Wole Olatokun

• PhD
• Professor of Information Science at University of Ibadan

Abstract Purpose This study aims to investigate the potential impact of parental social media literacy (SML) dimensions on children’s digital media addiction (CDMA). Design/methodology/approach The study used a quantitative research design, specifically a survey questionnaire, to quantify the data and derive conclusions. Descriptive statistics, Pe...

It is an irrefutable assertion that communication technologies play a significant role in sustaining healthy lifestyles. However, to achieve this goal, one needs to be literate on how to maximise communication tools for acquiring health information. This study, therefore, examined the predictors of healthy lifestyles in Nigeria by utilising Technol...

Rationale of Study: The study evaluated the effectiveness of and user satisfaction with enterprise human resource planning systems by staff of commercial banks in Lagos State, Nigeria, using information, service and system quality constructs. Methodology: A structured questionnaire and interview schedule were used for data collection. The questionn...

This study investigates the knowledge and use of MOOCs for teaching among Library and Information Science educators in Nigerian Higher Educational Institutions. A cross-sectional survey of 85 LIS educators across Nigerian universities was conducted. The findings reveal a moderate level of conceptual familiarity with MOOCs but limited applied knowle...

This study examined the data science career preference, data science skills, and core competencies of 416 students from fourteen Nigerian universities using a Google Forms-created structured online questionnaire. A convenience sampling technique was adopted to select the participants. Data were analysed using both descriptive and inferential statis...

Mapping the Boko Haram insurgency is systemic and demands a whole lot of conscious, cross-cutting and complementary efforts from stakeholders involved to resolve the conflict. However, despite the works of scholars and researchers in this regard, there has not been a significant improvement in the ways through which organisations working in the fie...

In this age of technological advancement, addressing the needs of youth with disabilities is not just a moral imperative but also a legal obligation. Therefore, the paper represents a pivotal endeavor that underscores the pressing importance of embracing innovation to bridge the accessibility gap. The paper explores the transformative potential of...

Rationale of Study – Human Capital Management Information Systems (HCMIS) playa crucial role in facilitating decision-making within Human Resources Management by providing fast, accurate, and comprehensive data. To understand the HCMIS implementation and challenges within the public sector of Tanzania, this study conducted a systematic review of po...

A fraud-free and credible election is a necessary ingredient to the growth of democracy. Election malpractices and violence, from 1959 till date, have offered major challenges to the Nigerian political system. To achieve a sustainable democracy in Nigeria, it is important to build public trust by ensuring the security and preservation of electoral...

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Lesotho's electoral processes holds potential for enhancing social inclusion and representation. Despite the country's homogeneous ethnic makeup, its demographic diversity and socio-economic disparities present challenges to equitable political participation. This paper explores AI technologies l...

The implementation of the Human Resource Information System (HRIS) in Local Government Authorities (LGAs) in Tanzania aimed at addressing shortcomings of methods in managing employee's information. The shortcomings primarily involved outdated data concerning civil servants. This study explored how user characteristics impact the effectiveness of HR...

A broad range of information and communication technology (ICT) tools and services, including mobile applications (apps), are being deployed for on-demand learning in developed societies like the United States of America (USA). Some of the apps found to be in use for learning in one university in the USA were Quizlett, Mathway, SAT Prep, and Blackb...

The articles focused on the use of remote teaching and learning tools for the enhancement of postgraduate training and education in Nigerian private universities. The adoption of zoom, Microsoft Team, Visme and others for teaching, learning and collaboration were acknowledged. Recommendations for the use of tools beyond covid19 era were made

This chapter explores the integration of new media, specifically Wikipedia, YouTube, Edmodo, Google Classroom, Khan Academy, and so on, in teaching critical literacy to secondary school students. It emphasizes the importance of critical literacy skills in the digital age and the role of educational institutions in teaching strategies that prioritiz...

The emergence of global university ranking systems has brought significant transformations not only to developing countries but the world at large in the development of national economies. In view of the relative impact of the global university ranking systems on national economies, the chapter used three foremost global university raking systems:...

Education systems around the world faced an unprecedented challenge in the wake of massive school closures mandated by the spread of COVID-19. Nigeria as a country, has her own fair share of the ravaging COVID-19 when the incident case of the corona virus was reported, and since left the country with plethora of myths and realities about what the v...

The research surveyed the influence of Performance Expectancy and Effort Expectancy on the acceptance of e-learning by students of Federal University of Wukari (FUW). Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated and a mixed method research approach involving concurrent quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques...

