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This research study investigated the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) on depression and anxiety during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Nigeria. REBT is used in correcting irrational beliefs and behaviors. This study adopted a randomized pretest, post-test, control group design. Two trial-tested instruments covering; depression, anxiety, and irrational beliefs were for data collection. Data obtained with the instruments were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and analysis of variance. The study revealed that REBT was effective in reducing depression and death anxiety in COVID-19 patients. The result of this study also showed that the introduction of REBT helped to curb the spread of COVID-19 disease by letting Nigerians to know that the existence, mode of spread, and consequences of the disease is real and not a myth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the role which exposure to ICT-based entrepreneurship education could play in reducing Nigeria's extreme poverty and excessive radicalism which have almost outwitted the country since the past two decades. Decision to engage in this exercise emanates from the fact that the negative effects of both activities dangerously impinge human and infrastructural development so excessively with the effect that overall national development could be crippled, while citizens languish in penury and inability to commit to national consciousness. It is the understanding of this brief paper therefore that since the Nigerian youth are often the perpetrators and unsolicited victims of both deplorable activities, there is urgent need to engage them in varieties of skills-based and ICT-related entrepreneurship programmes of education, all with the primary targets of supporting them acquire the lucrative skills they require to operate as self-reliant and economically viable Nigerians. Supported with relevant entrepreneurial skills therefore, this calibre of citizens could create and secure lucrative jobs for themselves, acquire gainful employments, become self-employed citizens, employ other unemployed Nigerians and create wealth to support themselves and family members. Effectively adapted in programmes of school education therefore, Nigeria could be on the right tracks out of poverty and extreme radicalism which seem to wind the nation's pace of development backwards. The qualitative analytical method shall be adopted in this analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]