This study investigated if sex, qualification, subject discipline and experience influence the frequency of use of ICT by teachers in SouthWest Nigeria. The study made use of the descriptive survey design. The sample consisted of 809 randomly selected teachers who responded to the validated questionnaire designed for the study. Data collected were analysed using mean, standard deviation, t-test and analysis of variance. The results showed that sex and subject discipline do not significantly influence the frequency of use of ICT by teachers while qualification and experience do. Based on the findings, some recommendations were made.

Background: The presence of Candida species in the urine is termed candiduria, and it is a common form of urinary tract infection (UTI). Many other species of Candida organism apart from Candida albicans are known with increasing the occurrence of resistance to available antifungal agents. Objectives: To determine the prevalence and sensitivity pattern of Candida isolates obtained from urine samples of diagnosed urinary tract infections. Methods: Midstream urine of patients attending the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja Lagos, were collected and inoculated on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar (SDA). Microbiological processing was done with Gram reaction, germ tube test, CHROME agar TM and sugar fermentation test using API 32C system. Antifungal susceptibility tests were done using the agar disc diffusion method. Results: Candida species were obtained from 36 (12.9%) of 280 patients with UTI. Candida albicans (CA) had the highest frequency (12; 33.3%) compared to 24 (66.7%) for Non-albicans Candida (NAC). The speciation of Candida using Chrome Agar showed some misidentification from the API32C identification, but there was a significant correlation between API32C and Chrome Agar methods (r = 0. 9793). Half of the C. albicans species were sensitive to fluconazole while C. hellenica was only sensitive to Nystatin. The C. parapsilopsis had the highest susceptibility pattern, with 86% and 71% for fluconazole and ketoconazole, respectively. Generally, ketoconazole had the highest effectiveness on Candida species. Conclusion: This study demonstrated the role of Candida species in UTIs and their high susceptibility to ketoconazole.

The present study revealed the impact of climate change on fish farming business in Ibarapa region, Oyo State Nigeria during January to June 2017. Majority of the respondents were male (93.4%) whereas 6.6% were female. Some of the respondents (25%) have been in fish farming business for about 20 years. Major sources of water were deep well and bore-hole. The various constraints encountered in the course of the business were low water availability (25.0%), feeding cost (20.0%), weather problem (13.3%) and funds (11.7%). On awareness/perception of respondents on climate change, 75% of the farmers were aware of change in the climate phenomenon, which was basically through personal experience (33.2%). The perceived climate change factors are; drastic changes in weather condition (50%), increased incidence of drought (18.3%), heavy storms and increased incidence of flooding had 6.7% respectively, poor fish harvest (5%) was considered as the least factor on impacts of climate change.

This study investigated price fluctuation in retail fish marketing in Ibadan metropolis for two years. A total of 120 respondents were interviewed in the study and primary data was used through questionnaires with interview. Data obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics and regression model. The questionnaires were distributed randomly in ten selected markets chosen cut across five local governments in Ibadan metropolis. The descriptive statistics showed that 95.0 percent of the fish sellers were women and 5.0 percent were male. The respondents were married, 9.2 percent had no formal education, 30 percent had primary education, and 14.2 percent had secondary education while 4 percent had tertiary education. Also, about 65.8 percent of the respondents were with 1 to 10 years experience in fish marketing while 3 to 4% had 21 to 30 years of fish marketing experience. Double-log model was found to be the lead equation among the four models fitted. The model indicated a relationship between the determinants of fish price fluctuation in retail fish marketed (Y) and some explanatory variables which include trading experience (X1), Education level (X2), Average stocks (X3), hoarding quantity (X4), government daily tax rate (X5), and fuel price (X6). All these were found to be significant at 1 percent level. The elasticity of all variables determining fish price fluctuation was less than one. This means that they were inelastic. Thus, a unit increases in the trading experience lead to N0.1974 decrease in fluctuation of price of fish between the two years. Also, a unit increase in the quality of stock hoarded lead on the average of N0.3078 unit increase in the fluctuation in price within two years. Some of the major problems faced by fish retailers in the study area include: problem of middlemen, storage facilities, erratic power supply and government rate/tax.

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