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Abstract
This study examines effect of street hawking among children in Ekosodin Community. The study adopted the survey design on the basis of which data was collected from a sample of 150 respondents from Ekosodin in Ovia North East Local Government Area. The data was analyse using percentage and chi-square statistical technique, the results revealed that street hawking has no significant effect on the academic performance of children in Ekosodin Community in Ovia North-East Local Government Area. Secondly, the result shows that street hawking has significant effect on the behavioural development among children in Ekosodin Community in Ovia North-East Local Government Area. The result also revealed that street hawking has significant effect on the socio-emotional development of Children in Ovia North-East Local Government Area. The study recommends that there should be advocacy campaigns to educate parents and guardians on the dangers of hawking to the children. The government should promulgate a feasible law against street hawking and law enforcement agents should arrest parents and guardians who sent out their children for street hawking. The government at all levels should not only provide free basic education but also take practical steps to ensure that the education they give is truly and completely free, qualitative, and necessarily compulsory. Legislating and effecting punitive measures on education stakeholders that default will enhance success in this direction.
