ABSTRACT Akokoid, in this paper, refers to the nine speech forms which are spoken in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State in South-Western Nigeria. These speech forms are Arigidi, Erushu, Afa, Oge, Aje, Udo, Oyin, Igashi and Uro. Since the 1970‟s, scholars have lumped these speech forms together as dialects of the same language without any detailed lexicostatistic investigation. Thus, the major objective of this paper is to determine whether the speech forms are really dial...
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the complexity of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria and how this affects their understanding of the place of the Shari' ah in modern Nigeria. This paper questions the popular reading of the origin and development of the Shari'ah imbregio in Nigeria and locates this in the desires of both Muslims and Christians to claim their portions of the "national cake" or the nation's resources. Though the paper agrees that there are indeed eleme...
Abstract Multiple mobile phone (M2 P) usage has become an increasing practice in Nigeria but little is known about the factors propelling it or related communication processes. An examination of its operations reveals interaction with economic and social factors for reduction in call costs and management of network fluctuation, limitation and failure. While M2 P users are active and goal-oriented, usage behaviour is associated with socioeconomic variables, including electronic finance and mar...
Abstract: Different researches have brought to the fore a number of remarkable contributions of the Bayt Al-Māl as a fiscal policy in the redistribution of wealth. In Nigeria, a few studies have been undertaken to evaluate the evolution and state of the Bayt Al-Māl. None of the studies however have undertaken an analysis of the operation and impact of the Bayt Al-Māl in the town of Saki as a mechanism for the redistribution of wealth. Therefore, this paper examines the activities and impa...
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the complexity of the implementation of the Islamic criminal law with particular reference to the feminist view that the Islamic law is “the cornerstone of the system of male privilege set up in Islam” and that the preservation of this system of Islamic law in most Muslim countries signals the existence of anti-human rights practices that uphold not only oppression and domination of women but also of non-Muslims and even ordinary Muslims. Nevertheless, there...
Abstract: Today, despite the global scientific and technological advancement with developed and even a few developing countries including Muslim countries making significant strides in shaping contemporary civilisation and the state of the world, yet they have failed to achieve true development and progress on how to sustain human and other creatures in a wholesome manner. This is because while these countries are struggling for scientific and technological development in order for humans to...
This essay was written as practice for the IB diploma Language and Literature program Nov 2020. It discusses how literary works explore moral and ethical issues in the following books as it evaluates the effect of these themes in books 1. The Bloody Chamber by (Angela Carter) 2. A Doll's house (Henrik Ibsen) Please enjoy ! You can contact me at [email protected] i
Abstract Youths constitute a vibrant, critical resource input in the development process of any nation. It is, therefore, imperative that their health and wellbeing be safeguarded in the pursuit and sustenance of the socio-economic transformation of any society. With the unabated high prevalence of HIV and AIDS among this age cohort, communication campaigns must be restrategized, diversified and focused on effecting change in the behaviours that predispose young people to HIV infection. Prov...
Abstract This paper focuses on the songs of the Kegites’ Club, a socio-cultural group at university and polytechnic campuses in Nigeria with the aim of identifying their themes alongside the Christian songs from which they are derived. The analysis of the songs is based on Dell Hymes’ Ethnographic Framework, which identifies contextual variables that account for the various factors that are involved in different communicative events. Thirty songs, comprising 11 English versions and 19 Yo...
Abstract Macroeconomic literature is replete with discussions on fiscal policy in both developed and developing economies but not much research has been done on zakah, a compulsory tax on Muslims, especially its role in alleviating poverty and generating inclusive growth. Zakah primarily aims at taking surplus money or wealth from the comparatively well-to-do members of the Muslim society and give it to the destitute, the needy and the wayfarer, among others, to improve their purchasing powe...
ABSTRACT Mobile application have the potential to make a necessary change in global delivery and management, being beneficial to both patients and governments. The benefits it brings to patients is that quality of delivered healthcare can be enhanced, making it easier to access and use medical services The purpose of the study was to explore user perception of impact that healthcare mobile applications have on residents in Accra who have adopted it to manage their health in Ghana. In view of ...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this study was to investigate how the Daily Graphic, Ghana’s most credible and widely circulated paper and the Mirror, Ghana’s number one weekend paper covered tourism in 2013 and 2014. Framing and agenda-setting theories were used to underpin the study. The composite week method was used to draw a sample of 104 out of a universe of 628 editions of the Daily Graphic for content analysis while all 104 editions of the Mirror were content analysed. Straight new...
Copyright is a focal issue contending with the development of institutional repositories (IRs). Extant literature focused on the awareness, benefits and the various IR activities across the globe. This study investigated the issues of copyright in institutional repository in universities’ libraries in Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research design. A multistage sampling procedure was employed to sample 844 lecturers of the universities in Nigeria. Data generated were...
INTRODUCTION The Summa Theologiae is a vast and complex work that many take to be the most comprehensive account ever given of the Christian Faith. Aquinas was writing at a time when the works of Aristotle, which many Christians took to be antithetical to the Christian Faith, had recently been recovered. One of Aquinas’ tasks was to show how Aristotle could, on the contrary, be an aid for the presentation of the Christian Faith. Because of his extraordinary philosophical skills, Aquinas has...
ABSTRACT: Starting from the assumption of the inadequate comprehension of the foundation and the ultimate purpose of law as Kant and Cicero observed in jurists, this paper looks at the positivist interpretation of law, critically analysing the tenets of legal positivism and how this approach to law upholds amoral laws. Dissociating morality from law has the tendency to derail society of ethical and moral values, plunging it on the slippery slope of the perversion of justice, something that un...