ABSTRACT Rural-urban migration is a major challenge in traditionally migration prone areas such as Nkoranza South Municipality in the Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. Food system and its related activities embedded in agriculture, for example, non-mechanized farming suffer the most as a result of labour shortage associated with out-migration from farming areas. Some specific objectives of the study were to identify community perception about rural-urban migration and to determine perceived effect...
ABSTRACT The focus of this research was based upon the contribution of road runoffs to environmental pollution in the New Juaben Municipality. Road runoffs were sampled from five highways and five urban roads during the late storm events in the month of November 2014 and early storm events in January 2015. The choice of these months was to determine the influence of the dry period on the pollutant loads in the road runoffs due to the antecedent dry weather condition. Control samples were also...
Abstract Institution of higher education face a higher level of information security incidence and compromise such as data and information theft, malicious program infection, attack on the information systems infrastructure and computer network. The antagonistic impact of information security incidence includes compromise of confidential data and intellectual property, massive financial losses and increased level of information security vulnerability and threat. This study aims to determine ...
ABSTRACT The crisis of the earth is beginning to take centre stage in world affairs. The concern globally hinges on the need to rescue the environment from an impending ecological crisis. Over the years, changes in climate conditions have intensified a near desperate quest to salvage humanity from eco-degradation. The irony however, is that these changes are largely orchestrated by human activities. This study investigates the preoccupation of drama and the dramatic text in Nigeria with a vie...
The press in a democratic setting sets the agenda for the society through news reports, incisive features, editorials and commentaries. Previous studies on press performance, especially during political crisis situations, concentrated more on the extent of reports of such crises and rarely investigate the factors that influence the reportage. This study, therefore, evaluated the performance of the Nigerian newspapers in their coverage of selected political crisis situations in terms of m...
Cosmopolitan justice, the view that justice is a universal idea that should apply to all persons irrespective of nationality has generated a lot of debate among political philosophers. Earlier studies have conceived of justice either as a territorially-bounded concept or as a trans-territorial idea, which must apply globally but failed to provide a trans-culturally persuasive account of justice that would form the basis for regulating transnational relations. This study, therefore, devel...
Abstract This research work focused on the perceptions of female mass communication students of Enugu state University of Science and Technology Enugu towards journalism as a career. The study aims at finding out the attitudes that are being displayed by female mass communication students towards journalism as a career. Survey method was adopted and the instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. The population of the study according to the current attendance of ESUT female ma...
The provision of modern health services was a legacy of colonial administration in Africa. Yet, little attention has been paid to the history of medical and health development in Africa, especially Ibadan, which benefited greatly from the colonial health policy. This study, therefore, examined the changing trends in the growth and development of colonial medical and health services in Ibadan between 1900 and 1960 with a view to highlighting the impact of colonial medicine in the city. A...
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has triggered a revolution in archaeological methods for collecting and keeping inventories of heritages sites and monuments. Specifically, GIS studies have in recent times produced models for site potential or archaeological resource sensitivity. However, in Nigeria, previous archaeological works have focused on excavations, settlement patterns, vegetation history and reconstruction of cultural history, ignoring the aspects of digital documentation o...
ABSTRACT This work examines Ownership and Editorial Control in the Nigerian Print Media, using the Daily Times, Daily Trust and Champion newspapers as case studies. Irrespective of Pluralist claim to the contrary, Marxist critical theories of media ownership and control implies that ownership of the mass media biases its content so as to further the owners' interest in particular and capitalist hegemony in general. The Marxist critical construct provides the theoretical basis for this researc...
This study entails archaeological and anthropological investigations in parts of northeast Osun. It also touches on aspects of previous archaeological works carried out in the study area. The work examines the concepts of conflict, war and displacement in the light of archaeological and anthropological evidences from the area. Before now, most archaeological works done in southwestern Nigeria were concentrated on Ile-Ife, Benin, Old Oyo and Owo focussing mostly on art works in bronze, ...
Epistemic interactivism, an aspect of the epistemology of representation, is a cognitive intercourse between the subject and person-object of knowledge that underlies the conception of a person in Esan thought. Earlier studies separated the subject from the object of knowledge, and classified persons and non-persons as object of knowledge. This separation ignored the cognitive and moral values of persons, thereby creating a dehumanised relationship between the subject and person-object o...
ABSTRACT This study explores the concept of audience development in an attempt to create an audience development plan for the National Theatre of Ghana. For the National Theatre of Ghana, the relationship and attendance of audience to its programmes and resident groups’ productions is an issue of concern. The management of the Theatre faces a problem in developing audiences as most performances they present including those of the resident groups are not well patronised as against private th...
ABSTRACT The study sought to investigate the discourse that characterizes herbal medicine advertisements on radio. The study focused on the persuasion techniques, language style, tone and style of presentation associated with herbal medicine radio commercials. Three herbal ads on Peace FM were selected as the units of analysis. The products that were studied are New Kingdom Ginseng Power Capsules, Sibor Tonic and News Angel Natural Capsules. The study was anchored on the conceptual models of ...
ABSTRACT iii This research was aimed at improving on distilled water production in the basin-type solar stills. Four similar stills were built with local materials.Results from this work indicated that for good performance of the basin-type solar still, a depth of 3.0cm should not be exceeded. The still, when covered throughout the night and put into operation the following day, increases the yield. Furthermore, sawdust has been found to be a good substitude for the traditional urethane foam ...