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Awotokun, Kunle. "Local Governments and Synchronous Issues Since Nigeria’s Fourth Republic." International Journal of Social Sciences and Management 8, no. 2 (April 28, 2021): 341–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ijssm.v8i2.34583.
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The paper examines the contentious issues bewildering local government as a level of governance in Nigeria’s federal system of government against the backdrop of classical theory and practice of federalism.
The article relies heavily on secondary data to run its analysis. Such data includes textbooks, journals, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, the Nigerian 1979 and 1999 constitutions, etc.
The findings are that there are lots of contradictions (inconsistencies) in the running of the Nigerian federal system of government. The federal government is fond of always arm-twisting state governments especially in the area of creating new local governments which has, no doubt, led to frustration, reactions and counter-reactions between the two tiers of government.
The work concludes on the note that there is the need to have a holistic review of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution, with the view to returning the country to a true federal system akin to the Nigerian constitutions of 1960 and 1963 with modifications to reflect contemporary issues. This is the path of wisdom to stem the tide of separatist agitations in Nigeria and perhaps in plural African countries.
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FOURCHARD, LAURENT. "LAGOS AND THE INVENTION OF JUVENILE DELINQUENCY IN NIGERIA, 1920–60." Journal of African History 47, no. 1 (March 2006): 115–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853705001660.
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This paper seeks to trace the origins of offences by youths as a distinct social concern in Lagos and examines the categorization of a group, the ‘juvenile delinquent’, by colonial administrators and welfare officers. While organized pickpocketing and prostitution by young people emerged as an issue in Nigerian newspapers in the 1920s, it was largely ignored by local administrators until the appointment, in 1941, of the first Social Welfare Officer. This led to the implementation of new administrative and judiciary machinery which combined two processes: it legislated ‘juvenile delinquency’ into existence as a clearly identifiable social problem; and criminalized a large portion of urban youth, especially female hawkers. The combination of these processes constitutes what can be called the invention of juvenile delinquency in Nigeria.
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Muhammed Jamiu, Mustapha, Mutiu Iyanda Lasisi, Lambe Kayode Mustapha, and Galina Trofimova. "Headlines and misinformation in the Nigerian newspapers: Evidence from herder-farmer crisis and ENDSARS protests." World of Media. Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, no. 3 (September 1, 2022): 46–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.30547/worldofmedia.3.2022.2.
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The increase in media proliferation as a result of the emergence of social media as alternative sources of news dissemination and consumption has led to many changes in journalism, such as declining gatekeeping and content scrutiny. Thus, headline construction and structuring play a crucial role in this new era of news. Like their counterparts all over the world, Nigeria’s mainstream media are not left out of this raging redefinition of news construction and distribution in a hyperbolic and propagandistic format, despite their significant contributions to democracy since its return in 1999. The rise of insecurity and the attendance of political uproars, buoyed by online misinformation through pluralistic digital media, triggers intentional or inadvertent mistakes among the hitherto respected and credible mainstream media causing the need to respond to the salient issues in the media spaces without being out of the mainstream. Using the content analysis and process tracing methods, this paper explores the influence of the current media agenda on the gatekeeping of news that is increasingly spreading misinformation via clickbait on the headlines of the mainstream media.
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Aondover, Eric Msughter, Lawal Umar Maradun, and Suleiman M. Yar’Adua. "Mediatization of the Net and Internetization of the Print Media in Northern Nigeria." Unisia 40, no. 2 (December 19, 2022): 335–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.20885/unisia.vol40.iss2.art5.
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The arrival of new media has generated tensions, arguments and debate about the prospects and future of the newspaper industry all over the world. In Northern Nigeria today, media technologies have led to many changes that are seen in the newspaper industry. For instance, technology has broken distance, making communication easier and the information around the world more accessible; it has shrunk both time and space. This situation has generated debates among scholars, about whether the new media technologies would eventually wipe out the conventional media or at least further redefine them. Within this context, this study aims to examine the Mediatization of the net and Internetization of the print media in Northern Nigeria. The study was anchored on the theoretical lens of Diffusion of Innovation Theory. The study adopted the traditional approach of the positivist research design, which informed the choice of survey method, whereby a self-administered questionnaire in the form of a 4-point Likert scale was used to generate data from the study population of 104 journalists working in the selected newspapers, purposive sampling was used to select the newspapers while simple random sampling was used to select the journalists and IBM® SPSS® Statistics was used to analyse the data. Based on the result, the study discovered that new media technologies posed some challenges like inadequate facilities, epileptic internet availability, and inadequate funds for personnel capacity building to the selected newspapers. The study concludes that the need for newspapers to embrace new technologies in content production and news processing is fundamental for the overall success of the print media in Northern Nigeria.
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Oloruntoba, A., JO Oladeji, and EF Odedele. "Content analysis of agricultural training advertisements in Nigerian newspapers." International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology 3, no. 2 (February 2, 2014): 12–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/ijarit.v3i2.17838.
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It is obvious that the use of newspapers is one of the ways through which literate farmers could access agriculture-related information and are acquainted with innovations in agriculture. This study investigated the content of agricultural training advertisements in three Nigerian newspapers: The Guardian, Nigerian Tribune and Daily Times. Using multistage sampling techniques, 240 editions of these newspapers containing 609 advertisements for five years (20012005) were selected. In terms of agricultural subsectoral coverage, 30.3% were on veterinary services while forestry services recorded the least advertisement (4.0 %). The Nigerian Tribune newspaper has the highest coverage of agricultural training advertisements 40.7% compared to the 34.7% and 12.2% for Daily Times and Guardian newspapers, respectively. The result also showed that majority of agricultural training advertisements (81.10%) were placed on the non-prominent pages of the selected newspapers. Chi-Square analysis of association between the categories of agricultural training advertisements in the focal newspapers showed that there is significant relationship in the rate at which the sampled newspapers advertise different category of agricultural training advertisements in the newspapers (p<0.05). Chi square analysis also indicated that there is significant association between the placements of agricultural training advertisements and type of newspapers (p<0.05). This implies that advertisement placement on prominent pages of newspapers is determined by the policy of print media organization which also varies with cost of advertisement. It is therefore recommended that agricultural news items should be given more prominence as a panacea for increased information source to new entrants, especially the literate farmers to encourage farming. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/ijarit.v3i2.17838 Int. J. Agril. Res. Innov. & Tech. 3 (2): 12-15, December, 2013
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Murty, K. S., Victor Ugenyi, and Julian B. Roebuck. "A COMPARISON OF CRIME REPORTAGE IN TWO NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS: DAILY TIMES AND NEW NIGERIAN." International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice 13, no. 1 (January 1989): 97–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01924036.1989.9688907.
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Hassan, Isyaku, and Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi. "A Comparative Analysis of Visual Agenda-Setting in Reporting Islam." International Journal of Asian Social Science 8, no. 9 (July 9, 2018): 622–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18488/journal.1.2018.89.622.630.
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The media set the agenda of public discourse and define people’s perception of the issues. Research shows that analysis of visual elements in the media coverage of Islam is under-represented. This study explores and compares visual agenda-setting of Islam in selected Nigerian and Malaysian newspapers. Punch and Vanguard were chosen from Nigeria while The Star and New Straits Times were chosen from Malaysia based on their online readership. The study focused on content analysis of 425 photos and 23 videos used in the selected newspapers. Sample was collected from November 2015 until September 2016. Only photos and videos used in articles directly related to Islam were collected from the respective websites of the newspapers. It was found that Nigerian newspapers used more violent photos in reporting Islam than Malaysian newspapers. Of all the photos used in the selected newspapers, 43 reflected violence blamed on Islam while 382 were non-violent. None of the videos reflected violence. Though the use of violent photos is minimal in the newspapers, their implication might be highly influential. Visual bias could be avoided through collective effort of journalists, editors, and corporate ownership of the media.
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Nwakpa, James Ndubuisi. "Evaluation of Nigerian Government’s New Cashless Policy: Insights from Select National Dailies." British Journal of Marketing Studies 11, no. 3 (March 15, 2023): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/bjms.2013/vol11n3116.
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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) in a bid to reduce inflation and stabilize the country’s economy, introduced cashless policy in 2012. The move became more pronounced following the recent efforts to redesign the country’s 200, 500 and 1,000-naira local currency denominations, which resulted in high scarcity of money in circulation. Since then, the initiative has remained a contentious issue. This study appraised the level of success, impacts, challenges and prospects of the policy as reported in select Nigerian national daily newspapers. The study was anchored on the Diffusion of Innovation and Agenda Setting theories, while relying on secondary data, sourced from five Nigerian national daily newspapers. Manifest contents of the editorials/opinions and feature stories contained in the newspapers were analysed. Findings show that absence of appropriate legal/regulatory framework for e-payment; poor epileptic electric supply, illiteracy, lack of financial infrastructure; risk of identity theft and poor service from network providers were among the factors that hamper the success of the cashless policy in Nigeria. The paper holds that cashless society provides safer and more practical alternative means of transacting businesses than over reliance on physical cash, and that the initiative can improve on Nigeria’s economy only when well implemented, and calls on the government, financial institutions, network providers, academic institutions and other key stakeholders to work in synergy for a successful cashless economy to be achieved in Nigeria.
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Muhhammad Shafiu, Awwal, Halimah Abdul Manaf, and Sakinah Muslim. "Utilization Entrepreneurship for Job Creation, Poverty Reduction and National Development." Journal of Social Sciences Research, no. 61 (January 29, 2020): 97–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.61.97.102.
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Entrepreneurship has become a tool for uplifting nations and improving their socio-economic development for the benefit of all citizens. This has worked for Western capitalist economies and the newly industrialized countries (NICs). In Africa there is less reliance on entrepreneurship as an engine of economic growth and development which has led to unemployment pervasive poverty and underdevelopment. The paper examined how entrepreneurship can help to speed up socio-economic development in Nigeria and reduce reliance on unsuccessful Western backed neo-liberal development strategies. The data of the study were sourced from array of both published and unpublished materials such as textbook, journal papers, newspapers, magazines, conference papers and seminar papers and internet material. The paper argues that Nigeria cannot develop without utilizing entrepreneurship as the cornerstone of its development strategy. Furthermore, the paper sees entrepreneurship as crucial to developing indigenous capacity in technology, manufacturing and export trade. It recommends development and implementation of local solutions to developmental problems, effective implementation of development policies, and credit provision to local entrepreneurs and creation an enabling environment for production and trade, and capacity development of Nigerian youth through technical and vocational training.
