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» ABSTRACT The study has proposed a narrative grammar for reading Ayi Kwei Armah’s The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Fragments, and Why Are We So Blest? A narrative grammar is a distinct set of models and narrative categories to analyze a story. Tzvetan Todorov, Claud Levi Strauss and Vladimir Propp are major proponents of this theory. Each uses a personal GRAMMAR, that is, a distinct set o...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT The study sought to examine how selected characters (Jojo Badu, Marjorie, Norah and Dwayne) in Benjamin Kwakye‘s The Other Crucifix (2010) use the clause as an interactive unit to establish and maintain interpersonal relations. The Mood system and its grammatical categories of Modality, Subject, Polarity, Tense and Vocatives of Halliday‘s Interpersonal Metafunction of Systemic...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT The Transformational Generative Grammar (TGG) has been established as a pedagogical aid in teaching native speakers of English; as these native speakers have an implicit knowledge of grammatical rules. This current study is aimed to examine how the same TGG could be used as a pedagogical aid in teaching non native speakers of English since English is their second language (L2) and they mi...Continue Reading »
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AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTIC
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» ABSTRACT This study is a structural examination of Ga English code switched utterances among native Ga speakers. It seeks to find out the nature and structure of code switching as it occurs among family members within the family setting. As such, data for the study was collected from selected people within a family. All the participants are balanced bilinguals and literate in both languages. The a...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT Womanism as a variant of African feminism provides the platform for a holistic analysis of the works of African female writers. In this work, Ogunyemi’s womanist theory is read into the works of two Nigerian female writers, Chimamanda Adichie and Buchi Emecheta, authors of Purple Hibiscus and The Joys of Motherhood respectively. Undertaking a womanist reading of these two novels is ...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION This thesis is about compounding in Dangme, a Kwa language spoken in the south eastern part of Ghana. The main objective is to describe the nature of compound words in the language. The present chapter is a general introduction to the study. In section 1.2, I present a general background to the study. In sections 1.3, I discuss Dangme language, its sound systems an...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT Recognized as the founding father of modern African Literature in English, Achebe stands out as perhaps one of the most critiqued authors due to his portrayal of women in his early novels. In an attempt to respond to the disparaging representation of Africa in colonial novels such as Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), Achebe focused on portraying the power and charisma of the Africa...Continue Reading »
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ENGLISH EDUCATION
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» INTRODUCTION Background of the Study The source of quality in education would include well maintained buildings with all required gadgets being conducive to learning outstanding lecturers, high moral values, excellent examination results, specialization, the support of parents, business, local community and the non governmental organization, the support, adequate facilities, the application of the...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» SECTION ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study The effectiveness in realization of an organization’s set goals and objectives is within the framework in which it was set up. Human and materials resources in every organization should not be over emphasized, and therefore, must be harnessed and oriented for the achievement of the set goals and objectives. It is true that materials resour...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background of the Study Business studies is one of the important fields of studies in the Junior secondary school curriculum in Nigeria. It is an academic field that cut across various branches of human endeavours such as accounting, banking and finance, insurance, marketing, business management and administration. As a multi disciplinary field, business studies also relat...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION Background to the study Government, Business and Society interrelationships and responsibilities to each other. Various views exist on the relationship that exists between business, government and society and the expectations from each by the other. Post, Lawrence and Weber (1999) posit that businesses exist primarily to provide good standards of service and products o the...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the study In today’s technological and moving business world, significant and growing percentage of the population work in formal organizations (Heller and Hindle, 1988). People work under a broad array of conditions. While many of these people work indoors, others work outside. Some of these jobs require exposure to intense heat, cold and/ or noise...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY It is difficult to imagine another sector of the economy where as many risks are managed jointly as in Banking. Banks and banking activities have evolved significantly through time. With the introduction of money, financial services like acceptance of deposits, lending money, currency exchange and money transfers became important because of the cent...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT. The purpose of my research is to examine the roles and contributions of nigeria in the development of regional organization with ECOWAS as the case study Primary and secondary sources of data were used in the collection and collation of data Which was generated from relevant empirical literature, government documents, gazettes and series of unstructured and informal interviews with few N...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE Introduction Background to the study The world today enjoys unprecedented progress in development. People are living much longer and better lives, fewer mothers die at childbirth, fewer infants die from preventable diseases, and in the past 50 years poverty has fallen. (UNDP, 2008). Yet, inspite of these laudable achievements, it is acknowledged that the global advances have been uneve...Continue Reading »
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MBA-MSC-PhD Thesis Research
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» ABSTRACT Existing narrative on globalization has mostly been couched in positive light; and even when some negativity is explained, it exposes little, and thereby leaves much to be desired. Considering the phenomenon as a serious event that impacts on several facets of the state, one realizes that extant literature are yet to fully capture the impact that the phenomenon has had on Nigeria. This st...Continue Reading »
50 pages | 395 engagements |
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT This study explores the effect of monetary policy on stock market liquidity in Nigeria.The objective of the study is to find out how monetary policy affects stock market liquidity in the Nigerian economy either positively and negatively. Data for this study were collected through primary and secondary data gathering sources. Data was analysedusing responses received using questionnaire wh...Continue Reading »
50 pages | 384 engagements |
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT Robust training of employees will enable organizations to maintain the right set of workers with the necessary skills, knowledge, and attitude. It will also ensure that plans are put in place to meet the challenges of skills deficiency, for industries in the future. This research study reviews the effects of training on employee performance in a telecommunications company – Airtel N...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» ABSTRACT The main purpose of this research project is to examine the impact of employee development on employee performance in Federal Inland Revenue Service, Abuja. Structured questionnaires using the 5 point Likert scale were distributed to 255 employees of Federal Inland Revenue Service, Abuja. With a response rate of 74% (191 responses), the data was analyzed using regression analyses on Stati...Continue Reading »
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BUSINESS EDUCATION
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» CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background to the Study In a bid to ensure accurate and precise account of activities of the Nigerian military, especially in its ongoing Boko Haram counter insurgency operations in the North East, former president Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 inaugurated the rst digital armed forces radio station in Abuja. The radio station, with frequency 107.7FM, has being transmitting...Continue Reading »
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MASS COMMUNICATION
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