Employers’ Strategies Adopting Support for Nigerian Higher Education Institutions Enhancing College Graduates Employability

In Nigeria, employers face the challenge of recruiting and retaining a competent workforce. Most college graduates cannot perform basic office tasks. The problem is that employers in service organizations are failing to adopt strategies to support Nigerian higher education institutions to enhance graduate employability. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore the strategy an employer in a service organization adopts to support Nigerian higher education institutions in enhancing college graduate employability. The stakeholder theory underpinned this study. Five managers and five graduate employees using purposeful sampling were interviewed in a service organization in Lagos, Nigeria. Data were analyzed using pattern-matching logic after triangulation of emerging themes from interviews and triangulating the themes with internal and external organizational artifacts. Research results showed that employers have not supported higher education institutions in enhancing the employability of graduates. A potential positive social change is that the study’s findings could help establish impactful collaboration between higher education institutions and employers in the service sector to boost graduate employability and minimize college graduate unemployment

A community-engaged infection prevention and control approach to Ebola.

The real missing link in Ebola control efforts to date may lie in the failure to apply core principles of health promotion: the early, active and sustained engagement of affected communities, their trusted leaders, networks and lay knowledge, to help inform what local control teams do, and how they may better do it, in partnership with communities. The predominant focus on viral transmission has inadvertently stigmatized and created fear-driven responses among affected individuals, families and communities. While rigorous adherence to standard infection prevention and control (IPC) precautions and safety standards for Ebola is critical, we may be more successful if we validate and combine local community knowledge and experiences with that of IPC medical teams. In an environment of trust, community partners can help us learn of modest adjustments that would not compromise safety but could improve community understanding of, and responses to, disease control protocol, so that it better reflects their 'community protocol' (local customs, beliefs, knowledge and practices) and concerns. Drawing on the experience of local experts in several African nations and of community-engaged health promotion leaders in the USA, Canada and WHO, we present an eight step model, from entering communities with cultural humility, though reciprocal learning and trust, multi-method communication, development of the joint protocol, to assessing progress and outcomes and building for sustainability. Using examples of changes that are culturally relevant yet maintain safety, we illustrate how often minor adjustments can help prevent and treat the most serious emerging infectious disease since HIV/AIDS

Heat and Mass Transfer for Soret and Dufour’s Effect on Mixed Convection Boundary Layer Flow over a Stretching Vertical Surface in a Porous Medium Filled with a Viscoelastic Fluid in the Presence of Magnetic field

Thermal-diffusion and diffusion-thermo effects on combined heat and mass transfer on mixed convection boundary layer flow over a stretching vertical surface in a porous medium filled with a viscoelastic fluid in the presence of magnetic field is investigated. The partial differential equations governing the problem have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a system of ordinary differential equations which are solved numerically by using the shooting method with sixth-order of Runge-Kutta technique which are compared with Homotopy Adomian’s Decomposition Method (HAM) for special case when magnetic field parameter is zero For fluids of medium molecular weight (H2, air), profiles of the dimensionless velocity, temperature and concentration distributions are shown graphically for various values of parameters embedded in the flow model. Finally, numerical values of physical quantities, such as the local skin friction coefficient, the local Nusselt number and the local Sherwood number are presented in tabular form

Occurrence and population distribution of plant parasitic nematodes associated with roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) in northern Nigeria

Pests including nematodes have been reported as a limiting factor to the production of roselle worldwide. A survey of rosellefarmsinsix Northern Sates of Nigeria was conductedin 2013 to identify the diverse nematode species associated with the soils and roots of the plant and determine their population densities on farmers’ fields. Eightsoil and ten plant samples were randomly collected from each of twenty farms from which nematodes were extracted and identified. Four genera of plantparasitic nematodes (Meloidogyne spp., Helicotylenchus spp., Rotylenchulus spp.and Tylenchus spp.) were found in association with roots and rhizosphere of roselle plants. Meloidogyne were most populous (62.29%) on the roots while Tylenchuswas least (1.68%). Helicotylenchus spp appeared in highest density (50.05%) in plant rhizosphere, but not identified from the roots. The highest percentage of nematode population (22.7 %) wasfrom Katsina, followed by Sokoto (21.6%), Jigawa (17.4%), Zamfara (16.5%), Kano (15.1%) and Kaduna states (6.7%).The generally low nematode density observed might be due to low precipitation and high soil temperature of the six states. Occurrence of varied species of nematodes demands effective control measures for improved roselle productivity. Kano, Zamfara and Jigawawith low nematode population densities can be considered for further research towards the establishment of pest-free areas or area of low pest prevalence for roselle nematodes in Nigeria, useful in the agricultural export trade. Further studies are required on the determination of density economic threshold and the definitive roles of nematodes in causing low productivity of roselle.Keywords: Export value, Hibiscus sabdariffa, nematodes, population densities, pest-free are

Combined Effect of Radiant Heat, Local Nusselt Number and Skin Friction Coefficient of a Third Grade Fluid through a Channel Flow in a Saturated Porous Medium

This paper investigates the combined effects of radiant heat, local Nusselt number and Skin friction coefficient on a channel flow of third grade fluid in the presence of saturated porous medium. It is assumed that the fluid has temperature-dependent variable viscosity and thermal conductivity. The non-linear governing differential equations are obtained and tackled numerically using Spectral element technique and C++ programming language. Increase in the values of radiation parameter and third grade material parameter consequently increase the local Nusselt number and skin friction coefficient. Graphical results showing the effects of various physical parameters are presented and discussed quantitatively. It is concluded that Williamson’s fluid parameter served as a cooling factor in diverse improved technological processes in order to avoid different machines from overheating and enhance their efficiencies

Persistence of fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky from poultry and poultry sources in Nigeria

Introduction: This study investigated the antimicrobial resistance and clonality of Salmonella enterica serotype Kentucky in poultry and poultry sources in Nigeria, and compared the isolates with the clone of S. Kentucky STI98-X1 CIPR using (PFGE) and (MIC). Methodology: Fecal samples from chickens and poultry sources (litter, water, rodent and lizard fecal samples) were collected from  fourteen (14) poultry farms in 2007, 2010 and 2011 and were analyzed for S. Kentucky. Results and conclusions: Six percent of the samples were positive for S. Kentucky – all resistant to nalidixic acid and ciprofloxacin. The isolates are grouped within the PFGE cluster X1 of S. Kentucky STI98 CIPR, indicating the association to the emerging and widely spread CIPR S. Kentucky clone with poultry and poultry sources.</jats:p

Analyses of Willingness to Practice Agriculture as Enterprise among Students of Tertiary Institutions in Ibadan, Oyo State

This study investigated willingness to practice agriculture as enterprise among students of tertiary institutions in Oyo State. A Multi-stage sampling technique was used to elicit data from 112 selected respondents in the study area. Data were collected using a well structured questionnaire and analyzed with the use of descriptive (frequency counts, percentages, and mean) and inferential statistic (Chi-square and Pearson Product Moment Correlation). The results showed that majority of the respondents were within the age range of 21-25 years, with majority males, whom were single in the study area. Furthermore, results revealed that majority of the respondents had low interest in agricultural enterprise preference and high constraint associated with respondents willingness to engage in agricultural enterprise in the study area. Majority of the respondents had positive willingness to practice agricultural enterprise in the study area. There was significant relationship between selected socio-economic characteristics of the respondents except Gender and Marital status. It is therefore recommended that government should motivate agricultural students by providing Youth Empowerment programmes and services directed to improve their willingness to engage in agricultural enterprises