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Hassan, Isyaku, Mohd N. L. Azmi, and Usman I. Abubakar. "Framing Islam in News Reporting: A Comparative Content Analysis." Asian Social Science 13, no. 10 (September 27, 2017): 112. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ass.v13n10p112.
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The emergence of modern communication technology suggests that the society as a whole is now a simple hostage at the hands of the media. However, the time has come to ask whether the people are being managed, manipulated, massaged or brainwashed by the media. Media contents are unjustifiably dominated by expressions that create negative impressions of Islam. As a result, the media accentuate anti-Muslim bias and bigotry. This study aims to comparatively examine how Nigerian and Malaysian newspapers frame Islam-related events in news reporting. Using purposive sampling, Punch and Vanguard were chosen from Nigeria while The Star and New Straits Times were chosen from Malaysia based on their popularity and readership. Relevant news articles that focus upon reports about Islam or Muslims were collected from the selected newspapers using internet-based search from November 2015 until September 2016. The newspapers produced 599 different Islam-related news articles within this period. The study found that out of 599 news articles published in the selected newspapers, 228 portrayed Islam in conflict situation by using conflict frame. For the rest, 60 news articles used consequence frame, 32 used crime frame, 11 used responsibility frame, 19 used morality frame, and 249 portrayed Islam using human interest frame. Nigerian newspapers used more conflict frames in reporting Islam than Malaysian newspapers. Collective efforts of journalists, editors, and corporate ownership of the newspapers should be directed toward suppressing the negative media portrayal of Islam.
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Akinbode, Oluwole. "A Pragmatic Analysis of Selected Obituaries In Nigerian Newspapers." AGOGO: Journal of Humanities 6 (February 15, 2021): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.46881/ajh.v6i0.233.
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Since the inception of Pragmatics as an independent approach to meaning has independent linguistic study, the approach to meaning has encountered an enormous change. Meaning has been perceived beyond the sentence level. The aim of this paper was to do a pragmatic analysis of selected obituaries in Nigerian newspapers; Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and The Punch. These papers were purposively selected because obituaries were regularly published and publicized through them in a mournful manner and this called for a critical linguistic study by analyzing the mournful use of language with a view to finding out their effects on the decoders. The study of language has been extended significantly beyond mere description of linguistic properties to the various ways which individual communicators convey meanings in different socio-cultural contexts. The theoretical framework for this study is pragmatics. This is because pragmatics has been able to account for social meanings and give new insights to the understanding of literary texts and thus, helping in formulating strategies for the teaching and learning of language. Three Nigerian newspapers namely Nigerian Tribune, The Nation and the Punch were purposively selected for data collection. Relevant texts on obituaries were extracted from them and were critically analyzed for the purpose of this study. It was found out that relatives and friends of the deceased publicized the death of the deceased as memories and sympathy for the departed souls. It is recommended that obituaries should be used for the teaching and learning of English as a Second Language because funerals and obituaries are a significant aspect of African culture.
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Mohammed, Abdullateef. "Old Wine in a New Bottle: A Mediamorphosis Approach to Realizing Nigerian Newspaper Potentials in an Online Era." Journal of Criminology Sociology and Law 2, no. 3 (June 20, 2021): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.52096/jcsl.2.3.2.
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Information plays a key role in every society. The media of every society is responsible for transmitting assorted information to a wide range of diverse audiences through multiple channels, including newspapers, magazines, radio, television and of course the new media (internet). In a world where the internet is becoming the fastest growing medium, technologies like computers and smart-phones now enable people access online news sites to read stories and share with others. Printed newspapers, particularly in Nigeria, have managed to thrive over the years, despite projections of its extinction by some communication experts. Using the Mediamorphosis theory as base, this study takes readers on a journey to understanding the survival strategies employed by older mediums like the printed newspapers, to weather the new media storm. Opinions of purposively selected respondents from Zaria, Kaduna state (n=115), who are among consumers of both online and hard-copy news were analysed to determine motives behind their preference of either of the mediums. Findings revealed that in many settings still, there will be those who prefer to read news the old way, and that the new media as at this time, mainly serve as a functional compliment and not an outright replacement to traditional newspapers. The study recommends fact-checking, better marketing as strategies to bridge a credibility gap reported by respondents to exist in the use of both mediums. Keywords: Mediamorphosis, Media Convergence, Newspaper Readership, Nigeria
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Hassan, Isyaku, Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi, and Usman Ibrahim Abubakar. "The Use of Terminology in Reporting Islam: A Comparative Analysis." International Journal of English Linguistics 7, no. 6 (October 11, 2017): 236. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v7n6p236.
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The use of terminology in reporting Islam has been one of the major concerns of many scholars and religious experts in recent years. Specifically, the media’s selection of words to describe Islam attracts attention of many righteous people. Words such as extremist, terrorist, militant, insurgent are mostly used to describe Muslims. This indicates the need to explore how the media particularly newspapers use terminology in reporting Islam, since people rely on the media for news and information. The present study focuses on content analysis of terminology used to describe Islam in selected Nigerian and Malaysian English newspapers. Two different divisions of sampling procedure were employed; sampling for the newspapers and sampling for related articles in the newspapers. The study used purposive sampling to gather data. Punch and Vanguard were chosen from Nigeria while The Star and New Straits Times were chosen from Malaysia based on their popularity and readership. Meanwhile, an internet-based search for news articles on Islam was performed. The aim was to locate the news articles relating to Islam in the selected newspapers. Articles between November 2015 and September 2016 were selected. Any article that focuses upon reporting Islam or Muslims fulfills the inclusion criteria. The content of each article was examined and read for relevance. The newspapers produced 599 different Islam-related articles within this period. The study found that 260 different Islam-related terms appeared in the selected newspapers. But Malaysian newspapers used more (200) of these terms than Nigerian newspapers, which used only 60. However, the most frequently used Islam-related term in the selected newspapers is “Islamist militants” which appeared 60 times, followed by “radical Islam” and “Islamist attacks”, which came second and third respectively. It was found that these words were used in negative context. It is therefore recommended that journalists should make an effort to understand clear connotation of the terminology they use, and use them properly. Newspapers should mind the use of terms in or order to avoid creating negative perception toward Islam.
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Iheme, Gideon, Happiness Ezenwa, Ogechi Nzeagwu, Netochukwu Onwubuya, Precious Uche, Okeoghene Makanjuola, and Stellamaris Ngharamike. "COVID-19 Outbreak: How Informed Were We? Newspaper Coverage of Health and Nutrition Related Information in Nigeria." Current Developments in Nutrition 6, Supplement_1 (June 2022): 204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdn/nzac048.018.
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Abstract Objectives This study aimed to analyze the reporting/transmission of COVID-19 related nutrition and health information by Nigerian newspapers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Methods This secondary/desk research design employed a quantitative content analysis of all articles from two widely read national newspapers published in April and May 2020. Inter-coder reliability test was done by two independent coders to improve the consistency and validity of findings. The unit of analysis comprised all COVID-19 information reported on the news stories, features, editorials and opinions column. Results Results revealed that COVID-19 information received a fair (more than a tenth) coverage of all articles reported in Nigerian media. COVID 19 statistics/updates (44.8–53.5%) and food/palliative distribution/support (44.2–44.8%) dominated the news article column of Nigerian media, with a little attention (2.3–10.4) on health and nutrition awareness/sensitization. It was observed that COVID-19 reports on feature article segment of Nations and Punch newspapers bothered on covid-19 protocol enforcement (26.8%), COVID-19 impact on international relations (9.7%), COVID-19 new waves/strain awareness/description (7.3%), health sector role in COVID-19 containment (9.8%) whereas COVID-19 and food/nutrition recorded minimal appearance (4.9%). Food/nutrition-related COVID-19 reports were missing on the front page, editorial, international news and advertisement/business segment of the reviewed newspapers. Conclusions Overall data revealed that this COVID-19 information were predominantly COVID-19 statistics/case updates, food/palliative distribution update, impact of COVID-19 on the economy and other sectors while in-depth reporting of health and nutrition related COVID-19 awareness was lacking. Prompt sensitization and education on emerging issues of public health is the ethical responsibility of the print media to the public. Funding Sources None.
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Oosterman, Allison. "Tackling a persistent trail of gender obstacles." Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa 16, no. 1 (May 1, 2010): 224–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v16i1.1023.
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Press history in New Zealand is still in its infancy and unless more interest is taken in the subject it will never reach adulthood. Research in this fi eld has been fragmentary. There have been some general studies, for example Guy Scholefield’s (1958) Newspapers in New Zealand and Patrick Day’s (1990) The making of the New Zealand press. There are some substantial histories of The Press (O’Neill, 1963), Independent Newspapers Ltd (Verry, 1985) and the NZPA (Sanders, 1979). There have been various centennial publications such as Karl du Fresne’s (2009) celebration of The Dominion. And in the last decade there have been positive signs of a resurgence of interest in the history of our newspapers with some exciting research underway or already published. Joanna Woods’ (2009) Facing the music: Charles Baeyertz and The Triad is a recent welcome addition and in the wings are works on New Zealand Truth (Redmer Yska), The Listener (Lyn Barnes) and parliamentary journalists (Nikki Hessell).
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Ibrahim, Bashir, Hamisu Hamisu Haruna, Ibrahim Bashir, and Kamariah Yunus. "The Usage of Spatial Prepositions in the Headlines of Major Nigerian Newspapers." International Journal of English Linguistics 8, no. 7 (November 27, 2018): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ijel.v8n7p13.
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English language in Nigeria has the status as an official language that is used in local and international correspondences. One aspect of English grammar that is very hard for second language users including Nigerians to master is prepositions. Not only that English prepositions difficult, they are also the most frequently used items in newspapers that play an important role to signal political and cultural discourses. This study aims to describe the usage and communicative functions of spatial prepositions “in, on and at” in the headlines of four major Nigerian newspapers. Primarily, to achieve that the present study adopted Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics. Data were collected through the analyses of 21 headlines from four selected major Nigerian newspapers. The findings revealed that Vanguard, a major Nigerian newspaper, has the highest percentage of the usage of target prepositions (26.86%), seconded by Punch (24.92%), followed by the Sun (24.27%), and lastly the lowest percentage, The Nation (23.95%). Also, it was revealed from the study that newspaper editors preferred to use preposition “at” (indicating specific location) but replaced it with preposition “in” (indicating broader location). Moreover, despite the frequent usage of preposition “in” in replacement of preposition “at”, they also preferred the forward position that expresses uncertainty compared to mid-ward and backward positions. This study concludes that people can be united ideologically especially on issues that foster nationalism through the use of newspaper headlines since newspaper headline is a new form of discourse that may initiate, sustain, and shape the political and other national agenda.
