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Peer victimisation and social anxiety disorder among adolescents: The mediating role of perceived social support
(2025) Okeniyi Oluwatobiloba Ajibola
Objective: This study examined the links between peer victimisation, perceived social support, and social anxiety disorder, and assessed the mediating role of perceived social support. Method: A multi-stage sampling technique was employed to select 551 adolescents (45% male, 55% female) mean age =14.70 SD =1.76). Participants completed the Social Phobia Inventory, the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, and the Multidimensional Online and Offline Peer Victimisation Scale. Structural equation modeling, regression analysis, independent t-tests, and one-way ANOVA were used to test the hypotheses. Results: A 12.9% prevalence of severe social anxiety was reported by participants. Peer victimisation significantly predicted social anxiety (β=0.36, t=9.30, p<0.01) and together with perceived social support, it significantly predicted social anxiety disorder (R=0.42, R²=0.18; F (1,543) = 19.52, p<0.01). Perceived social support did not significantly mediate the relationship between peer victimisation and social anxiety (β=0.003, t=0.038, 95% CI: -0.012 ~ 0.021, p>0.05). Female adolescents exhibited significantly higher social anxiety than males (t (551) = -4.26, p<0.01), with no significant differences found across adolescent age groups (F (2, 548) = 1.73, p>0.05). Conclusion: The findings highlight the significant impact of peer victimisation on social anxiety, with female adolescents being particularly vulnerable. Educational administrators and policymakers should implement programs to enhance social support and address peer victimisation, with attention to gender differences in social anxiety.
ASSESSMENT OF HOUSEHOLD SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN SELECTED COMMUNITIES OF ABEOKUTA METROPOLIS, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA
(Uniosun Journal of Engineering and Environmental Sciences, 2026-09-30) OJO ODUNAYO TOPE
Inadequate solid waste management remains an important environmental and public- health challenge in rapidly urbanized communities. This study assessed household solid waste management practices, disposal behaviours/ methods, environmental and residents’ perceptions, and reported factors affecting waste management practices in selected communities of Abeokuta Metropolis, Ogun State, Nigeria. A community- based cross-sectional study was conducted among 360 adult household residents from sixselected communities in Abeokuta Metropolis. Sixty respondents were recruited from each community. Data were collected through self-reported structured questionnaires and face-to-face interviews. Information was obtained on household waste characteristics, storage, transportation, disposal practices, waste-collection services, environmental perceptions, and community participation. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics and were based on self-reported questionnaire/interview responses. Food and vegetable residues were the most frequently reported waste type (91.1%), followed by paper/cardboard (80.8%) and plastics, bottles, and sachet materials (74.4%). Manual carrying was the predominant reported method of waste transportation (42.8%), followed by scavengers (24.4%). Burning was the most commonly reported disposal practice (55.0%)open dumping (25.3%). Waste collection was predominantly reported as monthly (48.3%). Waste accumulation (85.0%), flooding (75.8%), unpleasant odour (63.4%), and insect proliferation or disease outbreaks (62.5%) were among the commonly perceived consequences of poor waste management. Although 90.8% of respondents believed that environmental awareness could help reduce health implications, only 30.8% reported participating in community clean-up activities. Household solid waste management in the selected communities was characterized by inadequate collection, reliance on informal transportation, open burning, and indiscriminate open dumping. The findings support the need for improved collection services, source segregation and recycling, enforcement of environmental regulations, community participation, and environmental health education. Because the study was descriptive and relied partly on self-reported information
Yoruba Party Culture (Owambe) and its Social Aesthetics within Nigeria’s Capitalist Economy
(2026) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
