Browsing by Author "Sholagberu, A. O."

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    Availability and utilization of information and communication technology among instructors in adult and non-formal education centers in Kwara state, Nigeria.
    (Open University of Sri Lanka Journal., 2021-06-04) Ambali, T. Toyin.; Abdullahi, A. K.; Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.
    This study examined the availability and utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) among instructors in adult and non-formal education centers in Kwara State, Nigeria. Three objectives were raised and translated to research questions to guide the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study and 271 was considered as the target populations comprising male and female instructors. A sample size of one hundred and sixty (160) respondents was selected across the State. A multi-stage sampling procedure consisting of cluster sampling, purposive sampling and simple random sampling was adopted. Check list and questionnaire were used as an instrument for data collection for the study. The reliability of instruments was achieved using test-retest technique and a co-efficient 0.82 was obtained. The administration of the instruments was carried out by the researchers and five volunteer field research assistants. The data collected was analyzed using frequency count and percentages. One of the findings revealed that the level of utilization of ICT among instructors was low. It is therefore, recommended that there is a need to create awareness among instructors on the level of utilization of ICT to increase the level of consciousness for effective teaching learning process.
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    Availability and utilization of information and communication technology among instructors in Adult and non-formal education centres in Kwara State
    (The open University of Sri Lanka, 2021-06-01) Ambali, T. T.; Abdullahi, A. K.; Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.
    This study examined the availability and utilization of information and communication technology (ICT) among instructors in adult and nonformal education centers in Kwara State, Nigeria. Three objectives were raised and translated to research questions to guide the study. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study and 271 was considered as the target populations comprising male and female instructors. A sample size of one hundred and sixty (160) respondents was selected across the State. A multi-stage sampling procedure consisting of cluster sampling, purposive sampling and simple random sampling was adopted. Check list and questionnaire were used as an instrument for data collection for the study. The reliability of instruments was achieved using test-retest technique and a co-efficient 0.82 was obtained. The administration of the instruments was carried out by the researchers and five volunteer field research assistants. The data collected was analyzed using frequency count and percentages. One of the findings revealed that the level of utilization of ICT among instructors was low. It is therefore, recommended that there is a need to create awareness among instructors on the level of utilization of ICT to increase the level of consciousness for effective teaching learning process.
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    Challenges in sustaining youth empowerment programmes in Nigeria: The way forward
    (Published by Nigerian National Council For Adult Education., 2018-09-03) Kayode, S. T.; Najeem, A.H.; Sholagberu, A. O.
    Unemployment has become a major problem affecting the lives of Nigerian youths, causing increased militancy, violent crimes, kidnappings, restiveness and socially, delinquent behaviour. Youth unemployment is devastating to both the individual and the society as a whole both psychologically and economically. The paper examine the issues of youth unemployment, consequences and possible solution such as potential intervention measures for effective career guidance, technical and vocational education. Recommendations were made which include that youths should be trained to possess skills which are congruent with real labour market demands, developing a special focus on career guidance, and robust platform for youths to develop their creative potentials. The paper concludes that the stakeholders should provide job opportunities to positively empower the youths to make them self-reliant through vocational and technical education (Agriculture, Fishery and Bee keeping) so as to reduce drastically unemployment that could mar their future by involving in undesirable behaviours.
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    Challenges in sustaining Youth Empowerment Programmes in Nigeria: The way forward.
    (Journal of Nigerian National Council for Adult Education., 2018-08-14) Kayode, S. T.,; Najeem, A. H.,; Sholagberu, A. O.
    Abstract Unemployment has become a major problem affecting the lives of Nigerian youths, causing increased militancy, violent crimes, kidnappings restiveness and socially delinquent behaviour, youth unemployment is devastating to both the individual and the society as a whole both psychologically and economically. The paper examine the issues of youth unemployment, consequences and possible solution such as potential intervention measures for effective career guidance, technical and vocational education. Recommendations were made which include that youths should be trained to possess skills which are congruent with real labour market demands, developing a special focus on career guidance, and robust platform for youth to develop their creative potentials. The paper concludes that the stakeholders should provide job opportunities to positively empower the youths to make them self- reliant through vocational and technical education (Agriculture, fishery and Bee keeping) so as to reduce drastically unemployment that could mar their future by involving in undesirable behaviours.
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    Community participation in project execution for Sustainable Human Development: A non-formal Education Approach.
    (An official Journal of the College of Education, Al-Hikman University, Ilorin Nigeria., 2017-06-01) Sholagberu, A. O.; Ambali, T. T.
