Development of an Online Bus Ticket Reservation System for a Transportation Service in Nigeria

The use of bus traveling is a large growing business in Nigeria and other countries; the manual use of bus reservation is presently very strenuous and also consumes a lot of time by having to stay on a long queue. For this reason, an efficient system is to be proposed in this paper to ease the issue of bus reservation amongst indigenes within the country. The system is a web – based application that allows visitors to check bus availability, buy and pay bus ticket online. In this paper, the proposed bus reservation system was developed using Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML), PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP), Structure Query Language (SQL), Ajax, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and JavaScript. Keywords: Bus Reservation, Queue, Efficient

The Participation of Rice Farmers In Capacity Building Programmes of Agricultural Development Programme in Kwara State, Nigeria

Abstract: This s tudy was carried out to examine the participation of rice farmers in capacity building training programmes organized by Agricultural Development Programme in collaboration with other bodies such as Olam, USAID and First Bank in Kwara State, Nigeria.A sample of 180 contract farmers from two Local Government Areas of Kwara State who participated in the training were randomly selected and interviewed. Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were employed in data analyses which include the use of frequency count, mean, pie-chart, bar chart, percentages and regression analysis. The findings revealed the level of participation of rice farmers in the two major rice producing Local Government Areas (Edu and Patigi ). The results revealed that the farmers’participation level was high in Patigi Local Government Area with participation mean of 6.189, and low in Edu LGA with participation mean of 3.267.Regression analysis showed that there were positive relationships between participation levels of farmers in capacity building programmes and age , educational levels, household size, years of experience, secondary occupation,farm size and land ownership.It is recommended that the venue of the training should be decentralized for the farmers to have access to the place of training. Keywords:Capacity building, levels, participation, trainin

Effect of neem leaf meal on carcass characteristics and meat quality of broiler chickens

A study was carried out to assess phytobiotic effect of neem leaf on carcass quality, chemical composition, refrigeration and cooking weight losses of the breast meat of broiler chicken fed varying inclusion levels of neem (Azadirachta indica) leaf meal (NLM) at 0, 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% inclusion levels to replace wheat offal w/w. One hundred and ninety-two birds were divided into four treatments consisting of three replicates and each replicate consisting of 18 birds. The birds were fed ad libitum for 8 weeks. The data obtained were subjected to one-way Analysis of Variance at 95% significant level. The result on carcass weight of broiler chicken fed varying level of neem leaf meal showed no significant (P>0.05) differences in all the parameters. The refrigeration and cooking weight losses, sensory analysis (colour, juiciness, meat flavour, tenderness, flavour, saltiness, overall flavour and overall acceptability) were not influenced by NLM. Moisture and ash contents were the parameters that were significantly (pSe llevó a cabo un estudio para evaluar el efecto fitobiótico de la hoja de neem sobre la calidad de la canal, la composición química, la refrigeración y las pérdidas de peso de cocción de la carne de pechuga de pollo de engorde alimentado con niveles variables de inclusión de hoja de neem (Azadirachta indica) (NLM) a 0, 0,5, 1,0 y 1,5% niveles de inclusión para reemplazar los despojos de trigo w /w. Ciento noventa y dos aves se dividieron en cuatro tratamientos que consistían en tres réplicas y cada una de las tres réplicas que consisten en 18 aves. Las aves fueron alimentadas ad libitum durante 8 semanas. Los datos obtenidos fueron sometidos a un análisis unidireccional de la varianza a un nivel significativo del 95%. El resultado en el peso en canal de pollo de engorde alimentado en diferentes niveles de harina de hoja de neem no mostró diferencias significativas (P>0.05) en todos los parámetros. Las pérdidas de peso de refrigeración y cocción, el análisis sensorial (color, jugosidad, sabor de carne, ternura, sabor, salinidad, sabor general y aceptabilidad general) no fueron influenciados por NLM. El contenido de humedad y cenizas fueron los parámetros que fueron significativamente (