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Chukwu, Mathias O. "DISCURSIVE CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER REPORTS ON PIPELINE VANDALISM." Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културу 14, no. 27 (June 30, 2023): 63–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.21618/fil2327063c.
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Scholarly works on pipeline vandalism have paid extensive attention to empirical questions of causes and consequences. But there remains a dearth of studies on the representation of the acts of vandalism in newspapers, which is necessary for evaluating what message about the problem is being disseminated to the citizens and how that could contribute to resolving the problem or sustaining it. This paper examines the identity construction for critical social actors in Nigerian newspaper reports on pipeline vandalism. Sixteen –news samples were purposively selected from three newspapers: The Tide, New Waves, and The Guardian published between 2015 and 2019. Theoretically, the study is anchored on a combination of Fina’s (2011) identity process and van Dijk’s (1995, 2006a, 2006b) in-group/out-group description. The analysis involved accounting for the deployment of group self-schemata (van Dijk, 1995, 2005) and ideological strategies (van Dijk, 2006) in realising the three identity processes of indexing, positioning, and local occasioning established by Fina (2011). The study finds that through a combination of media identity ascription and social actors’ positive-self description in the news reports, each of the major stakeholders in the conflict assumes an identity of innocence and responsible entity while shifting the blame to others. It concludes therefore that this could be responsible for the difficulty in ending the conflict.
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OBIORA, Adanma Vivian, and Anthony Ogbonna UCHE. "Evaluation of Paywall’s Usage as Profitable Tool for Online Newspapers in Nigeria." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 9, no. 2 (September 15, 2023): 35–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.56201/ijssmr.v9.no2.2023.pg35.44.
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Journalism practice in this digital age has been bedevilled with several challenges that have threatened its survival. In order to stay afloat and maintain its status as the fourth estate of the realm, it has adopted technological innovation by diversifying and intertwining its print media platforms with a digital presence as a means of survival in a highly competitive and near-choking operational environment. One of such means is paywalling. Paywalls provide an opportunity for online news outlets to generate income without relying on digital advertising alone, in an era where advertising-blockers negatively affect advertising revenue. Hence, the onus of this study focuses on assessing whether digital newspapers in Nigeria have embraced this wind of change in income generation by using paywalls to monetize their websites and to examine the types of paywalls prevalent among them. The researchers hinged this study on creative destruction theory and adopted content analysis as the research design. Findings revealed that Nigerian online newspapers do not use paywalls for profitability they rather rely on digital advertising for sustainability. The researchers recommended that the Nigerian online newspaper should embrace the new technology just like its counterparts in other countries in order to have another avenue for profit making.
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Anyanwu, Chukwuma, Aghogho Lucky Imiti, and Chikodi Joy Anyanwu. "Traditional News Media as Agents of Authenticity: Nigerian Audiences Weathering the Onslaught of New Media Streaming." Journalism and Media 5, no. 2 (April 5, 2024): 456–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/journalmedia5020030.
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The Nigerian media have, over the years, moved back and forth via all manners of experience of leadership, from military to democratic, until they finally settled into the present democratic governance. Experience from previous regimes exposed them to the vagaries of power and how to cope with them. These traditional news media, newspapers/magazines, radio, and television, were then the major and authentic news sources for Nigerians. The coming of the internet with its social media handles threw the journalists of these media into confusion as the citizens have taken the reigns of news/information peddling from under them, turning them into agents of confirmation and authenticity of information. Ironically, these traditional media, television, radio, and print, have adjusted to online media streaming, thus liberating themselves from the vagaries of temporal and spatial limitedness. Deploying a survey method (opinion poll, OPL) and relying on a purposive sampling technique, the authors purposively selected WhatsApp group platforms (WGP) as the most suitable of the new/social media with access to all manners of news sources. These were used to interrogate how online media/information/news streaming has taken the audience away from traditional media by being on the ‘spot’ at all hours with their avalanche of “Breaking News”. The findings revealed that audiences currently resort to traditional media to confirm the authenticity of news and information carried online in a sort-of-when-in-doubt-watch-the television manner or listen to radio or read the newspapers/magazines. It concludes that online news streaming has become the coveted bride of present-day information and news seekers, albeit an unreliable one.
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Paimo, Oluwatunmise Taiwo. "Democracy in Retreat: The New Media and Human Rights Dimension to Covid-19 Pandemic in Nigeria." Journal of Advanced Research in Social Sciences 6, no. 3 (August 28, 2023): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.33422/jarss.v6i3.735.
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The role of the new media in analyzing and monitoring the global pandemic of Covid-19, which reveals at the same time reveals inadequacies of ensuring human rights in Nigeria cannot be over-emphasized. As an outlet for information gathering and dissemination, the media provided citizens with developments surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic. While identifying the power of media during the pandemic, this paper seeks to examine the human rights perspective of the Nigerian government. It argues that rather than the Nigerian Federal Government promoting the human security associated with the practice of democracy; freedom and liberty, transparency and legitimacy of governance; rule of law, and equity for citizens; settles for authoritarian governance that violates the democratic principles and human rights tenets. Primary data is sourced from social media platforms of television and radio stations; and social media influencers from entertainment and politics. Secondary data is gathered from consultations with journal articles, books, and newspapers. Findings are analyzed using content analysis; needed to blend the objectives of the paper.
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Olusunle, Tunde. "The Print Media and the Evolution of Third-Generation Nigerian Poetry." International Journal of Current Research in the Humanities 26, no. 1 (February 25, 2023): 401–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijcrh.v26i1.24.
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Previous literary scholarship and critical allusions to the evolution of Nigerian literature have unanimously acknowledged the emergence of a third generation of Nigerian poetry. This development which gained accentuation between 1980 and 2000, threw up an avalanche of successors to the second-generation poets, notably: Odia Ofeimun, Tanure Ojaide, Niyi Osundare, Okinba Launko, Catherine Acholonu and Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie. Despite the visible numerical strength of this new generation of writers; their aggregate prolificity and their gross contribution to our national creative output, adequate seminal attention has not been paid to the role of the print media in the catalysation of this milieu. This study, therefore, situates the third generation of Nigerian poets and their works, within the context that they are bonafide products of the print media. They sprouted and flourished in an era where creative activity, triggered by national socio-economic realities, bloomed without collateral and commensurate outlets for the expression of this creative outburst. They have continued to sustain the richness and robustness of Nigeria’s poetic traditions. Their continuing commitment to socio-political engagements has reinforced the enterprise of preceding generations. This study will constitute a veritable reference material on the emerging corpus of critical discourse on the evolution of Nigerian poetry, deriving from the pages of Nigerian newspapers, en route to the 20th century.
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Ogazie, Charles. "Editorial Cartoons as Mirror of the Nigerian Nation: The Example of New Telegraph." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 2, no. 2 (June 9, 2020): 220–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v2i2.259.
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It is very obvious that newspapers do not just report news, make known governmental policies or educate people on the happenings in societies among other things (Ogazie 2012). It however, serves as a watch dog in society. As the press beams its search light on the activities of government through its reportage, the public is made to participate in the process of governance and at the same time, aligns the governed to come to terms with the state of the nation. In a pluralistic nation like Nigeria where the heterogeneous populace is exposed to diverse media content, senders of information, especially those of the print media, convey socio-political, economic, educational coupled with religious messages in a unique, blunt, creative but satirical manner without naming names. This paper asserts that this unique function is best left at the door step of the editorial cartoonists who through their metaphorical codification sketches, drawings or impressions, tell a verisimilitude tale of the state of the nation. Through content analysis of selected cartoons in New Telegraph Newspaper, the paper concludes that editorial cartoons can be seen as a viable and powerful reflective medium via which national issues are raised in an imaginary court for public debate and as such erect a positive signpost towards reconstructing, developing and sustaining the polity for the betterment of all.
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Panata, Sara. "‘Dear Readers…’: Women’s Rights and Duties through Letters to the Editor in the Nigerian Press (1940s-1950s)." Varia 1 (2020): 141–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/11ta0.
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This paper analyses selected readers’ letters published in the women’s columns of three cornerstone newspapers of the Nigerian press: “Our Women’s Page” in the Daily Times, “The Women’s Realm” in the Southern Nigerian Defender and “For Women Only” in the Nigerian Tribune. The period analyzed (1940s-1950s) follows women’s large entrance in the press consumption and precedes the emergence of women’s magazines, exclusively aimed at women, in the 1960s, in the context of a global development of women’s glossy periodicals. Firstly, I will focus on letters to the editor in order to give an overview of the major historiographical debates and methodological challenges, which the use of these particular documents entails. Secondly, I will propose an analysis of the major debates in the letters to disentangle the intricate controversies around women’s rights and duties. In spite of the fact that these columns were perceived as a women’s space, female and male readers questioned the editors of major newspapers as well as fellow readers, debating the position of women in a rapidly changing society. Between progressive urges and persistent conservative ideas, the readers’ letters expressed doubts and anguish about the emergence of the “New Woman” in Nigeria. By giving a wider space to debates between “ordinary” literate women and men, readers’ letters provide a more nuanced understanding of the concerns that surrounded changing gender frameworks. I argue that these letters—much more that the opinion pieces of the women’s columns or women’s magazines, examined at length by historians—reflect the gender dimension of the anxiety around the unsettling women’s positions in this period. The discussions presented in the readers pieces mirror a complex understanding of gender through time: they interweave local debates concerning women’s roles, with the global currents of the “New Woman”. The analysis, showcasing the dialogic qualities of this journalistic genre, demonstrates the ways letters to the editor are significant in terms of how they sit within gender and African studies.
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Cousins, W. J., W. H. Robinson, and G. H. McVerry. "Recent developments in devices for seismic isolation." Bulletin of the New Zealand Society for Earthquake Engineering 25, no. 3 (September 30, 1992): 167–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5459/bnzsee.25.3.167-174.
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Significant extensions to the technology for seismic-isolation were required for three recent applications in New Zealand. The structures isolated were a new Central Police Station in Wellington, a printing press hall built in Petone for Wellington Newspapers Ltd., and capacitor banks at Haywards substation near Lower Hutt. In each case the isolating devices were tested to verify their performance characteristics. This paper presents the results of the testing. The devices were a lead-extrusion damper rated at 250 kN load ± 400 mm stroke, a lead-rubber bearing measuring 609 mm x 609 mm x 460 mm, and a steel taper-beam damper rated at 10.6 kN load ± 200 mm stroke.