    Abstract This paper focuses on the knowledge and skills of community agents and village level workers, as part of non-formal education process for ensuring community participation in project identification, selection and formulation for sustainable development at the grass root level. Conceptual clarification was presented sequentially together with skills needed by village level workers and community agents in stimulating community participation. It was further recommended that there is a need for community mobilization on the importance of active participation of all members of the community in any project designed for the development of their community. There is a need as well for wider dissemination of knowledge that will be geared towards a better understanding of community project, its nature, dimension and its feasibility study. Key words: Community participation, Project execution and Non-Formal Education
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    Ensuring effective Management of Literacy Education on Marginalized group in Rural Communities of Kwara State Nigeria.
    (Faculty of Education, University of Ilesa., 2024-03-24) Sholagberu, A. O.; Olasinde., B. A.; Kayode, S. T.,; Yakubu, T. I.,
    Management ensure well-coordinated efforts aimed at ensuring the effectiveness of the literacy education to serve the marginalized groups. Thus, this paper focuses attention on the strategies for ensuring effective management of literacy education for marginalized groups in rural communities of Kwara State, Nigeria. It looks into the concept of literacy and literacy education as it impacts marginalized individual economic well-being. It is accepted that effective management of literacy education could enhance individual marginalized group abilities to cope with the evolving challenges they experience and enhance their chances in the society where they belong. Hence, education has to be redefined in the context of marginalized individuals to make it responsive to their yearning for better living conditions. The paper takes a review of marginalized groups, their features and status, certain strategies to address literacy education among the marginalized groups were discussed. Against this premise, conclusions were drawn, and some recommendations were made to include the need for the need to expand learning programmes to nooks and corners of the federation and the learning centers must be placed close to learners’ residences so as to encourage regular participation by all. Also, governments at all levels in Nigeria should develop and implement interventions such as subsidies for direct educational costs and greater cultural sensitization to the educationally marginalized groups. Also, appropriate national government policy and political will are necessary preconditions to expanding access to educationally marginalized populations.
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    Impact of Adult Education on Security Consciousness and Effective Neighbourhood Security Watch in Nigeria: The Ilorin Experience.
    (Journal of Practicing Librarians and Educational Technologists, 2021-01-06) Sholagberu, A. O.
    The paper examines the impact of adult literacy on security consciousness and effective neighbourhood security watch in Nigeria. The Ilorin experience. A descriptive research design of survey type was adopted from the study was guided Two objectives were formulated for the study which metabolized to the two research questions. A population sample of one hundred and twenty (120) adult members who have competed adult literacy classes were purposively selected for the study. A well structured questionnaire was used to elicit relevant responses from the sample respondents and the data collected was analyzed using mean scores statistics. Findings from the study revealed that adult literacy enhance the level of security consciousness of adult members in the society; also participation of adult members in adult literacy classes promotes adult neighborhood security watch in Ilorin metropolis, Kwara state. Based on the findings it was recommended that agencies of adult education should intensify their efforts to capture more adult members in adult education programme.
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    Impact of skills acquisition programmes on women socio-economic empowerment in Kaiama & Ilorin West LGA of Kwara State.
    (Published by Nigerian National Council For Adult Education., 2017-09-04) Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.
    Nigeria had embarked on many policies and programmes to enhance socio-economic development and create job opportunities for the citizenry especially among women. One of such programmes is the skill acquisition programme (SAP). This study did, on empirical assessment of the impact of skill acquisition programme on the socio-economic development of women in Ilorin west and Kaiama Local Government Area of Kwara State. The study adopted the descriptive survey design of Ex-post facto type. Systematic and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 50 women across adult literacy centers in both local government areas. A well-structured questionnaire was used to gather information from the sampled respondents. Two questions were raised and answered and the Iwo null hypotheses formulated were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Data were analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The finding of the study revealed that skill acquisition programme has significant impact of women socio and economic empowerment in Ilorin West and Kaima local government areas of the state. It was therefore recommended that government, donor agencies, non-governmental organization should provide more centres for adult learning and skills acquisition programme, credit facilities to beneficiaries encourage women mainstreaming and put in place proper monitoring and evaluation of such programmes.
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    Paulo Freire’s Adult Education Philosophy as an Alternative for Instructional Delivery in University in Nigeria.
    (Faculty of Education & Extension Services, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria,, 2016-03-11) Murtala, A. Y.; Sholagberu, A. O.
