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This study examined the causes and effects of climate change on buildings with a view to adopting the green Building Concept being a response strategy to mitigate the effects of climate change on buildings. Extensive review of literature and mixed method/approach were adopted to obtain data for the study. Questionnaire was used to elicit data for the study. 300 was the sample size for the study. Data analysis was done using statistical tools such as percentiles, mean score, Cochran return sample size formulae and the Analysis OF Variance (ANOVA) used for the tests of hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is significant effects of climate change on buildings in the study area and that Green building concept is beneficial in mitigating the effects of climate change on buildings. The benefits derivable from adopting the green building concept in mitigating the effects of climate change on buildings and the dwellers were identified. These benefits include social, cultural, Energy conservation and improved Indoor air for comfortable living. The study therefore recommends continuous enlightenment of the public on the need to embrace green practices, while government should create a Green Building Assessment Unit in the Urban and Planning Department of Ministries of Works and Housing to promote, and monitor the implementation and enforcement of green practices in Ondo State (the study area) and should also grant incentives to home owners in form of rebates on tenement payments to encourage embracing green practices among others.

The study is a case study of the student academic performance in vocational and technical education at the College of Education, Ikere Ekiti. The academic performance of students has been abysmally low. This has grossly impacted the students’ enrolment in the departments and the College in general. The paper identifies the major causes of the failures in vocational and technical education courses in the College. The survey research employing exploratory sequential mixed method was used. It involves 12 Participants and 50 respondents. The Nvivo12 software was used to obtain the word cloud. The Rasch Analysis Model was applied to obtain the Person and Item separations, reliabilities and the respondent’s agreement. The hierarchy details the factors in order relativity and difficulty level. Findings shows that both internal and external factors are the main sources of students’ failure.

This research was undertaken to explore the sorption potential of chestnut shell as suitable adsorbent for scavenging divalent cations of lead (Pb) and cadmium (Cd) from Acid mine Drainage (AMD). In this regard, powdered carbon was produced from chestnut shell as adsorbent to remove lead and cadmium from wastewater. Batch experiments were conducted to obtain the optimum conditions for lead and cadmium. Effect of parameter like pH, adsorbent dose, contact time, temperature and initial metal ion concentration were also determined. The optimum conditions obtained were; 180 minutes contact time, 50°C temperature and pH 8 for cadmium, and 120 minutes contact time, 60°C temperature and pH 6 for lead. The removal of Pb2+ ion from Acid Mine Drainage at the optimum conditions is found to be 97.94%, while that of Cd2+ ion is 95.96%. Adsorption studies were carried out using the Langmuir Isotherm. The kinetics of adsorption was described using pseudo first order, pseudo second order, intra particle diffusion and Elovich kinetic model. The result of the kinetic model correlate well to pseudo second order, with R2 of 0.999 for both ions. The results from the adsorption study shows that Chestnut shell can effectively be utilized for the removal of lead (II) and cadmium (II) ions.