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Okpala, Helen Nneka. "Making a makerspace case for academic libraries in Nigeria." New Library World 117, no. 9/10 (October 10, 2016): 568–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/nlw-05-2016-0038.
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Purpose This paper aims to give a highlight on the concept of makerspace and its perceived benefits in academic libraries in Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach The searches encompass current journal articles, books, newspapers, magazines, personal experiences on the concept of makerspace, 3D-printing and technologies in libraries. Practical examples of libraries that already have makerspaces in operation were sourced. Findings Findings of this study create awareness of benefits, challenges and strategies for developing and managing makerspaces in Nigerian academic libraries, using Zenith Library as a hypothetical sample. Research limitations/implications Only the proposal guide has been drafted. There is need for more investigations on the awareness of, and plan to adopt makerspace technologies in Nigerian academic libraries. Practical implications Librarians need to appreciate the makerspace technologies and forge ahead in establishing makerspace in strategic areas of their libraries which should serve as a meeting point for all users in the university community, and for the sharing of innovative ideas. Social implications There is need for a paradigm shift in Nigerian university libraries, hence the shift in librarians’ thinking and approach to find their place in the new maker movement. Originality/value The originality of the paper lies in its justification for establishing makerspace in Nigerian academic libraries alongside the drafted proposal which has been designed to serve as a guide to libraries in Nigeria, as no makerspace has been documented to be existing in any Nigerian library.
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Obaje, Nuhu George, Abu Kasim Adamu, Abdullahi Bomai, Mukhtar Zanna, James Adeoye, Ishaq Yusuf, Richard Dauda, Faisal Musa, Suleiman Adamu, and Lukman Musa Adamu. "The Nigerian Petroleum Industry Act, Frontier Basins Exploration and the Global Energy Transition." Energy and Earth Science 5, no. 1 (April 21, 2022): p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/ees.v5n1p1.
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The Nigerian Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) passed into Law in 2021 has the major goal to reform the Nigerian petroleum sector operations into policy, regulations and business (commercial). In the line of this, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) was transformed to NNPC Ltd to operate entirely commercially with a supervising Board and registration with the Corporate Affairs Commission. Such a commercial mandate will entail the need to explore and produce more oil and gas for export and domestic utilization. Oil is becoming less attractive as an energy source but gas is gaining momentum as a clean energy source in the global energy transition road-map. The global energy transition road-map is drawn around clean, alternative and renewable energies. The Nigerian frontier basins have recently come on board as new business opportunities with huge petroleum gas resources. These frontier basins comprise the Anambra, Benue, Bida, Chad (Nigerian sector), Dahomey, and Sokoto Basins as well as the Deep and Ultra-deep offshore. Maturing these basins through data generation and production of the gas resources therein will promote the nation’s gas utilization and gas expansion programmes meant to promote industrialization and huge employment generation, grow the economy and engender positive social transformation. The clause in the PIA that promotes frontier exploration is well-thought out. Available and required geological data needed to mature the frontier basins to producing basins are presented in this paper. The success made in Kolmani River-2 well discovery is a case study.
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Anaedozie, Florence. "Is Grand Corruption the Cancer of Nigeria? A Critical Discussion in the Light of an Exchange of Presidential Letters." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 5 (February 28, 2016): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n5p11.
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Grand corruption maintains a firm grip on the Nigerian economic, social and political system despite the existence of numerous anti-corruption institutional bodies and the justice system. Grand corruption is the sore spot in Nigeria’s pursuit of transparency and accountability in governance and has ensured the continuous neglect of the rule of law and due process, national underdevelopment, violation of socio-economic rights and insecurity. This paper, using the metaphor of “cancer” appraises the endemic grand corruption in Nigeria in the light of “open letters” exchanged between two prominent former Nigerian Presidents. It argues that the contents of the “two presidential letters” places moral mandate on Nigerians to renew the commitment towards combating grand corruption, particularly with the emergence of a new administration whose agenda portends a policy of zero tolerance to corruption. The paper is a qualitative desk-based research using secondary data obtained from laws of the country on corruption; reports from Nigerian anti-corruption agencies; court records and cases; reports from newspapers and magazines; articles in journals and books; reports from websites of developmental agencies and the civil society organisations. The paper recommends the strengthening of the anti-corruption agencies, law reforms and national reorientation through mass education and mobilisation with the aim of combating the cancer of endemic grand corruption in Nigeria.
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Essien, Essien, Martins Muoghalu, and Yusuf Sulaimon. "Newspaper Framing of Twitter Ban in Nigeria: A Retrospective Perspective." American Journal of Arts and Human Science 1, no. 3 (October 12, 2022): 28–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.54536/ajahs.v1i3.638.
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With the first-ever ban on social media handle, it is clear that the abuse of information rights and the improper application of power are reaching a new level in Nigeria, meriting widespread concern. This study aimed to examine, in retrospect, the quality of newspaper framing of the twitter ban issue in Nigeria, where the media’s efficacy in covering recent events in the country has been questioned due to persistent public opinion that the media is performing its fourth estate of the realm’s duties in accordance to odious governing standards. This study examined the newspaper framing of President Mohammadu Buhari’s ban on twitter in Nigeria with particular emphasis on a The Punch and Daily Trust newspapers. The framing theory of the mass media was adopted in the study and the content analysis research design was as well employed. The finding of the study indicated among other things, that both ‘Daily Trust’ and ‘The Punch’ newspapers framed reports of twitter ban in Cause, Effect and Reaction frames. The study concluded that both newspapers considered in the study had covered the issue of the Nigerian twitter ban in different measures and perspectives, as arising from the differences in the slants accorded the reportage. The study recommended that the government should uphold the tenet of a true democratic state by ensuring that no ban is placed on social networking sites as such actions undermines the fundamental human right of expression of the citizens
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Ononye, Chuka Fred, Olaosun Ibrahim Esan, and Ahmed Yunana. "Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse." SAGE Open 11, no. 2 (April 2021): 215824402110231. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/21582440211023149.
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Media studies on Niger Delta (ND) conflict discourse have largely utilized stylistic, pragmatic, and critical discourse analytical tools in exploring media representation of news actors and ideologies in news texts but have not accommodated such issues as participants’ roles and cognitive relations in the discourse. This paper analyses the contexts of ND conflict news reporting with a view to revealing not only the participant’s role relations involved, but also the lexico-semantic resources they are characterized by. Forty newspaper reports on ND conflicts (20 from four ND-based newspapers— The Tide, New Waves, The Pointer and Pioneer, and 20 from four national newspapers— The Punch, The Guardian, Vanguard and THISDAY), published between 2003 and 2009, were sampled and subjected to discourse analysis, with insights from van Dijk’s context models and aspects of relational semantics. Four types of role were identified, viz. interactional (embracing the participants in conflict), communicative (relating to the production roles), social (involving group membership), and instrumental (dealing with the entities utilized in actualizing specific goals). The cognitive foci of these roles are associated with participants’ goals and beliefs, and these inform the participants’ position and hence role in the conflict events. Linguistically, the interactional and social roles are marked by synonymous and converse lexical items, while the communicative and instrumental roles are indexed by homonymous and antonymous lexical features. The findings corroborate the fact that there is an interaction between participant roles and cognitive relations in the ND conflict events reported in Nigerian newspapers.
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Omokhodion, Akuewanbhor. "Globalization and an African city: Lagos." Ekistics and The New Habitat 73, no. 436-441 (December 1, 2006): 214–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.53910/26531313-e200673436-441119.
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The author, Chairman of Omokhodion Associates Ltd and Omokhodion Group, has received his academic degrees in architecture and city planning from the University of Science and Technology Kumasi, Ghana; the Athens Center of Ekistics, Athens, Greece; Yale University, New Haven, CO, USA ; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; and the University of Lagos, Nigeria. In his long career, he has held key posts as Technical Officer in Training and as architect in the Federal Ministry of Works & Housing; as Physical Planning Assistant to Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, and has been director and chief designer of major architectural, landscape, urban design and urban planning projects in Nigeria at a broad range of scales. He has been a member of the Landuse and Allocation Committee, Bendel State; the Presidential Committee on the Accelerated Development of Abuja; the UNESCO Commission for Nigeria; Director of the Western Textile Mills Ltd; and is currently a member on the Panel on the Reorganization of NNPC. Dr Omokhodion is also a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Architects and the Nigerian Institute of Town Planners, and a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects and the World Society for Ekistics. The text that follows is a slightly edited version of a paper presented at the international symposion on "Globalization and Local Identity, " organized jointly by the World Society for Ekistics and the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, Japan, 19-24 September, 2005.
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Dominic, Shimawua. "EFFECTIVE PUBLIC POLICIES AND THE RE-INTEGRATION OF EX-CONVICTS: THE NIGERIAN CORRECTIONAL SYSTEM." Education and Science Journal of Policy Review and Curriculum Development 10, no. 1 (January 5, 2021): 97–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.48028/iiprds/esjprcd.v10.i1.08.
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In a recent development, the Nigeria Prison Service was renamed, “the Nigeria Correction Service”, a move that is designed to reorient the department along the lines of emergent demands of justice dispensation on the global scene. This study examined the extent to which the new Nigeria Correction Service can adjust to the laudable objective of repositioning itself for purposes of reformation and re-integration of the nation’s ex-convicts for a better Nigerian society. Data was obtained from secondary materials including books, periodicals, journals, newspapers, the internet, etc. Content analysis was adopted as the mode of analysis while the theory of social integration (Blau, 1960) was employed as the theoretical framework of the study. Findings revealed that the re-orientation of the “service” for purposes of reformation and reintegration of ex-convicts had long been taking place as many of such citizens had either acquired a good measure of education while in prison, learned various vocations, and even attained higher spiritual growths. The study suggested adequate funding to enhance the effort of the service in achieving its objectives.
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MUHAMMAD, AMINU YAHAYA. "Intra-Party Conflict and the Future of Nigerian Democracy: Examining the All Progressives Congress (APC)." Asia Proceedings of Social Sciences 2, no. 4 (December 4, 2018): 20–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/apss.v2i4.248.
