UNDERGRADUATES’ AWARENESS OF NIGERIA’S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THEIR PARTICIPATION IN STUDENT UNIONISM
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2017-10
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Social Studies Association of Nigeria
Abstract
This paper investigates undergraduates’ awareness of political developments in Nigeria and their participation in students’ unionism. To better understand the contemporary roles of political developments in Nigeria and campus unionism, students’ views were sampled from Faculties of Law and Education out of the 15 available faculties. These two faculties were sampled because faculty of law is regarded as a faculty that develops in students’ rudiment of politics and faculty of education being a mother of all faculties is also expected to develop political skills in students which enhance their political participation, hence need to find out which of the faculty produces students that participate in campus politics better. Simple random sampling technique was used to sample 275 students on the basis of gender. An items of questionnaire titled “Undergraduates’ Awareness of Political Developments and Political Participation” was developed based on the crux of the study. The validity of instrument was ascertained and its reliability was determined using Pearson Product Moment Correlation. Simple Percentage and Chi-Square were employed to test the research questions and the generated hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance respectively. The study revealed among others that undergraduates did not possess adequate knowledge of political developments. It also revealed that faculties were strong and positive prediction of students’ participation in Nigeria; faculty was a strong and positive prediction of students’ participation in campus politics. Based on these findings, it was recommended among others that female undergraduates needed to be sensitized towards developing interest in campus politics as this will shape their interest in politics at macro level.
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Nigeria Journal of Social Studies
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Political participation, , , ., Political developments, Gender, Students’ political awareness
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vii. Balogun, I. N (2017) Olokooba, I. N., Abdulsalam, A. A: Undergraduates’ Awareness of Nigeria’s Political Developments and their participation in Students Unionism, Nigeria Journal of Social Studies, Volume 20 (2); 51-67