by Admin | Aug 29, 2025
Social Entrepreneurship which is the fusion of social impact and entrepreneurial innovation, has emerged as a pivotal strategy in Nigeria to address pressing social challenges. This approach leveraged business models to create sustainable solutions that benefit communities while remaining financially viable. This paper investigated the role expected of social entrepreneurship as measures for addressing social and economic challenges in enhancing socioeconomic transformation and sustainable development in Nigeria. Sociopreneurship thrives in an enabling environment where favourable policies, access to resources, and collaborative networks foster innovation and sustainable social impact. The findings showed that there is a rising number of young Nigerians engaging in social entrepreneurship ventures, particularly in agriculture, waste recycling, fintech, education, and health. It was concluded that, unless there were deliberate attempts by government to creating an enabling environment for smooth and successful engagements and collaborations with the social entrepreneurs to meeting both rural and urban socioeconomic needs; all efforts and governmental strides to ensuring speedy transformation and sustainable development would remain slow and unattainable.
by Admin | Aug 29, 2025
The study investigated mentoring as a correlate of academic growth in colleges of education in south-south, Nigeria, two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study which adopted correlation design. The population, 10038 staffers. The sample comprised 120 staffers. Multistage sampling procedure was adopted. Data were gathered using Staffers Mentoring Questioning (SMQ)’ and Academic Growth Scale (AGS) their reliability indices were 0.71, and 0.79 obtained using Cronbach Alpha method. Pearson moment correlation was used to answer the research questions while Regression ANOVA was used to test the hypotheses at .05 level of significant The study’s results, among other things, demonstrated that staffers academic growth in colleges of education is determined by role playing mentoring (31.4%), found significant (p>0.05) determinant of staffers academic growth, it also showed that staffers academic growth is correlated between error prevention during mentoring and academic growth (21.0%), found to be significantly correlated between error prevention in mentoring and staffers mentoring and academic growth. It was recommended that colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria should institutionalized mentoring, so that inexperienced academics could avoid Pitfall in the discharge of their academic responsibilities. This study advises that further research on this topic should be carried out in other geopolitical zones of Nigeria. Mentoring should be practiced by Colleges of Education in South-South, Nigeria in particular and all other colleges of Education in Nigeria.
by Admin | Aug 16, 2025
This paper analyses key theoretical and empirical debates that seek to clarify the scope to which inflation and unemployment can be treated as monetary phenomena. They continue to be of central concern in macroeconomic discourse, as scholars argued what induces these two important complications for the economy, given that monetary explanations have always been common and remain to be of great consideration to the economic policy makers. This study integrates the empirical evidence which accompanies the various strands of economic thought, as well as those traditionally considered classic and monetarist, also, with New Keynesian and Rational Expectations models, in order to explain the ways monetary impacts, interact with the real economy. It is true that monetary factors elucidate inflation and have a significant, often dominant role, specifically in the long run. Their relation with unemployment, though, is more intricate, as theory and evidence propose a short run trade-off but limited long run effect, mostly under rational expectations. The results reinforce the central bank’s dominating actions to attain price stability, nevertheless also demonstrate the severe bounds of what can be done with monetary policy to reduce unemployment and highlight the natural rate of unemployment feature.
by Admin | Aug 16, 2025
French language is an international and official language of francophone countries learnt to improve communication with other non-francophone countries. However, learners often struggle with aspects of spoken fluency, especially sociophonetic features like liaison. One critical gap is the lack of attention to variable liaison—a phonetic feature that functions both linguistically and socially in French. The disconnect between learners’ production and listeners’ perception of socially marked features like liaison poses challenges for effective communication. This study adopted a phenomenology design. A sample of ten participants was purposively selected from Odeda Local Government Area. Using French Liaison Interview Guide (FLIG) which was validated using participant check procedure and audio recording, data were collected and analyzed using thematic analysis. Results showed that people perceived Nigerian learners to have wrong Pronunciation pattern, wrong pronunciation of silent consonants and liaison, phonological interference of local dialects and English. Francophone indigenes view Nigerian Learners to have wrong application of liaison, perceived them as beginners in French language and reveals that their usage of French liaison reflects their background. There is a huge difference on alphabet pronunciation, lexical and pragmatic usage, sociolinguistic implication when Nigerian Learners and francophone indigenes are compared. Finally, the challenges of using of French liaison are sounds and pronunciation uniqueness, lack of confidence, poor authentic language exposure, poor phonetic training and teacher proficiency, sociolinguistic unawareness. Recommendations include practical, engaging, and sustainable solutions. With consistent practice, exposure, and encouragement, learners can develop more accurate, fluent, and confident spoken French.
by Admin | Aug 16, 2025
This study was carried out to examine effects of concept mapping on senior secondary students’ achievement in argumentative composition in Pankshin Local Government Area, Plateau State, Nigeria. The study utilized the quasi-experimental research design. The population of the study consisted of all the SS II students in Pankshin Local Government Area. A sample of 62 SSII students was selected and assigned to the experimental (concept mapping) and control (conventional) groups using purposive sampling technique. Four research questions and four corresponding null hypotheses guided the study. Data were collected using a test tagged Composition Writing Achievement Test (CWAT), while English Lesson Plans for Teaching Writing aided the treatment. Data collected were analysed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions and t-test to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings indicate that students exposed to concept mapping achieved higher in generating ideas, constructing sentences, paragraphing, and punctuation. The study concludes that concept mapping has positive effects on students’ achievement in composition writing and recommends incorporating concept mapping in teaching techniques, providing resources and support to teachers, and conducting regular assessments to evaluate effectiveness. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among other things that teachers of English should model concept mapping for writing to students.
