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
A morphological analysis is crucial for language structures and patterns to be understood. The growing need for linguistic analysis has triggered a lot of research and analysis of natural languages. LamnsÃÂ� Linguists are waking up to this call and this Research titled A Comparative Morphological Analysis of LamnsÃÂ� and English Compound Words i... Continue Reading
Until recently, the concept of dramatic genre is not at home with the blossiming Hausa films, to some others also, the concepts of tragedy, comedy and tragi-comedy does not seem to exist in films nomenclature. However researches into Hausa films has begun to yield new ways of looking at this phenomenon (cf. Umma, (2008) and Aminu, (2012) as a case ... Continue Reading
In recent times, there has been a pragmatic shift in the interest of linguists from language form to language functions especially from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) perspective. Several attempts have been made by scholars to investigate what people do when they use language. The use of metaphor in speeches abounds as studies carried out by La... 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
This topic "A history of Makarfi area C. 1779-1902," is a study of the Makarfi area. This covers the origin, socio-cultural, political and economic development in the area in one hundred and twenty three years (C. 1779-1902). The area has been one of the districts of Zazzau Emirate located at the extreme North. It has several towns and villages mo... Continue Reading
We have in this work entitled �“Etude de la catÃÂ�gorie adjective en franÃÂ�ais et en jjuâ€Â� 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 ... Continue Reading
We have in this work entitled �“Etude de la catÃÂ�gorie adjective en franÃÂ�ais et en jjuâ€Â� 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 ... Continue Reading
The study, Jukun – Chamba relations in the present dayWukari and Donga Local Government Areas of Taraba State seeks to understand the nature of interaction between the two ethnic groups. Contemporary discourse by many scholars posits that all inter – group relations are inherently conflictual and historical development of African peop... Continue Reading
This study entitled �“A Critical Appraisal of Media Use for 2012 Election in Ibiono Ibom Local Government of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeriaâ€Â� examines the nexus between communication and effective rural people‟s participation in election with particular reference to Ibiono Ibom Local government Area of Akwa Ibom State. Accordingly, an at... 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 focus of this research is to conduct an archaeological survey of Umhah-abisi hill-top settlement site located in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna state, Nigeria. The aim is to reconstruct the history of the Abisi people using the archaeological materials on the site. This was achieved with the following objectives which include; to study a... Continue Reading
The trending of New Media technologies which embodies interactivity, collaboration, and information sharing is eminent in our society. Students are active participants of these technologies in utilizing them for academic as well as social purposes. This study analyses the effect of New Media especially on the study culture of A.B.U. Faculty of Arts... Continue Reading
This dissertation attempts to study some stylistic features of the Arabic poetry of Jamil Muhammad Sadis; a contemporary young Nigerian poet who lives in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The importance of this research was derived from the fact that the works of the poet were original and virgin on which no research was carried out before in spite of their q... Continue Reading
Migration and inter-group relations is a historical phenomenon relating to the formation of Nigerian society that has attracted many studies. Human beings moved from one place to another in search of varieties of things such as economic opportunities and security. Through oral interviews, thesis, books and careful examination of archival materials ... Continue Reading