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This study is an analysis of the nature and pattern of intra-party conflict in Nigeria’s Fourth Republic with specific reference to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Intra-party conflict has been the norm in Nigerian politics leading to crises, setback and failure of many parties to forge ahead for proper democratisation in Nigeria including the ruling parties in many instances. The problem is the way in which intra-party conflict is becoming the bane of democratisation and good governance in Nigeria for many decades and despite the previous experiences, the phenomenon continued unabated. The study investigated the new dimension of intra-party conflict in Nigeria taking the All Progressives Congress as the case study. The study used a qualitative method of data collection and analysis. Primary and secondary sources of data were used. The primary data involved an in-depth interview with some selected informants from the relevant institutions and agencies related to the APC and the crises such as the national party executives, senior officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and academicians that are experts in the area of study. The secondary sources include books, journals, newspapers, internets and other documented materials. The data obtained were discussed using content analysis where thematic analytical interpretations were used in the discussions. The research discovered that, the intra-party conflict under the APC has taken a new dimension where the members of the ruling party constituted an opposition and a stumbling block for the party’s progress and governance. The work recommends that intra-party conflict of APC and other Nigerian political parties can be resolved through constitutional reforms, institutionalisation of party ideology and principles and strict sanctions from the national leaders of the party.
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SINGH, PRINCE KUMAR. "HOW TO INCREASE SALES OF ULTRATECH CEMENT THROUGH DIGITAL MARKETING." INTERANTIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT 08, no. 04 (May 2, 2024): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.55041/ijsrem32928.
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1.1 Background of the Study I am pursuing MBA From Galgotias University and it’s a great opportunity for me to making this project. This following Master Thesis has been assigned to me by my advisor Ms Neha Bhatia. I have worked with ULTRATECH CEMENT Mills Ltd for a time span of two months as a researcher; where I had the opportunity to see and learn new things about how a cement company in India operates. This Master Thesis reflects about my in-depth understanding about the various aspects of this company and the cement industry on the whole. 1.2 Objectives of the Study The main objective of this research is to formulate some strategies to develop the product of the ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd. which is currently trying to boost up their sell. The specific objectives of this study are: ● To provide an inside scenario about the cement industry in India and also suggest some Digital Marketing Strategies. ● To examine the customer preferences that influence on customer satisfaction and set priorities when designing products in cement industry. 1.3 Methodology This report has been completed by taking information from different relevant sources. Some accounts have been taken by observing and working with the company itself. However, this report also consists of a significant amount of data obtained from both primary and secondary sources. 1.3.1 Primary Data • On the basis of pre-structured questions, the information has been collected through personal interviews from customers of the ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd. In some cases, Likert’s five-point scales was used to measure the respondent’s opinion. • Practical work experience at the different departments of ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd. • Discussions and meetings with the employees of ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd regarding their feelings, opinions and feedback regarding ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd. • Interaction with some customers via telephone through which I could capture their perception about the company. 1.3.2 Secondary Data ● Financial reports of ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd. ● Relevant books, Research papers, Newspapers and Journals. ● Internet and various study selected reports. 1.4 Limitations of The Study While working with the company, I faced some limitations in terms of having access to information belonging to the company. As I worked there as a researcher, I did not have access to many documents which prevented me from including up a lot of information details about certain topics of the report. Although I worked in ULTRATECH CEMENT Ltd almost for two months that helped me to know a broader perspective of how the company works, nevertheless I did not get an in-depth understanding and information about every sector of all the departments of the company uniformly. Although I had this limitation, however I have tried my level best to fulfil the objectives of this paper properly.
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OGOLEKWU, OCHE. "FORENSIC LINGUISTICS AS A CATALYST FOR CRIME DETECTION AMONG NIGERIAN YOUTHS: A STUDY OF SELECTED POLICE INVESTIGATIONS AND COURT PROCEEDINGS." Ahyu: A Journal of Language and Literature 1, no. 3 (May 9, 2020): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.56666/ahyu.v1i3.6.
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The rate of criminal activities among the youths is increasing everyday especially through thebirth of new linguistic knowledge in human endeavours. These crimes are facilitated by communication, particularly, linguistic communication. The aim of this study is to ascertain the role of forensic linguistics in the detection of crimes among the youths. The study adopts descriptive/discursive design while the corpus consists of a transmitted video clip of suspects confessional statements and three contemporary criminal cases investigated and published in online newspapers. The crime cases being studied include prevalent criminal cases among the young people such as cultism, kidnapping, robbery, rape, murder and fraud related issues. The analysis focuses on the lexical, syntactic and semantic features. The findings of this study show similar pronunciation, voice identification, accents of the accused persons, theiruse of personal pronouns/possessive determiner, suspicious/repeated lexicon, active sentences and thematic roles as significant forensic features. It concludes that forensic linguistics can be used as a resource to assist the law enforcement agents and the judges of high courts in investigations and interpretations of crime-related expressions. Thus, it is recommended that forensic linguistic approach should be featured in seminars, workshops, and articles on crime related issues, especially the ones that involve the youths.
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Marcus Garvey Orji and Romanus Nduji. "Business Sustainability and Challenges of Climate Change in Nigerian Indigenous Automobile Companies. A case study of Innoson Motors Ltd, Nnewi, Nigeria." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 7, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v7i1.99.
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Business sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time. Companies are integrating ideas of sustainability in their marketing, corporate communications, and in all their actions. It is for this reason that this study examined Business sustainability and challenges of climate change in Nigerian Indigenous Automobile Companies with particular emphasis on Innoson Motors Nnewi, Nigeria. The study is a survey research and data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The target population of the study was 258 employees of the company, and the sample size of 157 was obtained using Taro Yamani. The statistical tool used for data analysis was mean, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression analysis. The findings revealed that there is a positive relationship between sustainable profit, organizational workers, business opportunities and climate change in Innoson Motors, Nnewi Nigeria. The study therefore recommended that Companies should deploy smart technologies, Invest in new, more environmentally conscious technologies such as green data centre as source of cost reduction as well as competitive advantage; also for there to be a meaningful movement towards absolute emission reduction, companies must test the concept of a trade-off between economic performance and environmental responsibility.
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Marcus Garvey Orji and Romanus Nduji. "Business Sustainability and Challenges of Climate Change in Nigerian Indigenous Automobile Companies. A case study of Innoson Motors Ltd, Nnewi, Nigeria." Konfrontasi: Jurnal Kultural, Ekonomi dan Perubahan Sosial 9, no. 1 (March 3, 2020): 77–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.33258/konfrontasi2.v9i1.99.
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Business sustainability is one of the most important challenges of our time. Companies are integrating ideas of sustainability in their marketing, corporate communications, and in all their actions. It is for this reason that this study examined Business sustainability and challenges of climate change in Nigerian Indigenous Automobile Companies with particular emphasis on Innoson Motors Nnewi, Nigeria. The study is a survey research and data were collected from both primary and secondary sources. The target population of the study was 258 employees of the company, and the sample size of 157 was obtained using Taro Yamani. The statistical tool used for data analysis was mean, standard deviation, correlation and multiple regression analysis. The findings revealed that there is a positive relationship between sustainable profit, organizational workers, business opportunities and climate change in Innoson Motors, Nnewi Nigeria. The study therefore recommended that Companies should deploy smart technologies, Invest in new, more environmentally conscious technologies such as green data centre as source of cost reduction as well as competitive advantage; also for there to be a meaningful movement towards absolute emission reduction, companies must test the concept of a trade-off between economic performance and environmental responsibility.
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Adedeji, I. Adetokunbo, and E. Abiade Agboola. "Multimodality of Tact Enactment to Stay Safe during the COVID-19 Pandemic-ridden Period." European Journal of English Language and Literature Studies 12, no. 4 (April 15, 2024): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.37745/ejellr.2013/vol12n42032.
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This paper examines drama of reality orchestrated on the heels of the outbreak of a pandemic known as CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19). The disease which erupted in China around December 2019 started killing in hundreds and thousands without any tested drug in sight to quell its furnace except precautionary measures like ‘social distancing’ ‘Hand wash with sanitizer’, ‘wearing of face mask’ and the like. Cases were purposely selected through the affordances of newspapers, recorded newscast, social media applications like WhatsApp, and You-tube. Multimodality as well as Tact Maxim was considered an apt theoretical framework to capture selected instances in the Nigerian situation owing to the exploitation of semiotics and other linguistic nuances involved in the data collection. The critical analysis of the drama revealed that the world had never been the same, and that in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, a new world-order was imminent ; just like it had happened after the historic 1720 , 1820, and 1920 occurrences. The pandemic period was therefore a show of insincerity in governance, ingratitude, display of abject poverty necessitating renewed dedication to salient essentials of life. The religious circle was not spared as adherents became wiser when the hitherto mammoth crowd as a show of affluence and generosity became replaced with defined gathering, The paper concluded on a note that it is time non-realistic and non-productive policies were jettisoned in order to forestall future re-occurrences of the pandemic. These, in the Nigerian situation should take the form of reducing the recurrent expenditure of the legislature, avoiding mono-economy and re-diversifying, redefining the essential and non-essential services, intensifying e-learning/banking, etc, curbing the excesses of law-enforcement agents and civilians alike. These would go a long way to better the lot of the masses, provided sincerity, transparency and accountability become the watch-word of governance.
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Idyo, Solomon, and Jeremiah Methuselah. "The changing narratives in Nollywood movie viewing through online streaming." Nigeria Theatre Journal: A Journal of the Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists 23, no. 1 (March 7, 2024): 38–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ntj.v23i1.4.
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The deployment of digital technologies for film production, distribution and marketing in the Nigerian film industry can be considered a giant stride, which has triggered drastic changes in the production values, quality and standards of the industry. This study examines the impact of these digital technologies on Nollywood film industry, howbeit, with particular focus on the changing narratives of movie viewing through online streaming. The study adopted the qualitative methodology, and the use of documents and visual media research instrument was utilized. Thus, different types of documents and other visual media like books and other publications, newspapers and the Internet were used to extract relevant data. Amongst other findings, movie viewing in Nollywood through online streaming has drastically changed the phase of the industry, as it has attracted new deals and secured production partnerships, locally and internationally; created new revenue streams for filmmakers and placed the industry on the global scale of vibrant film cultures. However, amidst these plethora of benefits, there are peculiar challenges that unless tackled, this development would not last. Consequently, this study concludes that, to sustain and maximize the gains of online movie streaming in Nollywood to deliver for the greater good, even in the long run, these loopholes in the system like issues bordering on content development, contractual agreements, cyber security, illegal downloaders etc. should be addressed. This study recommends the respective agencies of government and relevant industry stakeholders should leverage on this great advancement, and expedite action in tackling the issues that will truncate it.
