establish recreational and relaxing spot that will help promote tourism and generate income for the state.

Keywords: Waterfront development, Aquaculture, Sustainability, Tourism

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EVALUATION OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BUDGET AND RELEASES FOR ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE IN NIGERIA (1999-2014)

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 10, NUMBER 4 2018

Alamu, Bosede Florence1& Alamu, Elijah.O.2

Department of Quantity Surveying1

Department of Surveying and Geoinformatics2

Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State

ABSTRACT

The issue of Budget allocation to road networks in Nigeria remains very volatile and constitutes a major source of political and government tension. On another hand, a major driver of economic growth and development has been declined to be effective road transport system. Given the appalling state of many roads across the geo political zones in Nigeria, understanding government decision viz-a-viz allocation to roads becomes imperative. This study analysed the trend in government budget and spending on road infrastructure between 1999 and 2014. The study also evaluated the effectiveness of government spending on the quality and quantity of Nigerian Federal Roads.  Data on government budget and spending on Federal Road construction and rehabilitation for the period 1999 to 2014 was collected from the Federal Ministry of Works and analysed. A deviation between budget estimates and spending was also calculated to evaluate the budget process. Results were thereafter presented in tables and analysed using simple statistical parameters (frequencies and percentages). Findings revealed that the total government budget as well as total actual spending on federal roads from 1999 to 2014 is erratic and persistently under released ranging from -0.79% to -59.13% deviation while average under releases is -19.47% deviation and the total under released amounts to 215.9 billion Naira from 1999 to 2014 the study discovered that the Federal government spends less than its allocations in the annual budgets for Road within the study period. The study therefore concluded that inefficiencies in government budget allocation and spending affects efficiency in output and effectiveness of outcomes which are more likely to increase project cost and further risk of abandonment of projects. The study further recommends an improvement in the budget process by specifying the spending plans for road infrastructure projects and budget discipline in fund releases.

Keypoints: Budget, Releases, Allocation, Roads

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NIGERIAN CITIES NEEDS UNDERGROUND SANITARY SEWAGE PIPE SYSTEM FED TO TREATMENT PLANT. 

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT 10, NUMBER 4 2018

Arc. Boyce A. Odoko

Department of Architecture.

National Institute of Construction Technology, Uromi, Edo State.

E-mail: odokoarch@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

What is Sewer?

Sewer is an artificial conduit or system of conduits used to remove sewage and to provide drainage. Sewage is mainly liquid waste containing some solids produced by humans which typically consists of washing water, feces, urine, laundry waste, other material from households and industry. Sanitary sewer system is an underground horizontal pipes that transports sewage waste from commercial and residential buildings through pipes that collects solid wastes from toilets, lavatory basins, kitchen sinks, including water from bathrooms. The solid wastes are transported to treatment plant by gravity where it is treated before discharge into ocean, river, lake, or canals to avoid contamination of water. The underground horizontal pipes are connected to vertical pipes to the surface mainly to have access for inspection, and they are called manhole. The manhole is usually covered with cast iron plates to avoid objects and people from falling in. This paper will focus on sanitary sewage disposal system only, not a combined sewage and storm water disposal system.

Keywords: Sanitary Sewage, Sewage Pipes, Drainage, Discharge, Liquid, Solids, Waste Materials, Vertical Pipes, Manhole, Sewage Treatment plant, Toilets, Gravity Powered.

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Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4, 2018

School-Based Management Committee and School Facilities

Mobilisation as Channels to Junior Secondary School Students’

Academic Performance in Nigeria

Eyarefe, I.Deborah, & Oresajo, N. Olasunkanmi                                           1-13

Effect of Perceived Social Support, Emotional Intelligence and Parental

Care on Academic Performance; (A Case Study of Secondary School

 in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government, Ekiti State)

Arowosegbe Christanah Kehinde & Solomon Ifeoluwa Damilare                         14-40

Availability of Teacher Use Of Instructional Materials and Resources

in the Implementation of ECCE Programme in Nasarawa State

Yakubu Machuwe Mikailu, 2Usman Stephen& Amirikpa Ishaku Gambo   41-58

Guidance and Counselling: A Concern for Effective Educational Counselling

in the 21st Century Nigerian Schools

Ibrahim Bello, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji and Mohammed Mahmoud Baba, 59-68

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4, 2018

GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING: A CONCERN FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

Ibrahim Bello, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji And Mohammed Mahmoud Baba,

Department of Education, Gombe State University, Gombe.

