BUILDING CELL PHONE MAINTENANCE CAPACITY OF GRADUATES FOR JOB SECURITY AND RETENTION FOR PEACEFUL EXISTENCE OF NIGERIAN COMMUNITIES

Résumé

The study built the cell phone maintenance capacity of graduates for job security, creation and retention for peaceful existence of Nigerian communities. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. Three research questions guided the study while the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population for the study was 123 subjects. A structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. Five experts validated the instrument. The internal consistency of the questionnaire items was determined by using Cronbach alpha reliability method and 0.89 reliability coefficient was obtained. The findings revealed 57maintenance attributes, 23 affective competencies for building the cell phone maintenance capacity of graduates for job security, creation and retention for peaceful existence of Nigerian communities and 15 strategies for acquiring material resources for setting up and running cell phone enterprise in Nigerian communities. Recommendations include that all the competencies determined in this study should be used to build the capacities of Nigerian graduates for job creation, security and retention. It was also recommended that all the competencies determined should be integrated to the relevant programmes in Nigerian tertiary institutions