““ “ “The World is Unfair to Childless Women The World is Unfair to Childless Women”: ”: ”: The World is Unfair to Childless Women among among Igbomina Igbomina Igbomina Women Women Women in in ”: Experience of Infertility Experience of Infertility in in Kwara South, Nigeria Kwara South, Nigeria

Iwelumor, Oluwakemi S.1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 1,2,3 , ,, , Jamaludin, Shariffah S. Jamaludin, Shariffah S.4 44 4, Babatunde Seun , Babatunde Seun K KK K5 55 5 ., ., ., ., Oyeyipo Eyitayo1 11 1, & Oyekola Isaac1 11 1 1Department of Sociology, College of Business and Social Sciences, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria 1Landmark University SDG 1 (No Poverty) 2Landmark University SDG 3 (Good Health and Well-being) 3Landmark University SDG 5 (Gender Equality) 4School of Social Sciences, University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia 5 ABSTRACT Independent Researcher, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Email: Email: babatunde.oluwakemi@lmu.edu.ng babatunde.oluwakemi@lmu.edu.ng

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Infertility as an integral aspect of reproductive health has often been ignored in developing nations where it is mostly involuntary, constituting grave ills to infertile persons and their families. Virtually all attentions are geared towards addressing more supposedly salient reproductive health concerns and the worries of high population growth to the point that the ills of infertility are deemed insignificant. This study reveals the lived experience of infertility among childless Igbomina women in Kwara South, Nigeria using a social constructionist approach. Data set from in-depth interviews of thirteen childless women were used. The results were analyzed using conventional qualitative content analysis. ATLAS.ti 8 was used to organize data, identify the codes, themes, and verify the analysis. The study showed that childless women experience infertility as a riddle, as sitting on a time bomb, as though the world is unfair to childless women and as an existential crisis. This study supports the claims that experience of infertility in Sub-Saharan Africa are somewhat founded on androcentric culture and religious sentiments. Nevertheless, it challenges studies that report that women are arbitrarily blamed for infertility. The findings show the need to renegotiate this sociocultural aspect of infertility and integrate them into designing culture-specific intervention programs on the management of infertility and other strategies aimed at improving reproductive healthcare in Nigeria. Keyword – Infertility, childlessness, lived experience, reproductive health, cultural sociology

Dimensionality of Multiple—-Choice Tests during Joint Mock Senior Dimensionality of Multiple School Certificate Examinations in Kwara State, Nigeria: Research Choice Tests during Joint Mock Senior School Certificate Examinations in Kwara State, Nigeria: Research School Certificate Examinations in Kwara State, Nigeria: Research Evidence from School Certificate Examinations in Kwara State, Nigeria: Research Evidence from 20 20 20 2018 18 18 18—-20 20 20 2019 19

Iwelumor Oluwakemi S1,2 1,2 1,2 1,2 and Babatunde Seun K and Babatunde Seun K3 33 3 1Department of Sociology, College of Business and Social Sciences, Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria 2Landmark University SDG 4 (Quality Education) 3Independent Researcher, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Email: babatunde2580@gmail.com babatunde2580@gmail.com

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT This study examined the dimensionality of Kwara State Joint Mock Senior School Certificate Examination Multiple Choice Tests in Economics using data obtained from 2018 and 2019; an approach to remove errors in assessment and ascertaining the reliability of assessment instruments. Using descriptive survey design, a total of 1200 students were sampled. The research instruments comprised of standardized 2018 and 2019 Economics tests. Reliability coefficients of 0.71 and 0.70 were obtained for 2012 and 2013, respectively. Descriptive statistics of mean, standard deviation, Skewness and Kurtosis were used to answer research question one while research questions two, three, and four were answered using Cronbach Alpha and Factor Analysis. Findings revealed that students’ performance was poor with average performances of 20.37 (2018) and 17.91 (2019). Using Cronbach Alpha and Factor Analysis, the test items complied with unidimensionality assumption. The dimensional structure between the test items used in 2018 and 2019 was relatively consistent. Thus, the need to gather evidence that supports the reliability and validity of score-based inferences is imperative from scientific, ethical, and legal perspectives. Keywords: Keywords: Academics performance, assessment, Cronbach’s alpha, dimensionality, factor Analysis, unidmentionality.

Review of the Challenges and Prospects for Educational Review of the Challenges and Prospects for Educational Review of the Challenges and Prospects for Educational Development amidst Review of the Challenges and Prospects for Educational Development amidst amidst National Insecurity in Nigeria National Insecurity in Nigeria: : : : The Socio National Insecurity in Nigeria Philosophical Way Forward Philosophical Way Forward

Phillips Olubiyi EE E– Department of General Studies Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Nigeria E-Mail: olubiyi.philips@federalpolyilaro.edu.ng Mail: olubiyi.philips@federalpolyilaro.edu.ng Mail: olubiyi.philips@federalpolyilaro.edu

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The goal of education in modern times is broader than it was in preliterate communities. Education currently influences politics, society, family, and the economy, among other things. Education must evolve in tandem with society, which is continuously changing and evolving. In the Nigerian context, professionals both at home and abroad have voiced great worry about the incoherence or inadequacies of the country’s education system, particularly at the college, polytechnic, and university levels. Youth between the ages of 18 and 30 years are commonly implicated in numerous crimes that contribute to insecurity. This paper applied a theoretical approach to periscope the multi-layered challenges of insecurity in Nigeria, particularly as these challenges impact the Nigerian nation’s educational trajectory with its associated negative consequences for Nigerian youth in particular and the country’s future in general. The paper also examined various literature materials to evaluate the results of previous publications on the topic under review, and thus recommended that government at all levels and stakeholders in Nigeria’s education industry be more retrospective, introspective and proactive on issues of national security in order to arrest the negative drift that is currently affecting Nigeria’s educational projections. Keywords: Education, Keywords: Education, Insecurity Insecurity Insecurity, ,, , Philosophy and Philosophy and Philosophy and National Development

Functional Integrated Science Education as a Tool for Functional Integrated Science Education as a Tool for Functional Integrated Science Education as a Tool for Wealth Functional Integrated Science Education as a Tool for Creation Economic Diversification Creation Economic Diversification

Hamidu Musa Yoldere Department of Integrated Science Hamidu Musa Yoldere Department of Integrated Science School for Secondary Education School for Secondary Education: : : : Science Programme Science Programme Email Science Programme Email: : : : hamidu2011@gmail.com hamidu2011@gmail.com

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This paper looked at functional integrated science education as a tool for wealth creation and economic diversification. It clarifies the concept of functional education, integrated science education, wealth creation and economic diversification. It examined how functional science education could be used to create wealth and economic diversification by applying some innovative strategies and some of the challenges retarding the achievement of functional integrated science education in Nigerian schools. The paper concludes that Functional integrated Science Education has the potential of equipping individuals with life coping skills for self – reliance, Integrated Science curriculum should be made to be functional in terms of teaching resources, enough teachers in quantity and quality who are well motivated and good learning environment. The paper recommended that; regular workshops, seminars and conferences should be organized for teachers of Integrated Science to build their capacities for Integrating entrepreneurial skills in their teachings, there is the need for the country to have more emphasis on practical aspects of the subject so that studies in Integrated science may become more functional to individual as well as benefiting to the larger society among others. Key Key Key Keywords: words: words: Functional education, integrated science, wealth creation and Economic diversification