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Item Causes of Drugs Abuse as Expressed by Secondary School Students in Moro Local Government Area, Kwara State.(Human Resource Research Centre (HRRC) of the University of Zimbabwe, 2019) Ologele, I.; Abdulraheem, A.M.; Jidda, K.A.; Kperogi, I.I.; James, J.F.; Oyewole, S. BAbstract Increase in a number of young people abusing drugs has become a subject of public concern worldwide. Therefore, the study investigated the causes of drug abuse as expressed by secondary school students in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprises of all the secondary school students in Moro Local Government Area. The descriptive research design of survey type was adopted for the study. Four hundred and thirty (430) respondents were selected for the study with the use of purposive, proportionate and simple random sampling procedures. Researchers’ designed questionnaire that had been validated by three experts in the related field was used for the study. A test-retest method was used to ascertain the reliability of the instrument and the result of 0.72r was obtained. Inferential statistics of chi-square was used to analyze the result of the stated hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The result of the findings of this study showed that peer group and poor parental communication had an influence on the causes of drug abuse (428.01> 16.92 at 0.05 alpha level of significant, 234.00>16.92) among secondary school students. The researchers concluded that peer group influence and poor parental communication causes drug abuse among secondary school students in Moro Local Government Area, Kwara State, Nigeria. The researchers’ recommended among others that Parents should show love, happiness and also take responsibility for helping secondary students to attain wholesome development into responsible adults. Keywords: Causes, Drug Abuse, Students, Secondary School, ExpressedItem Problems Associated with Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy among HIV/AIDS Patients in Ilorin, Kwara State Referral Hospitals, Nigeria.(Faculty of Education, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, 2017) Kperogi, I.I.; Aliyu, I.A.; Jidda, K.A.; Oniyangi, S.O.Item Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing the Choice of Family Planning Method among Married Couple in Ife-Central LGA, Osun State(Institute of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2018) Jamiu, A.T.; Jidda, K.A.; Abdulrasaq, Q.O.; James, J.F.This study investigated the sociocultural factors influencing the choice of family planning method among married couple in Ife Central Local Government Area of Osun State. The purpose of this study was to examine if factors level of education, ethnicity and cost of contraceptives influence choice of family planning methods. The population of the study comprised of all couples in lle Central Local Government Area of Osun State. Multi stage sampling technique was used to sele 160 respondents. A researcher-designed structure questionnaire was used for data collection. A reliability co-efficient (r) of 0.81 was obtained through test retest method using Spearman-Brown Correlation. Data collection was conducted. Inferential statisties of Chi-square was used to tes the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The hypotheses findings revealed that: Level of education. Ethnicity and Cost of contraceptive influences the choice of family planning method among married couple with all the calculated value greater than table value at 0.05 alpha level. The study concluded that level of education, ethnicity and cost of contraceptive are sociocultural factos influencing the choice of family planning method among married couple Therefore, it was recommended that married couple should seck more knowledge about family planning as it will help them to plan for their future, ethnicity should not be a problem of planning and seek for cheaper cost of contraceptives.