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    Education and youth re-orientation: a panacea for lasting peace in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region
    (Serials Publications, New Delhi, India, 2009-06) Isah, E. A.; Babayemi, B. A.
    The Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been a hot bed of political and economic agitations in the last 10 years. Though the agitations which began in 1966 by late Major Adaka Boro has in the last decade assumed wider significant dimensions which threatens the peaceful coexistence of the One hundred and fifty million Nigerian that live in the entity called Nigeria. The causes of agitation is traceable to the availability of rich oil and gas deposits in the Niger Delta region accounting for almost 90% of Nigeria’s gross total foreign exchange earnings in the last four decades. Despite the abundance of these resources, the region has felt marginalized and requested for a fair share of the nations resources. The military with its totalitarian nature in previous Nigerian governments have often scuttled every attempt for legitimate agitation. The advent of Democracy in Nigeria in 1999 resurfaced the struggle for resource control in the region. This paper reviews the cause of the Niger Delta struggle seen as political marginalization, social deprivation and economic exploitation in a federating environment. Solutions featuring political solutions, economic evolution and social regeneration of the region have been recommended. Useful suggestions to educational planners have been provided.
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    Managing schools in periods of global economic meltdown
    (2009-06) Fabunmi, M.; Isah, E. A.
    This study involves an analysis of the possible impact of the current global economic meltdown on the management of schools. Economic meltdown is used to refer to economic recession; and school management is used in this paper in two senses. It is used to refer to the group of elites that administer a school; and also to refer to the use of available resources in a school through team efforts to achieve the educational objectives of the school. The immediate effect of economic meltdown on organisations is the inability to maintain the current productive capacity owing to inadequate fund. This explains why companies are either reducing their sizes or closing down. It raises the possible implication of governments’ control measures, such as the cutting down of expenditure which may likely affect educational expenditure. Definitely this will be having an adverse effect on the school system as statutory allocations to schools may cease or be reduced. The school system may also close down if it gets to the extreme, hence the need to begin strategizing against such unpleasant situations. The school management needs to look for alternative systems of funding and guide against financial impropriety. Otherwise, the school system will collapse.
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    Effectiveness of computer-based instructional technologies in an African university: policy implications for university education in Nigeria
    (Department of Adult Education, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, 2008-06) Fabunmi, M.; Ayene-Neku, A.; Isah, E. A.; Fabunmi, S. O.
    In Nigeria, university authorities appear not to lay adequate emphasis on the application of computer information technologies to teaching. The needed equipment is not often available. Most lecturers do not have the needed computer skills. This study, therefore, investigated the extent to which computer-based instructional technologies could enhance teaching and learning effectiveness with a view to making recommendations to policy makers and university authorities in the country on the need to provide and use Computer-Based Instructional Technologies (CBIT) to teach in at universities. The study adopted survey research design and used the multi-stage sampling procedure to select six out of thirteen faculties and 300 out of 1,156 lecturers at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. A questionnaire was developed for data collection. The multiple regressions were used to analyze data, using a 0.05 level of significance. Result revealed that the application of Computer-Based Instructional Technologies to teaching contributed significantly to teaching effectiveness.
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    Attaining sustainable development through poverty alleviation, higher education management and business environment strategies in Nigeria
    (Nigeria Association for Educational Administration and Planning, Ibadan, 2008) Isah, E. A.; Erwat, E. A.; Fabunmi, M.
    Sustainable development is an all inclusive concept which is a function of several factors. Factors that assist sustainable development is higher productivity that increases economic growth rapidly. Where sustainable development is on going, the standard of living in such countries is very high hence most countries desire it. Certain factors aid sustainable development, these include education which provides the necessary skills to increase productivity, poverty alleviation as a factor will empower the people towards increasing the national capital stock, and a good business environment will determine the level of investment in such an economy. This study investigated the concepts of poverty alleviation, higher education management and business environment. It gave the conceptual definitions of the three variables and highlighted indices of under development that showed high population, low productivity, mono export economy and economies dependent on primary production. The tripartite issues in higher education of funding, autonomy and access to education were also discussed. Policy options and solutions were provided at the end of the study.