4th Annual International Conference

International Society of Comparative Education, Science and Technology, Nigeria

4th Annual International Conference

4-7 December 2017, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria

Conference Programme

15:00 – 18:00 Registration
18:00 –18:10 Prof Steve Azaiki, Outgoing President, ICEST Welcome
18:10 – 20:00 Buffet Reception & Networking
09:00 – 11:00 Registration
11:00 – 11:45 Professor N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba, President, World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) & Professor, Africana Studies and Research Center, Cornell University, USA Keynote title: Science, Technologies and Entrepreneurship Education: The Nexus of Technical Competence and Comprehensive Education for Social Progress in Africa within the Global Context
11:45 – 13:00 Panel Discussion on the Keynote Presentation Panellists: Prof Steve Azaiki, Prof Omokaro Obire, Prof Getrude Shotte & Prof James Ogunleye
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:30 ISCEST 4th Annual General Meeting & Induction of New President

Education Sciences Section
5 December 2017
Session Chair: Professor Gertrude Shotte

15:30 – 16:00 Sunday Yomi, Akanmu M. Alex & Fajemidagba Michael. O., University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Influence of Five Phase Piagetian-Constructivism Model and mathematics laboratory on Senior School Students’ Performance in Plane Geometry in Abuja
16:00 – 16:30 Priscilla Ngozi Okoro, Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria Extent of Students’ Involvement in Decision Making in School Management in Public Secondary Schools of Ogun State, Nigeria
16:30 – 17:00 Marie Therese Teibowei, International Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, Bayelsa State, Nigeria The Problems Associated with the Teaching and Learning of French Grammar in Tertiary Institutions: A Focus on Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Section
5 December 2017
Session Chair: Professor Omokaro Obire

15:30 – 16:00 Obire, O & Obianime, N. E, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Occurrence and Antibiotic Sensitivity Profile of Salmonella Species Isolated from Plastic Fish Ponds
16:00 – 16:30 John Ugboma John Environmental Sensitivity Index Mapping of Mild Steel Corrosion of Ndoni River, Ahoada River, New Calabar River, Tombia River, Buguma River and Bonney Estuary
16:30 – 17:00 Glory Barinuaka Baeka & Jennifer Ada Okedike, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria, & Macfinney I heanyi Okonko, University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria Prevalence of Hepatitis B Virus among Patients Presenting with Malaria in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
17:00 – 17:30 Daokoru-Olukole, C. G. & Agidi, A.D., Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, Nigeria & Olanbiwoninu, A. A., Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo State, Nigeria Microbial Diversity Associated with House Dust from Four Different Floor Types in Yenagoa Metropolis, Bayelsa State

Conference Keynote Presentation
6 December 2017
Session Chair: Professor Omokaro Obire

09:00 – 10:30 Registration
10:30 – 11:15 Professor Godwin Nwachukwu Isitor, Department of Applied and Environmental Biology, Rivers State University, Port Harcout, Nigeria Keynote title: Fish Ponds with Special Emphasis on Microbiological Conditions Affecting it and Food Security in Nigeria
11:15 – 11:55 Panel Discussion on the Keynote Presentation Panelists: Prof Steve Azaiki, Prof Edith C. Chuku, Prof Getrude Shotte & Prof Omokaro Obire

Education Section
6 December 2017
Conference Presentations
Section Co-Chairs: Professor Charl C. Wolhuter & Professor Gertrude Shotte

12:00 – 12:30 Steve Azaiki, Institute of Science and Technology Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria & Gertrude Shotte, Middlesex University, London, UK Entrepreneurship Education for Sustainable Development: A Look at Nigeria
12:30 – 13:00 Kurotimi M Fems & Franklin Agada, Federal Polytechnic of Oil & Gas Ekowe, Bayelsa, Nigeria, Francis D. W. Poazi, Niger Delta University, Bayelsa State, Nigeria & Aladei Godsave, Adaka Boro College of Education, Bayelsa state, Nigeria Entrepreneurship Education: A Precursor to Graduate Entrepreneurship. The Yenagoa Experience
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch:
14:00 – 14:30 Christopher Eje Ogar & Kayode Gboyega Oyeniran, Federal University Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Library As an Aid to the Management of Entrepreneurship Education in an Era of Economic Recession in Nigeria
14:30 – 15:00 Mgbenihu Amadi, Ignartius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State, Nigeria Creativity and Entrepreneurship Education: A Panacea to Economic and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria. Agenda for Implementation
15:00 – 15:30 Seun Bunmi Adebayo, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain & Grace Taiwo Adebayo, Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria Teachers, Curriculum Reform for Entrepreneurship Education in Nigeria: Issues and Consequences
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break:
16:00 – 16:30 Marie Therese Teibowei, International Institute of Tourism and Hospitality, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Foreign Language Education as a Tool for Peace Building and Social Reintegration: A Focus on the Amnesty Programme for Ex-Agitators in the Nigerian Niger Delta Region
16:30 – 17:00 Okeke Bartholomew Okwudili, Azaiki Foundation and Public Library Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Challenges of Democracy and Good Governance in Africa

