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The Use of Modern Communication Technologies in "Oko Aga"
No full textSocial events and situations are not static as modern communication technologies continue to witness rapid changes, which afford users better and optimal utilities. Literary writers being part of the society express their views on societal events and situations through the use of modern communication technologies in their works. This paper analyses the use of modern communication technologies in Oko Aga, a novel by Temitọpẹ Olumuyiwa. The study adopts sociological theory of literature and binary theory of complementarity for the analysis. Findings show that, given their quick access to news and information, there are various positive and negative uses of modern communication technologies, most especially the Global System for Mobile Telecommunication (GSM) and computer, by literary writers. The study recommends that the use of modern communication technologies should be increased in the fight against crime and criminality by law enforcement agents in their bid to secure and ensure socio-economic development of the society
Morphological Implications of Urban Growth on The Insularity of Urbanized Islands; The Island of Lagos as Case Study
No full textCoastal areas and Islands are always the worst hit by the prevailing global urbanization and urban growth phenomena. Understanding the Spatio-temporal pattern of expansion of urbanized islands has become very pertinent to salvage the insularity and diversity of resources therein. The goal of this study is to evaluate the spatial change in the morphology of the island of Lagos over 165 years (1850 to 2015) period and its implication on island development. Descriptive analyses of demographic census data, documented and oral historical materials and remotely-sensed spatial data were undertaken. The results indicate that the rate of population growth is proportional to land expansion despite limited spatiality. There has been a steady increase in population over the century and a complementary expansion in space both laterally and vertically. While the land area increased from 13.64km2 in 1962 (just after independence) by 49.85% to 20.44km2 in 2015 through reclamation of adjourning wetlands, the population inhabiting the island shot up astronomically from 235,052 in 1962 to 1,423,961 in 2015 representing a 505% rise. The urban expansion pattern on the island between 1984 and 2015 revealed an increase in built-up area from 5.63km2 to 12.95km2 and a reduction in vegetal cover from 7.33km2 to 0.83km2 respectively, with associated impacts. This seeming unabated unsustainable growth and expansion portend grave environmental implications especially for island stability as well as climate change, thereby justifying the need for a holistic coastal zone and island management framework, to provide a guide for development on the urbanized island sustainably
PERCEIVED INFLUENCE OF LEARNING RESOURCES AVAILABILITY AND UTILIZATION ON SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT’S PERFORMANCE IN BIOLOGY IN ILORIN METROPOLIS
No full textThe study investigated the perceived influence of learning resources availability and utilization on senior secondary school students’ performance in Biology in Ilorin metropolis. Three research questions were formulated to guide the study. The study is a descriptive design of the cross-sectional survey that was carried out on all Senior Secondary Schools two (SSSII) students between the ages of 14 and 18 years in the public and private Secondary schools in Ilorin Metropolis, Kwara State. A total of 150 students were purposively selected for the study. The research instrument “Availability and Utilization of Learning Resources on Student Performance Questionnaire (AULRSPQ)” was used to collect necessary data. The data collected was analyzed by using Percentage. The findings revealed that secondary schools are not adequately furnished with required learning resources and hence, unused by science students and the non-availability of learning resources hindered effective learning of Biology in secondary Schools thereby giving rise to poor academic performance. It was recommended among others that government should ensure that learning resources like textbooks, libraries, and laboratories are adequate in all categories of secondary schools
ASSESSMENT OF PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES OF TEACHERS’ SENSE OF EFFICACY BELIEFS BY PRE-SERVICE HOME ECONOMICS TEACHERS IN SOUTH-WEST, NIGERIA
No full textThe purpose of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of teacher sense of efficacy scale by pre-service home economics teachers in the southwest, Nigeria. Data in this study were collected from a total number of 531 pre-service home economics teachers enrolled in secondary teacher education programmes in Nigeria using the Teacher Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES). Results showed that pre-service home economics teachers had a low sense of teaching efficacy beliefs. Also, analyses revealed that the TSES is a multidimensional construct with three interpretable factor structures: efficacy for classroom management, efficacy for students' engagement, and efficacy for instructional strategies. More so, the TSES showed adequate and high internal consistency reliability even at the sub-scale level. Based on these findings, it was recommended that more investigation should be conducted to confirm the higher-order factor structure of the TSES and to evaluate the stability of the three factors across different samples in vocational education contexts in Nigeria. 
