Browsing by Author "Tijani, A. A"

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    ECONOMIC RECESSION AS A CORRELATE OF TEACHER PRODUCTIVITY IN KWARA STATE SECONDARY SCHOOLS, NIGERIA
    (Kashere Journal of Education (KJE), 2021-06-21) Tijani, A. A; Abdullahi, Nimota Jibola Kadir
    Abstract The study examined the relationship between current economic recession in Nigeria and teacher productivity in Kwara State. Descriptive research design of correlation type was adopted for the study. The target population comprised all teachers in the 304 public secondary schools in the state. 20 secondary schools were selected using stratified random sampling technique. 400 respondents were chosen through simple random sampling method. The instrument tagged “Economic Recession and Teacher Productivity Questionnaire” (ERTPQ) was designed to elicit information from the respondents. The two research questions raised were answered using descriptive statistics. The three generated hypotheses were tested using inferential statistics. The finding of the study revealed that current economic recession has brought about a low level of teacher job performance in recent times. Also, there were a positive and high significant relationship between Economic Recession, Inflation, Cost of living and teacher productivity. Hence, economic recession was a great determinants of teacher productivity in Kwara State Secondary Schools, Nigeria. The study thus recommends that government should put necessary monetary and fiscal policies in place to reduce the cost of livings. Also, there is urgent need for the upward review of minimum wages from the present meagre amount of N18, 000 per month.
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    Effect of Standard and Improvised Instructional Materials on Upper Basic Students’ Academic Performance in Computer Studies in Ilorin, Kwara State
    (Gombe Journal of Education (GOMJE), 2018) Muhammed, K. J; Amosa, A. A; Tijani, A. A
    This study examined the effect of using standard instructional materials (real or concrete learning materials) and improvised instructional materials on upper basic students’ performance in computer studies in Ilorin, Kwara State. The research employed a quasiexperimental design of the pretest-posttest non-randomized design. The experimental group was exposed to standard instructional materials while the control group was exposed to improvised instructional materials. Two research questions and two hypotheses were answered and tested respectively. Two upper basic schools from two different local government areas (Ilorin East and Ilorin South Local Government Areas) using purposive sampling technique were selected for the study. The selected schools had 30 students in each of the intact classes. Two instruments: treatment, which was considered as standard instructional materials such computer monitor, keyboard, mouse, CPU (in operation) and computer studies performance test containing 25 items with multiple responses were used to gather the relevant data for the study. The following findings were made (1) significant difference existed between the performance of upper basic students taught computer studies using standard instructional materials and those taught using improvised instructional materials in favour of standard instructional materials. i.e. {F (1, 29) = 0.003, p <0.05} (2) gender was found to have no influence on the performance of students taught computer studies using standard instructional materials. i.e. {F (1, 29) = 0.694, p > 0.05}. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that teachers should intensify more efforts in the use of standard instructional materials and consider the use of improvised instructional materials as an alternative.
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    Histological study of smoke extracts of Tobacco nicotiana on the heart, liver, lungs, kidney, and testes of male Sprague Dawley rats.