Nigeria presently runs a presidential system of government and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is saddled with the responsibility of conducting elections, every four years. A fraud-free and credible election is a necessary ingredient to the growth of democracy. However, election fraud has become a major challenge in the Nigeria...

This pilot study was designed to determine the conversational structure on Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), pattern of knowledge sharing and knowledge sharing behaviour of healthcare practitioners (HCP) on Medscape online network. The study was guided by Conversation Theory, and deployed a retrospective document/content analysis research design. Ninety-t...

This study investigated the factors affecting the use of electronic information resources by final-year students at the Federal University of Technology, Minna. Three objectives guided the study, and three null hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study was comprised of final-year students at FUT Minna. Purp...

Putting into consideration the objective of the SDG 4, it would be important to note that the provision, access, and use of information resources such as open access (OA) journals is a sine qua non for quality education in Africa. Despite its importance to the education system, open access journals have been proliferated by predatory journals. Stak...

This study investigated the practice and motivators of Nigeria undergraduates' use of satire, music, and comedy for sharing COVID-19 information on social media. Just 294 undergraduates from six federal universities in Southwest, Nigeria participated in the survey. A questionnaire was posted on online platforms to collect data from the participants...

The study investigates the Federal University of Wukari lecturers' performance expectancy and effort expectancy influence in teaching using two constructs of UTAUT. Two research questions were raised and two hypotheses were formulated. A survey method was employed for the study. A mixed methods research approach involving concurrent quantitative an...

This study was designed to assess students’ satisfaction with e-learning at the National Open University Nigeria in order to determine the factors that influence their intention to use e-learning. The constructs system quality, information quality, service quality in Delone and Mclean Information System Success (ISS) model were used to determine...

This study was carried out to study the existing paper-based system of receiving information and managing international student’s information at the Office of International Programme (OIP), University of Ibadan and to design an only student information management system that will help the OIP in managing international students’ information efficien...

Dynamism in information sharing has emerged over time since the advent of advanced means of mass communication. Social media and their creative use have been playing significant roles in facilitating the processes of social interaction through which vital life sustaining information are shared. Adopting the Uses and Gratification theory, this study...

Background Access to health information is critical for good health. However, residents of rural communities may face more difficulties in accessing health information than residents in rural areas. Problems may be structural, socio‐economic and cultural. Objectives The study assessed sources and challenges concerning health information access and...

Putting into consideration the objective of the SDG 4, it would be important to note that the provision, access, and use of information resources such as open access (OA) journals is a sine qua non for quality education in Africa. Despite its importance to the education system, open access journals have been proliferated by predatory journals. Stak...

This study was designed to examine the application of Monte Carlo simulation to analyse vote counts from the 2011 and 2015 presidential elections in Nigeria. The study adopted a simulation approach and the data were simulated using the R programming language. The actual and simulated data were analysed using frequency and percentage distribution as...

This paper focuses on a design-reality gap assessment of selected information communication technology (ICT) projects in federal universities, South West of Nigeria. We determine the success and failure rates of the selected ICT projects based on the design-reality gap model dimensions: information, technology, processes, objectives and values, sta...

This study examined the application of Benford's Law to analyse the 2015 and 2019 presidential election data in Nigeria. Data obtained from the electoral body were analysed using frequency distribution and Spearman Rank Correlation tests at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that the second digits distributions of the vote counts for the...

Objective - This paper reports the findings from a study designed to investigate the following traits on white guinea yam publications for fifteen years: information outlets, trend of scientific productivity, degree of author’s collaboration, prolific authors and their institutional affiliations, journal bibliographic coupling and co-citation analy...

Purpose The imperative role of cataloguing in libraries as the bedrock of information/knowledge organization, the need to manage and retain knowledge for strategic planning and better knowledge management (KM) frameworks, little or no information sharing in cataloguing units in federal university libraries in Nigeria, gave rise to this study. The p...

This study was designed to investigate the influence of parenting styles on children’s/wards’ use of social media at Oritamefa Baptist Model School (OBMS), Ibadan, Nigeria. The study adopted the ex-post facto research design, questionnaire was the main instrument of data collection. Two hundred and sixty-eight copies of a questionnaire were adminis...

Introduction. The study examines the tacit knowledge sharing (KS) practices among lecturers in the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. It explored the presence of tacit knowledge sharing culture, KS processes, factors affecting the sharing of tacit knowledge, how the University supports the sharing of tacit knowledge, and the challenges of ta...

Introduction. This study was designed to investigate the awareness level, perception, and the adherence of record managers in the University of Ibadan to the provisions of the Nigerian Freedom of Information Law in relation to stages of records management practice. Method. Survey design was adopted. The population comprised of 705 records managers...

