The study aimed at determining the role of non-state actors‟ counter-radicalization programs in the fight against terrorism in Kamukunji sub-county, Nairobi County, Kenya. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the methods and processes of the counter-radicalization programs employed by various non-state actors in the fight against terrorism, evaluate the non-state actors‟ perception of the performance of the counter-radicalization programs in the fight against terroris...
Media coverage of conflicts has since time immemorial been a challenge owing to the complexities involved. For the Kenyan case, the country’s Kenya Defence Force was getting involved in a maiden international war in 2011 otherwise dubbed Operation ‘Linda Nchi’ to curb the terrorist threat on Kenyan soil. Similarly, Kenyan media were engaged in their maiden coverage of international war and had to deliver information about the war to the public with skills honed from the coverage of...
Police use of excessive force has seemingly become more prevalent in this day and age. Despite excessive use of force being an ongoing issue of concern in the country and its continued use as a strategy of suppressing election instigated violence in the country, much effort has not been put to establish the effectiveness of the strategy in achieving its objectives. This study therefore intended to establish causes, effectiveness of police use of excessive force, and effects of police use...
Abstract Time is recently the critical element in standardizing productivity, profits and salaries and consequently important for the accomplishment of business, the activities related to schemes, performance of the required tasks according to specific standard times, for this, the need to study the problem of performing the required tasks (performance Level) in the planned time in order to promote the companies working in the field of construction to the highest levels of performance by meas...
ABSTRACT The study examined AUN students’ awareness of the All Progressives Congress, APC,use of the social media in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election. The study sought to gauge how much AUN students know about APC’s use of the social media in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election. The study is anchored on two relevant theories: Media Dependency and Agenda-Setting theories. The researcher used survey method,with questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The data gather...
Abstract The centre of towns around the world are considered standard for success and center for social needs and future prospect also their urban centers are considered the threat and life line. An urban center are the centers for economical political and social activities and are considered financial and business centers. More over these urban centers are considered demographic economical and environmental challenges. The capital of Sudan, Khartoum is considered one of most important citie...
ABSTRACT No studies have been conducted to determine Social Media Usage Pattern & Users Content among IDPs present in Jimeta-Yola, Adamawa State Nigeria. Therefore this study aims to enlighten the impact of Social Media Usage, its pattern and the kind of information being sought after by IDPs. 25 IDPs where interviewed oneon-one in Jimeta. Feedback from the interviews where carefully examined by the researcher using the Uses and Gratification Theory by Kartz, Blumber and Guvetich. The result...
ABSTRACT This research aims to understand the role of aesthetics in the production of electronic newsletters. In this study, AUN’s weekly newsletter (AUNthisWEEK) was put under the microscope in an attempt to examine the effect some of its design features have on readers. Users are known to patronize that which the find appealing to any of their senses. The persistent use of familiar design features is likely to bore readers and gradually diminish their numbers. To prevent this, multimedia...
ABSTRACT The notion that art reflects reality is an ideology set upon works of art to influence the perception of the audience to decode the message as it is or in a way that relates to the message the artist intends to pass across. As a result of this notion, the message or massages tend to influence the audience psychologically altering the way they think, how they behave, and also the perception to which they perceive reality. Over the years, with the evolution of new mediums whereas thes...
Civil society organizations play an important role in promoting democratic governance of a country and this can only be achieved if all governance organs operate in a transparent manner. The aim of this study was to assess the contribution of Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in promoting democratic governance in the Republic of South Sudan by focusing on two CSOs and their operating environment. The study was guided by the following specific objectives: to investigate the strategies used by...
ABSTRACT The practice of code-switching today has become a common act in a multilingual and bilingual societies. This research attempts to investigate the possible social factors and motivations that triggers Fulfulde speakers to change from their native to English language in a conversation. In addition, it is observed that the established relationship with other languages has tremendously contributed to the high practice of code-switching in most societies. Also, demographic and social fac...
ABSTRACT All over the world, the standard of living of nations in the world has varied due to the varied levels of development attained by different nations. Within a nation, different standard of living is always observed. Nigeria is not an exception. It is obvious that rural areas continue to be less developed than their urban counterparts. This continues to be a source of worry to successive governments of Nigeria. Successive efforts were therefore, put in place to bridge the gap between...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this research study was an assessment of radio and facebook advertisements on the purchasing habits of godfrey okoye university students. Anchored on the uses and gratification theory, social relationship theory and source credibility theory, the objectives of the study was structured to determine the extent to which undergraduates youths are exposed to advertisements on Radio and Facebook, to ascertain the media channels preferred by undergraduate youths for advertis...
ABSTRACT Hart’s The Concept of Law (1961) argues for a complex legal positivism which finds the source of legal authority in the acceptance by a community of a system of rules which is grounded in a fundamental rule of recognition that determines what is to be included among the legal rules. This sought to offer an alternative explanation to the concept of law differently from the popular utilitarian command doctrine which sufficiently describes criminal law, but is limited in describing l...
ABSRACT In the productive benefits of commercial microbial phytase (Ronozyme) were tested. Five experiments were run. In experiment one, four levels of phytase 0, 250, 500 and 750 FYT/U were used at 23%CP , 0.48%P and 3 Mcal/kg feed, using seventy two day-old unsexed Ross-308 broiler chicks, allotted randomly to four treatments× three replicates, each of six chicks, and experimentally fed for 42 days. Experiments 2-5 used high (0.45%) and low (0.30%) P with either high (23%) or low (19....