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Item Exploring Relationship between Social Media Use and Antisocial Behaviour among Tertiary Institution Students: An Investigative Study of Influencing Factors(African Scientific Research and Innovation Council Plot 114 Yakubu Gowon Crescent Asokoro Abuja, Nigeria, 2023-07-21) Oni, T.M; Osu,C.UThis study explored the relationship between social media use, antisocial behaviour and its impact on tertiary institution students. The influencing factors were examined. The prevalent types of antisocial behaviour on social media platforms among students in tertiary institutions, contributory factors to the development of antisocial behaviour, the average hours spent by students on social media per day, as well as the difference between male and female students in their use of social media to facilitate online harassment in tertiary institutions were identified.Item PhysicaI development norms for assessing children in Southern part of Nigeria(Department of Health and Physical Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Nigeria, 2001) Agbanusi, E. C.; Ayeni, S. O.; Adeloye, E. O.; Birabi, N.B.; Emeahara, G.; Oladipo, I. O.This study carried out in Southern part of Nigeria, with the sole aim of developing standards or norms for boys and girls, 5 -I2 years old with particular reference to their physical characteristics of height, weight and body mass index. Two thousand eight hundred and six (2806) school children formed the sample. There were one thousand three hundred and eighty one (1381) boys as against the one thousand four hundred and twenty five (1425) girls randomly selected from the South-South, South-East and South-West zones of Nigeria. For their height, this study recorded mean values of 1.27 - 1.34 meters for ages 10-11 years. The values for the American children of the same age bracket falls between 1.336 - 1.419 meters. The mean weight for boys was 24.75±2.41kg; while that of the girls was 24.96±2.78kg. The American values for age10-11 years, fall between 27.24 to 31.78kg; while ages 11-12 years fall between 31.80 to 36.42kg. The mean for the body mass index was 9.43±0.45 for the boys and 9.46±0.50 for the girls. These would help to form the reference points for Nigeria as at the present.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.
