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    Assessment of mercantile activities of private Nursery/Primary schools in southwestern Nigeria
    (The Institute of Education, Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, 2022) ALA, Olubunmi Folasade
    The study investigated the types of mercantile activities that private nursery/primary schools engage in, in Southwestern Nigeria. It examined the logistics, assessed the level of success, and investigated the challenges of mercantile activities of private nursery/primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. It further assessed the attitude of parents towards mercantile activities of private nursery/primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria, and compared the logistics, level of success and challenges, and attitude of parents to nursery/primary schools’ mercantile activities across various categories of proprietorship. These were with the view to providing information on the viability and acceptability of mercantile activities embarked upon by private nursery/primary schools, and subscribed to, by parents of nursery/primary school children in Southwestern Nigeria. The study adopted the survey design. Proprietors and parents of pupils of private nursery/primary schools constituted the population for the study. The sample consisted of 135 proprietors and 675 parents drawn from 27 Local Government Areas from three states in Southwestern Nigeria, using stratified, simple and purposive random techniques. The instruments used to collect data for study were Private School Mercantile Activities Interview Guide (PSMAIG) and the Parental Attitude to School Mercantile Activities Scale (PASMAS). Data collected were analysed using simple percentage, one sample t-test, Krukal-Wallis H-test and Mann-Whitney U-test. The results showed that sales of textbooks, sports wears, notebooks, uniforms, sweaters/cardigans, extra lessons, school bus services, and excursion activities were the major mercantile activities of private nursery/primary schools in Southwestern Nigeria. The least of them were after hostel accommodation and other activities that were not disclosed. The results also showed that the logistics of mercantile activities revolved around practice, production/provision, marketing and sales and mode of payment for the traded items xv (customised books (80.00%), contracting to factories (58.36%), cash payment (86.66%), bank deposit (74.81%), credit facilities (37.03%); and termly payment for services (59.42%)). The results as well showed that the level of success of mercantile activities was very high (79.38%), and the level of associated challenges was low (37.43%). The results further showed that the attitude of parents towards mercantile activities of private nursery/primary schools was significantly positive (t=34.94; p<0.05). The results also showed that there was no significant difference in the logistics (H=2.71; p>0.05), level of success (H=0.56; p>0.05), and associated challenges (H=2.38;p>0.05), but showed a significant difference in the attitude of parents of pupils of different schools categories (H=24.26; p<0.05): with schools owned by religious organisations standing out over private individual owned (U=856703.5) and tertiary institution owned schools (U=222494.0) in terms of parental attitude to mercantile activities of schools of their children. The study concluded that the involvement of private nursery/primary schools in mercantile activities in Southwestern Nigeria were worthwhile, and parents of pupils were favourably disposed towards the operations, despite the challenges.