FACTORS MILITATING AGAINST TEACHING AND LEARNING OF LITERATURE-IN-ENGLISH IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS, IN YOLA METROPOLIS, ADAMAWA STATE

AHMED SAIDU GATUGEL

Department of General Studies

School of General Education

Federal college of Education, Yola

ABSTRACT

This study examinedvarious factors militating against teaching and learning of literature-in-English in senior secondary schools, in Yola metropolis, Adamawa state. The study was based on survey research design. The study purposively sampled all 137 literature teaches across the 27 secondary schools in Yola metropolis.The study used structured questionnaire for data collection. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics such as percentage and mean. The study found that students’ factors (interest, discipline, punctuality, interpersonalrelationship, and peer peruse) affect teaching and learning. Also, teacher’s factors (interest, qualification, experiences, competency and choice of teaching method) affect teaching and learning of literature in English. Also school factors such as location, conduciveness of classroom, time allocation and learningfacilities, all determine how efficient a teaching learning of literature in English could be at particular school. The parent interest and socio-economic activities determine the effective teaching and learning of literature in English at schools. The study recommended that teachers should be trained through workshop and seminar, while school are reposition for effective teaching and learningand parent and students are being carry along.

Keyword: Teaching, Learning, Literature in English,

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: MEANING, PILLARS, AND COVID- 19 PANDEMIC IN AFRICA: THE SOCIO-PHILOSOPHICAL WAY FORWARD

PHILLIPS OLUBIYI

Department of General Studies

Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Nigeria

E-mail:olubiyi.philips@federalpolyilaro.edu.ng

ABSTRACT

The term sustainable development is a well-used one and is probably familiar to many within and beyond academia, certainly in the more developed parts of the world. It is a term that we come across in arenas ranging from door-step recycling initiatives to media explanations of global security issues. Within human geography, it interrogates research extending from social exclusion within cities of the United Kingdom to outcomes of environmental transformations in rural Africa. Indeed, some consider that there is none so relevant a discipline as geography to contribute to the sustainable development debates given its ability to marry the science of the environment with an understanding of economic, political, and cultural change, that is, development. This paper argues that the pursuit of sustainable development is now stated as a principal policy goal of organizations and institutions across all scales of public life and the field of academic and practical enquiry around sustainable development is a diverse and expanding one. In addition the paper recommends that decision-makers need to be constantly mindful of the relationships, complementarities, and trade-offs among these pillars and ensure responsible human behaviour and actions at the international, national, community and individual levels in order to uphold and promote the tenets of this paradigm in the interest of human development. More needs to be done by the key players particularly the United Nations (UN), governments, private sector, and civil society organizations in terms of policies, education and regulation on social, economic and environmental resource management to ensure that everyone is sustainable development aware, conscious, cultured and compliant.

KEYWORDS:Sustainable development, economic and social stability, Covid 19 implications on sustainable development in Africa.

ORIGINS, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS OF THE PEOPLE OF ÀGBÒYÍ, LAGOS, NIGERIA

Odeyemi Oluwole Jacob & Ajuwon Oluwatobiloba Morenike

Department of History and International Studies

Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo, Oyo State

Email: odeyemioluwole6@gmail.com, tobzy1618@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

This is a historical research into the origins, customs and traditions of Àgbòyí town, an island settlement situated in Kosofe Local Government Area of Lagos state, Nigeria. It is an in-depth study of its origin; its socio-economic and political organisation; and the customary traditions and way of life of its people. Àgbòyí people are predominantly of the Àwórì sub-group of Yoruba. Indigenous religions and festivals are till this day in popular practice among the people who had vowed never to jettison the traditional heritage of theirancestors. Such ancient religionsand festivals include Ògún, Orò, Yemoja, Egúngún, Gèlèdé, Awo Opa (Opa Cult) and the Òsúgbó/Ògbóni Cult). Àgbòyí could be aptly thus be described as an oasis of customs and traditions within the modern metropolitan Lagos. The study observed that the economic activities of the people aredominated by fishing (typical of the natives of riverine settlements) though a number of other traditional crafts also existed. Àgbòyí people enjoy good relations and inter-marriages with their neighbours, and this significantly boosted peace, trade and commerce. The ambience of the water bodies and the peaceful attitude of the people make trading easy, interesting and rewarding for all and sundry, hence, Àgbòyí is also dubbed Ìlú Ajé (town of prosperity). However, the study uncovered that two distinct families,Ògúnloye and Òdòyí have been contending for the soul of Àgbòyí as its first settler and owner. At the time of this research, it remains a matter for litigation awaiting adjudication atthe courts. This paper could however be described as an abridged report of the general findings.

UNFOLDING THE POTENTIALITY OF VIOLENCE: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL ENQUIRY

Agama Christian Sunday

Directorate of General Studies

Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria

Email: christianagama@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The constitutive ambiguities and paradoxical consequences that violent experiences impose on our attempt to understand violence and cope with violence proclaim that it has not been a bed of roses for man. His rare moments of peace and tranquillity have often been shattered by deadly strokes of violence. In order to approach an integrative potentiality of violence, this paper deems it necessary to first investigate phenomenologically the meaning and conceptions of violence as a point of departure. It will concentrate on recovering the subjective motives for violent actions and on understanding the perpetrator’s deviant point of view. It seeks further to investigate and question the justification therein the potentiality or rather the psychological insight into the causes of violence. The possibility of capturing other’s experience to oneself via phenomenological context shall be critically verified. Finally, the conclusion will be drawn by proffering some solutions to the problem in question.

Keywords:  Violence, Phenomenology, Rationality, Understanding, Potentiality