There are a number of barriers to trust in the online environment. Despite the awareness of online dangers, young adults take risk on posting personal information on sensitive personal and family information. Trust is crucial to computer mediated communication because there are several applications and transactions that people undertake without com... Continue Reading
We have embarked on a contrastive study of the verbal aspects of French and Igbo languages. Igbo is the spoken language of Igbo people, it is also one of the three major Nigerian languages and is predominantly spoken in the five Eastern States: Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. It is equally spoken in some parts of: Delta, Edo and Rivers States... Continue Reading
In the Nigerian state lies the problem of unity ever since its existence. Overtime, several linguists have tried to look at the diverse ethnolinguistic groups and a way out of Nigeria‟s persistent ethnic problems. Presently, Nigeria has about three hundred and fifty (350) ethnic groups alongside five hundred and twenty two (522) languages. Th... Continue Reading
Basically, this study seeks to explain the relationship between British Colonialism and the incessant famines which Niger Province experienced in the period 1900 - 1945 It also attempts to grapple with how the phenomenon of famines at this period, became a fundamental factor for the poverty, impoverishment and disease which completely engulfed the ... Continue Reading
This study is on the First Language Interference in the use of English Question Tags among Nigeria Certificate in Education Hausa Students in Federal College of Education, Zaria. It aims at examining the problems in the use of the English question tags as employed by the Hausa learners of English as a second language, that is, the target population... Continue Reading
This study examines the effectiveness of communication strategies deployed by the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) in fighting malaria in Nigeria. Over the years, these strategies have been more diffusion-based than participatory. Available documents indicate that the rate of success in the fight against malaria as championed by the agenc... Continue Reading
Occupation is a process whereby a human being uses the natural resources and endowments that God makes available for him to utilize for his survival. This research focuses on the influence of the strangers on selected Hausa traditional occupations and crafts in Kano from 1900-2015. As a framework for analysis, the research adopted two theories whic... Continue Reading
This study ―Conflict-sensitive Reporting in Northern Nigeria: A study of Select Newspaper Reportage�“ was carried out to discover how some newspapers report conflict in Northern Nigeria. The study examined how the nature of reporting conflict can either enhance or diminish the conflict. The media is a powerful tool for shaping public o... Continue Reading
This study evaluates the dramatic aesthetics of Emidinand Igbofestivals of OmuookeEkiti in Ekiti State, Nigeria. A festival performs a special role in African societies. The festivals are very important to the socio-economic co-existence of the people. This research identifies and evaluates the dramatic-cum artistic peculiarities that exists in the... Continue Reading
This study is a psychoanalytic interpretation of Frederick Douglass‘ Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs‘ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl in relation to solitude and loneliness. This is born out of the fact that previous studies in Slave Narratives have focused more on sociological aspect of slavery. Thi... Continue Reading
The research, entitled �“A Contrastive Syntactic Study of the Sentence Structures of English and Igalaâ€Â� was undertaken as a contribution towards the development of contemporary Igala grammar. The work entailed looking at various constructions in Igala against similar constructions in English. The structural theory as employed by Quirk, G... Continue Reading
This research preoccupies itself mainly with the pragmatic analysis of the use of euphemisms in Yoruba language. It sets out to examine euphemisms as used by Yoruba speakers and to analyse the dynamics that govern their use by identifying the direct and indirect acts performed by Yoruba speakers in the selected euphemisms and to investigate the ext... Continue Reading
This study analyses the impact of the Colonial Economy on Ibi and Wukari Divisions during the period 1900 to 1960. It examines the history of change in the economies and societies that make up Ibi and Wukari Divisions. Thus, it focuses on the socio-economic impact of the various British colonial economic policies on the area of study and how they u... Continue Reading
This study focuses on the Origin and Development of Ethnic Militia in the Wukari Area of the present Taraba State during the period 1945-2005 using the Jukun and Tiv ethnic groups as a case study. The proliferation of ethnic oriented violence in Nigeria and in the Wukari Area in particular is a product of ethnic militia, and has become a national t... Continue Reading
The contribution of the study is to investigate and find out whether Eggon Language of Nasarawa State is endangered, the degree of its endangerment, factors responsible for its endangerment and whether the endangerment is reversible. It contains five chapters with chapter one as general introduction which contains the Statement of the problem, the ... Continue Reading