Agricultural & Environmental Sciences Section
6 December 2017
Conference Presentations
Section Chair: Professor Omokaro Obire

12:00 – 12:30 Salome Ibietela Douglas & George I. Osigwe, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Evaluation of Microbial Contamination of Mobile Phones of Persons Working in a Microbiology Laboratory
12:30 – 13:00 Idongesit Effiong Sampson, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Design of a Bioreactor for the Treatment of Petroleum Sludge
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch:
14:00 – 14:30 Idongesit Effiong Sampson, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Culicidae Repellency Property of Neem Seed Kernel Extract
14:30 – 15:00 Emelike, N.J.T. & Achinewhu, S.C., Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Mycoflora and heavy metals in roasted cow meat (Suya) from some taxi terminals in Port Harcourt
15:00 – 15:30 Akani, N.P. & Vareba, A. S., Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Antimicrobial Susceptibility Pattern of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from Ready-to-eat food (moi-moi)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee/Tea Break:
16:00 – 16:30 Disegha, G. C. and Akani, N.P., Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Antifungal activity of Mangifera indica leaf extracts on selected fungi
16:30 – 17:00 Obioma Azuonwu, Testimonies Chikanka Azuonwu, Edith C. Chuku & Marcus Azubuike Ndah, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Isolation and Identification of Potential High-Risk Pathogens from Blenders used in Grinding Some Food Stuffs in a Local Community Market of Rivers State: A Public Health Concern

Education Sciences Section
7 December 2017
Session Chair: Professor Gertrude Shotte

10:00 – 10:30 Mgbenihu Amadi, Ignartius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State, Nigeria Delinquency Among Juveniles: A Realistic Approach to Its Causes, Types and Solutions
10:30 – 11:00 Shade Babalola, Leyton Sixth Form College, London, UK Inequalities within Nigeria’s education system. A focus on secondary schools in Lagos, Ondo and Ogun-State
11:00 – 11:30 Mgbenihu Amadi, Ignartius Ajuru University of Education, Rivers State, Nigeria Youths and Drug Abuse: Realistic Approach to Effective Approach to Effective Management Strategies of Drug Abuse
11:30 – 12:00 Elei Green Igbogi & Gertrude Shotte Inclusivity, an Afrocentric Curriculum and the Moral Dimensions of Lifelong Learning: Solutions for Nigeria’s Sea Piracy Problems?
12:00 – 12:30 Priscilla Ngozi Okoro, Federal College of Education, Osiele, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria Decentralised School Governance in Nigerian Higher Education Institutions
12:30 – 13:00 James Ogunleye, Middlesex University UK & Steve Azaiki, Institute of Science & Technology Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria Higher Education, Big Data and Learning Analytics

Environmental & Agricultural Sciences Section
7 December 2016
Section Chair: Prof Omokaro Obire