    (Nigerian Medical Association, 2011) Adekomi, D. A; Tijani, A. A; Musa, A. A.; Adeniyi, T. D
    Background: Some of the effects of tobacco on man’s health are well documented in many scientific reports. Whenever tobacco is used either in smoked or chewed form, nicotine is absorbed by the lungs and oral cavity and is spontaneously moved into the bloodstream where it is circulated throughout the body system. Materials and Methods: Ten male Sprague-Dawley rats were used for this investigation. The animals were randomly assigned into two groups, A and B, of five animals each. The animals in group B (treatment group) were exposed to smoke from a completely burnt 0.74 g leaf extract of Tobacco nicotiana, wrapped in 0.5 g of sterilized cotton wool for 5 minutes three times daily (7 am, 10 am, and 1 pm). The animals in group A (control group) were exposed to smoke from completely burnt 1.24 g of sterilized cotton wool with the same parameters as observed with the treatment groups. The duration of exposure was 5 days. Three hours after the last exposure, all the animals were killed by cervical dislocation. The heart, liver, lungs, kidney, and testes were carefully excised, blotted dry, and fixed in formol saline for histological analysis using Hematoxylin and Eosin stain. Results: Using the light microscope, it was observed that the histoarchitectural profiles of the studied organs in the sections obtained from the control animals were well preserved. Histopathological observations of the heart, liver, lungs, kidney, and testes in the treated animals showed a varying pattern of histological alterations, and distortions such as mild edema and occasional destruction of myocardial fibers, degeneration of the hepatocytes, reduction in the population of the germ cells, enlargement of the alveoli, alveolar hemorrhage, shrinkage of the glomerulus and glomerular hemorrhage were observed in the sections of the organs of the study of the animals in the treatment group when compared with the control group, hence showing that the smoke extract of Tobacco nicotiana has adverse and compromising effects on the heart, liver, lungs, kidney, and testes of male Sprague-Dawley rats. Conclusion: From these observations, it can be inferred that the exposure of male Sprague-Dawley rats to the smoke extract of Tobacco nicotiana may be associated with structural damage of some vital organs.
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    Managing Quality Assurance Process for the Attainment of Educational Objectives in Secondary Schools in Nigeria
    (University of Kragugevac, 2020-03-14) Abdullahi, Nimota Jibola Kadir; Tijani, A. A; R.M., Mafara
    This study investigated managing quality assurance process for the attainment of educational objectives in secondary schools in Nigeria. The objectives of this study are to examine the relationship between adequate funding, teacher training, quality control and attainment of educational objectives in Kwara State, Nigeria. Quantitative research design was used for the study. A selfdesigned questionnaire titled “Quality Assurance Process and Attainment of Educational Objectives Questionnaire” (QAPAEOQ) was used to collect information for the study. The population of this study comprised all 310 principals and 6,894 teachers in public senior secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. Sample of 175 principals and 364 teachers were selected across the three senatorial districts with the use of Research Advisor (2006) table of determine sample size of a known population, proportional sampling technique was used to select 175 principals and 364 teachers. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select principals and teachers from the sample schools. This was to ensure that all categories of principals and teachers were given equal chance of being selected. The data collected were analyzed using t-test statistical analysis. All hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that there was no significant difference between adequate funding, teacher training, quality control and attainment of educational objectives in Nigeria.
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    QUALITY ASSURANCE: A MECHANISM FOR EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL FOR IMPROVEMENT
    (Department of Educational Management, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria, 2020-02) Tijani, A. A; Abdullahi, Nimota Jibola Kadir
    This paper examined the Quality Assurance as a mechanism for Secondary School improvement in Kwara State. Some of the vital issues discussed in the paper are: the concept of quality assurance, problems of quality assurance, and quality assurance as a mechanism for improving secondary school administration. The paper concluded that quality assurance mechanism, if properly utilized could be a proper means of improving secondary school system and which will further enhance Student Academic Performance. The paper thus suggested that Government through the State Ministry of Education should energized its quality assurance unit through proper funding and necessary logistics required for monitoring of secondary schools. The principals of school should not limit their administration to offices but rather thorough supervision of instruction as internal quality assurance manager for school management and improvement.
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    Some of the effects of Aqueous Leaf Extract of Cnidoscolous aconitifolius (Euphorbiaceae) on the Morphology and Histology of the kidney, and Liver of Sprague Dawley Rat.
    (College of Health Sciences, University of Ilorin, Nigeria., 2011) Adekomi, D. A.; Tijani, A. A; Adeniyi, T. D; Olajide, J. O.
