Despite universities’ increasing awareness of the importance of maintaining academic integrity, students are still involved in plagiarism and other forms of academic misconduct. In order to address challenges associated with plagiarism, a thorough examination of conceptions and issues associated with plagiarism is required. This article therefore explores the knowledge and perceptions of plagiarism, reasons for committing plagiarism, and forms of plagiarism found among undergraduates at Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ogun state, Nigeria. A descriptive survey research design and a multistage sampling technique were adopted for the study. A questionnaire with a reliability index of 0.89 was used to collect data from 378 undergraduates, sampled from six faculties of the selected institution. The findings reveal that the respondents have good knowledge of plagiarism (  = 3.31) and that the majority perceive plagiarism as a menace and a criminal act (  = 3.20). The findings further reveal the desire to achieve high marks, fear of failure, and poor academic planning as respondents’ major reasons for committing plagiarism. It was also found that gender does not significantly influence perceptions of plagiarism, whereas the faculty the student belongs to does influence perceptions of plagiarism. Among other things, the study recommends that university management acquire and implement good commercial plagiarism detection software and also formulate, implement, and enact regulations on plagiarism and other forms of academic dishonesty.

This study aimed at assessing the status of library automation, the impact of automation on library services and challenges university library is facing in maintaining automated system towards effective library services delivery. The population in this study consists of 697 library personnel in 9 university libraries in Southwest Nigeria. A structured questionnaire Appendix A ) was used for data collection. In all, 335 questionnaires were distributed but only 309 were found usable, which gave a response rate of 92.2%. Findings revealed that library automation in university libraries in South West Nigeria was partial. Library automation has a positive impact on library services. Lack of technical support from the vendor, lack of funding, attitude of library personnel and technophobia among were among the challenges faced.

Background:     Adherence to COVID-19 protocols is a serious issue in Nigeria and this has been worrisome to public health practitioners, including health educators. Obeying precautionary measures has been a great challenge especially among market men and women, including their customers, which appears to be due to several variables. This study examined the impact of socioeconomic status, including income level, level of education, religious affiliation, gender, family structure, cultural background, and age group of market men and women on adherence to COVID-19 protocols in Ogun State, Nigeria. Methods: The study adopted descriptive survey research design where structured and validated questionnaire was used as the instrument for data collection. Multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select the sample for the study from the old Ijebu and Egba components of the State, including Ita-Osu new market in Ijebu-Ode and Oba Lipede Market in Abeokuta were purposively selected for the study. In each of the market, n=250 market men and women were randomly selected using simple random sampling technique to make a total sample of n=500, out of this, n=481 questionnaires were retrieved to make a total of 96.0% rate of return. Results: The results revealed that socioeconomic factors, including gender, income level, type of business, and family structure significantly predicted adherence to COVID-19 protocols at P< 0.05. Conclusion: It was concluded that market men and women in Ogun State do not significantly adhere to COVID-19 protocols, and the identified socioeconomic factors significantly predicted adherence to the protocols. Recommendation was made to involve health educators at all levels to disseminate health information to promote improved health literacy and carry out interventions considering the aforementioned socioeconomic variables towards improving adherence to the protocols.

Despite knowledge and awareness of plagiarism among undergraduates through the teaching of related compulsory university course for all students as well as teaching of research methodology in various field in Nigeria universities, final year students sill found plagiarized while writing their research work. It was based on the above, that this study was design to explore the perception of the academic in Southwest Nigeria on the causes of plagiarism among final year undergraduates while writing their research project. The study makes use of descriptive survey research design of expo factor type where eighteen universities were selected with a total sample of 1,800. Data were collected through questionnaire and analysed using both the descriptive and quantitative analysis. The findings indicated among others that laziness, lack of knowledge about plagiarism, lack of experience among students in producing source-based writing and lack of adequate skill to write final year project were some of the perceived causes of plagiarism in project writing. Moreso, incompetent graduate, injustices in grading student's projects were some of the effect of plagiarism. Similarly, awareness campaign and theuse of plagiarism checker among others were some of the perceived measured that can be adopted in solving the menace of plagiarism among students.