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BOAKYE, Peter, and Kwame Osei KWARTENG. "Education for Nation Building: The Vision of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for University Education in the Early Stages of Self-Government and Independence in Ghana." Abibisem: Journal of African Culture and Civilization 7 (December 5, 2018): 1–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.47963/ajacc.v7i0.38.
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The Gold Coast was renamed Ghana by the political leadership on the attainment of Independence. But before 1957, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah had become Prime Minister of the Gold Coast in 1952, and by this arrangement ruled alongside the British Colonial Governor. Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah set out to rebuild the new nation, and by doing so, Education, especially University Education, became a significant tool for the realization of such an objective. He, and the Convention People’s Party (CPP) Government saw education as “the keystone of people’s life and happiness.’’1 Thus, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah wanted the University Colleges in the Gold Coast to train intellectuals capable of combining both theory and practice as well as use their energies to assist in the task of national reconstruction.2 This explains why Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah clearly spelt out the visions of University Education in Ghana. This paper, which is multi-sourced, uses archival documents, newspapers, interviews and scholarly secondary works such as articles, book chapters and books to examine the visions of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah for University Education in the early stages of self-government and independence in Ghana. The paper particularly focuses on measures adopted by the first Prime Minister of Ghana such as establishment of an International Commission on University Education (ICUE), making the existing University Colleges independent, the rationale for setting up the University College of Cape Coast (UCCC), the Africanization of the University staff, establishment of the Institute of African Studies and the formation of the National Council for Higher Education to transform the University Colleges to reflect the needs and aspirations of Ghanaians.
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1 H. O. A. McWilliam, & M. A. Kwamena-Poh, The Development of Education in Ghana. (London: Longman Group Ltd., 1975), 83.
2 Samuel Obeng, Selected Speeches of Kwame Nkrumah, Vol. 1 (Accra: Aframs Publication Ltd., 1997), 74.
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Daramola, Adeyemi. "A child of necessity." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 18, no. 3 (September 1, 2008): 355–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.18.3.01dar.
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Nigeria, which is variously described by some people as ‘a geographical expression’, ‘a unique nation’, ‘the giant of Africa’, ‘the most populous black nation on earth’, among several others, had three distinct governments in the year 1993 alone. Against this background of political instability, numerous discourses which should be of interest and significance to linguists, political scientists, historians, social anthropologists and discourse analysts of various persuasions are examined in this work. Notable is the emergence of the metaphorical use of the word child in the farewell speech of the deposed Head-of-State, Chief Ernest Oladeinde Shonekan, when he spoke of the interim regime as ‘a child of circumstance’ and in the inaugural speech of the then new Head-of-State, General Sani Abacha, as ‘a child of necessity’. These expressions were used not only as part of the reasons for either taking up or rather seizing the mantle of leadership but also as descriptive signals both to the state of the nation and the kind of government that they purported to lead. Using articles in some national newspapers, I attempt in this paper a functional-semiotic discourse analysis of the relevant statements, responses and comments on these national, dramatic, political changes. This paper is therefore an analysis of aspects of the linguistic features of discourses engendered by the diverse problematic, economic, socio-cultural and political events within the Nigerian polity and the political implications for putting in place adequate democratic principles in a developing nation.
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HASSAN, Korede Ibrahim, Jacob Olufemi FATILE, and Opeyemi Victoria HUNGA. "SINO-AFRICA AND TECHNOLOGICAL TRANSFER: IMPLICATION ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA." Journal of Public Administration, Finance and Law 31 (2024): 147–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.47743/jopafl-2024-31-12.
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Technology is critical to industrialization and economic development of any nation and it is one of the serious bottlenecks in African industrialisation. There is no doubt that technology transfer is one of the less studied subjects in China-Africa relations. Foreign direct investment is an important factor for both technology transfer and economic growth in developing countries like Nigeria. Technological advancement has also become a major challenge to industrialization in Nigeria and to improve her economy, the Nigerian government had made various efforts at acquiring foreign technology to drive the development processes. The Nigerian government had signed pact with the Chinese government in critical areas such as agriculture, manufacturing, military, industry, education and other social sectors through Technological Transfer (TT) and Technical Cooperation (TC) that will aid knowledge sharing and transfer for the purpose of improving the economy. In view of this, the study examines the implication the Sino-Africa and technological transfer on sustainable development in Nigeria. The study employed the interpretivism philosophy and the qualitative approach was adopted in data collection and analysis. Secondary data were sourced from the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics (UNCTS) Database, Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics, and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Statistics database, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) figures were from the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Database, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the United Nations Statistics Database (UNdata). Other sources were the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Database, International Financial Statistics (IFS) of the World Bank; publications of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other agencies of government as well as newspapers and journals. Also, key informant interviews were conducted with Chinese expatriates in Lagos and Ogun State, Nigeria. Data collected were analysed using content analysis method. Findings of the study reveals that there is no clear-cut policy statement on Sino-Africa technological transfer and knowledge sharing; thus, the Nigerian government cannot sufficiently absorb new technology from Chinese multi-national corporations as most of these corporations always come as agents of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) or contractors. The study concludes that adaptation and implementation of policy on technological transfer cannot promote sustainable development in Nigeria. The study recommends among others that knowledge and technology transfer should form the basis of a regulatory framework of the national FDI policy. Also, there is need for the establishment of training institutes in each State of the federation so as to facilitate technological transfer. In addition, there should be collaboration between the established training institutes and higher institutions of learning so that students can have practical knowledge on advanced equipment, methodologies and technologies that will engender sustainable development in Nigeria within a decade.
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Omoera, Osakue, and Jammy Guanah. "Interactive Nature of Social Media’s Comment Feature." Interactive Film & Media Journal 3, no. 1 (June 6, 2023): 8–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.32920/ifmj.v3i1.1692.
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Discussions through interactions between contending parties have been known to have minimised, if not completely resolved, many conflicts, and have nipped numerous others in the bud because people were able to express themselves for others to know their stands on issues. Likewise, new media technologies, ably hinged on the Internet, have further created avenues for more interactions among people in different media ecosystems. Given the variegated attributes of the Internet, most newspapers now have online versions which have provisions for readers to make comments at the end of each story or report. The comment feature of online newspapers and social media gives room for interaction among readers and users, hence, commenters are not only using it to comment on what they consume from the media, but they also use it to react and comment on the comments made by other commenters. This brings about a robust social interaction among the commenters, outside the medium that serves as the source of news or topic of discussion. In October 2020, youth in Nigeria embarked on a protest against police brutality tagged #EndSARS, SARS being the acronym for Special Anti-Robbery Squad of the Nigerian police. The youth mobilised themselves nationwide through social media and other Internet platforms to hold rallies and protests, with the major protest taking place at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos. It is within this context that this paper looked at the social interaction that took place among commenters who commented in Sahara Reporters, Premium Times, and the online version of The Punch newspaper on the #EndSARS issue. The objectives were to find out how many comments were made in the comment sections of these selected online newspapers as they relate to their reports on #EndSARS; to ascertain how many of the comments were socially interactive, and to determine the extent the comments proffered solutions to police brutality in Nigeria. Grounded in the Social Network Theory, the study utilised content analysis and direct observation methods to gather data for evaluation while coding sheets and coding guide were used as data collection instruments. Findings revealed that commenters were engaged in interactive discussions among themselves when expressing their opinions about the #EndSARS protests. It was also discovered that some of the comments proffered solutions to the issue of police brutality, and how it can be addressed. The paper concluded that the comment feature of social media is another unique avenue for citizens to voice out their opinions, and to reach out to, and engage the “high and mighty” in the society, either within or outside government, they might not be privileged to reach through other means. Based on the findings, it was recommended, among others, that those in government, particularly in developing countries such as Nigeria should pay critical attention to the comment sections of various social media to have an idea of what the populace feel about their polices based on the report about them that citizens read in the media.
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R., Samuel, and Ajibose K.A. "An Assessment of the Impacts of the Pension System Reforms on Employees’ Performance and Retention in Nigeria Distilleries Limited, Lagos Nigeria." British Journal of Management and Marketing Studies 4, no. 3 (September 9, 2021): 73–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.52589/bjmms-d9pmgxpy.
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Consequently, upon many decades of inefficient and corrupt pension management system in Nigeria, public servants in Nigeria dreaded retirement because of the reported plight of retirees who were seen dying on queues or living under the bridges at the Federal Capital City of Abuja. While an average worker in other parts of the world looks forward to a decent and enjoyable post-work life, Nigerians lived in fear of ageing and retirement resulting in several malpractices such as multiple declarations of age with intent to keep them at work far past the official retirement age. Factors arising from pension inadequacies, poor funding, embezzlements and long arrears especially in the public sector led to the initiatives for restructuring of the country’s pension system and the enactment of the Pension Reform Act of 2004 and its review Act of 2014. The reforms aimed at making pension administration more effective, efficient, to make and improve on the question of adequacy and fund security. However, key problems in the management of the new pension system involve the perception of the degree and significance of its impact and whether key objectives are satisfied according to the intent of the reforms. This study was designed to examine whether the reforms have contributed significantly to addressing employees' post-work-life concerns and how such assessments impact their performance. Specifically, the paper examines if a relationship exists between the new pension reform act and employee retention, as well as organizational performance using a sample of employees of Nigerian Distilleries Ltd. Three hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance, using the inferential statistics of Regression Analysis with the aid of Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 20). The findings show that there is a significant relationship between the New Pension Reform Act and employee’s performance. Also, the New Pension Reform Act has a positive effect on employee retention, compensation design must reflect this option in order to attract, motivate and retain employees. With further evidence that the pension system has the propensity to align the individual and corporate goals by increasing their job commitment, performance and motivation, the paper concludes that proper implementation of the provisions of the pension reform act is a prerequisite for achieving its objectives.
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Alawode, Sunday Olayinka, and Olufunke Oluseyi Adesanya. "Content Analysis Of 2015 Election Political Advertisments In Selected National Dailies Of Nigeria." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 5 (February 28, 2016): 234. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n5p234.
