Newspapers serve as a useful tool in promoting literate communities. The success of a good article is therefore predicated on how the writer is able to manipulate the different categories within the sentence structure to captivate as well as inform their target audience. This study analyses the patterns of appositional occurrences in the language ... Continue Reading
This study ―Conflict-sensitive Reporting in Northern Nigeria: A study of Select Newspaper Reportageâ€�“ 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 is a linguistic study of the active – passive transformational problems of selected Bura learners of English by means of Contrastive and Error Analyses. The main aim of this research is to investigate the extent to which ingrained mother tongue habits interfere with the learning of English active - passive transformation by Bura learne... Continue Reading
This research work entitled: â€�“LINGUISTIQUE ET ACTIVITÉ TRADUISANTE: ÉTUDE DE LA VERSION FRANÇAISE DE THE WICKED STEP-MOTHER D’IFEOMA ONYEMELUKWEâ€Â�, takes a thorough and critical look at the translation of the linguistic elements in the French version of The Wicked Step-Mother. Any literary text, worthy of this classifi... Continue Reading
The current crisis of ecology and environmental pollution have gripped the attention and aroused the concern of many people alive today. Studies show that our imprudent behaviour towards, and utilisation of, Nature have pushed the world into a crisis that has not only led to the gradual destruction of our ecology and its very capacity to sustain li... Continue Reading
The current crisis of ecology and environmental pollution have gripped the attention and aroused the concern of many people alive today. Studies show that our imprudent behaviour towards, and utilisation of, Nature have pushed the world into a crisis that has not only led to the gradual destruction of our ecology and its very capacity to sustain li... Continue Reading
This present study investigated the practice of Islamic Social Security System with special reference to Nafaqah (Maintenance) in some states of Northern Nigeria. A researcher designed questionnaire was administered to 1104 respondents randomly selected from rural and urban communities of Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Niger and Sokoto states. Eight (8) nu... 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
For more than a decade now, one of the centerpieces of socio-economic development, and foreign aid has been the effort to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs have been an influential framework for global development cooperation, not only in shaping the international discourse, but in driving the allocation of resources towards ... Continue Reading
This research was undertaken with the purpose of studying the settlement sites as well as the iron smelting site in the Kuyello area. The research aimed at documenting the surviving cultural remains being threatened by human activities. The research was geared towards identifying, studying and documenting material remains in the study sites as well... Continue Reading
This research was undertaken with the purpose of studying evidence of ancient iron Smelting technology in Mahurum area. In the research, cultural ecology which emphasises on the role of ecology in influencing the culture of a society was adopted as the theoretical framework. Methods adopted for the research were oral tradition, archaeological surv... Continue Reading
In this modern age of development, political inequality between men and women has always been an important issue of concern. This is so because of the realization that the marginalization of a segment, race or particular sex in the society has far – reaching implications on the development of that society. Nigerian society and perhaps many ... Continue Reading
The utmost purpose of this research is to examine and reconstruct the role of Olufunmilayo Ransome Kuti as a politician and how she has impacted into the development of Nigeria, bringing to light her political activities in the emancipation of Nigeria for independence. Women have been involved in politics in History. They held leadership positions ... Continue Reading
The work analyses the impaet of colonialism on the economy of Katsina Metropolis between 1903 and 1960. It has been shown that the motive of British occupation and domination was exploitation of human and material resources of the area in the interest of capitalism. When Katsina was occupied in 1903, the Colonialists found that agriculture and craf... Continue Reading
Language in a cosmopolitan setting reflects the various features of the complexities of the different languages that interact in that setting. This leads to different forms of interaction in order to find common meeting grounds for communication in a context which would have been made impossible by the non-availability of a common means of interac... Continue Reading