ABSTRACT This thesis examines some aspects of Kaakye grammar within the functionaltypological framework. These aspects primarily concern noun class system and animacy distinctions, relativization, complementation and serialization. Kaakye is one of the least studied Guan (Kwa, Niger Congo) languages, spoken in the northern part of the Volta Region of Ghana. The data collected for the study was mainly based on natural discourse from native speakers in the Kaakye speaking community. The corpus ...
ABSTRACT The literature suggests an important linkage between inter-spousal decision making and contraceptive use. Decision making in a spousal relationship helps to support spousal growth as compromises can be reached on sensitive topics, especially those regarding fertility preference, the type of contraceptive method to adopt, and other reproductive health issues that affect the woman’s overall health and well-being. However, the effect of decision making on contraceptive method choice...
ABSTRACT A major gap in literature on the Ghana Police Service (GPS) is the lack of scholarly work on the Service’s role in international peacekeeping as a means by which Ghana promotes its national interest and foreign policy objectives. This study assessed the GPS’ participation in international peacekeeping operations as a modern tool of foreign policy within the context of its achievements and challenges, through the utilization of primary and secondary data. Major findings of the stu...
Abstract Workers in the informal economy have been identified to be at a higher risk of experiencing poverty as they growth old in developing countries. Due to their attitudes to saving, planning for old age and eroding family support. Well-designed social security programmes can help reduce both the risk by building resilience to shocks – safety nets. Although these exist there are still some challenges considering the rate of enrollment unto the formal social security available. Increas...
ABSTRACT Terrorism is not a new phenomenon which has been in existence for years carried out by individuals and organizations mainly for political reasons. Notwithstanding, due to the activities of these terrorist groups, they will in general debilitate a state's capacity to guarantee the wellbeing and security to its citizens. Using Al-Qaeda as a case study, a group in existence for over 2 decades, the study focuses on their terror acts such as the bombing of train stations in Madrid 2004, a...
ABSTRACT The topic under review examined “Gender-Based Violence in Africa; A critical analysis of Rape Culture in Nigeria”. Gender-based violence (GBV) is ubiquitous, but still the least human right violation in the globe. Gender-based violence is a developmental challenge globally and it affects women and men from despite ethnicity, class, culture and race. Unfortunately, the scourge of rape in Nigeria is one that has been going on for quite a while and has been disregarded, regularly ke...
ABSTRACT In this study, cubanía is to be understood from the focus of Cuba‘s cultural and human identities. From this perspective, the emphasis is laid on the black, his cultural contribution to cubanía as well as the historical context (that is to say, his days of slavery, colonialism and imperialism) that have moulded his human identity. In other words, the black becomes the nucleus in defining the essence of being Cuban. And for the purposes of this study, African religion, rhythm an...
ABSTRACT This research examines the challenges that the youths in South Sudan face in their efforts towards peacebuilding for a post-conflict developed nation. Using the secondary method of analysis the researcher evaluates specific objectives of the study such as the efforts of the youth in peacebuilding in face of an ongoing conflict in South Sudan, the challenges faced by the youths in their endeavor and how they can access the critical resources to achieve post-conflict development. The f...
ABSTRACT Under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) standards, both men and women should have equal rights and opportunities to everything worldwide, most especially to participate fully in all aspects and at all levels of political processes. In Africa, women constitute over half of the population and contribute in vital ways to societal development generally. This study has investigated gender parity in Nigeria: examining the implementation of national gender policy in the natio...
ABSTRACT The Topic Under review examined the Examining the Challenges of Promoting Gender Equality in Nigeria: A Case Study of United Nations (UN)”. Every human guaranteed inalienable rights both men and women, either by integral and indivisible part of universal human rights. The ifull iand iequal iparticipation iof iwomen iin ipolitical, icivil, ieconomic, isocial iand icultural ilife, iat ithe inational, iregional iand iinternational ilevels, iDespite ithe iimpact iof iUnited iNations ii...
ABSTRACT This study examines the influence that film has had on the youth culture in Nigeria, particularly among the second wave of millennials i.e. those born between 1995 and 2004. The impact of films can be traced all the way back to the late 1920s. As this medium gained popularity in the 1950s, concerns also grew about potential harms, especially in connection with young audiences. This study assesses the influence of film as a mass medium in the formation/cultivation of Nigerian youth cu...
ABSTRACT A challenge confronting the study of punishment in contemporary society is the justification of the institution concerned with the deliberate infliction of suffering on an offender. Most of these justifications have been anchored on either of two competing theories, namely the utilitarian and retributivist theories of punishment to the neglect of integrative notion of punishment found among the Yoruba. However, these theories fail to account for some elements necessary for an adequa...
ABSTRACT Spectrum is a vital requisite for growth enhancement in this Digital Economy, and the efficient way of managing the use of the spectrum resources is very important. In recent years, wireless and mobile data traffic in Nigeria has increased dramatically and requires significant portion of spectrum. However, accommodating this unprecedented usage of spectrum will require new innovative approaches, these approaches includes cognitive radio and geolocation databases, these approaches pe...
ABSTRACT This study seeks to make a linguistic analysis of television talk show, a case study of NTA Kaduna with the aim of describing the nature of its dialogue, providing an assessment of it, and exposing the peculiarities therein. It brings to the fore features that have otherwise not been observed in talk show. The usual assumption by discourse analysts is that language used in institutionalized or formal settings is structured and follow the tenets of discourse analysis. As a result, th...
ABSTRACT The research work investigated the availability and use of Digital Information Resources by undergraduates of universities in Delta and Edo States. Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. The population comprised ten thousand eight hundred and eighty-two students (10, 882) in four universities in Delta and Edo States in Nigeria. The sample size comprised one thousand and eighty-eight (1,088) respondents, selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique...