Category: Vol.2/No.5/2020

AUGUSTINE AYOM GWAZA
Department of General Studies Education,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala.
E-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

This study looks at the effects of school location on the academic performance of students in essay writing in senior secondary schools in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area of Benue State. One research question and hypothesis guided the study. The study adopted the Ex-post-facto research design. The population of the study consisted of 2000 senior secondary II students. A sample of 200 students was drawn from four sampled schools. Stratified random sampling was used to select two schools each from urban and rural areas while simple random sampling was used to select one contact class of SSII student to form participants in each of the four sampled schools. Data were collected using writing performance test. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research question while t-test was used to test the hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that students in urban schools outperformed their counterparts in rural schools in writing (0.00<0.05). Based on the findings, it was recommended that experienced and qualified teachers should be posted to schools in rural areas to boost the teaching of writing skills. Students should be motivated towards effective writing by giving them regular assessmentpractice, marking and returning same to students with encouraging comments; government should provide social amenities in the rural areas to attract teachers posted to such areas as well asteaching/learning materials, to ease the teaching/learning of writing skills.

Keywords: School location, writing, performance.

JOHN INYONGUN IVARAVE
Department of Business Education,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala.
E-mail:  [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The main objective of this study is to theoretically investigate how taxation and other sources of revenues can be used to sustain Nigeria’s economic recession recovery. The paper, made use of primary source of information to review the followings; the concept of taxation, types of taxes, tax administration, problems of tax administration, problems associated with an economy under recession and how taxation and other sources of revenues can be a panacea to sustenance of Nigeria’s recovery from recession among other issues. The paper concluded that, aggressive enlightenment of citizens on why they should pay tax, encouraging and promotion of agriculture, investment in the solid mineral industries among others can be used to sustain the Nation economic recovery from recession. The paper recommends that, Jingles, fliers and posters should be made in the major Nigerian languages encouraging them to pay tax, Government should set up cottage industries to process perishable agricultural products like oranges, mangoes, tomatoes for exports amongst others.

Keywords: Taxation, Sustenance, Economy, Recession, Recovery

STEPHEN AONDONGU NYON

Department of Tiv Language Studies

College of Education,

Katsina-Ala, Benue State, Nigeria

Email: [email protected]

STEPHEN VERSHIMA HONGOR

Department of Hausa Language,

College of Education,

Katsina-Ala, Benue State, Nigeria

MICHAEL TSAVBEEH KPAGH

Department of French,

College of Education,

Katsina-Ala, Benue State, Nigeria

Email: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Languages in contact have always left effects on one another; more especially however, is the telling effects such contacts have on the minority or local languages. Globalization has made such a contact between an international language and the so called indigenous language(s) ever more telling; with disastrous consequences on the minority/indigenous languages. Today, we live with the devastating experience of language endangerment and extinction. This paper shows how translation could prove invaluable in gingering interest in, and checking the threats minority languages have come under in our globalized community. The paper points out how the Tiv language is on the path of being revived with the ongoing translation by the Watch Tower Society of Pennsylvania, of Bible-based literature into the language.

Keywords: Tiv, Translation, Language endangerment, Language extinction, Minority language, Language Preservation

BENJAMIN TERDOO DOGGOH
Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
College of Education,
Katsina-Ala, Benue State
E-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Nigeria the most populous country in Africa has a myriad of opportunities for economic development ranging from agriculture to national resources. Ironically, the country is ranked among the poorest in the world despite the large volumes of crude oil she exports daily. Besides, the country is bedeviled with youth restiveness, high poverty and unemployment rates in recent years. Entrepreneurship education has been introduced into the country’s educational system at all levels in a bid to curb the above mishaps and to encourage graduates at all levels to take advantage of the available opportunities and not only become self-employed but also become employers of labour thereby reducing poverty, unemployment, youth restiveness and meaningfully contribute to national economic development. The implementation of entrepreneurship education curriculum in the country is however confronted with bottlenecks like shortage of teachers, inadequate teaching materials/infrastructure, wage-earner mentality, population explosion and ignorance of school administrators among other things. This paper discusses the concepts, the nexus, the need for effective implementation of entrepreneurship education curriculum, the challenges and suggests the way forward.

