Abstract/Overview Tobacco smoking is a major health concern among healthcare professionals globally; it kills and sickens millions of people annually. In the US and UK, tobacco is responsible for about one in five and one in eight deaths annually respectively. It is projected that about 10 million people would die annually by 2030 since tobacco related diseases take time to become evident. A global commitment by World Health Organization to reversing the tobacco epidemic was done in 2003 by ...
ABSTRACT The study examined the use of visual aesthetic and aural techniques as used in television (TV) political campaign ads during Ghana’s 2016 presidential elections. The study employed the framing and priming theories. A content analysis of the TV ads revealed the use of camera and its movements, close-up shots, bird-eye shots, special effects, picture distortion, sound, vocal delivery, pacing, colour, voice delivery in congruency, music and graphics as the components that were used in...
ABSTRACT The major objective of the study was to examine the role of the media in the coverage of national elections in Webuye District of Kenya. This follows the deep public concern on the need to understand the role of media especially how it guides people during and after elections. The study was conducted in Webuye town. A total of 60 respondents were chosen; 30 were mixture of media practitioners, sponsers and advertisers while the remaining 30 were selected from Webuye town to represent...
ABSTRACT Contraceptives uptake among the youth has been a sensitive and controversial issue in the society that has resulted to various social problems that include unwanted pregnancies and sexual transmitted infections among others. This calls for intervention measures that will promote contraceptive use in order to reduce unwanted pregnancies, sexual transmitted diseases and slow down the spread of HIV/AIDS among university students. The main objective of this study was to determine the uti...
Abstract This study examines the role of YA FM in enhancing rural development in Mberengwa North district. The research sought to identify and review the major contributions that were brought by YA FM in the development of rural communities. The main focus of this research was to identify programmes related to rural development and how these are stimulating development in rural areas. Despite some challenges and personal agendas, YA FM has managed to design programmes that have positivel...
ABSTRACT Background: Mental illness is debilitating both to immediate families and the society at large. In Ghana, mental illness is not treated as a priority in healthcare. Persons caring for their mentally-ill relatives often feel burdened, helpless and sometimes ignored by other family members and the society. The main objective of this study is to examine the social, economic and emotional consequences on families as a result of taking care of mentally-ill relatives attending the OPD of t...
ABSTRACT This study has examined the costs incurred by Microfinance institutions in late, early or no response to the HIV/AIDs pandemic in Kenya. The general objective of the study was to investigate the costs of MFls in response to HIV/AIDS crisis in Kenya. The basic objectives of the study are: to identify and analyze the costs incurred by MFls in response to HIV/AIDs effects to their clients; to examine how staff administration costs are affected as a result of MFI staff being infected or...
ABSTRACT The idea of using communication for the purpose of advancing the goals of development received a boost when it was realised that development has to do with the generation of psychic mobility and changing of attitude. It was also realised that the failures of certain development projects had been due to the absence of communication component in the development calculus (Salawu, 2008). Since this realisation had dawned on development agencies, communication has remained an integral but...
Abstract: This study is an ethnographic research that studied how feminist activists appropriate online social media platforms such as Twitter in addition to other contemporary platforms as a site for mobilization and building of online communities. The study argues that feminist activists employ cross-border solidarity. Care, and archival practices to generate radical feminist movements to counter the entrenched forms of patriarchal violence. The chapter, therefore, reiterates the use of fe...
ABSTRACT Teenage pregnancy refers to pregnancy occurring in young girls between the age of 13 and 19 years. It can also be referred to as pregnancy in a young girl who is yet to complete her secondary school education and is not skilled in any trade that could make her live a sustainable lifestyle. (Gyan 2017) Sociologically, teenage pregnancy is a social problem because humans are social beings. In other words, our social background shapes our attitudes and behaviors to a very high ex...
ABSTRACT The research work examined education and social mobility among the residents in Surulere Local Government Area, Lagos. Four Research questions and four Research hypotheses guided the study. To achieve this, a non-experimental research design of cross sectional survey method was adopted. The simple random sampling technique was used to select a sample of 200 residents from the age of 30 and above. The descriptive statistics of frequency counts and percentage were used to analyze the d...
ABSTRACT Linguistic tagging, the labelling of people and their actions with particular sociopolitically-grounded values, is an ideological denominator that plays a significant role in media framing of conflict. Despite this significance, existing studies on the Nigeria-Cameroon Bakassi Peninsula border conflict, which had concentrated on the historical, political, legal and sociolinguistic dimensions, largely neglected an exploration of the dynamics of linguistic tagging. Therefore, this stu...
ABSTRACT The trend contemporary to the business organizations of our time is that the organization owe certain responsibilities to the area, more specifically the indigenes or inhabitants of the environment in which the business operates and the manpower working for – or employed by the business organization. Among such responsibilities of the business is social responsibility. Modern business ethics stipulates that every organization show sensitivity or concern to issues relating to ...
ABSTRACT Many companies go into CSR without proper feasibility study or plan and this usually affects the success and future sustainability of the projects. Corporate Social Responsibility is a core strategy in business as it enhances trust, reliance, respect and transparency. In the process of satisfying the needs of stakeholder groups, the companies are able to maximize their commitment to their investors who in turn benefit most. Many companies go into CSR without proper feasibility study...
ABSTRACT This research work was purely undertaken to discover, evaluate and exhaustively determine the critical role of the advertising in the sustenance of Nigeria mass media industry which has not been fully realized that warranted this study. This work is in depth study into the role of advertising in the sustenance of Nigeria mass media industry. It is a five chapter work. Chapter one is an introduction to the work, where as chapter two reviews related literature on th...