NIGERIA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This study examined the fading effect of religious consciousness among university students in Nigeria, with a specific focus on the University of Benin. This study sought to find out the role of the university education in promoting religious consciousness among students, the extent which western culture and values influence the religious consciousness among university and the extent which social media influences religious consciousness among university students. Three research questions were raised to guide the study. The population of the study comprised of the entire fulltime (400 level) final year undergraduate students in the Department of Educational Foundations, Faculty of Education, University of Benin. The simple random sampling technique was used to select twenty (20) students from five course areas in the Department of Educational Foundation. A structured questionnaire was used as the instrument for the study. Data collected were analyzed using Simple Mean ( ) and Standard Deviation (SD) were to analyze the data meant to answer the research
questions. The findings from the research questions include that: Western culture and values influence the religious consciousness of university students, Social media influence religious consciousness among university to a large extent. Based on the findings, the researcher recommended that religious instruction should be entrenched in the university curriculum. This is imperative as we assume that religion brings the fear of God and consequently that students who fear God would not engage in unruly behaviour, and this would make for a peaceful atmosphere