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Beginning from 2010/2011 academic session, the faculty of communication and information sciences, university of Ilorin, Nigeria requires that each student of the faculty should as a matter of compulsion have a laptop (notebook computer) sufficiently equipped to be used to support essential research, classroom, and communications tasks. Upon arrival in the faculty during the academic session, students were thoroughly screened and those that were not with their laptops were not allowed to register until they procure one. The study therefore examined ownership and use of laptop among the information and communication sciences students at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. The study drawn on 295 students randomly selected from five departments that made up the faculty. A survey research design was adopted using a questionnaire as instrument for data collection. The results demonstrate that aside of being mandatory, students own and use laptop because they want to be like others and to show that they are Communication and Information Sciences students. It is not difficult owning personal laptop because it was bought or purchased by the respondents’ parents. To overcome problem of laptop acquisition, hire purchase and installmental payment, loans, price subsidy, and inclusion of payment for laptop in the respondents’ school fees were identified. The benefits of laptop revealed include: use for academic purpose including assignments and research, provide access to online discussion forum and make academic work easier and faster; while the challenges of using laptop revealed by the study include lack of access to the internet connectivity in the faculty, intermittent power supply, theft and virus threat. In the light of these findings, the major stakeholders in this faculty i.e. the ministry of information and communication in Nigeria is hereby call upon to give at least a laptop each to every students of the faculty free of charge. It is Material published as part of this publication, either on-line or in print, is copyrighted by the Informing Science Institute. Permission to make digital or paper copy of part or all of these works for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that the copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage AND that copies 1) bear this notice in full and 2) give the full citation on the first page. It is permissible to abstract these works so long as credit is given. To copy in all other cases or to republish or to post on a server or to redistribute to lists requires specific permission and payment of a fee. Contact Publisher@InformingScience.org to request redistribution permission. Ownership and Use of Laptops assumed that this will lessen the burden of most parents in procuring the system for their wards, and the ownership of laptops by the each student will assist them in deepened their knowledge in their various courses and disciplines.

Ownership and Use of Laptops by Communication and Information Sciences Undergraduates at the University of Ilorin Nigeria