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Sustainability of the environment is one of the major problems facing African people, most especially Nigerians. It is unfortunate that women, by the nature of their daily activities of managing the homes and families are in touch with nature and environment and are at greater risk of health hazards and foetal damage. This paper focuses on the type of education that women need to instill in them knowledge and skills for handling environmental problems. The paper concludes with some recommendations that environmental courses, clubs, training and retraining of teachers, networking with NGOs on environmental education for sustainability should be implemented. To this end, the government should put in place laws and policies for effectiveness of environmental programmes.

The study aimed at examining the efficacy of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in enhancing learning outcomes of students with hearing impairment in Ibadan. The study adopted a pretest, post-test, control group quasi-experimental research design. Purposive sampling techniques was used for the selection of thirty participants comprising of (15 males and 15 females) used for the study. The instrument used in carrying out the study was Economics Achievement Test (EAT) with reliability coefficient of 0.72. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was used to analyse the null hypothesis generated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result showed that there is a significant main effect of ICT on the participants' learning outcomes in economics. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that teachers should utilize ICT during teaching learning process in the classroom and also go for in-service training to update their knowledge on the best way of handling ICT facilities to impact knowledge.