AN INVESTIGATION ON PARENTAL ROLE IN CURBING EXAMINATION MAL-PRACTICE IN OUR EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM

S.F Popoola

Department of Educational Foundations,

University of Jos, Nigeria.

Email: funsoiye@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Cases of examination misconduct have been on the increase in various institutions of learning across the nation, the consequence of which has put a serious dent on the image of our educational system nationally and internationally, rendering procured certificates invalid while the half-baked products are unsuitable in the expected task. Some measures have been put in place to curtail this menace but all to no avail. This study identifies parents as important stakeholder in the educational system with a major role to play in tackling this ugly trend head-long. The investigator largely employs literature review to examine parental influence on examination malpractice. Parents are challenged to wake up to their responsibility of inculcating the right value in their children at the early stage of life to enable them shun vices in their later lives. In conclusion, the study recommends parental personal development of right values, as role models, closeness to the children as well as development of interest in their educational pursuits among other things in playing their expected roles and curbing examination malpractice in our educational system.

Table of Contents

The Kenyang Syntax: Adjectives

Mbu Martha Njui                                                                                                                       1-16                              

Sociolinguistic Study of Code-Switching Among Yoruba Users of English

Language in South Western Nigeria.

Adetuyi, Chris Ajibade, Owaniyi Rebecca Omolola, Adeniran Adeola Adetomi                     17-41

Copyright Infringement and the Exceptions/Defences there to: A Primer

Olabode Bashir Olakunle                                                                                                        42-70

Digital Library Services and its Challenges in Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria

Elejene, Albert Obiora, Ekuma, James Nkorabon, Akilapa, Babatunde Olaniyi                       71-81

Factors Motivating Rural-Urban Migration and Challenges at the Place of Destination:

A Study of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) in Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria

Baba GanaAlimi & Bintu Kachallah Galadima                                                                      82-106

FACTORS MOTIVATING RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION AND CHALLENGES AT THE PLACE OF DESTINATION: A STUDY OF INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS (IDP’s) IN MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA.

¹Baba Gana Alimi & ²Bintu Kachallah Galadima

¹Department of Social Services, Ramat Polytechnic, Maiduguri, Borno State. Nigeria.

²Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Maiduguri, Borno State. Nigeria.

Email: bgalimi2@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the factors motivating rural-urban migration and challenges facing migrant (IDPs) at the place of their destination. (Dalori IDP Camp and Bakassi IDP Camp, Maiduguri, Borno State). A descriptive and explanatory research design was used during the process of data collection. Interview schedules and participation amongst the internally displaced persons IDPs as migrants was equally used to get sufficient information on what influenced or forced them to flee from the rural areas that is place of their origin to urban area Maiduguri, the state capital as internally displaced persons IDPs. The study also concern with the challenges affecting internally displaced persons IDPs at the Dalori I IDP Camp and Bakassi IDP Camp. A purposive and accidental sampling technique was capitalised to generate the needed information to comprehend the work. This study adopts a sample size of 350 respondents, 200 respondents are from Dalori I IDPs Camp, while 150 respondents are allocated to Bakassi IDP Camp made up of 350 respondents respectively. A statistical method of frequency distribution and percentages were utilized to distinguish the respondents responses. The findings of the study reveals that Boko Haram indiscriminate attacks was the principal factor motivated them to migrant from the place of their origin to Maiduguri for safety and survival. Other findings also indicates that the internally displaced persons IDPs at both camps are facing a myriad of humanitarian challenges, ranging from outbreak of cholera, food shortages, hunger, poverty, rape, prostitutions, risk protection, poor education enrolment, diseases, psychological trauma and insufficient psychosocial supports, lack of pocket money, insufficient tents and shelters, overpopulation, and poor performance of the INGO, SEMA, NEMA and other related humanitarian agencies due to poor coordination and corporation amongst themselves. The researchers came up with several recommendations to improve the lives of the internally displaced persons IDPs taken refuge at various camps in Maiduguri.

