Abstract Information and knowledge are the foremost tools in fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Previous studies have focused more on HIV/AIDS and Nigerian undergraduates’ attitudes, beliefs and protective practices than how information factors influence their knowledge of the pandemic. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of access to HIV/AIDS information on its knowledge among undergraduates of federal universities in Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research...
ABSTRACT The researcher was confronted with the question of the development of Victory Bible Church International. It became necessary therefore to find out how the church began and developed and its contributions to PentecostalCharismatic Ministry in Ghana. The history of Victory Bible Church International is crucial because it was among the first few charismatic churches that started the Neo-Pentecostal Movement in Ghana and introduced certain activities into the fraternity. Documents and b...
ABSTRACT The duty of veracity or truth-telling, a condition in medical practice which requires that patients be told the truth at all times about their medical diagnosis has generated ethical challenges in modern medical practice. Previous studies have examined the problem of veracity using principle-based ethical theories like deontologism and teleologism. These theories, however, failed to provide a basis for resolving the dilemma of truth-telling because of the conflicting nature of the p...
ABSTRACT Ak[nauche, an ontological and intelligent component of the human person capable of mediating and unifying the individual‘s facets of existence, is central in maintaining social order in Igbo culture. Existing studies have addressed the idea of ak[nauche mainly from scientific and aesthetic perspectives, without adequate analysis of the concept in relation to the unity of the individual as a being of many parts, significant to the attainment of social order. This study, therefore, ...
ABSTRACT Discourse devices are the linguistic tools employed to address inherent problems in conversation for health purposes. Doctor-patient verbal interactions face major problems in clinical discourse due to differences in linguistic, sociolinguistic, cultural backgrounds as well as professional and communicative styles of doctors and patients. Pragmatic and sociolinguistic studies on doctor-patient verbal interactions have observed relevant socio-psychological and contextual factors, but...
ABSTRACT Agriculturalists, economists and experts from different fields of studies have raised alarm on food crisis. All of the theories propounded did not proffer a sustainable remedy to the invisible catastrophe. Therefore, views of the experts of various fields in both advanced and developing countries were examined. It was discovered that a feasible alternative to sustainable remedy to the global crisis not yet explored is that proffered by the Qur’an. The discussion commenced with the ...
ABSTRACT African American literature has been predominantly a male-preserve in the task of narrating the experience of slavery and its relics of denigration before the advent of reactionary literature by black female writers. Studies on female-authored African American literary works have concentrated on responding to male-authored representations of the tensions of racism, internal crisis of man-woman relationships and the challenges of empowering the black female character. Little attentio...
ABSTRACT In most Nigerian cultures, sex and sexuality are covertly expressed, but Contemporary Nigerian Hip-hop Artistes (CNHHAs) use different Escapist Discourse Strategies (EDSs) to create ambiguity and divert the attention of the Censor Board from the real sexual themes while negotiating socio-cultural restrictions in their music. Studies in the humanities and social sciences have attempted to discuss on how sex and sexuality are communicated in most Nigerian cultures. However, the (EDSs)...
RESUME Cette recherche donne un aperçu de ce que cela implique d'être un traducteur bilingue en mettant en évidence les questions clés telles ce que la traduction implique sue l'échelle mondiale, qui est un traducteur, ce que cela signifie d'être bilingue, la théorie l’ interprétation, la compréhension des significations des mots, des phrases, des textes et leurs contextes, de reformulation pour une juste interprétation, la nécessité de la maîtrise des deux langues à un traduc...
ABSTRACT During Prophet Mohammad’s Prophet hood, many reforms were enacted to address the place of women in a patriarchal society. One of such reforms is the limits placed on polygyny as stipulated in Qur’an 4:3 which limit it to a maximum of four wives. However in this twenty first century, recourse is not made to the stipulation that makes polygyny the exception rather than the rule. Using Mariama Ba’s So long a letter as a basis; the researcher endeavours to find out Muslim feminist ...
ABSTRACT One of the bases of the Twelve Apostles’ Church for practising divination is the story of Saul consulting Samuel in 1 Samuel 9:1-10:26. Some Christian churches believe that the concept of divination is not biblical and must be condemned since it is a key element of the African traditional religion. This study therefore uses the Twelve Apostles’ Church in Nzema area as a case study to find out whether divination as practised by the Twelve Apostles’ Church has any biblical justif...
ABSTRACT This study of Fante Asafo song texts from the Cape Coast area of the Central Region of Ghana was undertaken with the assumption that a close look at the texts would yield a richness of language represented by a profusion of tropes. The areas covered include a general background to Asafo as a social organisation, as well as the form and content of sixty-five randomly selected songs. A conscious effort has been made to isolate key tropes which have been treated as features of discourse...
ABSTRACT The study examined the promotion of customer loyalty through corporate social responsibility with evidence from PBC Limited in Sefwi Wiawso in the Western Region of Ghana. The objectives of the study were: to ascertain the level of awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) among customers of PCB Limited; to explore the challenges faced by PBC Limited in implementing CSR at Seftwi Wiawso; and to examine the relationship between CSR and customer loyalty among customers of PBC ...
ABSTRACT The general objective of the study was to investigate career management in a firm engaged in downsizing, with special reference to Vodafone Ghana. Specifically, the study sought the causes of downsizing in a firm, the consequences of downsizing on the individual and the organization, the extent to which a firm can manage careers when downsizing and the strategies that can be adopted for a successful career management while downsizing. The research design adopted for the study was des...
ABSTRACT The main objective of this thesis is to determine the meaning and the idea behind inscriptions(signboards) on commercial vehicles. From the study, it was rea1ized that those who create these inscriptions really have some interesting experiences to share with the larger population. The writings are also made up of ideas relating to culture, socio-politics and shared knowledge of a given linguistic group in which they occur. The writings serve as a means of identification of the vehicl...