2021

This study was designed to examine the effects of social media on information dissemination among Library and Information Science Students in University of Benin. To achieve the purpose intended for the study, four research questions were raised to guide the study. Descriptive research was used for this study. The population of the study comprised of 412 final students of Library and Information Science Student in Faculty of Education, University of Benin, of Edo State. The sample for the
study consists of 100 Library and Information Science Students. The Simple Random Sampling was used to select the students from the population. The research instrument used for data collection was a structured questionnaire and was designed by the researcher titled Effects of social media on Information Dissemination Among Library and Information Science Students in
University of Benin. The test-retest method reliability was used to determine the consistency of the opinion of the respondents. The instrument was administered to students in University of Benin and the students which were not part of the study were used for the reliability of the study. The reliability value of 0.76 was obtained using Cronbach Alpha. The data collected were analysed using frequency count, simple percentage, and mean score standard. Findings from the study revealed that the respondents claim they frequently use WhatsApp to share academic information with my classmates. Also, it reveals that the students
use social media to share lecture notes and course materials, it was discovered that respondent made use of social media to enhances quick access to academic information. It was recommended that Department should be encouraged to include dedicated modules on social media literacy. There should be established group that promote use of academic and verified channels for
information sharing.

This study examines the influence of Christian missionaries in Owerri between 1910 and 1990. The arrival of Christian missionaries in Owerri brought significant social, educational, religious, and economic changes that transformed the traditional structure of the society. The study investigates the activities of various missionary groups and evaluates their contributions to the development of Owerri during the colonial and post-colonial periods. It also explores the interaction between Christianity and the indigenous beliefs and practices of the people of Owerri. The study adopted a historical research design using both primary and secondary sources of data. Primary sources included oral interviews and archival materials, while secondary sources consisted of textbooks, journals, articles, and previous research works related to missionary activities in Eastern Nigeria. Findings from the study revealed that Christian missionaries played major roles in the establishment of schools, hospitals, churches, and other social institutions in Owerri. They contributed greatly to the spread of Western education, literacy, healthcare services, and moral teachings, which helped in shaping modern social and political development in the area. However, the study also found that missionary activities led to the decline of some traditional religious practices, cultural values, and indigenous institutions. The introduction of Christianity created both cooperation and conflict between converts and traditional worshippers. Despite these challenges, the overall impact of Christian missionaries in Owerri between 1910 and 1990 was largely positive, particularly in the areas of education, religion, and social transformation. The study concluded that Christian missionary activities significantly influenced the historical development of Owerri and contributed to the modernization of the society. It therefore recommended that the positive legacies of missionary efforts, especially in education and healthcare, should be preserved while promoting respect for indigenous cultural heritage and values.

The work is intended to study the moments of distributions and in particular pareto-II distribution named after Italian scientist, Vilfred pareto. This study was guided by the following objectives; to obtain the rth moment, obtain the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis of the pareto-II distribution and finally obtain some numerical results of the moment. The study employed the knowledge of differential and integral calculus with transformation of variables to obtain several expressions as we shall be seeing. Statistical software "R" was used to run analysis and obtain numerical results of the moments. Finding revealed that the parameters of the distribution are important in determining the behavior of the moments. From the findings, it implied that the study of moments is important and applicable to study of distributions. Keywords Moments, Parameter, Distribution, Mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis.

This study investigated the influence of school enrollment on teacher’s effectiveness in senior secondary school in Oredo local government area in Edo state. three research question were raised to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted to accomplish the purpose of the study. The population of the study consists of all 602 teachers from fourteen (14) public secondary school in Oredo LGA and the sample size of all fifty (50) accessible secondary school teachers were selected for the study. The instrument for data collection was questionnaire developed by the researcher and was validated by the researcher’s supervisor and two other experts from the Department of educational management the reliability coefficient was 0.81using Cronbach Alpha correlation coefficient method. The data collected were analyzed statistically using the statistical package of social sciences (SPSS) software.

In order to address the growing global energy demand and reduce the environmental impact from operating gas turbine power plants, the performance and how to improve existing gas turbine power plants need to be studied. In view of this, this research work aims at carrying out the thermodynamic and environmental analyses of Azura Edo Power Plant for design and off-design conditions. Ebsilon Software is a commercially accepted energy and mass balance tool for power plant modelling. The performance of the Azura Edo Power Plant at design and off-design conditions were modelled using Ebsilon Software and the simulation exercise was validated. Energy, exergy and environmental analyses were conducted using operating data collected from the power plant to evaluate the thermal efficiencies, heat rate, energy losses and exergy destruction of each major component of the power plant and carbon dioxide emission rates with the aid of MATLAB software. The effects of ambient air temperature on the thermodynamic and environmental performances were carried out. Preliminary analyses of the effect of integrating an inlet air cooling system and heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) for future consideration were conducted.