DIGITAL LIBRARY SERVICES AND ITS CHALLENGES IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Elejene, Albert Obiora¹, Ekuma, James Nkorabon², Akilapa, Babatunde Olaniyi³ & Ejiga A.I.⁴

^1&4Department of Library and Information Science, Federal Polytechnic Idah, Kogi State

^2&3Department of Computer Science, Federal Polytechnic Idah, Kogi State

Email: Elejenealbert@Yahoo.Com, Ekuma_Ejn@Yahoo.Com, tundearmstrong@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Revolution in today’s digital computing world has not only impacted computing industry, but also library services and entrepreneurship education. Even though entrepreneurship is a relatively new paradigm in management science, Education and Technology, it has attracted increasing interest among scholars. It prepares and builds individuals to be responsible and enterprising individuals capable of deep entrepreneurial thinking that contribute to economic development. Nigeria especially in the face of the global economic and energy crisis requires graduates who will be job “creators” and not job “seekers”. The rapid globalization of world markets and economies has encouraged entrepreneurial organizations of all sizes and national origins to foster entrepreneurship throughout their operations. This paper examined the concepts of digital library services in the development of entrepreneurship education in Nigeria. The benefits of digital library services in the development of entrepreneurship education are equally addressed. Also it discusses challenges of the digital library services to Entrepreneurship development in education. The paper finally made recommendations that will enhance a full blown impact in Digital Library Services.

Keywords Digital, Library, Services, Challenges, Entrepreneurship, Education:

The KENYANG SYNTAX: ADJECTIVES

Mbu Martha Njui                                          

Department of Linguistics & African Literature

University of Douala, Cameron

Email: mbumatha80@yahoo.Fr

ABSTRACT

One of the most important components of a sentence is the adjective. This part of speech is so common that people use it almost automatically, both in speech and in writing.   An adjective is a part of speech which describes, identifiers, or qualifies a noun or a pronoun. So basically, the function of an adjective is to modify a noun or a pronoun so that it will become more specific and interesting. The term “adjective”, as applied to Kenyang and most Bantu languages, usually applies only to a rather restricted set of words. However, in the wider sense, it can refer to any word that modifies a noun. The wider sense is used here. Kenyang adjectives have invariable forms, that is, they do not take concord markers, but instead, they remain constant regardless of the class of the noun they modify. All adjectives have one thing in common: they all follow the noun they modify, and require some kind of prefix whose class matches the preceding noun.   This paper describes the uses, types, and functions of adjectives as used in Kenyang, a Bantu Language spoken in the South West Region of Cameroon. The structural approach is adopted in the data presentation to highlight some of the cross –linguistic universals on the use of adjectives in order to properly characterized this linguistic feature in Kenyang

Keywords: Adjectives, Pure Adjectives, Categorical Function, Numeral Adjectives.     

SOCIOLINGUISTIC STUDY OF CODE-SWITCHING AMONG YORUBA USERS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN SOUTH WESTERN NIGERIA.

Adetuyi, Chris Ajibade¹, Owaniyi Rebecca Omolola², Adeniran Adeola Adetomi³

^1&3Department of English and Literary Studies, Lead City University, Ibadan.

²Department of English Education, Lead City University, Ibadan.

Email: dradetuyi2016@gmail.com, beckyowaniyi@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Code Switching is a widespread phenomena in bilingual communities like Nigeria, where the speakers use their first language L1 (native language) and their acquired language called the second language (L2) in different settings. This paper therefore examines the sociolinguistic study of code-switching among users of English language as a second language in south western Nigeria. This paper also examines various reasons for code switching; which may be to compensate for deficiency in the other language, or to exclude a person from conversations and to show identity that the audience have a shared knowledge of the two languages. Data elicitation research method with the application of random sampling technique in recording the conversations of some Yoruba users of English Language sampled is adopted. The paper however, recommends that, the indigenous language should be developed, modernized and standardized so as to widen their cognitive frames.  Also that code switching should be seen and treated as rich and a veritable communicative tool because of its role in the process of communication.

Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Code Switching, Diaglossia, Language, Code Mixing, Bilingualism.

COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT AND THE EXCEPTIONS/DEFENCES THERE TO: A PRIMER

Olabode Bashir Olakunle

Faculty of Law

University of Ibadan, Ibadan

Email: olabodebasheer77@gmail.com