10:00 – 10:30 Idongesit Effiong Sampson, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Process Design for Production of One Thousand Tons Per Annum of Industrial Starch
10:30 – 11:00 Baranu, B. S & Oyim, O. J, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Microorganisms Found in a Campus Water Tanks; It’s Effect on the Quality of Water and Human Health
11:00 – 11:30 Barade, W. N & Obire, O, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Effect of Sand Mining on the Heavy Metal and Mycoflora Status of Teenama Creek
11:30 – 12:00 Obire, Omokaro & Vincent, Ovienovie, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Microbiological Quality of Fish Pond Water
12:00 – 12:30 Renner Renner Nrior & Regina Tee-Porobe Baraol, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Toxicity of Nigeria ‘illegal’ local and industrial refined kerosene on key environmental pollution monitor, Nitrobacter sp. in tri-aquatic ecosystem
12:30 – 13:00 Ken-Ezihuo Stella & Disegha, G.C., Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Effect of Asymptomatic Malaria on Haematological Parameters in Children
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch:
14:00 – 14:30 Obioma Azuonwu, Nnenna Ihua, Samuel Douglass Abbey & Kingsley Gbidum Kpite Microbial Risk Assessment of Borehole Drinking Water Source in Diobu Area of Port Harcourt Metropolis, Rivers State, Nigeria
14:30 – 15:00 Williams Janet Olufunmilayo & Chibuike Princess Mebom, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Bioremediation Potentials of Two Cyanobacterial Isolates on Rivers Polluted with Abattoir Effluent
15:00 – 15:30 Williams Janet Olufunmilayo & Amaechi Vivian Chinanza, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Nigeria Bioremediation of Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soil Using Organic Wastes as Amendment
15:30 – 16:00 Tea/Coffee:
16:00 – 16:30 Iyamu Mercy Itohan, Ambrose Ali University Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria Antimicrobial and Phytoconstituent Analysis of the Leaf Extracts of Annual Swordfern (Nephrolepis undulata Afzel. Ex Sw.)
16:30 – 17:00 Daokoru-Olukole, C. G & Agedah Dengiyefa Richard, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Beyelsa State, Nigeria Ammonia Fertilizer Effluent as Substrate in Microbial Fuel Cell for Bioelectricity Production
17:00 – 19:00 Closing Ceremony

Conference Closing Session
7 December 2017
Chair: Prof Omokaro Obire

17:30 – 17:50 General Comments & Feedback on the 2017 conference Looking Ahead
17:50 – 18:00 Closing remarks – ISCEST President Prof Omokaro Obire
17:00 – 19:00 Farewell Dinner

Keynote Speakers

Prof. N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

Prof. N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba

N’Dri T. Assié-Lumumba

Africana Studies & Research Center, College of Arts and Sciences

Expertise
Comparative and international education; higher education; equity-gender issues in education; educational innovations, including information and communications technologies, and distance learning; European colonization of Africa; Africa and the African diaspora

Current Research Interests
Globalization and education, gender and disciplinary clusters, educational innovations, the use of technology in education, higher education processes, education and sustainable development

Distinction
World Academy of Art and Science Fellow
Comparative and International Education Society President
New York State African Studies Association Distinguished Africanist Award
Cornell University Frank Scruggs Faculty Fellow
Fulbright Senior Research Fellow
Japanese Ministry of Education Foreign Expert in Education and Development Fellowship
Joyce Cain Award for Distinguished Research on African Descendants
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Resident Fellow

Selected Publications
Assié-Lumumba, N’Dri. “Millennium Development in Retrospect: Higher Education and the Gender Factor in Africa’s Development Beyond 2015.” In Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Retrospect—Africa's Development Beyond, edited by Nathan Andrews, Ernest Nene Khalema, and N’Dri Assie-Lumumba, 81-98. London: Springer, 2015.

Assié-Lumumba, N’Dri. “Education and Development in Côte d’Ivoire: Evolving Gender Representation in Higher Education from Peace to the Era of Political Instability and Post-Conflict Reconstruction.” In Education in West Africa, edited by Emefa Amoako. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015.

Cornell Research Website Article
Umbutu: Interconnected, Looking Forward

Cornell Research Website Video
N'Dri Assié-Lumumba: A Faculty Profile

Prof. Godwin Nwachukwu Isitor

Prof. Godwin Nwachukwu Isitor

Prof. Godwin Nwachukwu Isitor 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

  • D.V.M .,1975, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria     
  • M.S., 1978, Kansas State University, Manhattan, U.S.A
  • Ph.D., 1981, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
  • Cartificate In Advanced Pascal Computer Programming, 1988, Systech Ltd  Trinidad, W.I          

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:  

  • Member, Fishery Society of Nigeria (MFISON)
  • Member, British Association of of Clinical Anatomist ( MBACA)
  • Member, Caribbean Academy of Science (MCAS)               

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

Department of Public and Community Health, Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, Nigeria
Professor  (October, 2017 To Date)

Department Of Animal and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Science, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt
Professor  (October, 2012 To September, 2017)

Department Of Basic Veterinary Sciences, Faculty Of Medical Sciences, The University Of The West Indies, Trinidad W.I.
Visiting Professor  (August 29, 2012 To July 30, 2013)

Department Of Public And Community Health, College Of Health Sciences, Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, Nigeria (October, 2010 To Dec. 30, 2012)
Professor & Head Of Department (January, 2012 To Sept. 30, 2012)

Department Of Animal Science, Faculty Of Sgriculture, Delta State University, Asaba Campus, Nigeria. (January, 2010 To December, 2011)
Professor

Department of Preclinical Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of the West Indies, Trinidad, W.I, (November 1986 to June, 2009).
Professor of Veterinary and Microscopic Anatomy (May 2004 to June 2009)
Lecturer, Veterinary Anatomy (1986 to April 2004)
Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria (1976 to 1986)

PUBLICATIONS:

        Has over 50 schorlarly publications in refereed journals.

