The British colonial policies on agriculture in Jama‘are Emirate were all designed to benefit the colonialist in their bid to obtain raw materials for their factories back home. Because of this the focus of the colonialist had always been the production of cash crops with the neglect of food crop. This was to tell on the diet of the people as... Continue Reading
This study assessed the effect of Ownership Structure on Informativeness of Accounting Earnings of listed Deposit Money Banks in Nigeria. Ownership structure is proxied with Managerial ownership, Institutional ownership and Ownership concentration, while Informativeness of Accounting Earnings is proxied using Fan and Wong (2002) model. The study us... Continue Reading
This is a study of trends of tafsÄÂ�r among selected ‘ulamÄÂ�’ in Northern Nigeria. It examines a variety of aspects in relation to the sciences of tafsÄÂ�r, the tarjamah (translation) of the glorious Qur’ÄÂ�n and the differences between the two. It also highlights tafsÄÂ�r in KanemBorno and Sokoto caliphates. The study sho... Continue Reading
This research is titled: â€�“ANALYTICAL AND LITERARY STUDY OF EMOTION AND ITS ARTISTIC EFFECT IN ANTHOLOGY OF QHADI UMAR IBRAHIM „HADIQATUL AZHAARâ€Â�‟â€Â� the research comprises four chapters and a conclusion. It contains a study of artistic effect of passion in the formation of poem. In chapter one, the reasons, objectives, i... Continue Reading
Climate change and variability is a global issue that needs to be given proper attention because of its impacts on the agriculture and other aspects of socio-economies. Annual rainfall and temperature data of four decades (1971-2010) for Zaria Local Government Area of Kaduna State located within Latitude 11o081N and Longitude 07o411E were obtained... Continue Reading
The major objective of this thesis is to examine the history of the Nupe from 1068 – 1810 AD. For a proper conceptualization, the geographical location of the study area in relation to its neighbors is examined. This is to enable us see the socio-cultural affinities, archaeological, linguistic, political and economic relationships among var... Continue Reading
This work focuses on the pragmatic analysis of the the visual content; being a principal component of nonverbal aspect of the language of communication in advertisements as used in the new media. Features of fifty randomly selected advertisements were sampled and the visual contents were pragmatically analysed. The aspects that were considered are... Continue Reading
The focus of this study is on how the manufacturing industries in Kaduna metropolis have impacted on the development of the area during the period 1957-2007. And, the main areas it has impacted the city include: migration, urban economy, urban development, spatial patterns, class-formation, effects of Kaduna‟s growth on its immediate hinterla... Continue Reading
This thesis titled â€�“Text, Nature and Representation: An Ecocritical Reading of Selected Caribbean Novels,â€Â� examines the depiction of nature in relation to culture in Michael Anthony’s The Year in San Fernando (1965), Herbert G. De Lisser’s Jane’s Career (1972), Earl Lovelace’ The Dragon Can’t Dance (19... Continue Reading
This thesis entitled â€�“Tashen Macikule a Matsayin Wasan Kwaikwayo na Musamman a {asar Zazzauâ€Â�, portrays „tashen macikule‟ as dramatic and also went ahead to indicate its uniqueness among other Hausa traditional drama. The study has successfully shows how „tashen macikule‟ differ from all kind of Hausa plays and e... Continue Reading
The use of Communication Campaigns to support the fight against certain unhealthy practices such as self-medication has remained an essential focus engaging theattention of health communication stakeholders. The practice which is common among youth especially University students, call for a serious concern due to the adverse effect associated with ... Continue Reading
Stress and its fatal consequences on health negatively affect the job performance and productivity of academic staff in our educational institutions. Against this backdrop, this research was carried out to assess the communication of stress management for healthy living and higher productivity among the academic staff of Ahmadu Bello University, Za... Continue Reading
Over the years, researchers have overlooked the general body make-up of the Hausa women. This research entitled: Ado Asirin Mata: Nazari kan Adon Jikin Mata cimpiled surveyed the past work of the writers. The research explores the different categories of the body make-up. These include: Hair dressing, skin care or make-up and other related part. Th... Continue Reading
This work titled ÂÂ�ProblÃÂ�mes de production orale des apprenants du franÃÂ�ais langue ÃÂ�trangÃÂ�re (FLE) : le cas des apprenants de A.B.U., ZariaÂÂ� is aimed at identifying the underlying root causes of oral expression difficulties that is a major challenge among the majority of Nigeria French Language students taking as case study the stu... Continue Reading
The research entitled â€�“A Comparative Study of Hausa and Bade Non-adverbial Itemsâ€Â� is an attempt to investigate into the fact that languages that belong to the same family normally exhibit some sort of similarities. Also they would have to differ in some areas especially due to the fact that they are different languages. The comparison w... Continue Reading