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    Assessment of the Skill Acquisition Centers in Training Youths for self-Employment in Niger State
    (Benue State University Journal of Education (BSUJE), 2017) Igwe, C. O.; Abutu, F.; Gana, C. S.; Nwokolo-Ojo, J. C.; Mohammed, M. M
    This paper assessed the effectiveness of skill acquisition centers in training youths for self-employment in Niger State. The study was a survey research in which data were collected with the use of a 30-item questionnaire on a population of 158 respondents purposively sampled from National Directorate of Employment (NDE) skill acquisition centers for youth in Minna, Suleja and Bida towns. The data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation on a 4-point scale, while z-test was used to test the null hypotheses at.05 level of probability. Findings of the study revealed that a number of programmes are put in place in skill acquisition centers but faced several challenges in terms of effective implementation. The study found that the small amount of salaries paid to master trainers plus the irregularities and delay in payment reduces motivation to teach skills; poor monitoring, supervision and pedagogical competence in terms of instructional delivery of skills; poor funding and misappropriation of training funds plus disregards to the needs of the informal sector: are among the major challenges faced by skill acquisition centers in training youth for self-employment in Niger State. The study recommended standardizing programme implementation operations and certification at skill acquisition centers and adequate funding of NDE youth training programmes at all levels of governance in Nigeria.
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    Assessment of Drinking Water Quality from Chanchaga Area, Minna, Niger State, Nigeria
    (Caliphate Journal of Science & Technology (CaJoST), 2020-05-30) Bisiriyu, Muhammad T.; Koleola, Abidemi A.; Kolo, Muhammad; Ibrahim, Mohammed
    he accessibility to safe drinking water is essential to prevent water-borne diseases like diarrhoea and cholera; thus, this study assessed the quality of drinking water sources available to the inhabitants of the Chanchaga area, Minna, Niger State. A total of twelve water samples consisting of four boreholes, four wells, and four tap water, including one from Chanchaga water works were collected and analysed for some physicochemical parameters and heavy metals using standard procedures. The results showed that the average physicochemical properties of tap, well and borehole water samples respectively, were pH, 6.60, 6.62 and 6.67, turbidity 1.58, 3.42 and 3.15 NTU, total suspended solids, 0.03, 0.09 and 0.00 mg/L, total dissolved solids, 0.96, 4.68 and 1.14 mg/L, total solids, 0.99, 4.79 and 1.14mg/L, electrical conductivity, 158.25, 799.25 and 778.25 µЅ/cm, alkalinity, 13.50, 50.00, and 117.50 mg/L, chloride,18.75, 74.00 and 47.25mg/L, total hardness65.50, 227.75 and 149.50 mg/L, while the heavy metal concentrations in tap, borehole and well water samples were Cu, 0.02, 0.20 and 0.33 mg/L, Mn, not detected, 0.23 and 0.32, Pb was not detected in all the samples and Fe, 0.21, 3.10 and 2.12 mg/L respectively. All the parameters analysed were below the maximum permissible limits specified by WHO except the total hardness of well water and concentration of Fe in well and borehole water, which were above the maximum permissible limits. It can be concluded that the three sources of water at different locations in the study area are safe for human consumption at the time this research was conducted.