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The Nigerian Education and the Opportunities ahead for Mobile Learning
2018
: Information technology is providing opportunities to improve education and therefore, research is needed to identify what gaps exist and how these gaps can become opportunities for technology integration such as mobile learning. This paper suggests that successful integration of technology towards improving quality education should be driven by the existing challenges which are contextually peculiar for every country. The case of the Nigerian education was examined alongside practices and policies. The study used secondary data from Nigeria Education Data Survey (NEDS). This paper highlights three major problems that Nigeria faces in basic education, namely: large number of out of school …
Single zircon evaporation ages from the Oban Massif, southeastern Nigeria
1998
Abstract A single zircon geochronological study in the Oban Massif of southeastern Nigeria, using the evaporation technique, provides evidence for the existence of Palaeoproterozoic crustal components in the area. The banded gneiss in the Oban village yielded a 207 Pb 206 Pb age of 1931.9±0.8 Ma, whilst charnockites associated with this gneiss provided an emplacement age of 584.5 ± 1.0 Ma. The volumetrically most important intrusive unit in the Oban area is a granodiorite that yielded a zircon age of 616.9 ± 1 Ma. These ages suggest that the banded gneiss is the oldest rock in the Oban Massif and that the emplacement of granodiorite and the formation of charnockites took place during the Pa…
Lignin and Cellulose Content of Fermented Rice Straw with Aspergillus niger (van Tieghem) and Trichoderma mutan AA1
2021
The rice straw has potential to be used as an alternative ruminant feed. However, it has limiting factors i.e low crude protein, high crude fiber, lignin, cellulose, and silica content. To overcome the limiting factors, immersion in a solution of alkaline (lime) or fermentation by using inoculum microbial cellulolytic and lignocellulolytic (Trichoderma mutan AA1 and Aspergillus niger.). The research method was experimental, with four treatments and repeated five times. Completely randomized design was used and if there are differences among treatments a further test with DMRT was carried out (level 1 % and 5 %). These treatments were T0: The rice straw without t fermentation; T1: Fermented …
Data from: I smell where you walked – how chemical cues influence movement decisions in ants
2016
Interactions between animals are not restricted to direct encounters. Frequently, individuals detect the proximity of others through cues unintentionally left by others, such as prey species assessing predation risk based on indirect predator cues. However, while the importance of indirect cues in predator–prey interactions has been intensely studied, their role in interactions among competitors, and their consequences for community structure, are little known to date. Ant communities are usually structured by aggressive interactions between competing species. Responding to cues of others should be useful to avoid competitors or discover food sources. In ants and other insects, such cues in…
Ympäristöterveys ja paikallinen riskihavainto - laadullisessa vertailussa maaseutu ja urbaani elinympäristö Nigeriassa
2002
In international development discourse more emphasis has been given to locality during recent years. Local dwellers and stakeholders should be more wholly involved in the environmental protection programmes based on the principles of sustainable development. Rising from Douglas’s theory of risks (1985) as a result of cultural and social negotiation process, the paper focuses on the process of the formulation of an environmental health risk. This is based on a community development risk cycle (ref. Clausen 1989). The qualitative data is from the fieldwork periods (1998, 1999 and 2001) to rural communities of Ile-Ife region, and an urban shantytown of Lagos, Nigeria, among the Yoruba ethnic g…
Oyinkan Braithwaite: Sisareni, sarjamurhaaja
2020
Kirja-arvostelu teoksesta Oyinkan Braithwaite, Sisareni, sarjamurhaaja, s. 233, WSOY, suom. Kaisa Kattelus nonPeerReviewed
Sul far del giorno
2007
Autobiografia di Wole Soyinka, primo autore africano insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura, drammaturgo, poeta, romanziere, saggista e noto attivista politico internazionale.
Migrazioni/Migrations
2016
Questo libro è parola e immagine. È un ponte tra due continenti uniti per secoli dalle rotte commerciali che solcano il Mediterraneo, il mare che un tempo consentiva lo scambio di merci e idee, oggi attraversato da un’umanità in fuga che dall’Africa avanza inesorabile verso l’Europa. Sviluppando un'idea del grande artista nigeriano Wole Soyinka, primo premio Nobel africano per la letteratura, Alessandra DI Maio, sua traduttrice e collaboratrice di lunga data, ha chiamato a raccolta 32 poeti (16 italiani e 16 nigeriani), invitandoli a versificare sul tema della migrazione. Sedici poesie, in omaggio a quella che per gli Yoruba, la nobile stirpe da cui Soyinka discende, è una cifra religiosa, …
Sul far del giorno
2016
Traduzione ed edizione critica aggiornata dell'autobiografia del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura nigeriano Wole Soyinka, corredata di Prefazione e note della curatrice e di un apparato fotografico pubblicato in anteprima mondiale. Soyinka, classe 1934, drammaturgo, poeta, saggista, romanziere e attivista politico è stato il primo autore africano a essere insignito del Premio Nobel per la Letteratura. In questo avvincente memoir, racconta le proprie vicende di artista, intellettuale e attivista militante nella sua Nigeria e nel palcoscenico del mondo, in cui da sempre porta le voci dell'Africa. Nel linguaggio lirico e politico profondamente umano che gli è proprio, mescolando immagini della …
Mobile learning for instructional purpose in Nigeria : an exploratory analysis
2013
The main purpose of this research is to explore the use of M - learning for instructional purpose in Nigeria with a view to uncovering the degree to which it is in use in the institutions of learning. The issue was addressed from the view point of students and also from the theoretical point drawn from relevant extant literatures of other students and some learning theories, frameworks as well as relevant literatures were examined. This research is empirical in nature and as such employs a cross sectional approach which involved the use of survey design in collecting data from students of different departments from two highly rated and recognized universities in Nigeria. Finally, the result…