Appraisal of lecturers’ effectiveness on teaching performance is an administrative duty of educational administrators which is intended to ascertain whether or not lecturers are performing their duty adequately. Most existing appraisal systems (especially in Nigeria) are superior based thus preventing the students that are direct recipients of lecturers’ output to evaluate the teaching competencies of their lecturers. Also, appraisal results that are students’ based are reported questionable in terms of its validity and reliability as the outcome of the evaluation reported biased assessment due to lecturers’ coercion of students into giving falsified evaluation reports or intentional falsification of judgements about a lecturer by sets of students. This study developed a system for students’ appraisal on teaching performance of lecturers (SATP) characterised by support for reduction of students’ partiality and prejudice during appraisal on lecturers’ effectiveness. Domain Driven Design was employed in designing the SATP client-server architecture and its framework. The SATP was programmed using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP. Afterwards, 60 students were allowed to use the system to evaluate 6 lecturers in computer science department, Federal College of Wildlife Management which serves as the purposively selected research domain. The evaluation data obtained from the system were statistically evaluated to determine SATP performance (suitability, effectiveness and ability to detect falsified evaluation) using t-test at 0.10 level of significance. The results of performance evaluation revealed that SATP was found to be visually suitable and effective for lecturers’ evaluation. More so, evaluation data reported as not been falsified by SATP also recorded insignificant differences (∆μ = 0.36, p>0.10) in first and second evaluation while evaluation data reported as been falsified by SATP recorded significant differences (∆μ = 12.22, p<0.10) in first and second appraisal (evaluation). The study concluded that the result of evaluation of lecturers retrieved from the developed SATP is valid and recommend the adoption of the system in tertiary institutions as it will improve the excellence of educators and academics in tertiary institutions.

This study was carried out in New Bussa, Niger state, Nigeria to test the infallibility of the contention that coronavirus outbreak and suspension of physical educational services that accompanies its outbreak will positively or negatively affect demand for and adoption of electronic education (e-education) by students of various educational institutions in Nigeria. The study adopted an online survey made available via Google form to residents of the study area. Furthermore the online survey was accompanied by personal interview of school administrators and tertiary institution students. The survey questionnaire was made accessible to participants that were encouraged to fill the questionnaire online between 18th of October and 10th of November, 2020. The data retrieved were analysed using descriptive statistics and t-test. It was found that demand for and adoption of e-education through software resources was not significantly affected by coronavirus outbreak (μduring=3.90, μbefore=3.72, p>0.05), while e-education through radio and television broadcast was found to be significantly affected by coronavirus outbreak (μduring=4.83, μbefore=4.53, p<0.05). Level of income (as such, high cost of data) was found to have effect on demand for and adoption of e-education software resources. Furthermore, social media channels and generalised software applications (with reduced or no cost of data) were found to be the most adopted software resources at the expense of proprietary e-education software resources. It is therefore recommended that Nigerian government should find a way to reduce internet access cost to enable effective adoption of electronic education through mobile and website applications.

Mobile telenursing is an emerging sub-field of mobile health that proposes remote nursing care provision with the aim of reducing stress on nurses by enabling them to spend more time on direct patient care rather than indirect care. Most existing mobile telenursing systems are limited to a simple phone call and Short Message Service (SMS) alert thereby rendering them inadequate to support indirect patient cares such as remote prescription based on consultant’s advice and monitoring of drug usage adherence. Hence, this research developed a Mobile Telenursing and Drug Administration System (MTS) characterized by support for the aforementioned indirect patient cares. Domain-Driven Design was employed in designing MTS client-server architecture and its framework. The framework was implemented by developing an SMS reminder system and client mobile application which maintains real-time communication with the webserver. The MTS, which supports real-time consultation between nurse-patient and nurse-consultant, was developed for mobile devices running the Android operating system using the framework implemented. The MTS was programmed using JavaScript and Pusher real-time messaging library of the Android development Kits. The performance of the MTS was evaluated through users’ assessment by administering a set of questionnaire on purposively selected 64 nurses; 53 patients chosen from four (4) purposively selected hospitals (General Hospital, New Bussa; Bowen University Teaching Hospital, Ogbomoso; Alimosho General Hospital, Lagos and Ifako-Ijaiye General Hospital, Lagos). The responses obtained from the questionnaires were statistically evaluated to determine MTS suitability for drug usage monitoring, remote prescription, palliative care, injection administration, patients’ clean-up and follow-up treatment using a correlation test. Also, mean effectiveness and mean acceptability of MTS were evaluated using a t-test at 0.05 level of significance. The MTS was deployed on mobile devices running the Android operating system. The results of performance evaluation revealed that MTS recorded suitability values of drug usage monitoring (r = 0.656), remote prescription (r = 0.829), palliative care (r = 0.925), injection administration (r = -0.772), patients’ clean-up (r = -0.841) and follow-up treatment (r = 0.868) of patients at (p < 0.05). Similarly, MTS recorded mean effectiveness and acceptability values of 3.596 and 3.32, 3.770 and 3.36 at (p < 0.05) for nurses and patients, respectively. The research developed MTS which is suitable for the provisioning of remote nursing care and drug administration without breaking basic medical ethics. The system can be adopted for mobile telenursing and drug administration system.