TABLE OF CONTENT
Title page
Approval page
Dedication
Acknowledgment
Abstract
Table of content
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
1.2 Statement of problem
1.3 Objective of the study
1.4 Research question
1.5 Significance of the study
1.6 Scope and limitation of the study
1.7 Definition of terms
1.8 Organization of the study
CHAPTER TWO
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 theoretical review
2.2 Conceptual review
2.3 empirical review
CHAPETR THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.1 sources of data collection
3.3 Population of the study
3.4 Sampling and sampling distribution
3.5 Area of the study
3.5 Validation of research instrument
3.6 Method of data analysis
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION
4.1 Introductions
4.2 Data analysis
CHAPTER FIVE
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Summary
5.3 Conclusion
5.4 Recommendation
Appendix
Abstract
This study examined impact of student population on public utility in Iree town of Osun state. The study population consists of students and academic staff of learning institutions in Iree town in Osun state. A self-designed Questionnaire was used to collect relevant data for the study. The data collected were analyzed using frequency counts and percentage scores. The findings show that, the financial support to the universities was not adequate, the universities were not provided with adequate facilities while students and staff maintenance culture contributed to high destruction of the available public facilities in Iree town. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the government should provide adequate funds to the universities in its annual budgetary allocation. Besides, adequate provision of facilities should be provided while students should be well educated on how to maintain available facilities in the community.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the study
Investments in infrastructural facilities do contribute immensely to the population growth of metropolitan cities of a nation. Good quality roads, railways, airport, educational institutions, security of life and properties and hospitals are essential for the smooth running of the economic sectors in a developing world. In many countries and for many years, economists, planners and surveyors have tried to provide answers to why economic growth is faster in some regions than others and why some cities grow faster than others. With the availability of major investments in infrastructure of any city, there would be automatic population increase that would influence massive property development. It has been argued by Ogunba (2009) and Ighalo (2016) that rural-urban migration, rising purchasing power and demographic factors such as changes in the average family size are contributory factors to urban growth. In Nigeria as well as in other countries, education is perceived as a tool for socio-economic and political developments and as such it is accorded the necessary attention. This position is amplified in the Nigerian National Policy on Education, which stated that education is an instrument par excellence for effecting national development, (The National policy of Education, 2004). It is added further that education shall continue to be highly rated in the national development plans because education is the most important instrument of change and that any fundamental change in the intellectual and social outlook of any society has to be preceded by educational revolution. Recently, study by Jekayinka (2013), Suleman and Atiku (2017) and Ajayi and Ayodele (2011), proved that adequate supply of instructional resources has significant effects on student’s performance and enhances the effectiveness of instructional delivery and supervision. However, there seems to be in Nigerian schools an alarming shortage and even complete absence of public utility. Public utilities been the basic systems and structures that a country or organization needs in order to work properly, for example roads, railways, airports, bridges, electricity, water supply, drainages etc. Because these facilities are of common use, they are taken up by government as her responsibility. Public utilities in terms of infrastructure, business organizations will find it difficult to thrive because it is the driving force of the economy. Infrastructural facilities are capital intensive and so their provision makes a lot of financial demand on governments. Most often government revenue is inadequate to satisfy recurrent expenditure and leave reasonable proportion for capital expenditure. Public utilities are such long term project and ideally should be financed by long term capital. One of the characteristic features of developing countries which Nigerian aptly exhibit is uncontrolled rapid rate of urbanization. Over the years the number and size of urban centers in Nigeria have increased tremendously. Such a large population can only be sustained if there is adequate supply of needed public utilities like pipe born water, market hospitals good road network and other recreational facilities. Klaus (1999), drew the world’s attention to the possibility that clashes over dwindling supply of fresh water may become the source of future conflicts among nations. This disclosure ought to worry everyone. The rapid rate of uncontrolled and unplanned urbanization has brought with it a complex urban problems of particular significance is the problem of inadequate of necessary supporting urban utilities and services notably water supply. It has proved difficult to match the provision of these services with the rate of urban expansion. As Onibokun and Egunjobi (1987) rightly observed that the results have been shortage and poor quality of the services coupled with environment pollution. All of which contributed in no measure to poor standard of living of urban populace. In the developing countries, most infrastructural facilities provided, the beneficiaries are not often involved in the planning and implementation (Lockwood 2004; Narayan 1994; Perry Jone et al 2001; Pretty 1995 and UNICEF and WHO 2002). This has led to a look warm attitude in the repairs and maintenance by the community concerned ( Schouten et al 2003; Renold 1992 and Maraz 2001). Clean water from borehole exist to substitute pipe-bore water supply in towns and cities in developing countries where population growth could not matched with the available provision of pipe-bore water supply services.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Students’ housing condition has always been one of the major challenges facing tertiary institution in Nigeria due to the fact that students admitted exceeding the available facilities provided by the institution's authority. The notable problems facing the housing ranges from insecurities due to growing overcrowding of students which leads to congestion and as a result, mounting to increase pressure on infrastructures, social amenities and rapidly deteriorating environment, the existing housing facilities has increase in pressure because of it shortage of dwelling units thereby putting pressure on the limited public utilities in Iree town of Osun state. It is against this backdrop that the researcher intend to investigate the impact of student population on public utility in Iree town.
