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This study examined the influence of teachers’ variables on students’ academic performance in Biology in public senior secondary schools in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State. The study specifically investigated how teachers’ qualifications, teaching experience, instructional methodologies, and attitudes affect students’ achievement in Biology.
A descriptive survey design was adopted, and data were collected using a structured questionnaire administered to a sample of 30 Biology teachers across 12 public senior secondary schools. The data were analyzed using frequency counts and simple percentages. The study concludes that teacher-related variables are critical predictors of Biology achievement and recommends improved teacher training, motivation, instructional resources, and professional development to enhance the quality of Biology education in the study area.

The study investigates the role of local government leadership style in the reduction of youth restiveness in Ovia South West Local Government Area of Edo State. . Four (4) research questions were raised to guide the study: A sample size of Four Hundred and Fifty (450) respondents, selected through simple random sampling technique was used for the study. In this wise, thirty youths were selected from each of the Twelve (12) wards to constitute a reasonable sample size for the study. The respondents within the age bracket of 15-30 years were used for the study. Questionnaire was the major instrument used for data collection and data was analyzed through the use of frequency conut and simple percentages Findings revealed that the provision of job opportunities to a very large extent and large extent can reduce youth restiveness, that the strategies employed by the local government leadership to reduce youth restiveness are; equitable distribution of income and basic political freedom, full-time
employment of the youths, provision of free and functional quality education for the youth and involvement of the youths in politics, It was further revealed that that provision of job opportunities to a very large extent and large extent can reduce youth restiveness and that the effects of youth restiveness in the area; proliferation of political thuggery, crime, kidnapping discontent and disrespect for elders. It was therefore recommended that government should provide functional and free education to the citizens as this will advance the level of country literacy and awareness. Our elites should also be re-educated and re-oriented as they have been accused of causing or employing youth in achieving their political objectives. It was further recommended that creation of jobs and employment opportunities to our youth would also hinder them from all restive activities as joblessness makes them willing tools in any conflict.

here are different subjects taught at secondary school level in
Nigeria that are deemed essential in contributing to personal, societal and national development, international cooperation, integration and academic achievement. These subjects’ ranges from pre-vocational, sciences, technical, humanities and art subjects which are recognized as genuine fields of academic scholarship. History as a subject fall within the general art and has for a long time enjoyed a place in Nigeria’s school curriculum especially in senior secondary level It can be likened to a nation living without memories or brain hence the need for teaching and learning of History to be taken seriously as it has the capacity to destroy the country’s younger generation and future workforce (Animba, 2021). The study of history is very important to any society. It helps a people to know more about itself by promoting the people’s understanding of their past, in terms of both internal and external relationship. Commenting on the importance of history, Omolewa (2015) 4 asserts that “history is a vast umbrella subject. It encompasses all disciplines, not just political and cultural history. It therefore includes literature, religion, the social and natural sciences, the arts, technology, and mathematics. To be ignorant of the political and cultural history of a people is also to be ignorant of the contributions of that people to all areas of intellectual activity”. The goal of History teaching in schools is to help young people develop an integrated spiritual world, via assimilation of the ethno-cultural, national and universal values that have been developed in the course of historical development, and by giving them experience in defining themselves in relation to these values