This study seeks to examine the spoken language used during NTA Kaduna Newsroom Editorial Board Meetings with the aim of describing the nature of its dialogue, providing an assessment of it, and exposing the peculiarities therein. It brings to the fore features that have otherwise not been observed in newsroom dialogue. The usual assumption by disc... Continue Reading
We have in this work entitled “Etude de la catégorie adjective en français et en jju” examined the adjectives of two languages which are from different background: French and Jju. French being a roman language from indo-European family and Jju, an African language from the Niger Congo lineage. The problem advanced by the study is that minorit... Continue Reading
The social media platforms provide students with the opportunity to share educational materials interact and participate in group discussion that invariably improves their learning and ability to discourse academic issues. Alongside these opportunities comes the challenges of overdependence and misuse of the social media for other things osther tha... Continue Reading
Radio is considered to be a very powerful tool for engendering community empowerment due to its capacity to cover wide audience and its easy and accessible nature. However, despite these qualities, empowerment programmes aired through radio often do not achieve their aim because media houses fail to include the target audience in all stages of desi... Continue Reading
This dissertation assesses the use of People‟s Dialogue Forum (Jama‟a Forum) as a platform for participatory community development in Niger State. The fact that communicating and implementing community development from the top-down is one of the challenges that can affect participation, ownership and sustainability of community development proj... Continue Reading
This research entitled ‘Comparison of Tricksters in Hausa and Fula Folktales’ (Kwatancin Taurari Waniqiqi a Tatsuniyar Hausa da ta Fulatanci) examines the tricksters and their behaviours, while mingling with other characters in the tales. The research is limited to tricksters in Hausa and Fula folktales. Tricksters are characters who usually p... Continue Reading
Over the years scholars have researched this concept and came to an understanding that democracy is inextricable from communication. Communication enhances democracy, facilitates interaction, inclusiveness and participation engendering representative democracy but this is not the case with Kaduna in particular. Therefore, this study examines the n... Continue Reading
The study is on effect of phonics instructional method on pupil’s achievement and interest in reading. The achievement and interest of pupils taught with phonics instructional method were compared with those taught with conventional look and say instructional method. Six research questions were posed and six null hypotheses formulated to guide th... Continue Reading
Development programmes targeted at rural areas are often communicated predominantly using the mass media and this has led to partial neglect of indigenous communication. In response to the above, this study was to reposition the communicative potentials of Kabulu folk music as a medium for community development among the Gbagyi people of North Cent... Continue Reading
Multilingual speech communities may appear similar on the surface yet they are different in several respects. These differences are not visibly manifest until they are investigated. In this regard therefore, the study has selected three (3) multilingual speech communities across three geo-political zones of Nigeria for comparison which are Billiri ... Continue Reading
African literature has grown rapidly despite her history of a continent exploited and also under the domination of Europeans, but also for the fact that African literature is relatively new and young because it is written in European languages. African literary works are written in colonial languages because for a long time Africans have made Europ... Continue Reading
The study surveyed the level of the use of Portfolios as a method of assessment in Selected Courses of the Faculty of Environmental Design, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. The study investigated the types of Portfolio use by lecturers and students; it also examined the lecturers‟ and students‟ understanding of the concept of Portfolio Assessme... Continue Reading
This work is an attempt to Study and Criticism the Love Poems of Hafiz Chiroma Kabara in order to expose it's literary style and show its relevence to the world of poetry. The first chapter is introduction. The second chapter studies the life history of the poet. The third chapter presents the poetry of the scholar and study criticism its thematic ... Continue Reading
Ataba-apipa is an abandoned hill-top settlement site in Okaito, Okehi Local Government Area of Kogi State. The site was occupied in the past by the clan known as Egiri. To the best of the researcher’s knowledge, no archaeological research has been carried out on this site prior to this research despite the historical significance of the hill to t... Continue Reading
media can be used as an instrument to build as well as to destroy the human society. This study has tried to establish the inherent nature of conflict and crises in human society as well as the significant role of media and communication in forming and shaping individual or group perception of events or issues, enhancing human interaction and also... Continue Reading