    This paper argues that Nigerian universities' instructional delivery mechanism is faulty and cannot guarantee effective teaching and learning which will result to production of sound, informed, critical and productive graduates. The Nigerian university teachers through their approaches to teaching domesticate, repress and intimidate learners. This process grows and develops narrow consciousness and narrow-minded individuals who cannot champion the course of addressing Nigerian problems and efforts towards national sustainable development. Thus, the need for searching an alternative approach to teaching in order to reposition the system with a view to producing graduates who are skilled to move the country forward. Against this background: the paper calls for exploration of Paulo Freire’s Adult Education Philosophy as an alternative for instructional delivery in universities in Nigeria. To this end, the paper examines the situational analyses of instructional delivery in universities in Nigeria. Also philosophy of Paulo Freire and its implications to teaching and learning in universities in Nigeria were discussed. The paper concludes that the quest for producing university graduates who will be able to confront Nigerian problems and promote sustainable national development will be realized if Nigerian university teachers move away from “banking” education and embrace problem-posing model of education through conscientization where learners and teachers are seen as co-partners in learning. The paper recommends among others that Faculty of Education in Nigerian universities should continue to pressurize their university senates to mandate all academic staff who do not have teaching qualification to undergo postgraduate course in education in order to acquire relevant’ teaching qualification with a view to understanding rudiments of teaching and learning where learners and teachers are co-partners in learning.
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    Pre-Retirement Planning: Enlightenment for Workers towards Financial Independence in Ilorin West L.G.A. Kwara State, Nigeria.
    (Faculty of Arts, Management and Social Sciences Ojaja University, Eyenkorin, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria, 2025-10-04) Sholagberu, A. O.; Yakubu, T. I.,; Kayode, S. T.,
    This paper examined pre-retirement planning as enlightenment for workers towards financial independence in Kwara State, Nigeria. Descriptive research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study consists of all the staff of the Ilorin West local government (654). A sample size of 100 respondents drawn from the staff of the local government using simple random sampling technique. A self-designed questionnaire was used to elicit relevant information from the respondents. Data collected from the respondents were analyzed using a simple percentage to analyze the demographic information of the respondent, while mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions raised. This study explores how pre-retirement planning activities can increase the total resources of retirees, including tangible, mental, and social resources, and consequently contribute to better psychological and physical well-being. The results of the latent growth mediation models also support our prediction: retirees with more preparatory activities before retirement acquire greater resources at the initial stage, which contribute to positive changes in post-retirement well-being over time. The results of the study reveal that enlightening the public about pre-retirement planning helps workers think critically and plan. Lack of proper information causes workers not to plan effectively towards retirement; educating workers about pre-retirement planning before employment helps them to plan adequately.
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    Promoting Adult Learners Health Sustainability through Social Media Advocacy in Nigeria.
    (Lagos State University of Education, 2025-03-07) Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.,; Yakub, T. I.
    The paper focuses on promoting adult learners’ health sustainability through social media advocacy in Nigeria. The paper discusses the concept social media, health and sustainability health, adult education, and the emerging role of social media to promote health behaviours towards a sustainable outcome. Emerging research is focused on evaluating the potential of social media as an opportunity to create awareness. Such measures require less effort in quantifying and isolating the effect. The design of the campaigns is required to be aligned in relation to stages of the behaviour change. The study provides suggestions and recommendations on how this can be achieved. One of the recommendations provided includes the need to implement fact-checking mechanisms on social media platforms to swiftly identify and counter false health information to help reduce the spread of harmful health-related rumours. Also, citizens should increase the use of social media tools for remote consultations, especially in rural areas, to enhance access to healthcare and reduce the burden on physical health facilities
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    Re-positioning adult education programmes for sustainable livelihood in Ilorin Metropolis of Kwara Nigeria.
    (Al-Hikman Journal of Educational. Published by Faculty of Education, Al-Hikman University, Ilorin Nigeria. https: // /index.php/aje_path/article/view/99, 2020-06-22) Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.; Ambali, T. T.
    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 Ilorin 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, it 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 teaching 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 and Kaiama LGA, Kwara State.
    (Journal of Nigerian National Council for Adult Education. Published by Nigerian National Council For Adult Education., 2019-09-01) Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.; Najeem, A.H.
    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 channeled for business development. It was recommended among others there is a need to establish women's clubs and the existing ones strengthen in communication skills and ICT just as in the case of a group (Self employed Women Association) in India in where the trained in the production and use of video to generate income, disseminate new skills and to advocate for changes. in policy, thus ICT's 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 form of governance.
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    Self Help: A tool for enhancing Sustainable Community Development among Rural Dwellers in Nigeria.
    (Department of Educational Management, Kwara State University., 2026-06-24) Sholagberu, A. O.; Kayode, S. T.,
    In spite of all governments' efforts to bring overall development to every part of the country, rural communities still lag behind in acquiring some basic amenities but underdeveloped as compared to urban areas. This paper seeks to explore community self-help as a tool for enhancing sustainable community development among rural dwellers in Nigeria. The paper further explained why the rural dwellers need to embrace self-help initiatives to make up for neglect and delay on the part of the government. It aims to adopt self-help as a tool for enhancing sustainable development among rural dwellers in Nigeria. It is is guided by General System Theory of Development, and highlighted the significance of self-help activities in fostering and promoting sustainable community development. Lastly, the challenges of self-help initiatives and proffered solutions to the stated challenges were discussed.