Implication of Fuel Subsidy Removal on Academic Performance of Students in Tertiary Institutions, Nigeria (Published)
This paper examines the implication of fuel subsidy on academic performance of tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Thus, fuel subsidy removal announced by President Bola Ahmmed Tinubu on his inaugural speech day has been generated to many problems in our country which affected all segments of human life in Nigeria, particularly the people of lower class who have been found it cumbersome to eat three times daily. Yet, these problems lead to hiking the prices of foodstuffs and other an essential materials like transportation, health and education e.t.c. However, thousands of the students of less privilege were out of the campuses throughout the country while many students are involved anti – social behaviours such as hook up, Yahoo, kidnappers and commercial sex workers, because they wanted to meet their needs for their studies at all cost. Similarly, the prices of transportation went up, created more problems for the students who are schooling in other states have been found it difficult to travel back to their respectful institutions. Meanwhile, thousands of parents could not be met up the needs of their children, because of their inability to provide their siblings school pre-requisites for their studies. Consequently, the fuel subsidy removal has been changed many responsible students live to become beggars in all tertiary institutions in three major zones in Nigeria (North, South, and East), while others are struggling to attend their lectures in their respectful institutions with stressful in order to satisfy their owned curiosity on campuses in the various tertiary institutions. Nigeria. (Universities, Colleges of Education and Polytechnics)
Keywords: Administration, Fuel, Implication, Institution, Performance, Prices, Students, Tertiary, campus, removal, subsidy
Institutional Emolument/Fringe Benefits and Job Effectiveness of Lecturers in Public Tertiary Institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria (Published)
The present study was aimed at examining the relationship between institutional emolument/fringe benefits and job effectiveness of lecturers in public tertiary institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. One hypothesis was formulated and tested using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient at 0.05 level of significance. The population of this study was 1744 lecturers from four public institutions in Cross River State (University of Calabar, Cross River University of Technology, Federal College of Education Obudu and Cross River State College of Education, Akamkpa). The sample was arrived at using the stratified random sampling technique. The sample size of the study stood at 610 lecturers, which represents 35% of the population. 1830 students from the four institutions were purposively selected to respond to items that measures lecturers’ job effectiveness. The questionnaire formed the major instruments used for data collection for the study. To ensure the reliability of the instruments, a split half method of reliability was adopted. The reliability produced the value of 0.75 and 0.83 respectively. The figures showed a high reliability of the instruments. Result of the study showed a significant relationship between emoluments/fringe benefits and job effectiveness of lecturers. The study recommended among other things that, lecturers deserve their wages/salaries, so managements should endeavor to pay lecturers wages equitable with their counterparts in the world, this would motive them to work.
Keywords: Fringe benefits, Institution, Job Effectiveness, Lecturers, emolument