    Cnidoscolus aconitifolius belongs to a group of arbrescent shrubs. It has continued to be used as food, medicine and ornamental plant till date.Awide variety of claims have been made for its medicinal efficacy as a treatment for numerous ailments ranging from its ability to strengthen fingernails and darken gray hair to curing alcoholism, insomnia, gout, and scorpion stings. This study was to elucidate the effect of aqueous leaf extract of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius commonly used as food supplement on the kidney and liver of Sprague Dawley rats. Thirty-two Sprague Dawley rats of both sexes (with an average weight of 235g) were randomly assigned into one control group (n=8) designated as A, while the extract treated groups consists of 3 subgroups and were designated as B, C, and D. the animals in the extract treated groups B, C and D were administered 600mg/kg, 400mg/kg and 200mg/kg bwt of the extract respectively, while the control group received equal volume of phosphate buffered saline (PBS). The administration was done orally using an orogastric tube for seven days (7d). Twenty-four hours after the last administration, all the animals were sacrificed by cervical dislocation. Laparatomy was performed and the liver and kidney excised, trimmed free of fat, rinsed in cold phosphate buffered saline solution. The liver was quickly fixed in 10% formolsaline, while the kidney was fixed in Bouin's fluid for histological processing. The histological findings after Hematoxylin and Eosin (H&E) staining showed that the extract treated sections the Kidney and Liver has no compromising effect on the cellular integrity of the studied organs. There were no degenerative changes and no intercellular vacuolations in the renal cortex and liver parenchyma. These findings indicate that the administration of aqueous leaf extract of Cnidoscolus aconitifolius has no adverse effects on hepatic and renal morphology of the treated Sprague Dawley rats. It is therefore recommended that further studies at corroborating these observations be carried out.
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    Utilization of E-Learning Facilities for Effective Service Delivery of Distance Education in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (River State University, 2022-12-25) Tijani, A. A; Abdullahi, Nimota Jibola Kadir; Omosisidi, A. S
    ABSTRACTThe study examined the influence of e-learning facilities for effective servicedelivery for distance education in Kwara State, Nigeria. The target population comprised all students and staff of distance education in the state. Proportional random sampling techniques was used to select the 300 respondents from the two institutions. Questionnaire was used to collect relevantinformationfrom the respondents on the utilization of e-learningfacilities, while a checklist was designed to collect student’s results for three connective years (2018-2020).The questionnaire was validated by three experts fromand reliability co-efficient of 0.73 was obtained through Pearson product -moment correlation statistics. The four research questions raised were answered using descriptivestatistics of percentages, Mean and Standard DeviationwhilePearson product moment correlation statistics was used to analyze the four hypotheses generated at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of this paper among others revealed that e-learning facilities were highly utilized by the staff and moderately utilized by the students of distance education in Kwara State. Irregular power supply and fluctuation of network service impact negatively on utilization of e-learning facilities. A significant relationship between e-learning facilities utilization and effective service delivery by the staff of distance education was revealed. However, there was no significant relationship between e-learning facilities utilization and academic performance of students in Distance Educationprogrammes in Kwara State. It was recommended that electronic facilities should be made available at cheaper cost to both staff and students and that Government and institution should improve on the power supply to enhance the utilization of e-learning facilities for effective service delivery.
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    Visionary Leadership and Staff Innovative Behaviour in Public Colleges of Education in Kwara State, Nigeria
    (Universitas Pendidkan Indonesia, 2020-02) Abdullahi, Nimota Jibola Kadir; Tijani, A. A; Sofoluwe, A. O
    Staff innovative behaviour is critical for organisations if they wish to survive and continue expanding effectively. This study investigated the effect of visionary leadership on staff innovative behaviour in Kwara State, Nigeria. The objective of this study is to examine the relationship between visionary leadership and staff innovative behaviour in Kwara State-owned colleges of education. Quantitative research design was used for the study. A sample of 220 respondents were randomly selected from the sample colleges of education with the use of Research Advisor (2006) table to determine sample size of known population. Pearson correlations and linear regression analysis were used to analyze the collected data. The results show that leadership empowerment, intellectual stimulation, and adaptivenessness were positively and significantly correlated with staff innovative behaviour. The result also shows that staff innovative behaviour can be influenced by visionary academic leaders. It was therefore recommended that academic leaders should continue to boost up the style of leadership empowerment, intellectual stimulation as well as adaptivenessness towards the realization of staff innovative behaviour.