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The study looked at some social challenges confronting the education of the girl-child as perceived by female academics in the tertiary institutions in Edo State. To guide this study, seven research questions were raised and one hypothesis was formulated. The population was made up of all the female academics in all the tertiary institutions in Edo State, Nigeria. Three hundred and fifty females made up the sample of study through the purposive sampling technique. The instrument used to collect data was the questionnaire which was content validated by experts and had a reliability value of 0.72. Three hundred and eleven retrieved questionnaires were analyzed using frequency and percentage for research questions and Pearson product moment correlation co-efficient (r) for the hypothesis. There was a strong positive relationship (r=0.932, p<0.05) between social challenges and the education of the girl-child in Edo state, Nigeria. Based on these findings, recommendations were made.

This study examined public secondary schools teachers’ tasks and their classroom job performance in Edo central school district, Nigeria. With a total of 252 research participants and two adapted instruments—Teachers’ Task Questionnaire (TETAQ) and Teachers’ Class Performance Questionnaire (TECLAPEQ)—the study attempted to find out how teachers’ tasks associated with or impacted their classroom job performance. Data generated were analyzed using Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and multiple linear regression analysis (MLRA) at 0.05 level of significance. The study found among other things that teachers’ instructional and administrative duties significantly predicted teachers’ classroom performance in the district.