Utilization of Internet Services for Distance-Learning Education in Nigeria Universities, It’s Implications on Millennium Development Goals

The purpose of this study is to investigate the problems militating against the utilization of the internet services for Distance Education in Nigerian Universities and their implications for the achievement of the millennium development goals. Universities of Abuja and Lagos, which were the first charge with making the achievement of the objectives a reality, were used for the study. Internet has been identified as the most sophisticated and effective technological media for meeting the needs of delivery Distance education (DE). Descriptive survey was adopted for the study. The population was made of, 7000 staff and students. A sample size of 940 respondents which constituted 10% of the population was randomly selected involving a table of random digits. The instrument for data collection was the University Distance Survey Questionnaire (UDEDSQ) developed by the researcher based on the purposes and literature of the study. The instrument was face validated by three experts and cronbach Apha was used to establish the internal reliability consistency, a grand mean of 0.91. Consistency, grand mean 0.91. One research question was used to guide the study, some findings and recommendations were made. It was found that utilizing the Internet for Distance Education in Nigeria is characterized with lots of problems ranging from profound computer illiteracy, shortage of technological personnel, constant power outage, inadequate telecommunications, infrastructure, equipment, among others.