PRESENT RESEARCH FOCUS:

Presently engaged in researches on pollution of aquaculture and its attendant public health and food security challenges.

Recently lead a team of researchers in implementing a TETFUND sponsored research project titled “Conservation of ornamental and food fish biodiversity through aquaria systems” at RSUST, Port Harcourt

Professor Godini G. Darah

Professor Godini G. Darah

Professor Godini G. Darah

Professor of Oral Literature and Folklore, Delta State University, Abraka

WORK EXPERIENCE (ACADEMIC)

  • 2016-2017: Visiting Professor, Department of English & Literary Studies, Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State
  • 1992: Visiting Professor of African Folklore, Department of African American Studies, North-eastern University, Boston, U. S. A.
  • 1978-1991: Lecturer, Department of Literature in English, Obafemi Awolowo University (formerly University of Ife), Ile-Ife
  • 1986-1987: Part-Time Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State
  • 1974-1977: Teaching Assistant, Department of English, University of Ibadan

(ADMINISTRATIVE)

  • 2001-Date: Member, University Senate, Delta State University, Abraka
  • 2007-Date: Member, Governing Council, Western Delta University, Oghara 2007-2008:  Member, Interim Governing Council, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE)
  • 2009-2010: Chair, Blue Print Committee, Delta State Tertiary Education Summit
  • 2002-2003: Chair, Committee for the Establishment of the Institute of Niger Delta Studies, Delta State University
  • 2002-2003: Head of Department, English & Literary Studies, DELSU

GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS:

  • 2016 – Date: Member, Central Working Committee, Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF)
  • 2014: Delta State Delegate, National Conference, Abuja
  • 2013-2015: Chief Consultant, Development of Academic Brief and Curriculum, Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State.                    
  • 2016-Date: National Consultant on UNESCO 2003 Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
  • 2007-Date: Member, Nigeria-UNESCO Advisory Committee on Oral and Intangible Cultural Heritage
  • 2010-Date: Founding President, Nigerian Oral Literature Association (NOLA)
  • 2010 – Date: Member, International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA)
  • 2005-2007: Chief of Staff, Government House, Asaba
  • 2003-2005: Special Adviser on Public Communications, Delta State
  • 1998-2001: National Coordinator, Nigeria-South Africa Dialogue Committee
  • 1997-2007: Member, Delta State Think-Tank on Development
  • 1995-2001: Vice-President, Nigeria-Korea Friendship Association
  • 1995-2001: Vice-President, Nigeria-Cuba Friendship Association
  • 1988-1995: President, Nigerian Folklore Society
  • 1998-Date: Member, Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation (BOF)
  • 1991-1995: Member, National Commission for Museums & Monuments
  • 1984-1986: Chairman, Academic Staff Union of Universities, OAU Branch

EXPERIENCE IN JOURNALISM, MASS MEDIA

  • 2013- Present: Editor-In-Chief, Nigerian Journal of Oral Literatures
  • 2014-Present: Co-Editor with Tanure Ojaide, ARIDON: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies
  • 1995-2001: Chairman, Editorial Board, The Guardian newspaper, Lagos
  • 1992-1995: Chairman, Editorial Board, Daily Times newspaper, Lagos
  • 1995 & 2002: Journalist Special Guest of the Government of the Republic of Korea
  • 1995: Journalist-Delegate, United Nations Summit on Social Development, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1995-1997: Member, UN Media Committee on Development, Lagos
  • 1995: Principal Consultant, UNDP Workshops on Sustainable Development in Nigeria

PUBLISHED/EDITED BOOKS (SAMPLES)

  • Niger Delta, Resource Control and the Quest for Justice (Ibadan: Kraftbooks 2014)
  • Radical Essays on Nigerian Literatures (ed. Malthouse Press 2008)
  • Battles of Songs: Udje Tradition of the Urhobo (Malthouse Press 2005)
  • Udje Song Poetry of the Urhobo and Oral Literature in Africa,
  • Delta State University Inaugural Lecture Series, 2010
  • Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Spirit in Ascent (ed. Ovuomaroro Gallery, (1992)
  • With Femi Osofisan and others (eds.) Proceedings of the International
  • Symposium on African Literatures, (CBAAC, 1991)