Staff Profile

Job Sani

Research Interests

  • "Digital Information Systems and Service
  • "E-Learning", "Information Literacy
  • "Information Seeking Behaviour
  • "Social Media", "Human Resource Development
  • "Reference and Information Services

Job Onekutu Sani

Lecturer I

Mr. Job Onekutu Sani is an academic staff with the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Education, Federal University Lokoja. He hails from Ajemuwaya village, Ogbabede Ward of Dekina Local Government of Kogi State. He attended God’s Time Primary School from 1988-1994, Government Day Secondary School Bomo, Zaria,  from 1994-2000.

He proceeded to the prestigious Ahmadu Bello University Zaria where he bagged a Bachelor of Library and Information Science from 2001-2006. He further obtained a Master’s Degree in Information Management from the Department of Library and Information Science from the same institution in 2011. He later proceeded for Masters Degree in Library and Information Science at the University of Nigeria Nsukka from 2014 to 2017. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.  His love for research earned him some publication in peer-reviewed journals, chapters in books, and papers presented at workshops/conferences.

Mr. Job Onekutu Sani is one of the pioneering staff of Federal University Lokoja in 2012 as Librarian II in the University Library and rose to Senior Librarian in 2019 before being redeployed to the Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Education, as Lecturer I. He is a certified librarian with the Librarian’s Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN), a member of the Nigerian Library Association (NLA) Kogi State Chapter and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). He is a devoted Christian. He is married and blessed with children.



  • Auru, Farouk and Sani, J. O. (2020). Availability and utilization of information resources by undergraduate students of Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State.. Delta State, Niger Delter Journal of Library and Information Science.

  • Sani, O. J. and Kabiru, S. B. (2020). The role of libraries in combating fake news in Nigeria.. Global Review of Library and Information Science. Nsukka, Department of Library and Information Science, UNN

  • Sani, O. J., Okube, N. and John, M. N. (2020). Undergraduate Students Awareness and Utilization of Online Databases in Federal University Lokoja Library, Kogi State. 53(1), 142-155.. Abuja/ Nigerian Libraries

  • MBshir,A. L., Alabi, C. O., Sani, J. O. and Momoh-Jimoh, F. (2020). Towards Utilization of ICT for securing Library Resources against Vandalism in the Era of Global Insecurity. Ilorin: Tim-Sal and Bim Publishing Ltd. Pp. 71-85.

  • Sani, J. O. and Oseji, N. A. (2020). Blended Learning Environment: The Need to Integrate E-learning with Traditional Classroom Learning in Nigerian Public Tertiary Institutions in Post COVID-19 Era.. Nsukka: A paper presented at the Faculty of Education Conference, University of Nigeria Nssuka on 25th to26th November, 2020. (Presented via Join Zoom Meeting)

  • Yarima, F. Y., Oseji, N. A. and Sani, J. O. (2020). Enhancing Information Services Delivery in E-Learning Environment in Fifth Generation Federal Universities in Nigeria. ABU.. ABU Zaria

  • Sani, O. J. Comfort O. Alabi, Sa’id Danjuma, Fatima O. Momohjimoh (2019). The Use of ICT tools for Lecture Preparation and Delivery in Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State, Nigeria.. Islamic University Multidisciplinary Journal. Uganda. Islamic University of Uganda

  • Sani, O.J. and Musa Abdulmalik (2019). Influence of ICT competencies on Job Performance among library personnel in tertiary institutions in Lokoja, Kogi State.. Samaru journal of Information Studies. Zaria, A.B.U Zaria

  • Danjuma Saidu and Job Onekutu Sani. (2019). Using social media as a tool to re-define and transform academic library service and transform academic library service in the 21st century. Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Conference, Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium, held at ZESA National Training Centre in Belvedere, Harare, Zimbabwe on 27th to 29th March 2019. Pp. 293-309

  • Sani, O. J. and Dika, S.I. (2017). Promoting the utilization of ICT based services in Special libraries in Nigeria.. Global Review of Library and Information Science. Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka

  • Sani, O. J. and Dika, S.I. (2017). Enhancing the utilization of ICT based services in Special libraries in Nigeria.. Nsukka: A paper presented at the 1st Interntational Conference and home coming, Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nigeria Nsukka on 25th – 30th of June, 2017.

  • Alabi C.O., Mbashir, A. L. and Sani, O.J. (2016). Human resource development in changing work environment.. Lokoja: A paper presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Library Association, Academic Section and Research Libraries Section, at Federal University Lokoja, Kogi State on 23rd- 26th October, 2016.

  • Dikka, S. I., Sani, O. J and Ezeh, E. (2015). Best practices in the use of social media for promoting reference services in academic libraries.. Nsukka. Global Review of Library and Information Science. Department of Library and Information Science, University of Nigeria

  • Sani, O.J. et al (2015). Understanding Entrepreneurship in Librarianship.. JLISTECH

  • Sani, O.J. and Idakwo, S.. (2015). Publishing and National Development.. Lagos: Zeh Communications Ltd. Pp. 275-285.

  • Sani O.J. and Mbashir, L.A.. (2015). Evolution of Library Public Relations.. Owerri: Springfield Publishers. Pp. 27-42.

  • Sani, O.J. and Alabi, C.O. (2013). Library and Information Services for National Transformation and Development in Nigeria.. Lagos: Waltodanny Visual Concept. Pp. 557-572


  • 2015 Award for Commitment to Kingdom in Service as Music Director. Graduate Students Fellowship, University of Nigeria Nsukka
  • 2008 Award of Excellence for Christian Community Service. ii. Nigerian Christian Coppers Fellowship [NCCF] Sagamu.

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