Instances of information communication technology project failure are being recorded in Nigeria. This paper focuses on a design-reality gap to assess the selected information communication technology (ICT) projects in federal universities, South West of Nigeria. We determine the success and failure rates of the selected ICT projects based on the de...

This study was initiated to examine the factors that influence knowledge sharing among academics in Bowen University, Nigeria. Although previous research has identified several factors that affect knowledge sharing, further research needs to be carried out to ascertain factors that affect knowledge sharing, in particular among higher academic insti...

The authors analyzed 21,005 citations from 124 Ph.D. theses submitted to ten departments in the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, in Nigeria, during the period 2006 to 2013. The overall analysis of the cited information sources revealed that journals (67.6%) were the most cited sources, followed by books/monographs (13.6%), and conference p...

The authors analyzed 21,005 citations from 124 Ph.D. theses submitted to ten departments in the Faculty of Science, University of Ibadan, in Nigeria, during the period 2006 to 2013. The overall analysis of the cited information sources revealed that journals (67.6%) were the most cited sources, followed by books/monographs (13.6%), and conference p...

The study explored the extent of agricultural information literacy of Fiditi fruit farmers in Afijio LGA in Oyo State, Nigeria. It also examined the agricultural information need of the farmers, their sources of getting such agricultural information, the agricultural information literacy programmes available, facilities available to source for agri...

Objective - This paper investigated the intellectual structure of the cited journals by science doctoral students in the University of Ibadan, Nigeria through field-mapping mechanism namely co-citation analysis. The study also explored the relationship and its strength between the science disciplines in terms of journals that were co-referenced thr...

This study investigated the roles of demographic variables in the transmission and acquisition of traditional medical knowledge (TMK) in rural communities of South West Nigeria. Survey research design was adopted. Three communities from each of the six states in South West Nigeria were purposively selected. Snowball technique was used in selecting...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use by lecturers at the National University of Lesotho W Olatokun TJ Ntemana Keywords: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICT), ICT ENABLED FACILITIES, GENDER, LESOTHO Abstract This study investigated the characteristics which determine the rate of ICT use by lecturers at the National Universi...

This study examined mobile telecommunication users' perception of service providers, with regard to information provision as well as advertising and representation of services. The study was conducted in Ibadan – a Nigerian municipality. The objective was to determine whether information provision and advertising and representation of services will...

Using survey design, this study assessed customer satisfaction with mobile telecommunication services in Ibadan, a Nigerian municipality. A structured questionnaire, consisting of SERVQUAL dimensions of reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy and tangibility, was used to collect data. Convenience sampling technique was used to select 431 mo...

Background: In Nigeria, most rural communities lack access to orthodox medical facilities despite an expansion of orthodox health care facilities and an increase in the number of orthodox health care providers. Over 90% of Nigerians in rural areas thus depend wholly or partly on traditional medicine. This situation has led to a call for the utilisa...

This study was designed to examine the influence of socio-demographic variables, innovation characteristics, time and social systems, on university students' adoption and use of social networking websites (SNWs). Survey design was adopted. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection from 600 respondents comprising undergraduate and post...

Background Globally, it is agreed that the internet can serve as a tool that enhances well-being but there is no consensus regarding what constitutes problematic internet use and internet use relationship with offline behavioural addictions. This study was conducted to investigate the prevalence of Internet addiction (IA) among adolescents and to d...

Abstract - The study examined the use of SMS by higher institution students in Ekiti State, Nigeria. It aimed at finding out frequency, motives and challenges of SMS use among the students. The predictors of SMS use were also identified Stratified sampling technique was used to select students from seven higher institutions. A structured questionna...

The Nigerian National IT policy (USE IT) was formulated in March 2001 with sixteen sectoral application areas and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) was established as the implementation agency. Out of these sixteen sectoral applications, this study sought to determine the extent of implementation of the policy in six of...

Research shows that studies investigating IA prevalence rate do not consider a user's motivation(s) for Internet use and possible inherent offline addictive behaviours as a check to identify addicts to the internet. This review explores the issues surrounding Internet addiction (IA), shedding light on the conceptions and terminological discrepancie...

The study examined the influence of mobile network providers' attributes on users demography in their choice process within the Nigerian telecommunication environment. The study was a sample survey of mobile phone users. Data was collected with a self structured questionnaire from 367 users using convenience sampling technique and was analyzed usin...

The study investigated the use and patterns of use of the Internet among secondary school students in Ibadan, a Nigerian municipality, with a view to determining how widespread Internet use was and to examine the activities the students adopt the Internet for. It also aimed at determining possible misuse with a view to proffering solutions. A surve...

