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EXAMINING THE OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES THAT INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) DEVELOPMENT HAS BROUGHT FOR AFRICA

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ABSTRACT This paper examined the opportunities and challenges that information and communication technology (ICT) development has brought for Africa. The paper sees ICT as a blessing in different facets of the word in the positive light than the negative in Africa as a continent. The paper presents ICT as the god of this world that can and has turned things around with the spark of technology in every facet of the word in terms of air travel industry, banking, culture, education, health, environment, research and so forth. These are some of the opportunities ICT brought to Africa that the paper addressed. The paper equally discussed few challenges of ICT that are very key in most African countries of the world which are but not limited to only these. The challenges discussed are improper planning, acquisition and maintenance of technologies, linguistics, political instability, lack of infrastructure and so forth. The paper therefore recommends in a nutshell that since African countries are phased with numerous challenges, there should be a proper plan to lift Africa from these challenges discussed in this paper and others not listed in this paper to be addressed without further delay to bring about the needed change that Africa needs. Keywords: opportunities, challenges, ICT, development, and Africa

IMPACT OF INFORMATION RESOURCE QUALITY ON POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS’ SATISFACTION AT THE IGNATIUS AJURU UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION LIBRARY

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ABSTRACT The study sought to determine the quality of information resources and postgraduate students’ satisfaction with the use of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education library. Specifically, the study examined if the information resources contained in the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Library are current, relevant, accurate, authoritative, and satisfy the purpose of the information needs of postgraduate students of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. A descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The total population of the study was 412 postgraduate students’ registered with Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Library while the sample size was 206 postgraduate students’ selected using simple random sampling technique. The study found that information resources are available in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education library and are of uncompromising qualities. They are current and up-to-date, relevant to the fields of study, of good authority, authentic, accessible, and hold reliable information. The information resources are accurate to the need of the postgraduate students’, as well as meets the purpose of the postgraduate students’. Also the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between available information resources, quality of information resources and postgraduate students’ satisfaction using Ignatius Ajuru University of Education library. Hence, the study recommends that user education/information literacy programmes, current awareness services should be done on regular basis in order to increase users’ knowledge on library usage in order to guarantee continuous Postgraduate students’ satisfaction in Ignatius Ajuru University of Education Library Keywords: Quality information resources, students satisfaction, library