An Investigation Into the Causes, Prevalence and Effect of Female Prostitution in Nigeria Tertiary Institutions: a Case Study of College of Education, Ekiadolor-benin as a Case Study
CHAPTER ONE
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The purpose of the study is to investigate into the causes, prevalence and effect of female prostitution in Nigerian tertiary institutions: college of Education, Ekiadolor as a case study.
Another objective of the study is also to find out whether poverty is a major cause of female prostitution in the Nigerian tertiary institutions.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
Samuel (200 0) has this contribution to make towards prostitution. Prostitution is a social evil practiced by human societies from ancient times. It is the use of a woman’s body for a bad purpose. It is the practice by women of allowing men to use their body for sexual intercourse, for an economic reward. It is an indiscriminate behaviour, normally socially and degrading to human personality. The practice is rampant in large cities and towns where the society tends to be impersonal and unconcerned. Poverty is considered to be the most important cause of prostitution. Unemployment may lead to poverty and this may lead to prostitution. Many causes may contribute to unemployment and poverty. Laziness or indolence may be one-social circumstance such as members of minority groups finding themselves in big cities seeking employment but social prejudices may prevent them from procuring jobs. In their desperation and frustration they then turn to prostitution as an easy and quick way of earning a living and indirectly of engaging I social injustices lack of parental care in early childhood or parental control in later adolescence may drive young women to such evil practices as vengeance against the society which abandoned them.
Some women are driven to prostitution as a means of making easy money to live above their expensive end. Most fashionable dresses, perfumes etc. but do not have the means to secure them. Broken homes or lead instance of friends and permanently slide into the evil practice. In some societies, religion customs ay also encourage prostitution as a means of propitiating the deity. Societies with strict tribal taboos and customs used to prevent this social menace. Strict and domestic punishment also discourage women from turning absolutely into modern urban impersonal societies.
CHAPTER THREE
METHODOLOGY
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
This research study is designed to look into the causes, prevalent and effect of female prostitution in Nigeria tertiary institutions, using College of Education, Ekiadolor-Benin as a case study.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
This research was carried out in Benin City of Edo State, for effective and comprehensive result, the researcher made use of five departments from the College of Education, Ekiadolor-Benin. The researcher also explained the items on the questionnaires for the purpose of those who had problem with answering them. The questionnaire was administered by the researcher to the selected population.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF RESULT
This chapter presents the analysis interpretation and discussion of findings of research on the causes, prevalence and effect of female prostitution in Nigeria Tertiary institution using College of Education, Ekiadolor-Benin as a case study. The analysis and interpretation are presented based on the research questions formulated in chapter one by the researcher in the tables below.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
SUMMARY
The project attempted to find out some of the causes, prevalent and effect of female prostitution in Nigeria tertiary institution equally attempted to proffer some lasting solutions to the problem. Among the causal factors are question to make quick money, desire to get high grades in examination, societal corruption, peer pressure among others. It equally tried to find out those who partake in female prostitution. These classes of people are the school dropout and those who have been forced by abject poverty of their parents to fend for themselves while in school.
CONCLUSION
From the interview conducted, facts by various magazines, books and dailies, the following conclusion seem reasonable. It is not uncommon to see females in tertiary institutions nowadays living above N24, 000.00 a month, what a level six officer afford. This fact has been borne out from the fact that most females students during their holiday travels to other states or countries in search of money to buy new clothes which their parents cannot afford for themselves, least of all, for their children.
If female prostitution in tertiary institution unchecked will creep deeply into our secondary schools and turn our secondary schools girls into permanent prostitutes. The consequences of this problem are increase in moral decadence and disrespect for elders and educational administration, dropout and absenteeism rate in our school system will increase. There have been cases of female students who died as a result of abortion from unwanted pregnancy, this result from an attempt to make enough money for themselves by so doing engage in prostitution.
Finally, one fact remains outstanding with the present day educational employment realities, parents cannot always follow or keep their eyes on their children. Some parents have no time at all, but the rush to earn money. They very often resort to the saying that since they have paid their school fees, the teacher can do them nothing. In fact, mothers should be in the forefront to see that such abuse is eradicated. It only calls for giving greater powers of control and management of self to the children.
RECOMMENDATIONS
- The researcher therefore strongly recommends that parents on their part should try as much as possible to have children they can adequately cater for. They should give them the right guidance to enable them grow into responsible citizens. Parents on the other hand should work hand in hand with the school in terms of needs, adequate feedback of reporting either from the school or the home to enhance the school and the home relationship geared towards inculcating the qualities that make up an upright person in the society.
- An awareness campaign should be intensified by the government and non-governmental agencies on the health effect and dangers of female prostitution.
- Parents should always pay their female child a surprised visit when in school to know their well about.
- Female students should be encouraged by their lecturers to be serious with their academic work as this will reduce the level of female who sell their body for grades.
- Government should enact a law and properly enforce it prohibiting female prostitution in our tertiary institutions of learning.
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