Training programmes for the information professions worldwide have been shifting and diversifying the scope of their claimed domains and curricula in order to empower their graduates with diverse knowledge and versatile technical skills required to compete successfully in the highly competitive job markets in the information industries. In line wit...

This is the second of two articles that reports aspects of a study that was undertaken to assess the information industry and job market needs that the curriculum of the proposed programme must target. The first article specified the research problem and objectives, reviewed some key definitions and methodologies that were used, and the findings, l...

This study investigated the effect of attitude on employee knowledge sharing intentions and examined the effect of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation on employee attitude and intention toward knowledge sharing. To understand the motivators of employee knowledge sharing intentions, a modified Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) was adopted. Specifically...

Information and knowledge management have become very crucial to the growth and development of countries around the world, including African countries. This is also true about the importance of information science education. This truth has already been accepted in Africa, including Nigeria, where the joint effort of the International Development Re...

Objectives: The study examined and identified the factors that affect lawyers’ attitudes to knowledge sharing, and their knowledge sharing behaviour. Specifically, it investigated the relationship between the salient beliefs affecting the knowledge sharing attitude of lawyers’, and applied a modified version of the Theory of Reasoned Action (TRA) i...

This study investigated the influence of the five attributes of diffusion of innovation theory—relative advantage, complexity, compatibility, trialability, and observability—on lecturers’ use of information and communication technologies. A structured questionnaire was used to collect data from 213 lecturers across the seven faculties and one insti...

This study evaluated the significance of price (call rate), service quality, service availability, promotion, and brand image as it affect users’ perception in selecting a mobile telecommunication services provider in the Nigerian telecommunication market, using Ibadan, a Nigerian municipality as a case study. The study was a sample survey of a c...

The study investigated the influence of individual, organizational and system factors on attitude among online banking users in Osun state, Nigeria. The influence of the five constructs: system and service quality, perceived risk, organizational reputation, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness on attitude was used to determine users’ i...

This study examined the adoption of e-business technologies by SMEs in Ibadan a metropolitan city in South West Nigeria. It aimed at finding out the factors that promote and inhibit the adoption of e-business technologies, the kinds of e-business technologies adopted and used and their extent of use. It also identified the challenges faced by SMEs...

The study determines the level of access to the internet in various organizations in Botswana. It investigates the problems brought about by the misuse of internet facilities in the workplace and the measures or policies put in place to monitor internet use. It also reports the use, restrictions and monitoring of internet facilities by organization...

The study examined the attitude of students towards e-learning in selected south-west Nigerian universities. Specifically the study looked at the relationship between attitude and e-learning with the application of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of 387 postgraduate and undergraduate students....

This survey-based study examined the information-seeking behaviour of traditional medical practitioners using Taylor's information use model. Respondents comprised all 160 traditional medical practitioners that treat sickle cell anaemia. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered, structured questionnaire. Frequency and percentage distri...

Attracted by the prospective opportunities offered by the Internet for market and communication diversification, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adopt information and communication technologies (ICT), hoping to better their performances. This study assessed the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs in Botswana. It aimed at finding out the factors that...

The study examined the information seeking behaviour of traditional medical practitioners in the treatment of sickle cell anemia as well as the level of use of local indigenous system and its level of acceptance in the treatment of the disease. The cluster sampling technique was used to select 160 traditional medical practitioners from the study po...

This chapter commenced with a background to the concept of convergence particularly how it has brought about various opportunities in different aspects of life and led to the blurring of the boundaries between IT and telecommunications in the last two decades. It then discussed the various dimensions of convergence notably- technological, technical...

This study investigated reproductive health workers’ (RHWs) use of ICTs, the effects of ICTs on their job functions, and the challenges limiting full exploitation of ICTs. The study adopted a descriptive survey design. Stratified sampling technique was used to select a sample of 360 RHWs of the University College Hospital, Nigeria. A questionnaire...

The objective of this study was to carry out a citation analysis of doctoral theses submitted to the department of Animal science, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with a view to finding possible relationships between citing, cited articles and authors (doctoral students). The research design used was the descriptive survey with the research elements...

The study investigated Rural Women's use of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in the development of Ogun State, Nigeria. Among others, it aimed at identifying the nature and types of IK being used by the rural women, the extent of use as well as the domains of use. It equally aimed at finding out how the rural women's use of IK has positively affected sust...

A study of 102 research collaborators, conducted using semi-structured questionnaire revealed that the research collaborators employed e-mail for daily communication, file/document exchange, dissemination of results, and data collection. Widespread use of e-mail, its timeliness and cost-effectiveness were the main motivating factors. Also demonstra...