Department of Educational Foundations, UsmanuDanfodiyo University, Sokoto.

Department of Educational Foundations, AbubakarTafawaBalewa University, Bauchi.

E-mail: bellogundumaibrahim@gmail.com, Kisfak23@gmail.com, mmahmoudbaba@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Guidance and counselling in Nigeria is characterized by a number of problems which have brought untold hardship to the quality of counsellors and in turn, quality of educational counselling.  Some of the problems include dearth in quality counsellors, imbalance in students to counsellor ratio, government attitude towards the plight of counsellors, would be counsellors lack of access to quality practicum. This exposition therefore focuses attention on counsellor education and counsellor quality, as well as conclusion and suggestions to enhance quality of guidance and counselling.

AVAILABILITY OF TEACHER USE OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND RESOURCES IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ECCE PROGRAMME IN NASARAWA STATE

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4, 2018

1Yakubu Machuwe Mikailu, 2Usman Stephen& Amirikpa Ishaku Gambo

Department of General Studies, Ipere College of Education Agyaragu, Nasarawa State

Department of Administration and planning, Nasarawa State University Keffi.

Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Office Lafia,Nasarawa State.

E-mail: mikailu4real@gmaiil.com, usmanstephen.ndo@gmail.com, amirikpaishaku@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

The study assessed the Availability of Teacher use of Instructional Materials and Resources in the Implementation of ECCE programme in Nasarawa state. Two research questions were used for the study. The study employed descriptive survey research design. The population for the study was 12804 caregivers in Nasarawa State. A multi-stage sampling technique (comprises of proportionate, purposive and simple random sampling techniques) was used to sample ninety-three (93) Pre-primary schools and 388 caregivers for the study. The data collected was analyzed using Percentages, Frequency Count to answer the research. Findings of the study revealed that Instructional Materials in majority of ECCE Centres in Nasarawa State were available for the programme implementation based on the ECCE benchmark of 50% and on average, there was regularity of Monitoring of the ECCE Programme by relevant Officers in Nasarawa State as the percentage monitored was above the ECCE benchmark of 50%. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that, availability of instructional materials and monitoring by relevant officers of ECCE programme as prescribed by the NCCE-ECCE (2012) standard was greatly achieved in Nasarawa state.

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EFFECT OF PERCEIVED SOCIAL SUPPORT, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND PARENTAL CARE ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE; (A CASE STUDY OF SECONDARY SCHOOL IN IREPODUN/IFELODUN LOCAL GOVERNMENT, EKITI STATE)