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The Nigerian Press in its 156 years of existence from the Reverend Henry Townsend days has been enmeshed in politics and is in fact insoluble from it like Siamese twins. From its debut in November 23rd 1859 with “Iwe Iroyin fun Awon Ara Egba ati Yoruba” (Newspaper for the Egbas and Yorubas) the press has taken centre stage in matters affecting all spheres of individual life and collective existence including religion, education, economy and politics among others. Thenewspaper was actually noted to have educated the growing publics about history and politics of the time. The growth in media has given room for political parties to reach larger groups of constituents, and tailor their adverts to reach new demographics. Unlike the campaigns of the past, advances in media have streamlined the process, giving candidates more optionsto reach even larger group of constituents with very little physical efforts. Political advertising is a form of campaign used by political parties to reach and influence voters. It can include several different mediums and span several months over the course of a political campaign and the main aim is to sway the audience one way or the other. Political advertisements involve the use of advertising campaigns by politicians to bring their messages to the masses or the electorates in order to explain policy, inform citizens and connect people to their leaders. It is a form of campaigning by political candidates to reach and influence voters through diverse media (including web based media). Politics on the other hand has to do with activities involved in getting and using power in public life, and being able to influence decisions that affect a country or a society. Thus political advertisement in the context of this study are strategically placed information deliberately informing the populace or making public activities or personalities as well as political parties and ideologies in order to get and use power by placing such information in the newspapers. The Punch, The Guardian, Vanguard and Daily Trust were purposively selected for the study investigating prominence of political advertisements featured before, during and after the elections; contents as the pictures, logos, texts, and languages majorly used in the political advertisements; and adversarial or the slants/directions of the March 28th Presidential and April 11th 2015 Assemblies Elections.Content categories include language, logo/icon/symbols, issue/personality/event/activity, visuals/pix, size, colour, political ideology among others. The study reveals that political adverts were prominent in the newspapers during the six-month period with the dominance of full page adverts, mostly inside-page adverts, aspirant-filled pictures, PDP-dominated and coloured adverts, largely favourable and friendly adverts with rational appeal going before testimony appeals. It further shows that Punch closely followed by Guardian had the highest adverts, while PDP and APC dominated the political landscape with low presence of adversarial contents. The study recommends more ethical monitoring of political adverts as well as the de-commodification of newspaper contents.
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Bhakti, Chandra, Azhari Aziz Samudra, and Agus Suradika. "Impact and resolution of land conflict cases on Rempang Island, Indonesia." Journal of Law and Sustainable Development 11, no. 12 (December 21, 2023): e2146. http://dx.doi.org/10.55908/sdgs.v11i12.2146.
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Objective: This research aims to uncover land conflicts on Rempang Island, Indonesia and provide solutions. People who claim to have had rights to their land since 1720 feel disturbed by plans to build Rempang Eco City, spearheaded by a national company in collaboration with Xinyi Glass Holdings Ltd, China, to manage 17,600 hectares of land. The riots on September 6 and 7, 2023, sparked major conflict when officers tried to break through residents' barricades using water cannons and tear gas. Theoretical framework: Regarding land acquisition for strategic projects, Downing (2002) advised the Government to be careful because every investment plan is generally designed to avoid structural poverty by avoiding new poverty by relocating communities due to mining and providing resettlement. Meanwhile, land owned by the state is very limited. Therefore, the best way for the Government is to buy land belonging to communities whose rights are controlled based on customary law and formal law, not by force. Johnson and Swedlow (2019) explain that land acquisition for National Strategic Projects requires the principle of deliberation between the government and land rights holders. To ensure the successful implementation of government policies, the concept of deliberation is essential and needs to involve many community groups. Williams (2021) states that designing deliberations is a challenge because society is guided by its culture's norms, values and rules. Mitchell et al. (2023) refer to deliberation as policy dialogue, a tool that encourages evidence-based policymaking that addresses high-priority issues a synthesis of the best available evidence. Land acquisition analysis should focus on deliberative dialogue and not on ethical issues in a policy context (Bevan & Rasmussen, 2017). Method: This research method uses a qualitative approach with a phenomenological study. The selection of informants was carried out using purposive sampling technique. We used an interview study supported by information from trusted online newspapers to obtain various information. The triangulation method is used to re-check the correctness of the data by reducing as much as possible bias during data collection and analysis. The research questions are why land conflicts occur, whether no regulations facilitate them, and how land conflicts should be resolved. The research results show weaknesses in communication and outreach, officials do not understand the history of community land ownership, and weak bureaucratic structures result in repressive actions. Results and Conclusions: The land conflict on Rempang Island exploded due to the Government's weakness in communicating and socializing the President's policies, demonstrated by regional government officials and other institution, which only carried out socialization in April 2023 but failed because they did not understand the history of community land control. The weak bureaucratic structure causes repressive actions, which are shown in the implementation of wrong government policies. This conflict has caused trauma to children and society, requiring various mental and psychological health efforts. The conclusion shows that conflicts occurred because the regulations for determining land in Rempang as a strategic state project were too hasty without socialization, and the law could not prevent land conflicts. This conflict has caused trauma to the community, especially children. Most informants want the government to be able to solve problems by implementing a dialogue (deliberation) policy as a solution. Research implications: This study presents policy implications that regional, provincial and national governments can utilize to encourage the successful resolution of land conflicts in any region. The consequences of this strategy can help develop more potent methods for enhancing regional cooperation. Originality/value: This research analyses paradigm changes in the land administration system, strengthening bureaucratic structures, collaboration between institutions, and increasing community understanding through socialization and public dialogue. These changes can affect land governance and reduce land conflicts that continued to occur after Indonesia's independence. This paradigm shift study is a new contribution because it can provide a deeper understanding of the evolution of land governance and law in Indonesia.
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JPT staff, _. "E&P Notes (April 2022)." Journal of Petroleum Technology 74, no. 04 (April 1, 2022): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2118/0422-0019-jpt.
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Eni Starts Area 1 Production off Mexico via MODEC FPSO MODEC said first oil has flowed through FPSO MIAMTE MV34 operating in the Offshore Area 1 block in the Bay of Campeche off Mexico. The contractor was appointed by Eni Mexico for the supply, charter, and operation of the FPSO in the Eni-operated Offshore Area 1 block in 2018. The charter contract will run for an initial 15 years, with options for extension every year thereafter up to 5 additional years. Moored in a water depth of approximately 32 m some 10 km off Mexico’s coast, the FPSO is capable of handling 90,000 B/D of oil, 75 MMcf/D of gas, and 120,000 B/D of water injection with a storage capacity of 700,000 bbl of oil. The FPSO boasts a disconnectable tower yoke mooring system, a first-of-its-kind design in the industry. The system was developed to moor the FPSO in shallow water, while also allowing the unit to disconnect its mooring and depart the area to avoid winter storms and hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico. The mooring system was developed by MODEC subsidiary SOFEC Inc. The mooring jacket was fabricated in Altamira, Mexico. Eni Starts Production from Ndungu EP Development Italy’s Eni has started production from the Ndungu Early Production (EP) development in Block 15/06 of the Angolan deep offshore, via the Ngoma FPSO. With an expected production rate in the range of 20,000 B/D, the project will sustain the plateau of the Ngoma, a 100,000-B/D, zero-discharge, and zero-process-flaring FPSO, upgraded in 2021 to minimize emissions. A further exploration and delineation campaign will be performed in Q2 2022 to assess the full potential of the overall assets of Ndungu. Ndungu EP is the third startup achieved by Eni Angola in Block 15/06 in the past 7 months, after Cuica Early Production and the Cabaca North Development Project. Block 15/06 is operated by Eni Angola with a 36.84% share. Sonangol Pesquisa e Produção (36.84%) and SSI Fifteen Ltd. (26.32%) comprise the rest of the joint venture. Aramco Discovers Natural Gas in Four Regions Saudi Aramco has discovered natural gas fields in four regions of the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, citing Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman. The fields were found in the Empty Quarter desert located in the central area of the kingdom, near its northern border and in the eastern region, he said, according to SPA. Saudi Arabia wants to increase gas production and boost the share of natural gas in its energy mix to meet growing electricity consumption and to make more crude available for export. The minister said an unspecified number of fields were discovered and he mentioned five by name: Shadoon, in the central region; Shehab and Shurfa, in the Empty Quarter in the southeastern region; Umm Khansar, near the northern border with Iraq; and Samna in the eastern region. Two of the gas fields, Samna and Umm Khansar, were said to be “nonconventional” and possibly shale finds. Lukoil Completes Area 4 Deal in Mexico Russian producer Lukoil has completed a deal to become a lead stakeholder in an Area 4 shallow-water asset adjacent to Tabasco and Campeche in Mexico. Under the deal, Lukoil has acquired a 50% stake in the asset from US independent Fieldwood Energy, which filed for US bankruptcy protection in August 2020, for $685 million. The original deal was priced at $435 million; the additional $250 million is related to expenditures Fieldwood incurred since 1 January 2021. Fieldwood committed to invest $477 million to increase oil production from the Ichalkil and Pokoch fields from the current level of 25,000 B/D to a plateau level of 115,000 B/D. Situated in water depths between 35 and 45 m, the fields’ recoverable hydrocarbon reserves amount to 564 million BOE, more than 80% of which is crude oil. Production started in Q4 2021; current average oil production has exceeded 25,000 B/D. The approved work program includes drilling three development wells (two on Ichalkil and one on Pokoch), upgrading three production platforms, and performing seismic reprocessing and petrophysical studies. The remaining 50% stake in Area 4 is held by operator PetroBal, a subsidiary of Mexico’s GrupoBal. Petrobras Sells Polo Norte Capixaba Field Cluster In line with its strategy to concentrate resources on deepwater and ultradeepwater assets, Brazil’s Petrobras has sold 100% of its interest in Norte Capixaba cluster to Seacrest Exploração e Produção de Petróleo Ltda for $544 million, including a $66-million contingent payment. The cluster comprises four producing fields—Cancã, Fazenda Alegre, Fazenda São Rafael, and Fazenda Santa Luzia—and produced 6,470 BOE/D in 2021. The deal also includes the Norte Capixaba Terminal (TNC) and all production facilities. NewMed Targets Morocco Market Entry Israel-based NewMed Energy, formerly Delek Drilling, has identified Morocco as “a country with enormous geological and commercial potential,” in particular the Moroccan coastal areas in the Mediterranean and North Atlantic. The announcement comes a day after the Moroccan Minister of Industry and Trade, Ryad Mezzour, and his Israeli counterpart, Orna Barbivai, signed an MOU aimed at promoting investments and exchanges between the two countries in the digital design, food, automotive, aviation, textile, water technologies and renewable energies, medical equipment, and the pharmaceutical industries. In September 2021, the Israeli oil and gas exploration company obtained from the Moroccan ministry the exploration and study rights of the Dakhla Atlantic Block, which has an area of about 109000 km2. ExxonMobil Sells Nigerian