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Item ASSESSMENT OF FUNCTIONAL LITERACY NEEDS AND ENRICHMENT INTERESTS OF COMMERCIAL DRIVERS IN NORTH-CENTRAL NIGERIA(UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, 2018) YUSUF, MurainaThe general aim of literacy is to equip individuals with knowledge, attitudes, skills and values for personal, interpersonal and community development. Individuals are expected to use these attributes to acquire information, values and other skills that can enable them function more effectively and efficiently. Based on this key role of literacy, this study assessed functional literacy needs and enrichment interests of commercial drivers in North-central Nigeria. The objectives were to investigate: (i) their functional literacy needs; (ii) their enrichment literacy interests; and (iii) the influence of social demographic characteristics of ethnic background, age, religion, formal education and driving experience on their functional literacy needs and enrichment interests. A descriptive research survey of the cross-sectional type was employed in this study. The population for this study was all the literate commercial drivers in Kogi, Kwara and Niger states. The target population was all inter-state literate commercial drivers in Kogi, Kwara and Niger states. Six hundred and sixty respondents were selected using incidental sampling technique. A researcher-designed questionnaire was used to collect data from the respondents. The test-retest method of three-week interval was employed to determine its reliability and a value of 0.67 was obtained. Thirteen research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation while ten hypotheses were tested with One-Way Analysis of Variance. The findings of the study were that: the commercial drivers in the North-central Nigeria needed functional literacy much for cultural (x ̅=3.30), civic (x ̅=3.25), economic (x ̅=3.38) and social (x ̅=3.31) development in all settings, with economic development (x ̅=3.38) more needed than the others; the commercial drivers had moderate interest in enriching their prose (x ̅=3.12), document(x ̅=3.18) and quantitative (x ̅=3.28) literacy domains, with more interest in enriching their quantitative (x ̅=3.28) than document (x ̅=3.18) and prose (x ̅=3.12) literacy skills; and ethnicity and driving experience did not influence their functional literacy needs, but age (F=4.68, p˂0.05), religion (F=13.27, p˂0.05) and formal education (F=5.03, p˂0.05) significantly influenced their functional literacy needs, while ethnicity (F=8.05, p˂0.05), age (F=8.46, p˂0.05), religion (F=14.01, p˂0.05), formal education (F=7.63, p˂0.05) and driving experience (F=5.76, p˂0.05)significantly influenced their enrichment literacy interests. The study concluded that commercial drivers needed functional literacy more for their economic development than social, cultural and civic development; they also had moderate interest in enriching their quantitative literacy domain more than document and prose. The implication of these findings was that there was need to plan and organise functional literacy programmes for the drivers, especially for economic development and with regard to quantitative domain. The study recommended that a functional literacy programme be organised by adult literacy professionals for the commercial drivers, taking cognisance of their economic development and quantitative literacy domain. Also, other stakeholders such as the Federal Road Safety Commission should endeavour to discharge voluntary community service by organising a functional literacy programme for commercial drivers, taking into consideration their demographic characteristics of ethnic background, age, religion, formal education and driving experience.Item FUNCTIONAL LITERACY NEEDS AND ENRICHMENT INTERESTS OF ADOLESCENT INMATES OF BORSTAL HOMES IN NIGERIA(UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN, 2018) ABIOLA, Muhydeen OlaitanIlliteracy is one of the factors that may lead to juvenile delinquency and incarceration. When inmates with a low literacy level are freed from correctional facilities, social and economic difficulties, including future unemployment and welfare dependence are some of the challenges they are confronted with.This study attempted to seek ways of ameliorating the conditions of juvenile inmates and rehabilitate as well as re-integrate them into the mainstream.The objectives of the study were to: (i) investigate the functional literacy needs of the adolescent inmates of Borstal homes in Nigeria; (ii) analyse their literacy enrichment (reading and writing) interests; (iii) establish the influence of religion, training, ethnicity and home background on their functional literacy needs; and,(iv) ascertain the influence of these variables on their literacy enrichment interests. This study was a descriptive study of the cross-sectional survey type. The target population involved all the current adolescent inmates in all the three Borstal Institutions in Nigeria situated in Kaduna, Ilorin and Abeokuta. The sample consisted of all the 498 adolescent inmates in Kaduna (257), Ilorin (141)and Abeokuta (100) as at the time the study was carried out. The purposive sampling technique was therefore used for the selection of the sample and the locale. A researcher-designed questionnaire with reliability index of 0.95 and an oral interview schedule were used for data collection. The validity was ascertained by a group of seven arbitrators. The percentage was used for analysing the demographic data, while One-way Analysis of Variance and the t-test were used to test the hypotheses of the quantitative data which were further corroborated by context analysis of qualitative data. The findings were that: the functional literacy needs rated “very crucial” were both the cultural (x ̅=2.69) and the economic (x ̅=2.64); the literacy enrichment interests rated “very crucial” were both the quantitative enrichment reading (x ̅=2.50) and writing (x ̅=2.51); there was no significant difference in the functional literacy needs based on ethnicity, inmates’ parents’ educational background, and training; and, there was a significant difference in the enrichment interests based on religion (reading F=14.70, p<0.05; writing F=9.76, p<0.05), ethnicity (reading F=3.93, p0.009<0.05; writing F=8.87, p<0.05), inmates’ parents’ socio-economic status (reading F=7.94, p<0.05; writing F=5.56, p0.004<0.05), and training (reading t=4.80, p0.000<0.05; writing t=5.54, p0.000<0.05). Conversely, there was no significant difference in the enrichment(reading and writing) interests based on inmates’ parents’ educational background. It was concluded that all the predictor variables were significant in enhancing the re-integration of the adolescent inmates into the mainstream after discharge from the correctional institutions.The implication isthat the functional literacy needs as well as the enrichment reading and writing interests should further be explored in order to forestall an inadvertent relapse.The study recommended that the controllers of prisons should ensure that the enrichment materials that would be stocked in the institutions’ libraries and the classrooms must be those that can consolidate the identified functional literacy needs of the inmates. Parents are also to work harmoniously with the institutions in ensuring sustainable literacy development for all inmates irrespective of religious and ethnic affiliation, or home background.