ABSTRACT It is estimated that 70% to 75% of the population of Ghana rely on herbal medicine for their primary healthcare (WHO 2002). Practitioners and manufacturers of herbal medicine relying less on advertising through loud speakers and personal advertising in lorries and market places and moving towards advertising in the mass media. This study, therefore, examined viewer perception of messages in the television advertisement of herbal medicine in Akosombo in a survey, using a questionnair...
ABSTRACT Food insecurity and malnutrition remain global food and health challenge. This is likely to be severe in developing countries where statistics on food insecurity and malnutrition are high. This study examined the association between dietary pattern and child nutritional status using the weight-for-age as indicator. A child was defined as having poor nutritional status (underweight) if his or her weight-for-age index was less than minus two standard deviations below the WHO refere...
ABSTRACT This study investigates the expression of force-dynamics in Akan (Talmy 2000). Two main types of causatives can be found in the language, namely non-periphrastic causatives (lexical causatives and cause-effect SVCs) and periphrastic causatives (analytic causatives). The study examines the syntactic properties of causatives and shows that while lexical causatives and cause-effect SVCs involve a monoclausal structure, the analytic causative displays a complex (bi-clausal) structure. I...
ABSTRACT The clause “make disciples of all nations” (28:19), generally referred to as the Great Commission, has over the years attracted the attention of New Testament scholars. Both historical and narrative approaches have been employed to discuss it. Notably, Matthew builds his narrative around the disciples and ends on the Great Commission. Against this background, the research examines the illocutory force of μαθητεύσατε (Matt. 28:19) through an exegetical analysis of thr...
ABSTRACT Land urbanisation are two major issues that are critical to the development of a mega city like Lagos.
ABSTRACT In this Study Of HIV-AIDS Communication Approaches By Interventionists In Selected Nigerian States, the researcher sought to know
ABSTRACT This study attempts a detailed description and analysis of Yoruba agbe art-a verbal poetic song and art form that belongs to the Yoruba Oral literary genre.
ABSTRACT This study aims to present a particular view of second language pedagogy. Teaching English as a second language is a quite complex task for a teacher. Language learning should be more fun and enjoyable for students to learn. Teachers need to have effective teaching strategies in order for students to grasp better in learning English. The objective of this study is to investigate the methods of teaching used by Dr. Farooq Kperogi on how to attract interest in learning English as a se...
INTRODUCTION This chapter presents the general overview of this research work as well as its significance and statement of problems,and also possible solution to those problems as this study is aimed to achieve.
ABSTRACT The major factor in the history of the eastern Niger Delta is not just the increase of the trans Atlantic trade from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries
ABSTRACT Development initiatives in post-independence Africa have been influenced by the social, economic and political conditions of the continent as well as the dominant development thoughts at different times. Africa has experienced a very low level of economic development since the 1970s compared to other regions of the world, and in response, several development initiatives have been articulated since the 1980s which reflect the continent’s preferred development agenda. The African ec...
Abstract This study is about the Digawa Muslims of Danzomo town in Sule Tankarkar Local Government of Jigawa State, Nigeria. The Digawa Muslims are also found in other areas of the State such as ‘Yandamo, Jikai, Umarni, Babbansara, Digawar-Tudu, Saidawa, Dorai, Galma, Buduma and Zai. Data for this study were collected through primary and secondary sources. Primary data was collected using random oral interviews both individual and groups. The Digawa are not ethnic group, but a religious gr...
ABSTRACT This study is a discourse analysis of selected Pentecostal sermons in Lagos, Nigeria.
ABSTRACT This research work is an examination of the use of English Language in the Nigerian Federal Civil Service before and after Nigeria's independence on October 1st 1960.
ABSTRACT This thesis examines the conceptual problems in equating womens body with their body within patriarchal social institutions.