ABSTRACT This study has investigated the verbal politeness and impoliteness in medical practitioners-patients communication in Swahili language. The study has applied qualitative approach based on descriptive analysis. Data were collected through nonparticipantory observation. It involved preliminary survey. Politeness and impoliteness have been studied as dichotomous aspects in medical practitioners-patients communication. Politeness is referred to how face-work attempts to establish, maint...
ABSTRACT The study examined the contribution of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in the development of educational infrastructure of public secondary schools in Dodoma City Council. Specifically, the aims of this study included: identifying the areas of intervention and dominant strategies employed by NGOs in developing educational infrastructures in Dodoma City Council; analyzing the level of contribution of NGOs in educational infrastructure development of Dodoma City Council‟s publ...
ABSTRACT This study examined the impact of trade liberalization in small and medium enterprises in Tanzania. The study addressed four objectives, which were, to examine the underperformance of SMEs in Tanzania, to assess the impacts of price control in Tanzania, to assess the impacts of the fluctuation of external tariffs on the development of SMEs in Tanzania; and to propose measures to improve the performance of SMEs in Tanzania. The data were collected through direct observation as well a...
ABSTRACT In modern democracies, legislatures have numerous duties. As key states organs, they examine the legislative proposals in the process of their passage and are entrusted with overseeing executive’s responsibilities and to keep their eyes on government’s activities. Legislative committee system is the most critical structure that permits the members of legislators to divide up their labour and specialize in particular areas of activities. It is therefore the most significant legis...
Abstract The need to convey development messages in Nigeria makes it necessary to integrate indigenous and exogenous media, or non-modern and modern systems of communication. This strategy will make development messages easily accessible and comprehensible by different Nigerian publics, a mechanism for eliminating discrimination and alienation of particular communities from development messages. The paper argues that the converging indigenous, traditional and new media platforms would promote...
ABSTRACT The study examined the reportage of malaria from January to December, 2011 in Punch and Nigerian Tribune newspapers. It identified the frequencies of malaria reports in these two newspapers according to the story category, the prominence given to the stories, the sources of story and themes including causes, effect, prevention and treatment of malaria. The simple random system sampling technique was employed to select the two newspapers and content analysis method was adopted to exam...
Abstract According to Apter, “Nigeria’s black and African world was clearly an imagined community, national in idiom yet Pan-African in proportion. Artistic directors and cultural officers invented traditions with pre-colonial pedigree” (p. 6). Apter notes that FESTAC was a mere reproduction of colonial culture which incorporated African^ '. ;to indirect rule. FESTAC denotes the appropriation of colonial culture and the failure of postcolonial state capitalism. FESTAC's commodification...
ABSTRACT This study aims at determining the religiou medicine among members of Pentecostal Churches in Emure. The study was carried out using quota sampling technique. A semi containing 31 questions and an in used simultaneously to elicit information from church members. The research hypothesized that there was a significant relationship between the use of traditional medicine and the sex of respondents. Also there exists a significant relationshi between the denomination of respondents and t...
ABSTRACT Linguistic tagging, the labelling of people and their actions with particular sociopolitically- grounded values, is an ideological denominator that plays a significant role in media framing of conflict. Despite this significance, existing studies on the Nigeria-Cameroon Bakassi Peninsula border conflict, which had concentrated on the historical, political, legal and sociolinguistic dimensions, largely neglected an exploration of the dynamics of linguistic tagging. Therefore, this stu...
ABSTRACT The aberrations that exist among Pentecostals in Igboland of Nigeria have created doubts on the minds of people on what true Pentecostal spirituality is all about. The excesses which include monetization of anointing, flamboyant lifestyle of some Pentecostal preachers and prosperity gospel among others have caused some Christians to deviate from true Christianity. The purpose of this research is to reconstruct and x-ray the life and contributions of George Nnoromchi Alioha (1912-199...
ABSTRACT Ethics as an aspect of axiology has always existed strictly as a human affair. This had given rise to the conclusion that human-centred ethics, in its conception and articulation is insufficient in the face of the present day environmental problem; since humans neither consider the natural world nor its wild living beings as entity worthy of moral consideration. With the three main components of Taylor’s ethics, namely: the beliefsystem, the attitude of respect for nature and the ...
ABSTRACT Socio-religious (S-R) activities, which are apparent in Christian and Muslim youth organisations, are an integral part of their convenance. Previous studies on S-R activities have dwelt on their contributions to the growth of Christian and Muslim communities with little attention to their relevance in enhancing inter-religious relations in Nigerian universities. This study, therefore, examined scriptural studies, outreaches, social and educational activities of Christian and Muslim y...
Abstract Purpose – Preservation is an essential component of library management that requires special skills and competencies. This critical area seems to have been neglected by management of university libraries in Nigeria. This paper aims to examine threats to library information resources and contributions of skills of library personnel to preservation management in university libraries. Design/methodology/approach – Descriptive survey design was adopted for the study. This facilitated...
Abstract Consequent upon thè need of Arab - Muslim rulers to acquire information such as would assist in handling commercial and politicai relations with some Islamic empires situated at Africa South of Sahara, Arab geography and history developed in thè 7,h Century. Arab geographers. travellers, and traders produced a corpus of literary works in Arabie, which later became thè primary source of eariy African historiography. In spite of thè tremendous significance of these Arabie writings,...
A B S T R ACT This Thesis is divided into six Chapters, preceded by the Preface. The Preface explains the concept of Covenant. It examines the Israelite faith from its rudimentary stage and its gradual development; and the relationship between the Israelite Covenant and the other peoples. Chapter One begins with the Introduction to the Thesis. It discusses the Covenant upon which the religion of Yahweh was based, and as the institution which established a unique relationship between God and I...