ABSTRACT Migration is one of the most topical issues in the last decades due to its complex nature and both the benefits and challenges that come with it. The growing Chinese presence in Africa has led to several agitations and strong public opinions. In recent times, this new trend of migration by Chinese has led to the influx of Chinese products and the rapid growth of small Chines shops. This has been viewed as posing as an obstacle to the indigenes who are managing the informal sector the...
ABSTRACT The paper examines the impact of muslim organization on the life of muslims and islam in Nigeria.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide an understanding on how the issue of low staff remuneration is affecting the job satisfaction of the employees of Bank of Africa-Ghana. Respondents were randomly selected and structured questionnaires were distributed to them to complete over a period of one to two weeks depending on the respondents availability and readiness. At the end of the retrieval all of the questionnaires totaling 50 were used for the research as none of the questionnai...
Contrary to the traditional modernist theories that development and progress can only be achieved through the western secular modernizing project
ABSTRACT This paper is hinged on the following propositions: that any inquiry into the problematic of Islam in contemporary Africa must engage, not only with how the past has shaped the present, but equally with how the latter would likely shape and, in turn, be -shaded by possibilities in the future; that contemporary challenges facing Islam in Africa nests, in the main, in the disconnect between Islam in the text and the fissures in the contexts of Muslim realities all over the world.
The considers the possibilities and otherwise of inter-faith harmony in the face of the Covid19 pandemic. It notes that man from the beginning of consciousness has been trapped by one challenges or the other, which his restless struggle gives birth to magic, religion and science. As societies progresses, magic and science remain bastard brothers of religion. This is because when magic and science failed, man turn to religion. It further notes that man's attempt to interrogate the existence of...
On 12 January 2010, the world witnessed the complete devastation of Haiti, this hemisphere's first black independent nation.
ABSTRACT Annotated Translation of Al-Madkhal fi ilmil fara'id
Abstract The 2015 Lagos State governorship campaign of the All Progressives Congress (APC) used sociocultural frames conjuring indigeneity and modernity to attract political attention and support. Constructed through religious, economic, cultural and humaninterest frames, a blissful future encapsulating the hopeful ethos of the city was projected. Reflecting and conscientizing their messianic aspirations, this existentialist paradigm attended to the hopes of the people for better living cond...
Abstract This study investigates trends in media gatekeeping research, specifically in terms of research methods and theoretical application. Through a meta-analysis, 128 media gatekeeping-related studies purposively drawn from communication-based journals (published between 2000 and 2008) were content analysed. The findings reveal a progressive drift from quantitative method (38.3%) towards qualitative method (57.0%): a deviation from previous submissions that communication researchers pref...
ABSTRACT This paper inquires into the personality , identity and work of the contemporary Muslim woman activist Zaynab al-Ghazali al-Jubayll (1917-2005).
ABSTRACT The importance of prose literature to the students’ academic and moral lives is numerous. However, the rate at which students fail this subject at the school certificate level calls for urgent attention. This has led scholars to determine the influence of many teacher factors on students’ achievement but not many have focused on students’ factors especially in prose literature hence this study. The study adopted the descriptive research design of the correlational type. 223 SSI...
ABSTRACT The primary aim of the study is to examine the impact which price reform occasioned by the need for economic liberization has had an the health and productivity of rural women in Nigeria. The decision to focus on rural women rests on the conviction that they represent a vital productive and reproductive force in the country. Owing to the relative paucity of empirical data on the effect of price reform on this category of citizens, the study is thus an exploratory one which utilized a...
Abstract Secondary gatekeeping—a practice where a news medium selects and broadcasts fragments of the contents of another, primary media—is a novel, but prevalent phenomenon especially in the Nigerian broadcast media. The practice, unlike primary gatekeeping, is yet to receive copious scholarly attention. This study, through a combination of In-depth Interviews and Documentary (Content) Analysis, explored the rationale for newspaper reviews as performed by Radio O-Y-O, Premier FM, and Sp...
Abstract Home videos are entertainment media but their use by adolescents transcends leisure to sexuality aspirations. A survey of 180 students in selected secondary schools in Ibadan showed that viewing influenced their sexuality knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP). The paper argues that exposure to home movies affect young people’s life aspirations as higher viewership (95.6 percent) corresponds with high negative sexuality response (93.3 percent). Accordingly, the media teach 87 pe...