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Institutional Agencies Role on Community Development in Nigeria.
(Published by Institute of Community Development Practitioners (ICDP), Bayero University, Kano., 2018) Mr. Sholagberu A.O.; Mr. Kayode S.T.; Mrs. Najeem A.H.
The paper examines community development in Nigeria with emphasis on the institutions, agencies, policies and strategies employed to bring about the much-needed community development in the country. In the attempt to do this, clarification of concepts like development, community, and community development was carried out, which formed the theoretical basis of the analysis, It was found out that efforts made by the Nigerian government though several strategies like the nation 's development plans from independent 1o date which were ex-rayed did not bring about meaningful development. Similarly. international organizations and regional strategies have not led to any significant improvement in the living conditions of the community dwellers and community development in general. The paper therefore concludes among other things that for rapid and sustained community development to take place, the lopsided and urban based development process must be reversed to community based and bottom-up approach, government to continue to create conducive environment for community development to thrive, change of attitudes and orientation by all and sundry, particularly the leadership class in Nigeria in order to minimize corruption and mismanagement of resources.
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Beneficiaries and Non-Beneficiaries Perceived Causes of Poverty and the Progress of Poverty Alleviation Programme in Ilorin Metropolis.
(Published by Institute Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2011) ABDULSALAM, Oladimeji Sholagberu; KAYODE, Sadiq Toyin
The study investigates causes of poverty as perceived by the beneficiaries and non- beneficiaries of poverty alleviation programme in Ilorin metropolis. The concept of poverty and its causes was discussed extensively. Two research questions were raised and answered. Descriptive survey was used in the study. Three hundred and seventy-five (375) beneficiaries and three hundred and eighty (380) non-beneficiaries of the poverty alleviation programme constituted sample for the study. The data generated from the study was subjected to statistical analysis of frequency count and percentage as well as mean score. Any figure above means score of 2.5 was considered acceptable decision while below 2.5 was considered as rejected decision on the causes of poverty. Result of the findings revealed that inadequate access to financial assistance, inadequate access to vocational skills, illiteracy and lack of people's participation in development programme were found to be the causes of poverty in Ilorin metropolis. It was recommended among other that adult literacy programme should be included in future poverty alleviation programme, and the government should wage anti-corruption crusade on the officials of the programme was well as creation of awareness campaign for the people.
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Re-Positioning Adult Education Programmes For Sustainable Livelihood In Ilorin Metropolis of Kwara State, Nigeria
(Published by Faculty of Education, Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Nigeria., 2020) SHOLAGBERU, Abdulsalam Oladimeji; KAYODE, Sadiq Toyin; Dr. TAIWO, Toyin Ambali
Educating adult individual in any society is considered as a vital move towards liberating such individual adult. Thus, adult education programmes need to be readdressed to cater for individual adult needs in terms of economic, welfare and social development. Based on this premise, this paper explored the need to re-positioning adult education programmes for sustainable livelihood status of people in Ilorin Metropolis. Survey research design was adopted for the study and sample of 90 adult learners were randomly selected across three adult literacy centers in llorin metropolis. The study made use of a structured questionnaire to elicit relevance data from the respondents. Data collected were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. Findings revealed that there was a significant relationship between adult education programme and reducing poverty level of adult individual. Also, there was a significant relationship between adult education programme, economic benefits and attitudinal changes of individual adults in the society. Based on the findings, i! was recommended, among others, that reliable and available data must be provided for proper planning and implementation of adult education programme. Society must ascribe value and prestige to this system of learning and appreciate it as needed for lifelong Education. Also, relevant and appropriate leaching and learning materials must be provided to adult literacy centres and adult facilitators/instructors must be adequately motivated.
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Relevance and Uses of Information and Communication Technology Among Selected Adult Market Women in Ilorin West LGA of Kwara State
(Published by Nigerian National Council for Adult Education, 2019) MR SHOLAGBERU A.O.; MR KAYODE S.T.; MRS. HASSAN AMINAT NAJMUDEEN
This paper evaluated the relevance and uses of ICT (Information and Communications Technology) among market women in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State. The objectives were to unravel the extent of ICT literacy among women, to evaluate the relevance of ICT among selected market women, and to examine the extent to which ICT is use by women to empower themselves through sustainable poverty reduction. A total of 120 market women participated in the study it was revealed from the finding that ICTs offer a wide range of information and knowledge, which are critical components of poverty alleviation strategies, ICT are viewed as near-magic solution to problems which proved useful as it provides information on prices, markets, technology and potential entrepreneurship skills. It was concluded that women entrepreneurs' use of ICT infrastructure and systems in Ilorin West Local Government Area of Kwara State is limited and even the ones in use are not widely explored and chanelled for business development. It was recommended among others that there is a need to establish women's clubs and the existing ones strengthen in communication skills and ICTs just as in the case of a group (Self Employed Women's Association) in India in where the rural women were trained in the production and use of video to generate income, disseminate new skills and to advocate for changes in policy, thus ICTs will not only empower the gender but sustain poverty alleviation programmes which in time past have failed in Nigeria through provision of new and enhanced opportunities for participation in the process of self-determination, economic, social, educational and cultural advancement and employment beyond the scope of traditional institutions and any forms of governance.
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Adult literacy programmes: Tools for Rural Women Empowerment in Nigeria
(Published by Department of Adult and Primary Education, University of Ilorin, 2017) Murtala Akanbi YUSUF; Abdulsalam Oladimeji SHOLAGBERU
Literary education has been identified as an important tool for meaningful development. A meaningful development can only take place where men and women are active participants. It appears that Nigerian women have been constrained by lack of literacy to play their role in the development of their communities. To really bring them to the lime-light, their empowerment is important. This paper therefore submits that rural women can be empowered if different adult literacy programmes such as basic literacy, post literacy, civic literacy, functional literacy and family literacy are made available to them. The paper recommends among other things that government at all levels should show more commitment to adult and non-formal education programmes through friendly legislation and proper finding to make adult literacy programmes available to rural women empowerment in Nigeria.