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The main objective of the study is to examine the impact of student population on public utility in Iree town, but to aid the completion of the study the researcher intend to achieve the following specific objectives;
- i) To examine the impact of student population on public utilities in Iree town
- ii) To examine the role of government in providing the necessary amenities to curb the challenge of rural urban migration
iii) To examine if there is any significant relationship between student population and public utility utilization in Iree community
- iv) To ascertain the effect of student population on public utility in Iree town of Osun state
1.4 RESEARCH HYPOTHESES
To aid the completion of the study, the following research hypotheses were formulated by the researcher;
H0: there is no significant relationship between student population and public utility utilization in Iree community
H1: there is a significant relationship between student population and public utility utilization in Iree community
H0: student population does not have any significant impact on public utilities in Iree town
H2: student population does have a significant impact on public utilities in Iree town
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
It is believed that at the completion of the study, the findings will be of great importance to the management of higher institutions as the study seek to explore the consequences of student population on public utility in Iree town. The study will also be of great importance to researchers who intend to embark on a study in a similar topic as the findings of the study and the literatures will serve as a reference point to further study. Finally, the study will be of importance to students, teachers, academia's and the general public as the study will contribute to the pool of existing literature on the subject matter and also contribute to knowledge.
1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The scope of the study covers the impact of student population on public utilities in Iree town of Osun state. But in the cause of the study, there are some factors that limit the scope of the study;
- a) AVAILABILITY OF RESEARCH MATERIAL: The research material available to the researcher is insufficient, thereby limiting the study
- b) TIME: The time frame allocated to the study does not enhance wider coverage as the researcher has to combine other academic activities and examinations with the study.
- c) Finance: Limited Access to the required finance was a major constrain to the scope of the study as it become cumbersome to cover more grounds and to print more.
1.7 OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF TERMS
Student
A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution who attends classes in a course to attain the appropriate level of mastery of a subject under the guidance of an instructor and who devotes time outside class to do whatever activities the instructor assigns that are necessary either for class preparation or to submit evidence of progress towards that mastery.
Student population
A population is the number of living people that live together in the same place. A city's population is the number of people living in that city. These people are called inhabitants or residents.
Public utility
A public utility is a business that furnishes an everyday necessity to the public at large. Public utilities provide water, electricity, natural gas, telephone service, and other essentials. Utilities may be publicly or privately owned, but most are operated as private businesses.
1.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE STUDY
This research work is organized in five chapters, for easy understanding, as follows
Chapter one is concern with the introduction, which consist of the (overview, of the study), historical background, statement of problem, objectives of the study, research hypotheses, significance of the study, scope and limitation of the study, definition of terms and historical background of the study. Chapter two highlights the theoretical framework on which the study is based, thus the review of related literature. Chapter three deals on the research design and methodology adopted in the study. Chapter four concentrate on the data collection and analysis and presentation of finding. Chapter five gives summary, conclusion, and recommendations made of the study
