Category: Vol.2/No.5/2020

TERHEMEN ORAGANDE
Department of Computer Science Education,
College of Education Katsina-Ala, Benue state, Nigeria.
Email: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

This research surveyed computer skills among graduating Computer Science Education (CSE) students in Colleges of Education in Benue state. The study was guided by four research questions. A survey design was used for the study. The population consisted of 235 graduating CSE students from the three Colleges of Education in Benue state that offer the CSE programme. A random sampling technique was used in drawing a sample of 150 respondents from the Population. An instrument titled computer skills possessed by graduating CSE students in Colleges of Education in Benue state was administered on the respondents. Data collected were analysed using simple percentages. The findings showed that most graduating CSE students did not possess computer skills while a few did. The findings further showed that out of the few that possessed computer skills a larger percentage (73.08%) possessed fundamental computer skills, a smaller percentage (23.04%) possessed basic computer skills while a very small percentage (3.85%) possessed intermediate computer skills. Two reasons were responsible for lack of computer skills among graduating CSE students in Colleges of Education in Benue state these are lack of sufficient equipment in computer laboratories and lack of exposure to practical lessons. The researcher recommended that all graduating students of CSE programme be made to acquire computer skills before they are allowed to graduate. He also advised the affected institutions to liaise with TETFund and proprietors to equip their computer laboratory for training of CSE students. The NCCE was also urged to ensure strict compliance with its minimum standards during accreditation of the CSE programme.

Keywords: Computer Education, Computer literacy, Computer skills, Graduating

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

ABSTRACT

This study compared literature and non-literature students’ performance in English Language in secondary schools in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area, Benue State. Two research questions and hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted the Ex-post-facto research design. The population consisted of 20,041 senior secondary II students. A sample of 200 students was drawn from four sampled schools using multistage sampling techniques: stratified random sampling was used to select two schools both from urban and rural areas, while simple random sampling was used to select one contact class of SS II students as participants in each of the four sampled schools. Data were collected using Reading Comprehension and Grammar Performance Test. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer research questions, while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings showed that literature students performed better than non-literature students in reading comprehension (0.02 < 0.05)and grammar (0.00 < 0.05). Based on the findings, it was recommended that senior secondary classes should read literary texts to broaden their knowledge, include Literature-in-English in their list of selected subjects. Parents should provide literary texts for their children. School administrators should organize inter-class and inter-school quiz competitions on literary texts.

Keywords: Reading comprehension, grammar, literature students, non-literature students.

SEBASTIAN ORAFAGA BII

Department of Economics,
College of Education, Katsina-Ala, Benue State.
E-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The central role played by the GATT/WTO in shaping post war trade policy is widely accepted. International trade has provided benefits to domestic producers and consumers. This work maintains that the conventional international trade theory based on the principle of comparative advantage is irrelevant for developing countries and the current trading system hinders economic development in the developing nations. The increasing participation of developing countries in the GATT/WTO trading system and the pragmatic support provided them assist these developing countries to both expand and diversify their trade. This work has identified formidable impediments to the complete attainment of these optimal benefits and concludes however that the fuller integration of the developing countries is critical to ensure the future health and sustained growth of the world economy and the trading system.

Keywords: Trade, Tariffs, free trade, reciprocity, non discrimination, countervailing, dumping, barriers.

TERHEMEN ORAGANDE

Department of Computer Science Education,
College of Education Katsina-Ala, Benue State.
Email: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impediments to implementation of the Computer science education (CSE) programme in Colleges of Education in Benue state. Six research questions guided the study. A survey research design was employed for the study. The population consisted of all the 23lecturers from the three Colleges of Education in the state. A random sample of 18respondents was drawn from the population. An instrument entitled impediments to implementation of computer science education (CSE) programme in Colleges of Education in Benue state was administered on the respondents while data collected were analysed using simple percentages. The results indicated that lack of well-equipped computer laboratories, lack of sufficient academic staff, lack of laboratory technologists, lack of laboratory instructors and lack of suitable standby generators constitute the impediments to implementation of the CSE programme in the state’s Colleges of Education. The researcher suggested the urgent recruitment of all the needed academic staff, laboratory technologists, and laboratory instructors as ways of changing the scenario to guarantee the effective implementation of this programme in Colleges of Education in Benue state. The researcher also urged the affected institutions to liaise with Tertiary Education trust fund (TETFund) to equip their computer laboratories as well as provide suitable standby generators for effective implementation of this programme in their institutions.

Keywords: Computer Science Education, Impediments, Implementation

H.A. ADEKOLA, H.O. EGBERONGBE, F.M. OYEYIPO, J.M. ADEYEMI
Department of Microbiology,
Olabisi Onabanjo University, P.M.B. 2002,
Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria.
corresponding author: [email protected]

ABSTRACT
Automated teller machine (ATM) cards which are used for an alternative access to banking functions can serve as a potential source of infectious diseases. In this study fifty (50) ATM cards of students in Olabisi Onabanjo University was sampled for presence of enteric bacteria. Swab sticks soaked with normal sterile saline were used and cultured on Eosine Methylene Blue (EMB) Agar, MacConkey Agar (MAC) and Salmonella Shigella Agar (SSA) using standard microbiological procedures. Identification of Enteric microorganisms was done using colonial, microscopic and biochemical characteristics. The results revealedthe presence of organisms belonging to the Enterobacteriaceae family such as Klebsiella spp (33.3%), Escherichia spp (23.3%), Enterobacter spp (23.3%), Salmonella spp (13.3%), Shigella spp (3.4%) and Pseudomonas spp (3.4%). We concluded that ATM cards could play a significant role in the transmission of infectious diseases caused by enteric organism.