ABSTRACT Ghana as a nation has made moves to make governance structures accessible to all through decentralization. This is believed to speed development both at the national and local level notably district. Mainly, decentralization aimed at having men and women equally participate in the local governance structures and processes. But gender representation has not seen the much sought equality of men and women in these structures. Over the years, there has been a male dominance in terms of...
ABSTRACT The research aims at finding the differences in the levels of motivation between Anglophone learners of French as a foreign language and their counterpart Francophone learners of English as foreign language. The study also reports on the perceptions of these learners with regards to the importance of the French and English languages they are studying at Ghana Institute of Language (GIL), Kumasi. Questionnaires were administered to a total of 44 learners at the intermediate level, o...
ABSTRACT This work was done to find out whether religion actually plays any role in the socio- economic and professional life of the military personnel. Though the military has made provisions for and are required at every level to make such provisions that would enable the military personnel to practice a religion of his/her choice, the military personnel is largely perceived as not being religious. The work was to find out what has led to this perception. It was also to find out the extent...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to present a genre analysis of the introduction sections of sports news presentation programmes (SNPP) on selected television stations in Ghana. Specifically, the study sought to account for the schematic structure (that is the various rhetorical units, the sequence of moves, the textual space of each move identified) and some lexico-grammatical resources that are dominant in the selected rhetorical unit that was analyzed. Three television stations (GTV, Metro TV & ...
ABSTRACT Be, the unit under study, is realised as /bέ/, /bé/ or /bəʹ/ across the E3eme, T4`u and A`l4 dialects of the E3e language respectively. It has as an equivalent, “that” in the English language, s1 in Akan and ake in Ga. S1 and that have been studied widely as complementizers but be, according to Clements (1975), is a prepositional verb synonymous with the verb gbl4 (to say) in E3e. This study therefore sought to ascertain what kind of unit be actually is on the premise of T...
Introduction The purpose of this brief discussion is to highlight issues of demographic changes associated with an ageing population in Africa and what, I believe, must happen to avoid the next social crisis among African nations, especially here in Ghana. However, this is not a discussion of doom, gloom and crisis, because the demographic changes that I will discuss are products of development. These are problems to overcome, for certain, but also opportunities that we hope become part of th...
ABSTRACT Job satisfaction is an important indicator in predicting stability in organizations, and it is well explained by understanding motivation. The purpose of the study was to identify factors influencing job satisfaction among nurses at the Cape Coast Metropolitan Hospital. The study was conducted among 85 nurses of whom 80 responded. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data from the participants. Data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Solutions version ...
ABSTRACT Islam preceded Christianity in the entity now called Nigeria by 300 years (Fafunwa, 1982, p. 70). Islam was brought by the Berbers of North Africa to the West African country around the early centuries of its advent in Arabia and was already flourishing well by the eleventh century. By the time the Mali Empire began to decline, it was to Nigeria especially the Northern part, such as Kano, Katsina and Zaria that many of its scholars went to settled. The Yoruba in Southern Nigeria stil...
ABSTRACT Nigeria experienced a civil war between 1967 and 1970 which claimed millions of lives on the Federal and Biafran sides. Studies exist on trend, execution and termination of the war but the pre-war and war time conflict management strategies have not been fully explored. This study therefore, examined the strengths and weaknesses of the various management strategies adopted by the conflict parties prior to the outbreak of hostilities as well as those employed during the war with a fe...
ABSTRACT The study attempts to create a synthesis between two seemingly opposing ethical theories. The theories are Kant’s deontology and utilitarianism. Kant’s deontology urges that moral actions be assessed from the motive. In his view the motive for such an action is nothing else but the motive of duty. By duty, he means the necessity to act with respect for the moral law that is innate in all rational beings. Utilitarianism takes a consequentialist position on moral assessment. On uti...
ABSTRACT The Ghanaian automobile service industry has in recent times seen a lot of competition with the proliferation of various brands, grey vehicles, genuine and non-genuine spare parts in the market. The establishment and progress of any industry is completely dependent on the customer and its satisfaction. The research work used Toyota Ghana Company Limited as a case study to understand the relationship between service quality and customer satisfaction. The purpose of the study is to loo...
ABSTRACT Studies in the psalter have generally been done using form-critical and historical-critical methodologies. In studying imprecations within the psalms, most scholars have focused on addressing the issues from Christian ethical perspectives. With the recent surge of newer and more reader-centred methodologies, this thesis deviates from the usual form-critical and Christian ethical approaches to the study of the imprecations in the psalms and rather uses a literary-critical method. Wit...
Abstract Information and knowledge are the foremost tools in fighting the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Previous studies have focused more on HIV/AIDS and Nigerian undergraduates’ attitudes, beliefs and protective practices than how information factors influence their knowledge of the pandemic. This study, therefore, investigated the influence of access to HIV/AIDS information on its knowledge among undergraduates of federal universities in Nigeria. The study adopted the descriptive survey research...
ABSTRACT The researcher was confronted with the question of the development of Victory Bible Church International. It became necessary therefore to find out how the church began and developed and its contributions to PentecostalCharismatic Ministry in Ghana. The history of Victory Bible Church International is crucial because it was among the first few charismatic churches that started the Neo-Pentecostal Movement in Ghana and introduced certain activities into the fraternity. Documents and b...
ABSTRACT The duty of veracity or truth-telling, a condition in medical practice which requires that patients be told the truth at all times about their medical diagnosis has generated ethical challenges in modern medical practice. Previous studies have examined the problem of veracity using principle-based ethical theories like deontologism and teleologism. These theories, however, failed to provide a basis for resolving the dilemma of truth-telling because of the conflicting nature of the p...