Assets to Seplat ExxonMobil has agreed to sell its shallow-water assets in Nigeria to Seplat Energy for $1.28 billion plus a contingent consideration of $300 million. Seplat said it is acquiring a 40% operating stake in four oil leases to nearly triple its annual net production to 146,000 BOE/D. The deal also includes the Qua Iboe export terminal and a 51% interest in the Bonny River Terminal and natural gas liquids recovery plants at EAP and Oso. It does not include any of ExxonMobil’s deepwater fields in Nigeria. TotalEnergies Discovers Large Oil Field off Namibia TotalEnergies has made a significant discovery of light oil with associated gas on the Venus prospect, located in block 2913B in the Orange Basin, offshore southern Namibia. The Venus 1-X well encountered approximately 84 m of net oil pay in a good-quality Lower Cretaceous reservoir. The find’s potential reserves are estimated at 2 billion bbl of oil. “This discovery offshore Namibia and the very promising initial results prove the potential of this play in the Orange Basin, on which TotalEnergies owns an important position both in Namibia and South Africa,” said Kevin McLachlan, senior vice president exploration at TotalEnergies. “A comprehensive coring and logging program has been completed. This will enable the preparation of appraisal operations designed to assess the commerciality of this discovery.” Block 2913B covers approximately 8215 km2 in deep offshore Namibia. TotalEnergies is the operator with a 40% working interest, alongside QatarEnergy (30%), Impact Oil and Gas (20%), and NAMCOR (10%). CNPC Scoops Ishpingo Drilling Contract The first drilling contract at the Ishpingo oil field near Ecuador’s Yasuni National Park has been awarded to China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC), Energy Minister Juan Carlos Bermeo told Reuters. Following the approval of a new hydrocarbon law and legislation, Ecuador plans to move forward with auctions and competitive processes for securing foreign and domestic capital for oil and gas exploration, production, transportation, and refining projects. The first drilling campaign to start after an environmental license was granted for the sensitive area will involve 40 wells over the next 18 months. It will focus on the field’s allowed zone without touching an area protected by a court ruling that has prevented extending drilling. Ishpingo is the latest part of the ITT-43 oil field in Ecuador’s Amazonia region to start drilling after Tambococha and Tiputini. It is expected to produce heavy oil to be added to the nation’s output of flagship Napo crude, Bermeo said. BP Brings Hershel Expansion Project On Line in US GOM BP has successfully started production from the Herschel Expansion project in the Gulf of Mexico—the first of four major projects scheduled to be delivered globally in 2022. Phase 1 comprises development of a new subsea production system and the first of up to three wells tied to the Na Kika platform in the Mississippi Canyon area. At its peak, this first well is expected to increase platform annual gross production by an estimated 10,600 BOE/D. The BP-operated well was drilled to a depth of approximately 19,000 ft and is located southeast of the Na Kika platform, approximately 140 miles off the coast of New Orleans. The project provides infrastructure for future well tie-in opportunities. BP and Shell each hold a 50% working interest in the development. Petrobras Kicks off Gulf of Mexico Asset Sales Petrobras has begun an asset sale program in the Gulf of Mexico, in line with the company’s strategy of debt reduction and pivot toward Brazilian deepwater production. The package for sale includes the company’s 20% stake in MP Gulf of Mexico (MPGoM) which holds ownership stakes in 15 fields in partnership with Murphy Oil. In addition to partnership-operated fields, MPGoM owns nonoperated interests in Occidental’s Lucius, Kosmos’ Kodiak, Shell’s Habanero, and Chevron’s St. Malo fields. During the first half of 2021, Petrobras’ share of production was 11,300 BOE/D. ExxonMobil Liza Phase 2 Underway off Guyana ExxonMobil started production of Liza Phase 2, Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block; total production capacity is now more than 340,000 B/D in the 7 years since the country’s first discovery. Production at the Liza Unity FPSO is expected to reach its target of 220,000 bbl of oil later this year. The Stabroek Block’s recoverable resource base is estimated at more than 10 billion BOE. The current resource has the potential to support up to 10 projects. ExxonMobil anticipates that four FPSOs with a capacity of more than 800,000 B/D will be in operation on the block by year-end 2025. Payara, the third project in the block, is expected to produce approximately 220,000 BOPD using the Prosperity FPSO vessel, currently under construction. The field development plan and application for environmental authorization for the Yellowtail project, the fourth project in the block, have been submitted for government and regulatory approvals. The Liza Unity arrived in Guyana in October 2021. It is moored in water depth of about 1650 m and will store around 2 million bbl of crude. ExxonMobil affiliate Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd. is the operator and holds 45% interest. Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd. holds 30% interest and CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Ltd. holds 25%. Dragon Finds Oil in Gulf of Suez UAE’s Dragon Oil has discovered oil in the Gulf of Suez, according to a statement from the Egyptian Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources. The field contains potential reserves of around 100 million bbl inside the northeastern region of Ramadan. That estimate makes it one of the largest oil finds in the region over the past 2 decades. Development plans were not reported but reserve numbers could expand, the ministry said. The oil field is the first discovery by Dragon Oil since it acquired 100% of BP’s Gulf of Suez Petroleum assets in 2019. Dragon Oil, wholly owned by Emirates National Oil Co., holds 100% interest in East Zeit Bay off the southern Gulf of Suez region. The 93-km2 block lies in shallow waters of 10 to 40 m.
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The Constitution of Kenya specifically recognizes the freedom of association to form and belong to trade unions. However, despite the adoption of the Labour Relations Act, union practice is still hampered by excessive restrictions. The EPZ companies are labor intensive requiring a large amount of labor to produce its goods or service and thus, the welfare of the employees play a key role in their functions. This study sought to determine the effect of trade union practices on employees’ welfare at export processing zones industries in Athi River, Kenya. The specific objectives sought to determine the effect of collective bargaining agreements, industrial action, dispute resolution and trade union representation on employees’ welfare at export processing zones industries in Athi River, Kenya. The study employed a descriptive research design. Primary data was collected by means of a structured questionnaire. The target population of the study was employees in EPZ companies in Athi River, Kenya with large employees enrolled in active trade unions. The unit of observation was the employees in the trade unions. The findings indicated that collective bargaining agreements had a positive and significant coefficient with employees’ welfare at the EPZ industries. Industrial action had a positive but non-significant effect with employees’ welfare at Export Processing Zones industries. Dispute resolution had a positive and significant coefficient with employees’ welfare at the EPZ industries. Trade union representation had a positive and significant coefficient with employees’ welfare at the EPZ industries. The study recommended that trade union should avoid the path of confrontation but continue dialogue through the collective bargaining process and demands should be realistic in nature with what is obtainable in the related industry. An existence of a formal two way communication between management and trade unions will ensure that right message is properly understood and on time too. Keywords: Collective Bargaining Agreements, Industrial Action, Dispute Resolution, Trade Union Representation, Employees Welfare & Export Processing Zones
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Deuber, Dagmar, Stephanie Hackert, Eva Canan Hänsel, Alexander Laube, Mahyar Hejrani, and Catherine Laliberté. "The Norm Orientation of English in the Caribbean." American Speech, March 24, 2021, 1–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00031283-8791736.
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This study examines newspaper writing from ten Caribbean countries as a window on the norm orientation of English in the region. English in the former British colonies of the Caribbean has been assumed to be especially prone to postcolonial linguistic Americanization, on account of not just recent global phenomena such as mass tourism and media exposure but also long-standing personal and sociocultural links. We present a quantitative investigation of variable features comparing our Caribbean results not just to American and British reference corpora but also to newspaper collections from India and Nigeria as representatives of non-Caribbean New Englishes. The amount of American features employed varies by type of feature and country. In all Caribbean corpora, they are more prevalent in the lexicon than in spelling. With regard to grammar, an orientation toward a singular norm cannot be deduced from the data. While Caribbean journalists do partake in worldwide American-led changes such as colloquialization, as evident in the occurrence of contractions or the tendency to prefer that over which, the frequencies with which they do so align neither with American English nor with British English but often resemble those found in the Indian and Nigerian corpora. Contemporary Caribbean newspaper writing, thus, neither follows traditional British norms, nor is it characterized by massive linguistic Americanization; rather, there appears to be a certain conservatism common to New Englishes generally. We discuss these results in light of new considerations on normativity in English in the 21st century.
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Chidimma, I. Ejepu. "Online Newspapers and the Comment Sections: Perception and Use." Asian Research Journal of Arts & Social Sciences, August 6, 2021, 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/arjass/2021/v15i130247.
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Development in online communication within the last decade which coincided with the advent of web2.0 technologies has enabled user generated content online. This development saw the evolve of print newspapers to it online version. The comment platform is the space attached beneath an online newspaper where readers register their views on the news content. This place of deliberation which serves to gauge public opinion on the affairs of the nation can be muddled with users view of the content of new stories, the news media and its comment section. Research has shown that readers of online newspapers use the comment section for various purposes. This work focused on online Nigerian newspaper and its readers, Thus, it examined users’ perception of Nigerian news sites and its online comment section as well as investigating the various uses of the comment section by Nigerian online media users. It hinged on the Uses and Gratification theory. Online survey method was adopted to distribute five hundred copies of online questionnaires with a return rate of 406 copies. Data was collected and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The findings revealed that most readers of Nigerian news sites perceive news content as biased and that affiliation of news site to a particular zone affects readers view of the news stories. In addition, it discovered that the comment section of online Nigerian news site is used mostly for sharing ideas
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Umukoro, Ese Steven, and Joyce Ogho Ogwezi. "Newspaper framing of the second wave of COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria." International journal of health sciences, June 26, 2022, 5318–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.53730/ijhs.v6ns5.9772.
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Since the corona virus disease broke out in Wuhan, Hubei Province in China in 2019, the world has known no peace in terms of global health. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a new lifestyle of wearing facemask called the ‘new normal’. The media particularly newspapers have been fighting this global pandemic through different reports such as straight news, features, opinions and cartoons among others. However, newspapers seem not to be doing enough in this war in their editorials. The above dictated this study which examined how Nigerian newspapers framed the second wave of COVID-19 in their editorials. Using qualitative research method, the study analysed contents of the published editorials of selected newspapers on the second wave of COVID-19 in Nigeria. Data analysed were presented in simple statistics while hypotheses raised were tested using Chi-square Statistical Technique. The study found that Vanguard and Punch newspapers (the selected newspapers) published very few editorials (poor frequency) on the second phase of the pandemic in Nigeria despite the deadly effects of the disease. The study also revealed 13 types of frames (content categories of frame) in the editorials published on the second upsurge of the pandemic in Nigeria by the selected newspapers.