ABSTRACT This paper examines Yoruba owambe party culture in southwestern Nigeria, focusing on its social functions, aesthetic expressions, and economic implications within the country’s capitalist economy. The study is motivated by the endemic practice nature of and the prominence of the social gathering practice among the people. The research is qualitative and guided by John Dewey’s variant of the Progressivist Theory and Parsons-Merton Functionalist Theory as a variant of Social Change Theory. The study maintains that the owambe party culture has evolved beyond a gathering for wining and dining. However, the extravagance characterising Yoruba owambe is counter-intuitive in Nigeria’s declining capitalist economy. Also, the carnival-like nature of this social practice can serve as a tax-generation means for government through making musicians pay tax and requesting international brands to establish regional plants in Lagos. Image and video documentation of critical cultural goings-on at owambes need to be documented for both cyber and physical museum displays for tourism. The paper concludes that the Yoruba owambe social practice needs to be revisited in the context of modern Nigerian socio-economic realities, and this is best achieved by harnessing the economic potential and regulate its characteristics according to best practices. It was recommended the Nigeria government expedite actions on taxation aspect as such can improve government’s efforts towards social growth. Keywords: Yoruba owambe, African culture, Nigerian capitalist economy, party culture, conspicuous consumption
PROXIMATE COMPOSITION AND PHYTOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF PARKIA BIGLOBOSA (JACQ.)R. BR. EX DON SEEDS IN DERIVED SAVANNA ECOSYSTEM OF SOUTH-WESTERN NIGERIA
(JABU, 2019) Oyerinde Ajiboye Solomon
This study investigates the proximate composition and phytochemical properties of P. biglobosa seeds collected from three States (Osun, Ondo and Ekiti) in the derived savanna ecosystem of South-Western part of Nigeria. P. biglobosa seed samples were collected from ten trees with sufficient fruits and without visible insect damage or disease symptoms on agroforestry farms in six communities within the study area. The seeds were removed manually and milled into flour for analyses (proximate composition, phytochemical and antioxidant properties) using standard methods. The results revealed that there were no significant differences (p >0.05) in the the protein contents (37.31%-39.84%) of the seeds from the three states. Tannin content of P. biglobosa seeds from Ondo State (5.00g/100g) was significantly higher than those from Osun and Ekiti States. Alkaloid contents from the seeds ranged from (4.44 g/100g-4.90 g/100g) and it was observed that the phytate content of seeds from the states were significantly different. P. biglobosa seeds from Ekiti State were found to possess highest value of total phenol (27.44 g/100g) and total flavonoid (4.27 g/100g) while the sample from Ondo State exhibited highest vitamin C content (62.41 g/100g). The ability of the samples to scavenge DPPH radical was highest in Ondo State sample (78.35%) which may be attributed to the vitamin C content. The result is an indication that further studies should be carried out to investigate the application of seeds of P. biglobosa as an ingredient in functional foods.
African Culture and Globalization: Assessing Regal Excesses and Reverse Rhetoric in Stephen Solanke’s Alaafin Aole Arogangan
(2026) Adebayo Abidemi Olufemi
Abstract This paper explores the toxic Yoruba regal culture in the context of globalization as the playwright records in the play Alaafin Aole Arogangan. This is with a view to aligning the Yoruba regal culture with global cultural best practices. Global best practices on culture have spread across the world and societies across the world bear the duty of domesticating such cultural recommendations. The study is qualitative in nature through which ideas or findings in the paper are arrived at through rationalism anchored on available textual data and evidence. The paper is also guided by Oswald Spengler’s Cyclical Theory, whose essence is to modernize the social system for development. In the play, Solanke portrays the regal vices of Alaafin Aole Arogangan of Oyo Kingdom. These include suppression of women’s rights through commodification of women, tendency for killing, regal superiority, as well as institutionalization of dominions. These are vices that are inconsistent with global framework for social system such as gender equality specifically as enshrined in the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals 5 – Gender Equality. Solanke revisits the Yoruba regal history in the play through the reigns of Alaafin Aole so as to repudiates regal excesses. Aole commandeers GIRL, requests the head of the Baale of Apomu, is in contention with Ooni, and wages a violent war against Apomu outside his regal jurisdiction, among other atrocities. These are perpetrated under the cloak of reverence and awe of the Yoruba regal figures. Solanke, by these circumstances, suggests that these vices can only be eliminated if Yoruba cultural system is re-instituted in alignment with global best practices.