In this article, I consider the artistic and cultural impacts of Western-style art instruction in Yoruba schools. I discuss the trajectory of Western influence on Yoruba educational institutions, beginning with early Christian missionary activities in Yorubaland through the periods of colonization and postcolonial emendation of Nigeria's national…

This dissertation comprises essays focused on women's development issues. Specifically, it discusses minimum marriageable age policy, early marriage, and female education in Nigeria. Essay 1 discusses the factors that affect state adoption of the minimum marriageable age policy in the 2003 Child Rights Act (CRA), a policy aimed at eliminating…

There are different crises in Nigeria ranging from ethnic-religious crisis to agitation for resource control/break-up of the country, but the religious crisis especially the recent Boko Haram insurgency has attracted international attention and concern. The fallouts of these crises are threatening the country's unity and national development.…

The decay in the Nigerian society has affected the standard of values and moral character formation. This has manifested in so many anti-social vices. Anti-social behaviour exhibited include corruption, dishonesty, greed, violent crimes, lack of accountability, indiscipline, disrespect to constituted authorities, laziness, low moral courage among…

There is an understandable concern among practitioners of education, academic analysts, policy formulators, and curriculum designers that a large number of government officials have both neglected and ignored the salient topic of the changing demographics of Nigeria and of Delta State (NPC, 2007). The economic upturn of Nigeria and in particular…

The paper presents Science, Technology and Mathematics (STM) as the bedrock of the development of any nation. It emphasizes the role of women in national development. To achieve meaningful advancement in national development, the paper emphasizes the need to give priority to the education of women in STM. It recommended that deliberate efforts be…

This collection of papers is devoted to a study of the impact of developing nations' technological and economic development within the context of health related factors, including pharmaceuticals and food and nutrition. Titles and authors are as follows: (1) "Health, Development and Technologies: An Appraisal" (B. Jackson and A. Ugalde);…

The creation of the West African Library Association, library schools, the national library, the Ibadan University Library, and increase in employment opportunities due to the establishment of more libraries, are discussed as favorable factors in the development of librarianship. (MBR)

The Nigerian national bibliography, its development, coverage, scope, format, frequency and currency of publication, cataloging, and standards are discussed as are access to national collections through union lists and library automation in relation to bibliographic control. (MBR)

Support by the government, sources of foreign financial aid, school libraries, the development of bookselling and the publishing industry, problems with duplicate resources, and professional librarian training are discussed in relation to Nigerian library development since 1960. (MBR)

The four papers in this volume discuss various facets of the poverty-demography interaction: the rationale for the desired family size of the poor, the problems of attaining such size, the effect of family size/structure on household economy, and the future well-being of the children of the poor. "Mass Poverty, Demography, and Development…