Research
Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Female Education in Nigeria: Implications for Sports Administration in Schools
This paper sought to identify Issues, Challenges and Prospects of Gender Education in Nigeria Implications for Sports Administration. The population of the study comprised of 3993 male and female secondary school teachers from the six Geopolitical zones in Nigeria. The multiple stage sampling technique was used to select 5 schools from each of the (6) six geopolitical zones of the country. Out of which 277 were males while 3716 were females. Sampling them at 50% rate a total of 138 males and 1858 females were sampled. The instrument for data collection was the use of questionnaire which was validated by two experts each from departments of Educational Foundations and Human Kinetics & Health Education, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. The validated instrument was trial – tested with the use of Crobach alpha co-efficient to obtain an internal consistency reliability of 0.78. Mean scores were used to profer answers to the two research questions, while the t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses.
Adequate Use of Sports Administration: Implications in the Control of Bullying in the aoMost Preferreda Secondary Schools in South a East Nigeria
In Nigeria despite parents zeal and enthusiasm to send their children and wards to school, bullying among secondary schools tend to constitute one of the major persistent unresolved problems of these parents. Bullying in schools, especially in the most preferred secondary schools e.g. Federal Government Colleges and reputable Mission schools, need to be researched into Bullying has effect both on the bully and the bullied. This research therefore investigated the prevalence of bullying among the “most preferred†secondary schools in South - East of Nigeria, focusing on boys only mission schools; girls only Federal schools and mixed (Boys and Girls) Federal school. The purposive sampling method was used to select six secondary schools in the South - East of Nigeria. A sample of three hundred and seven (307) students were randomly selected from the six schools. The research instrument used was the structured questionnaire with reliability co-efficient of 0.72.
