Browsing by Author "Jimoh, Saidu Bolakale"

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    Agricultural Education as Catalyst for Activating Programmes, Acts and Policies for Enhancing Food Security in Nigeria
    (Faculty of Education and Extension Services, Usmanu Dan-fodiyo University, Sokoto, Sokoto State, 2020-02) Afolabi, Kayode Ojo; Adesanya, Emmanuel Olorunleke; Shuaib, Suleiman Bature; Jimoh, Saidu Bolakale
    A significant proportion of the world’s population is undernourished with about 26.8% of the population in sub-Saharan Africa suffering from chronic malnutrition. The issue of food security has been one of the major concerns of the twenty-first century. The paper adopted the literature review approach to examine the contribution of agricultural education to food security in Nigeria as well as the present and past government efforts at addressing food security. The paper also examines the agricultural policies of past and present governments of Nigeria to address the issue of food insecurity. Some of the policies acts and programmes include National Accelerated Food Production Programme (NAFPP), Agricultural Development Projects (ADP) and National Home-Grown School Feeding Programmes (NHGSFP) among others. The study recommended that government should boost agricultural education through an increase in budgetary allocation, motivation and recruitment of qualified personnel, and change of current status of agricultural science from elective to compulsory while linkage between agricultural education and agricultural policies and programme and acts in Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources should be ensured. The study, therefore, concluded that food security can be attained through effective repositioning of agricultural education, to serve as means of sensitizing the youths to government efforts in agriculture thereby catalyzing to boost government agricultural programmes.
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    Secondary School Agricultural Science teachers’ Perceptions of Social Media use in teaching in Ilorin Metropolis, Nigeria
    (Department of Science Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria., 2021-03) Shuaib, Suleiman; Adesanya, Emmanuel O.; Afolabi, Kayode O.; Jimoh, Saidu Bolakale; Oba, Ibrahim I.
    This study examined secondary school teachers’ perceptions of social media use in teaching agricultural science in Ilorin Metropolis, Nigeria. Four research questions were raised and two null hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A descriptive research of the survey method was adopted for the study. A total of 84 respondents formed the sample size for the study. Researchers’ designed questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the research questions while t-test and ANOVA were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05level of significance. The findings revealed that WhatsApp and Facebook were the most preferred social media to be used by the teachers for teaching agricultural science and that teachers rarely used them for teaching. The findings of the study also revealed that teachers had negative perceptions on the use of social media for teaching and also perceived some challenges in the use of social media for teaching which include: students not having money to subscribe data for social media, lack of android phone to access social media platforms, among others. The result of the hypotheses also revealed that there was no significant difference between teachers’ gender and qualification on their perceptions of social media use in teaching agricultural science. It was recommended among others that Schools and Ministry of Education and other parastatals should organize workshops and seminars on the use of social media and ICTs in teaching to ameliorate the negative perceptions of social media use for teaching agricultural science.
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    Work Skills Required by Secondary School Graduates in Sugarcane Production Enterprises for Economic Security in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Faculty of Education, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, 2021-09) Shuaib, Suleiman B.; Adesanya, Emmanuel O.; Afolabi, Kayode O.; Jimoh, Saidu Bolakale; Raji, Mutiat
    The study identified work skills required by Secondary School graduates in sugarcane production enterprises in Kwara State, Nigeria. Four research questions and four null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The sample population for this study was 200 respondents consisted of 158 sugarcane farmers, 19 agricultural science teachers and 23 extension agents which were purposively selected for the study. A 37-item questionnaire titled Work Skills Required in Sugarcane Production Questionnaire (WSRSPQ) was used to obtain data from respondents. The questionnaire items were validated by three experts. Cronbach Alpha Method was used to determine the internal consistency of the items and a reliability coefficient of 0.79 was obtained. The data collected were analyzed using mean to answer the questions while ANOVA statistics was used to test the null hypotheses. The finding of the study revealed that graduates required all the work skills in planning, pre-planting, post planting and harvesting and marketing operations. There was no significant difference in the mean ratings of respondents on the work skills required in planning, pre-planting and planting, post planting, harvesting and marketing operations in sugarcane production. The study recommended, among others, that extension agents should harness the work skills items identified by the study and incorporate them into training programmes for training secondary school graduates and other youths to make them economically secure through sugarcane production