A New Historicist Reading of Francis Imbuga’s "Betrayal in the City" and Tewfik Al-Hakim’s "Fate of a Cockroach"
No full textVarious literary theories have been employed in the analyses of several African dramatic texts in previous studies on African drama. However, few of them have adopted New Historicism as theoretical framework despite the manifest presence of several tenets of New Historicism in many African dramatic texts. This paper is a New Historicist reading of two acclaimed African dramatic texts, Francis Imbuga’s Betrayal in the City and Tewfik Al-Hakim’s Fate of a Cockroach. Foucault’s discourse theory and Stephen Greenblatt’s subversion-containment dialectic are adopted as analytical models for the study. The paper examines the power relations and power struggles among the characters in the selected texts, the subversive incidents and characters in the plays, and how the subversions are contained in the texts. The study highlights the prevalence of power struggles in every stratum of the African society and argues that New Historicism theory deserves a greater application on the analyses of African literary texts, especially African dramatic texts than presently obtains
Negation as a Peculiar Grammatical Feature of Yorùbá Incantations
No full textThe use of incantation (ọfọ̀) is very popular in Yorùbá culture. It is considered to be an essential ingredient in the practice of Yorùbá traditional medicine as its use is believed to have magical powers that can be employed to solve human problems. Grammatically, Yorùbá incantations are transformationally derived sentences. This paper examines the grammatical transformations used in the derivation of Yoruba incantations. It sourced data from three selected Yorùbá incantation books - Àyájọ́ Ìjìnlẹ̀ Ohùn Ifẹ̀ (Fabunmi, 1972), Ìjìnlẹ̀ Ọfọ̀, Ògèdè àti Àásán (Rájí, 1991), and Ewì Àwíṣẹ Atóyèbí (2012) – and employs the Principles and Parameters approach Government- Binding theory to analyse them. Findings show that negation is the most prominent grammatical feature used in the derivation of Yorùbá incantations. The negation marker kì í has the most frequent occurrence while kọ́ rarely occurs in the incantations
Making Meaning in Lamentation: A Cultural Appreciation of Death in Ìgbálá, an Ẹ̀gbá Funeral Lore
No full textDeath is a universal phenomenon that signifies the expiration of life in any form and at any stage. For the Yoruba and indeed the È̩gbá people as captured in this study, death is a transcendental occurrence which aggregates communal, social and philosophical aspects of its meaning. However, this cultural knowledge is found to be increasingly diminishing over different generations thus creating concerns for cultural preservation. This paper highlights and examines the idea of death in È̩gbáland as portrayed in the traditional Ìgbálá funeral lore and dirges. The paper employs a philosophical approach as entrenched in hermeneutic phenomenology. It engages textual extrapolations underlying the literary and semiotic appreciation of death as an existential occurrence relatable at both universal and specific contexts of culture. As part of its findings, the paper offers a revisionist perspective for understanding and appreciating death for its culture-specific imports which implicate biological, folkloric, spiritual, existential and philosophical aspects of the human existence. It concludes that new understanding and appreciation of Ìgbálá funeral tradition reposition the folk practice and offers new grounds for its preservation and cultural sustainability
ONLINE INSTRUCTION: PANACEA TO INSECURITY IN NIGERIAN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
No full textEducational institutions in Nigeria are striving to convert their face-to-face sessions to virtual ones as tertiary schools across the country migrate from onsite to online instruction in a bid to decrease the impact of insecurity and the evolving coronavirus pandemic. The need for online education is currently on the rise. Academic institutions that do not provide this choice risk losing potential students to other schools that use innovative educational methodologies, particularly at this era of uncertainty. As a result of this shift, universities are scrambling to find new ways to give lectures online or virtually. Many instructors and teachers are now pondering how to provide pupils with a positive learning experience. It is critical to comprehend measures that will prepare academic institutions to handle the challenges posed by this transformation. In this era of danger, developing high-quality online programs that are tailored to the needs of Nigerians while also keeping students off the highways and campuses that have become hideouts for kidnappers, herders, gunmen, and terrorists is critical. The purpose of this article is to examine the various ways in which insecurity impacts schools, how it can harm students and the entire society, and how Nigerian education can shift from the classroom to the internet to address insecurity
Knowledge, attitude and perception of artificial intelligence and its application in the key operations of insurance in Nigeria
No full textAs the influence and use of artificial intelligence grows and its transformative potential in financial services becomes more apparent, many questions have been raised regarding its application in the key operations of insurance companies. The Nigerian insurance industry opinion like others as well plays an important role in these discussions, influencing its adoption and commercial development. This research work was aimed at examining how knowledgeable the Nigerian insurance industry is, their attitude and perception towards artificial intelligence, as well as to investigate if the application of artificial intelligence will have a significant improvement on insurance claims provision, marketing of insurance services, customer service delivery and insurance underwriting within the industry. A questionnaire adapted from a previous study was used for the eliciting of information from respondents. The population of the study consisted of all the insurance companies in the Nigerian insurance industry, and a total of 60 employees were purposely selected from the 60 companies for the study. Inferential and descriptive statistics were also adopted to present the data collected and chi-square was used to test the formulated hypothesis. The study shows that the insurance companies in the Nigerian insurance industry are knowledgeable on the issue of artificial intelligence, have a positive attitude towards artificial intelligence, and also perceive artificial intelligence positively as an innovation that stands to improve the key operations of insurance companies. The study further concluded that the application of artificial intelligence has a significant improvement on the marketing, underwriting, claims, and service delivery of insurance companies within the Nigerian insurance industry
Impact of Auditor Industry Specialization on the Audit Quality of Listed Non-financial Firms in Nigeria
No full textAudit quality improvement depends on several factors documented in the literature. Auditors are able to attract patronage if clients perceive their services to produce quality outcomes. Auditors therefore garner experience and acumen in the activities of specific clients’ industries in order to attract the largest market share and improve their portfolio of clients in certain industries as a result, they attain the status of ‘specialization’ in the audit of such industries.. In spite of this ‘specialization’, indices of dwindling audit quality continues to surface in the corporate entities occasioned by untimely takeovers and abrupt mergers. Therefore, this study examines the nexus between audit industry specialization and audit quality in the listed non-financial firms in Nigeria Data were drawn from financial reports of 40 listed firms in Nigeria covering periods between 2005 and 2019 and the total observation stood at 517. Data analysis was carried out with the use of longitudinal econometric models. Evidence from the study support the rejection of the null hypothesis (t=-1.72, p<0.10 & t=-1.74, p<0.10) for the two models thereby supporting the proposition that audit quality improved significantly improved as a result of audit industry specialization. It specifically isolates the oil and gas as well as service industries for significant improvement in audit quality as a result of industry specialization of auditors while pointing to the possibility of improving the agricultural and consumer service industries due to their negative but insignificant coefficients. The study recommends that regulatory authorities should disaggregate regulatory functions among industries to be able to better understand the interplay of audit industry specialization and thus make policies that inform better audit quality