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This tracer study was designed to track National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) graduate nurses in their places of work with a view to ascertaining their level of professional competency and to explore employers' expectation of graduate competencies. The study employed the descriptive survey design. Participants included 222 NOUN "alumni" who graduated in nursing programme and a corresponding 222 heads/top-level managers of the organizations where the graduate nurses were employed. Multiple instruments were used to collect data including competency test, survey questionnaire, and direct observation. A number of remarkable findings emerged from this study, both expected and unexpected. Majority of sampled graduates appeared to possess high level of professional competency in all three competency dimensions measured. A significant proportion of employers seemed to hold high perception regarding the graduates. In matching the employers' perception of ODL graduates against actual competencies of NOUN graduate nurses with the use of quadrant analysis, the resulting values showed that a significant proportion of the graduates met and exceeded employer expectation.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the perception of students on the implementation of e-examination and their preparedness for facilitation through a web-based learning platform at the National Open University of Nigeria. Information gathered from the year three and year four students who registered for courses in English Literature in the undergraduate English Programme and Law at the Lagos Study Centre of the university was evaluated. This group of students has participated in the e-examination as well as the pen on paper (POP) examinations so are in a better position to evaluate the e-examination. The investigation was carried out through interviews, focus discussions and questionnaires and the result indicated that the students' perceptions of online examination were generally positive and that they were enthusiastic about online facilitation but skeptical about its workability at this stage of our nation's technological development.

This paper opines that apartheid, though abolished, was not peculiar to South Africa, but prevalent in many post-independence African states in form of social injustice wherein the politics of allocation of amenities has entrenched the system of segregation, discrimination exploitation and oppression against a majority group of people by a minority group as captured by Ifeoma Okoye in The Fourth World and Festus Iyayi in Violence. The conclusion is that it is not yet Uhuru (freedom) for African states, because apartheid is still very much present in form of gross social injustice, and that meaningful progress in society can only be achieved through its eradication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work argues that modernity and globalization has affected the concept home in Africa in such a way that many African people relocate to foreign countries, settle there as citizens, and forget their homes and that some who return encounter problems of disintegration, identity crisis and alienation; and some are unable to adapt or be fully integrated at home because of their preference for foreign cultures. In this paper, Pede Hollist's novel So The Path Does Not Die is used to discuss the conceptions and misconceptions of home and return, and concludes that in spite of a seemingly erosion of the African concept of home via the preference for of foreign lands and cultures by many Africans, a sojourner in a foreign land can still return home and contribute positively to rebuilding and healing the home land, although it may have been devastated by greed, and a quest for power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]