A study was conducted to assess- the food calorie intake and factors that determine food security status of fisherfolks in North-Central and North-Western Nigeria. Data were collected from 267 rural fishery households using a multi-stage random sampling procedure. The main tools of analysis include descriptive statistics, Cost of calorie intake and Tobit models. The study revealed that the fishery household heads were male dominated (94%); average age of 49 years with mean adjusted household size of 8. The estimated mean years of schooling of sampled fisherfolks were 3.5 years, largely skewed towards the informal education and below 2015 UNDP mean education index of 5 years for Nigeria. The calorie intake for the secured fisherfolks households recorded higher values for the entire food intake than the insecured households. The result showed that only 35.58% of the sampled fisheries households were food secured while majority (64.42%) of the sampled households were food insecured. The determinants of food insecurity status were socio-economic variables and those factors that influenced the food secured fisherfolks showed slight variation from those influenced households that were food insecured and where it did, it was not by the same magnitude and direction. There is need for an appropriate policy mix that will promote the increased production of legumes and animal protein foods in the study area to raise and meet the minimum average protein required per caput per day. Food insecure households should be educate by extension agents through their cooperative societies to increase production of maize, sorghum, millet, rice and cowpea to enhance their food security status.
Motivated by the recent global economic crisis, this paper simulated the impact of a rise in the price of imported food on agriculture and household poverty in Nigeria using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and the Foster, Greer and Thorbecke (FGT) class of decomposable poverty measures on the 2006 social accounting matrix (SAM) of Nigeria and the updated 2004 Nigeria Living Standards Survey (NLSS) data. Results show that a rise in import price of food increased domestic output of food, but reduced the domestic supply of other agricultural commodities as well as food and other agricultural composites. Furthermore, a rise in the import price of food increased poverty nationally and among all household groups, with rural-north households being the least affected by the shock, while their rural-south counterparts were the most affected. A major policy implication drawn from this paper is that high import prices in import competing sectors like agriculture tend to favour the sector but exacerbate poverty in households. Thus, efforts geared at addressing the impact of this shock should strive to balance welfare and efficiency issues.
The ripple effect of Covid-19 pandemic made government to shutdown higher institutions in Nigeria. It is on this premise that this study examined motivational strategies as determinants of lecturers’ effectiveness in Nigerian private universities with reference to Al-Hikmah University. Two research questions and three hypotheses were generated to guide the study. The population of the study consists of 142 academic staff in Al- Hikmah University. Stratified and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 108 respondents across the seven 7 faculties (Agriculture, Education, Health Sciences, Humanities, Law, Management Sciences, and Natural and Applied Sciences) for the study. An instrument titled “Motivational Strategies and Lecturers’ Effectiveness Questionnaire (MSLEQ)” was adapted to elicit relevant from the respondents. Data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential methods. Findings revealed lecturers’ high and moderate perception on availability of motivational strategies in Al-Hikmah University amidst covid-19. Also, promotion and salary were found as determinants of lecturers’ effectiveness. On the contrary, working condition was found not to be determinant of lecturers’ effectiveness. Based on the findings, the study recommends that salaries and allowances of lecturers should be paid regularly, this will ensure optimal job performance of the lecturers. Lastly, staff promotion should be carried out as at when due, this will spur them to be committed in discharge of their duties. Keywords: Covid-19, Lockdown, Motivational Strategies, Effectiveness, Private Universities
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