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4, 2018

Arowosegbe Christanah Kehinde & Solomon Ifeoluwa Damilare

Department of Psychology,

Faculty of the Social Science,

Ekiti State University, Ekiti

ABSTRACT

The study was designed to investigate the effects of perceived social support, emotional intelligence and parental care on academic performance of secondary school in Irepodun/Ifelodun Local Government which was done in Iworoko community High school, Iworoko Ekiti. The method used for the collection of data was the questionnaire method and three instruments were used namely: Berlin social support scale, The Schutte Self Report Emotional Intelligence Test and Parental care scale. A total of 200 participants consisting of 98 males and 102 females drawn from three classes SS1class, SS2 class and SS3class, 78 students drawn from SS1 class, 48 students from SS2 class and 74 students from SS3 class. Four hypotheses were tested. The test of hypothesis one that there will be a significant effect of emotional intelligence on academic performance using the independent t-test analysis yielded a result of a significance influence of emotional intelligence on academic performance ( t (198) = 2.28 P < .05). The test of hypothesis two that there will be a significant effect of perceived social support on academic performance using the  independent t-test analysis revealed that there was no significant influence of parental care on academic performance ( t (198) = -.571 p > .05). The test of hypothesis three that there will be a significant effect of parental care on academic performance using the independent t-test revealed that there is no significant influence of parental care on academic performance t (198) = -.629 p > .05). The test of hypothesis four that there will be a significant difference in the academic performance between male and female using the independent t-test analysis revealed that there is no significant influence of gender on academic performance t (198)=1.911 p> .05).In conclusion the study has been able to confirm that there is an effect of emotional intelligence on academic performance, there is no effect of social support on academic performance, and also there is no effect of parental care on academic performance. This study also confirmed that there is no effect of gender on academic performance. Findings are discussed according to the literature and it was recommended that future studies could investigate secondary school from more diverse environment. It would be important to learn how the implementation of a curriculum like Self-Science contributes to academic performance with more a diverse student population.

Key Words: Social support, Emotional Intelligence, Academic performance, Parental Care.

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Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4, 2018

SCHOOL-BASED MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE AND SCHOOL FACILITIES MOBILISATION AS CHANNELS TO JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE IN NIGERIA

Eyarefe, I.Deborah, & Oresajo, N. Olasunkanmi

National Institute for Educational Planning and Administration (NIEPA-Nigeria),Km 3, Laje Road, P.M.B. 562 Ondo, Ondo state.

Email: debbieyarefe@gmail.com, Oresajo_nojeem@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

This article examined School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) involvement in school facilities mobilization with the view of enhancing Junior Secondary School (JSS) students’ academic performance in Nigeria. The Junior Secondary School (JSS) is the third stage or level of the basic education as far as Nigeria education system is concerned. This stage is a level in the basic education at which learners are expected to spend three good academic sessions and at the end (that is at the completion of the sessions) external examinations are conducted by the various state ministries of education across the country at the appropriate time. This depends on the academic session time-table of the various state ministries of education in the country. Thus, National Examinations Council (NECO) usually conducts similar examinations for the Junior Secondary Schools in the country. This is mostly done by Federal Unity Colleges and some private schools do also registered with NECO for this examinations.  SBMC is not peculiar to Nigeria alone. It is an in-thing presently in the global education system. This is a policy which empowers the community members where schools are located to be involved in the administration of the school instead of leaving such to government and the school administrators to man spontaneously. It is a system of administration whereby some decision-making of the school are shared among the stakeholders in education industry. However, schools facilities refer to all basic required resources that will promote teaching-learning and also brings about friendly school environment to the learners and their teachers. A good, friendly school environment promotes better academic performance because the learners and their teachers will always be willing to be in the school environment. This study defined SBM/SBMC, described JSS and its objectives, in addition it also described academic performance and identified the channel of SBMC in school facilities mobilization. Conclusion and recommendations were given.

Keywords: Academic performance, SBMC, Junior Secondary School, and School Facilities Mobilization.

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EARLY READING: THE INDISPUTABLE FOUNDATION OF THE 21ST CENTURY CHILD

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENTS, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 4, 2018

Nandi Salome Samuila, and Dutse Ishaya Abari

College of Education, Gindiri, Plateau State,

Girls’ High School, PMB 01001, Gindiri, Plateau State

Email: ishayanandi@gmail.com, isaiahstone@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This paper seeks to expose the inevitability of early reading using the Vygotskian theory of learning and development which states that knowledge is socially constructed. It begins by explaining the concept of language development and it briefly discusses the four basic language skills namely: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Furthermore, the benefits of reading are highlighted as reading comprehension, writing, neurological, educational, psychological, social and linguistic. The paper goes further to expound the various levels at which children can be taught to learn to read early in life. Finally, it suggests the need for children to be exposed to reading early in life which cannot be over emphasized, especially in the 21st century. The paper further recommends among others, that classroom activities should include informal opportunities that would expose the child to literacy growth and to a variety of skills.

Keywords: Early Reading, Language Skills, Language Development, Literacy, Benefits.

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