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Item Performance fitness level of football referees in Nigeria(2003) Nwankwo, E. I.; Oladipo, D.A sample of 200 top male football referees participate in the study to determine the performance fitness level of football referees in Nigeria. The design for the study is ex-post facto research design. The participants are tested on speed, leg power and agility. The means, range, standard deviation, percentile rank of the scores of the tests are used to describe the data while the inferential statistics used is the students' t-test analysis to establish the significant differences between the subjects' determined values in the tested parameters and that of FIFA standards and Margaret, Safrit and Wood (1995) age and gender based average norm. The results show that the participants possess significantly superior speed, lower leg power and similar agility levels when compared with the stated norms. It is recommended that NFA/NRA should ensure that the referee's training include conditioning programmes that will develop their performance fitness levels.Item Developing a norm for screening athletes during competitions: Nigerian Secondary Schools Sports Federation experience(2001) Oladipo, D.In an attempt to find solution to cheating which characterizes age-declaration at many age-group competitions, various methods including chronological age and physiological age (skeletal age) have been adopted to ascertain what is called “truly” “under-18” for secondary school sports competition. But rather than solving the problem, these methods seem to have created more problems. This study then ventured into another method which pull together the use of the above two stated method into one. The method called exponent system was tested and eventually adopted successfully during the 1998, All Nigeria Secondary School Sports Federation Competition held in Abuja.Item Enhancing students' physical fitness through physical and health education teaching(Stirling-Horden Publishers (Nig,) Ltd., Ibadan., 1997) Oladipo, D.This paper critically examines the ways by which students' physical fitness can be enhanced through the teaching of physical and health Education. A student of physical and health Education should be physically fit if the objectives of the subject were to be met. The paper emphasizes that there is need to develop both the health related physical fitness components and performance-related physical fitness components of students through chalkboard classroom teaching practical teaching of various games and sports and during training for school sports. The benefit of physical fitness is not limited to an individual but it is also an index to any Country's National posture. The vigour of any Country is no stronger than the vitality and will of her Country men.