ABSTRACT The use of pidgin among senior high school students has engaged the attention of different classes of people, especially educationists, linguists, parents and policy makers in education. The study aims at ascertaining the validity of the perception that pidgin is the cause of deviant Standard English usage among students at the senior high school. It also investigates the domain in which pidgin operates, the purpose for which it is used, whether it is used predominant and influenced ...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to find out the history and impact of Islam in the Volta Region of Ghana with special emphasis on Ave Afiadenyigba. The design used for this research was that of a case study. Unstructured interview and participant observation were used as the instruments for the study. In selecting the sample for the interview, this study made use of the purposive and simple random techniques. These sampling procedures helped the researcher access relevant information o...
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to determine the instructional supervisory practices head teachers of Junior High Schools in Old-Tafo Municipal provide. The study population comprised of all 86 Junior High School teachers and 10 head teachers, out of the 86 teachers, 75 was the response rate, while 10 head teachers participated in the study. Questionnaire in the form of Likert format ranging from strongly disagree (1) to strongly agree (4) was used to collect data. The reliability...
ABSTRACT This thesis sets out to investigate how Ayi Kwei Armah, as a post-colonial African writer, in Osiris Rising and KMT: In the house of life re-tells the history of Africa as a way of “writing back” to assert the African Identity as his way of responding to Hegel’s (1957) claim that Africa prior to European colonization had no civilization of note to boast of. Thus, through a study of the setting, plot and characters in the two novels, this work reveals how Armah artistically use...
ABSTRACT Reading comprehension is an important part of every human activity. Despite its significance in the academic world and the world of work, many people are challenged with varied degrees of difficulties when it comes to reading comprehension. This study therefore sought to improve reading comprehension skills of students in the Senior High School, particularly Kanton Senior High School. The study used both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from fifty-eight (58) participants ...
ABSTRACT The study was to find out the causes of school dropout among girls in the Wa Municipality. The study was a purely quantitative study relying on the cross-sectional survey design. Questionnaire was the instrument used for the data collection. There were 360 respondents and data was analysed using SPSS. The study found that school dropout among the girls was of great concern. School dropout affected the Municipality in the sense it brought about teenage pregnancy, stealing, prost...
ABSTRACT A great deal of studies have been conducted using Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) particularly the Ideational Metafunction. Nevertheless, few of them have adopted Systemic Functional Grammar to investigate the syntax of newspaper headlines (Ansary, 2005; Ong‘onda, 2016; Abdulameer, Noor and Nasser, 2019)). The Ideational Metafunction of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) by Halliday (1994) is employed to examine 60 Ghanaian Newspaper Headlines from 5 newspaper agencies. The purpo...
ABSTRACT Language Shift Language Maintenance (LSLM) designates the investigation of movement patterns from one language to another and the efforts made by native speakers and institutions to reverse the shift. Ogu, a minority language in Southwestern Nigeria, had been experiencing shift to Yoruba and English. Existing literature on Ogu LSLM affirm shift without extensively acknowledging systematic strategies being adopted by native speakers in the maintenance of the language. This study, the...
ABSTRACT Akokoid, in this paper, refers to the nine speech forms which are spoken in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of Ondo State in South-Western Nigeria. These speech forms are Arigidi, Erushu, Afa, Oge, Aje, Udo, Oyin, Igashi and Uro. Since the 1970‟s, scholars have lumped these speech forms together as dialects of the same language without any detailed lexicostatistic investigation. Thus, the major objective of this paper is to determine whether the speech forms are really dial...
ABSTRACT This paper focuses on the complexity of peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians in Nigeria and how this affects their understanding of the place of the Shari' ah in modern Nigeria. This paper questions the popular reading of the origin and development of the Shari'ah imbregio in Nigeria and locates this in the desires of both Muslims and Christians to claim their portions of the "national cake" or the nation's resources. Though the paper agrees that there are indeed eleme...
Abstract Multiple mobile phone (M2 P) usage has become an increasing practice in Nigeria but little is known about the factors propelling it or related communication processes. An examination of its operations reveals interaction with economic and social factors for reduction in call costs and management of network fluctuation, limitation and failure. While M2 P users are active and goal-oriented, usage behaviour is associated with socioeconomic variables, including electronic finance and mar...
ABSTRACT A challenge confronting the study of punishment in contemporary society is the justification of the institution concerned with the deliberate infliction of suffering on an offender. Most of these justifications have been anchored on either of two competing theories, namely the utilitarian and retributivist theories of punishment to the neglect of integrative notion of punishment found among the Yoruba. However, these theories fail to account for some elements necessary for an adequ...
ABSTRACT Studies on the social management of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria have focused on how awareness about HIV and AIDS has been created through electronic media campaigns and organised interpersonal communication. These studies have not investigated context constrained language use in the advertisements on the disease despite the wide coverage and potential effectiveness of these advertisements in the public sensitisation about HIV and AIDS. This study, therefore, investigated the pragmatic f...
Abstract: This paper explains how ethics and accountability are vital to good governance and the development of any country. It is the thrust of the paper that good governance requires ethical foundation and that government officials must not only be responsible and responsive to the masses, but, more importantly, they must be accountable for their actions and inactions. Nigeria is blessed with abundant natural and economic resources, as well as human resources, but she is also endowed with ...
Abstract There have been questions about the nature of philosophy. Some scholars are of the view that there is only and one philosophy. For them, philosophy is a universal discipline and all those who want to do philosophy must adhere strictly to the standards of doing philosophy. Philosophy anywhere is philosophy everywhere. On the other hands, some scholars have also argued that there are different philosophies. According to them, the method of philosophizing in one area or region may be d...