Effects of Poverty on Educational Attainment of Secondary School Students in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria

Bridget Peace Adeagbo,Bright Okanezi

doi:10.6007/ijarbss/v8-i7/4415

Abstract

This study investigated the effects of poverty on educational attainment of secondary school students in Emohua Local Government Area (LGA) of Rivers State, Nigeria. The study design was descriptive survey. The population of the study is 8,560 members of Youth Clubs/Associations in the LGA. The sample size used for the study was 865 youths which represents 10% of the study population. Data were collected through questionnaire on whether poverty of parents affect their ward’s performance in examinations, the quality of schools they attend, and the level of education ultimately attained. Analysis was done using mean statistical tool for the research questions while chi-square was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. The findings reveal that poverty of parents negatively affect their ward’s academic performance, the quality of schools their wards attend and the level of education ultimately attained. Recommendations were made inter alia that government should establish a social welfare scheme for the poor and needy.

Highlights

The existence of creatures in pairs exemplifies the beauty of nature in creation
Three poor families in three countries viz Ghana, Peru and Bangladesh were compared in a poverty study by the World Bank and their findings led to the conclusion that they lived under socio-economic conditions viewed as similar
The study revealed that poverty manifests in lack of books to read, students over burdened with domestic chores, home environment unconducive for learning and inability to afford to pay for extra-mural classes

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Introduction

The existence of creatures in pairs exemplifies the beauty of nature in creation. For instance there is the existence of real world and abstract world, the up and down, male and female, the tall and short, the beautiful and urgly, the young and old, the good and bad, richness and poverty etc. Three poor families in three countries viz Ghana, Peru and Bangladesh were compared in a poverty study by the World Bank and their findings led to the conclusion that they lived under socio-economic conditions viewed as similar. Those conditions include lack of education, landlessness, acute vulnerability to illness and seasonal hard times which affected all of them in varying degrees. The varying degrees is akin to researchers’ problem of trying to establish a fixed standard against which to measure poverty. It has been established that there is relative poverty and absolute poverty

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