INFLUENCE OF PERSONNEL FOR INTRAMURAL SPORTS PROGRAMME ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SPORT IN PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN SOKOTO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

This study assessed the influence of personnel for intramural sports programme on the development of sport in primary schools in Sokoto State, Nigeria. One research question and one hypothesis were formulated to guide the study. The population of the study comprise all primary school teachers in Sokoto State amounting to ten thousand, four hundred and eighty-one (10,481). Ex-post facto research design was employed by the researchers, while a multi-stage sampling procedure involving stratified, and simple random samplings was used to draw the respondents. Out of the total three hundred and eighty-one (381) copies of the questionnaire distributed, three hundred and seventy-eight (378) copies of the questionnaire were retrieved upon which the data analysis was conducted. Frequency and percentage tables were used to analyse the demographic characteristics of the respondents. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research question and chi-square analysis was used to test the null hypothesis. The finding of this study revealed that the availability of personnel for intramural sports competitions significantly influenced the development of sports programmes in primary schools in Sokoto State (p = 0.01). The researchers concluded that recruiting adequate and qualified personnel plays an important role roles in the development of intramural sports and hence
sport development in primary schools in Sokoto State, Nigeria. To this end, the researchers recommended that qualified sports personnel should be adequately recruited for the conduct of intramural sports to man the programme and to maximize the potential for sustainable sports development in primary schools in Sokoto State Nigeria