JOHN INYONGUN IVARAVE
Department of Business Education,
College of Education,
Katsina-Ala, Benue State.

E-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The study sought to establish the relationship between corporate social responsibility(CSR) practice and financial performance of firms listed on the stock market in the cement manufacturing sub sector in Nigeria. Secondary data was obtained from the audited financial reports of the companies for the period 2014 to 2018. Corporate social responsibility score was obtained using content analysis of reports of the companies on various components of corporate social responsibility as reported in their audited financial reports. A multiple regression model was established to determine the relationship between the two variables. Control variables of manufacturing efficiency and capital intensity were also introduced in the regression model. The results indicated the existence of a positive and significant relationship between the independent variables (corporate social responsibility score, manufacturing efficiency and capital intensity) used in the model and the dependent variable firm performance (return on assets). Based on the finding, the study recommended among others that,CSR should now be considered as an investment not as expenditure therefore companies should invest in performing CSR because if firms do so they will get more financial benefits than what is invested in CSR and companies should not only invest on CSR but also disclose its spending on CSR to all stakeholders about, how, where and what amount they have invested in CSR.

Keywords: Corporate social responsibility; Financial performance; Manufacturing, Efficiency, Capital Intensity.

GRACE C. CHIJIOKE-NWOSU

Alvan Ikoku
Federal College of Education,
Owerri, Imo State.
E-mail: [email protected]

Résumé

Toute langue est destinée avant tout, à être parlée. Il y a pourtant, durant des années, un manque d’intérêt et l’incapacité de la majorité de nos étudiants dans les institutionstertiaires de bien s’exprimer en français, même après leurs bains linguistiques à l’étranger ou au Village Français de Badagry. Ce phénomène reste une énigme aux enseignants et aux concepteurs de la langue française. En réponse à cette situation, nous sommes de l’avis que le professeur ainsi que sa méthode etsa passion prouvées pour l’enseignement beaucoup compter. Ce travail modeste propose une nouvelle démarche pragmatique que nous espérons va rehausser les techniques de l’Expression Orale et de ce fait, susciter l’intérêt chez l’apprenant.

STEPHEN AONDONGU NYON
Department of Tiv Language Studies,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala, Benue State, Nigeria.
E-mail: [email protected]

DOROTHY MEDONDO UNOM
Department of French,
College of Education, Katsina –Ala, Benue State, Nigeria.
E-mail: [email protected]

STEPHEN VERSHIMA HONGOR
Department of Hausa Language,
College of Education, Katsina –Ala, Benue State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT

Nigeria is blessed with vast arable land, a vibrant manpower and a fairly good climate to engage productively in agriculture. Indeed, before the mid 1970s, agriculture was the mainstay of the nation’s economy. Sadly, today, agriculture is relegated to the background in Nigeria. For this wrong judgement, the country is paying heavily. Lately, there have been calls, both by the government, corporate bodies and even well meaning individuals, for a return to agriculture to get Nigeria back on her feet. The thrust of this paper is to show how the effective use of indigenous languages deployed in areas such as: education, (re)orientation, instruction, provision of guidelines and general information dissemination among others, could greatly boost agriculture in the country. In particular, this paper argues that providing Tiv farmers with needed awareness, help, instruction, (re)orientation, guidelines and such other agricultural extension services in the native language, (Tiv), would go a long way to enhancing agricultural growth not only in Benue State, but in the North-Central Nigeria as a whole.

Keywords: Modern agriculture, indigenous languages, Tiv, sustainable development, re-orientation

JOSEPH OGAR UKASHIA
Department of Early Childhood Care Education,
Federal College of Education,
Obudu, Cross River State.
E-mail: [email protected]

DENNIS UDAMA
Department of Business Education,
Federal College of Education,
Obudu, Cross River State.

ABSTRACT

Learning materials of various types at home enhance teaching and learning. This study therefore, explains the influence of learning materials at home on academic performance of children in early childhood care education. Learning materials at home considered in this study include audio, audio visual and visual. It is shown that all the materials listed above significantly influence the academic performance of children in early childhood care education. Recommendations were made among these that parents should provide learning material in their homes to enhance effective academic performance. With the provision of listed materials at home by parents, children will learn and retain what they learn fasted.

Keywords: Early childhood, visual, audio visual, audio, learning materials