Abstract The paper examines the linkages between gender of household heads, education and household poverty in South East region of Nigeria between 2001 and 2017. Data analyzed were obtained from four national consumer expenditure surveys conducted in Nigeria in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2017 by the Federal Office of Statistics. Adjustments were made for price differentials over time and across regions of the country. However, only aggregated data for households were available. Per capita exp...
Abstract This work studies Education-Employment Nexus In Nigeria Education is an important aspect of human life. Thinking of education as human capital motivates societies to invest in education to raise productivity, and to increase individual and social benefits. The issue of employment is very germane to any economy; this is why one of the main macroeconomic objectives of any country is to attain full employment. This study shall provide the government with relevant and reliable infor...
ABSTRACT The paper looks at the activities of the colonial masters before Independence and Nigeria rulers after Independence and identifies the era during which the country was underdeveloped. Using descriptive method of data gathering, the paper reveals that Nigerians lived a better life during colonial rule than what is obtainable now. There was orderliness, there was security of lives and property, there was good standard of education, and the infrastructures were not dilapidated. But af...
Abstract The study was designed to examine managing childhood education in a depressed economy. It viewed that since education is conscious and direct; all the groups that make up the society are involved in providing education to children especially at early stage. The paper therefore discussed the roles of the government, parents and the entire community in child’s education. The paper principally also reviewed the challenges facing childhood education in the Nigerian present-day econom...
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