This study was undertaken to ascertain readers perception of the utilization of photographs in the Nigerian observer newspaper in Benin City. Thus, the survey design was employed with the aid of a 9- item questionnaire to elicit response from 300 residents in Benin City. The sample was selected purposively based on background knowledge of the topic. Data generated were analyzed using the simple percentage, presented using frequency table. Findings reveals that majority of the people’s perception are influenced by photographs used in the Nigerian observer newspaper in Benin City. Also found out that readers of the newspaper judge the credibility of the stories posted based on the photographs accompany such stories. The study concluded that the photographs are the windows from which readers of newspaper can see into the stories. Therefore, the study recommended newspaper owners should ensure that they make extensive use of photographs in their publications and to increase readership, they
must use colorful and attractive photographs that can capture the attention of readers among others.

This study was carried out to determine the influence of technical teacher training on the competencies teachers posses in teaching basic technology in Edo state. Five research questions were raised to guide the study and four null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significant level for the study. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study. The population of the study was 400 basic technology teachers of Oredo local government area of Edo State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select 100 respondents for the sample. The instrument used was a structured questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts. Pearson’s Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC) was used to compute reliability of the instrument which gave a correlation coefficient of 0.72. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation and t-test was used to test the hypotheses. The result of the analysis shows that for a basic technology teacher to be considered competent such teacher must have, gone through teacher training, good knowledge of subject matter, proper usage of instructional aid and methods, good classroom and laboratory management skills and proper evaluation techniques. The t-test analysis showed that the four groups of teachers (male & female, rural & urban, experienced & inexperienced and public and private secondary school) did not differ significantly in their rating on the variables that is important for effective teaching of basic technology by teachers. It was recommended among others that Edo state Ministry of education should employ only qualified and trained technical teachers for basic technology, and the state government must also enforce the same strategies in the private sector. The performance of basic technology students is directly influenced by the qualification and quality of the teacher taking the subject.

The correct, proper interpretation and application of perceptual verbs in English is a major challenge to the Yoruba learners. The topic "PERCEPTUAL VERBS" such as "look, see, taste, hear, touch, smell, e.t.c. is an unresolved problem for linguistic theories. This work examines the meaning and understanding of the various perceptual verbs in relation to Yoruba language. Languages differ in their number of basic verbs that describe perceptual experiences. Some languages have only two of such verbs. One for visual perception, another for non-visual perception. Yoruba is a language of verbs which has different verbs for each perception. This
research work is aimed at solving perceptual verb problems, educating people on the true meaning and reality of perception. I collected the data in Lagos state by choosing from random people with potentials in Yoruba language. People who speak the language profoundly, scholars in the language. The providers of the data of this research work were "twenty one old generation speakers" and "thirteen new /younger generation of Yoruba speakers". These two generational speakers gave amazing feedbacks just that the older generation feedback was more competent as they had the translation to all the verbs I provided them with. The new generation now mix English with their Yoruba when speaking while the older generation make use of pure Yoruba. This work is laid out in five different chapters followed by the references and appendix. The work allocates the semantic perceptual verbs that fall under the five classes of perceptual verbs into their various classifications.

Management is essential for organized life and necessary to run all types of management. Good management is the backbone of successful organizations. In order to make a business viable it has to be built upon a certain set of values which will promote the business, assure customers that it’s the right choice and attract new customers while retaining the existing ones. Quality is one of the most important aspects of a business or a product as it could be associated with many factors such as reliability, delivery, usability, and an acceptable price. Total quality management TQMis a set of management practices throughout the organization geared to ensure the organization consistently meets or exceed customer requirements. Based on Deming's and Duran's ideas described in "Total Quality Management text with cases" for how organizations could achieve success we can conclude that key to successful quality management passes through constantly striving for improvement, changing the classic mind-set of applying out of date quality check measures everybody else does, modernizing the methods, and providing effective training for the staff. This paper provided a general understanding of Total Quality Management, a concept that is aimed at ensuring quality with continuous improvement. It will show the important aspects of TQM, challenges in applying TQM and important
factors that affect success. It would include general knowledge, assumptions and researchers' own interpretations. It should give the reader a general overview of total quality management and its main points which will provide a base for deeper learning.

Society encourages research, exploration or attempt to discover new things that will benefit the
society, the aspect of law that seeks to protect the product of such efforts is Intellectual Property Law (IPL). Intellectual property is an aspect of law which seeks to protect intellectual endeavour. It is divided into 4 fundamental classes of which, copyright is one of the fundament classes. opyright in intellectual property are exclusive rights granted by the law. They are bundle of intangible right granted by statue to the author or originator of certain literary or artistic productions, whereby, for a limited period, the exclusive privileges is given to that person (or to any party to whom he or she transfers ownership) to make copies of the same publication and sale. These rights are subject to certain statutory exceptions and the effects of these rights is that were sufficient efforts have been expended on making a work to give it an original character it becomes the sole property of the owner and the owner has exclusive rights over the work and it will be unlawful for any person to reproduce, publish, translate, perform, rent, lease, hire, broadcast, adapt or tamper with the work without the owner’s license or assignment.