This study tested the attributes of the theory of d iffusion of innovation empirically, using Auto- matic Teller Machines (ATMs) as the target innovation. The study was situated in Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. The population comprised banks cust omers in Jos who used ATMs. The sampling frame technique was applied, and 14 banks that had deployed ATM...

This paper presents disaggregated survey data on IC T ownership, access to public ICT facilities, capabilities and actual use of ICTs in two location s in a Nigerian municipality. The study ana- lysed socio-demographic differences in access and use of ICTs using Sen's capability approach. Survey research approach was adopted. The locations were a r...

This study tested the attributes of the theory of diffusion of innovation empirically, using Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) as the target innovation. The study was situated in Jos, Plateau state, Nigeria. The population comprised banks customers in Jos who used ATMs. The sampling frame technique was applied, and 14 banks that had deployed ATMs we...

This paper presents disaggregated survey data on ICT ownership, access to public ICT facilities, capabilities and actual use of ICTs in two locations in a Nigerian municipality. The study analysed socio-demographic differences in access and use of ICTs using Sen’s capability approach. Survey research approach was adopted. The locations were a rural...

This article is based on a study that investigated rural women's use of indigenous knowledge (IK) in the development of Ogun State. Among others, the study aimed at identifying the nature and types of IK being used by the rural women, the extent of use as well as the domains of use. It equally aimed at finding out how the rural women's use of IK ha...

This study investigated the adoption and use of ICT in private and public secondary schools in Kwara State, Nigeria. It particularly examined the availability of ICT infrastructures, ICT adoption factors and the uses to which ICTs are put in the schools. The study also identified the effects and challenges faced by private and public schools in the...

This study investigated the various techniques used in the preservation and conservation of library materials in selected university libraries in Nigeria. Particularly, it examined the causes and nature of deterioration, patterns and strategies used in their control, existence of preservation and conservation policies and constraints limiting effec...

The paper commences with a review of the concept of Information Communication technology (ICT) and points out how it has become a potent force in transforming social, economic and political life globally. It then discusses the linkage between gender and ICT especially how ICT has widened the digital divide gap between Africa and the rest of the wor...

This study investigated the various techniques used in the preservation and conservation of library materials in selected university libraries in Nigeria. Particularly, it examined the causes and nature of deterioration, patterns and strategies used in their control, existence of preservation and conservation policies and constraints limiting effec...

Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. Organizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified accordi...

Electronic commerce (or e-commerce) is the popular term for doing business electronically. According to Haag, Cummings, and McCubbrey (1998), for businesses, electronic commerce includes performing transactions with customers over the Internet for purposes such as home shopping, home banking, and electronic cash use; performing transactions with ot...

Information technology (IT) has become a potent force in transforming social, economic and political life globally (Hafkin & Taggart, 2001). Without its incorporation into the information age, there is little chance for countries or regions to develop. More and more concern is being shown about the impact of those left on the other side of the digi...

Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. Organizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified accordi...

The study investigated the preparedness of the University of Ibadan (UI) to benefit from the numerous opportunities offered by the adoption and use of ICT in carrying out university functions. Six research questions centered on eliciting the e-readiness objectives of the University and five e-readiness indicators namely: infrastructural availabilit...

This study investigated the availability, accessibility and use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among women academics in six universities in South Western Nigeria. The study adopted a survey design approach and the questionnaire was administered on 246 women academics in the six universities. Findings revealed that the use of I...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of global system for mobile communications (GMS) at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, emphasizing the nature and characteristics of the activities for which it is used, the factors that promote or beset its use, its benefits and the quality of services provided by the operators. Design...

The study investigated the perception of University of Ibadan teaching staff and students on prolonged use of the computer and the associated health hazards. It aimed at determining how much information the respondents had on what the effect of prolonged interaction with the computer had on their health. The proliferation of computers and widesprea...

Government is a system of social control under which the right to make laws, and the right to enforce them, is vested in a particular group in society. Organizationally, governments may be classified into parliamentary or presidential systems, depending on the relationship between executive and legislature. Government may also be classified accordi...

Electronic commerce (or e-commerce) is the popular term for doing business electronically. According to Haag, Cummings, and McCubbrey (1998), for businesses, electronic commerce includes performing transactions with customers over the Internet for purposes such as home shopping, home banking, and electronic cash use; performing transactions with ot...

The study investigated the influence of individual, organizational and system factors on attitude among online banking users in Osun state, Nigeria. The influence of the five constructs: system and service quality, perceived risk, organizational reputation, perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness on attitude was used to determine users' inte...