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Old Words, New Meanings: A Survey of Semantic Change Amongst Yoruba-English Bilingual Undergraduates
Full text linkLanguage functions best when it serves the communicative intent of its users, even if such isachieved by adding, removing or modifying the existing meanings of words. This developmentand change of the semantic structure of a word usually brings about qualitative and quantitativedevelopment of the vocabulary. The focus of this paper is to review semantic change that hasoccurred with some Yoruba words, its types and the motivations of such especially amongstundergraduates using Blank Andreas’s principles and motive for semantic change as theoreticalframework.The tool used for the study is a self-constructed questionnaire administered to YorubaEnglish Bilingual and a corpus of words that have undergone semantic change frequently usedby them. The findings reveals that using words that have undergone meaning change is afrequent occurrence amongst Yoruba-English Bilingual undergraduates, a habit motivated bylinguistic, psychological, sociocultural and cultural/encyclopedic forces. Also, it was foundthat the principles similarity, contiguity and contrast. as highlighted by Blank underlie all thetypes of semantic changes identifie
DRESS CODE COMPLIANCE AMONG UNDERGRADUATES IN THE FACULTY OF LAW, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE IFE
Full text linkThis study is meant to investigate the extent at which the undergraduatesin the faculty of Law Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) comply with theuniversity approved dress code. It is meant to investigate the position of theschool authority in ensuring that the dress code is adhered unto by thestudents in the legal training. A total of 200 students that were randomlyselected across the class levels in the Faculty of Law, Obafemi AwolowoUniversity constituted the sample for the study. A self designed questionnaire entitled “Law Students and Dress (LSDC)” was used to collect datafor the study. The two hypotheses raised and tested using t-test statisticswere accepted in their null form. Findings from the study indicated thatboth the male and female Law undergraduates manifested the same attitude to dress code. Also revealed by the study was that the law studentswere not different in their compliance levels despite the differences in theclass levels. It was finally recommended that the university management,particularly the authorities of the Faculty of Law should emphasise more onthe necessity to comply by introducing some “hard to bear consequences”. 
Climate Risks and Livelihoods Adaptation in the SubAfrica: A Review
Full text linkClimate change impacts all human systems including livelihoods of allregions of the world. The livelihoods activities of the sub-Sahara Africa inparticular are already affected because of the fact that the region is highlydependent on natural resources, most of which are climate sensitive. Thispaper reviews attributes of livelihoods impacts of climate risks and provideshighlights of adaptation strategies and monitoring tools that are availablewithin the region
Good Governance and Local Government Administration for Development: Multiple Perspectives
Full text linkThis paper examines the relationship between good governance and local governmentadministration. It begins with a review of the concepts of the good governance, local governmentadministration their importance for development at the local government level. It argues thatboth good governance and local government administration need to coexist if any meaningfuldevelopment is to take place at local level. The paper further identifies some problems thathinder good governance at the local level and suggests ways of solving them. 
Editing Pictures and other Illustrative Materials in the Art of Book Publishing
Full text linkThe art of book publishing beings with a manuscript – getting it and shaping it towardspublication. In a bid to publicize and spread among people the words, pictures and other formsof illustrative materials the imaginative and mind (authors, photographers, illustrators, etc.)have produced, editors and publishers as it were, open and close the ‘gate’ that standsbetween the information source (authors, photographers, illustrators, etc) and the receiver(reader). Both words and pictures are ‘set in order’ before publication. Pictures and otherillustrative materials must bear captions, stating what the pictures cannot say for themselves.This paper stresses the fact that editing as gate keeping process is not restricted to acceptingand rejecting of manuscripts for publication. It is the process of building a nexus between textand image (pictures and other forms of illustrative materials) during its transformation fromthe authors manuscript to the printer’s plate
Post-exercise Cardiovascular Status of Pupils in Ibadan
Full text linkAbstractThis paper comparatively examines the cardiovascular status measured in terms of heartrate, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure of primary school pupils in Ibadanafter going through a 12-week progressive resistance exercise training.A total of one hundred and twenty (120) volunteered pupils were drawn purposively from four(two public and two private) primary schools in Ibadan. The randomized classic experimentalresearch design with one experimental and one control group was employed in the study.Systematic random sampling technique was used to allocate sixty (60) participants to eachof the two groups, namely: the progressive resistance exercise (PRE) and the control groups.The PRE trainings adhered strictly to the American College of Sports Medicine guidelines onquality and quantity of exercise trainings. The control group did not partake in any organisedtraining during the period. However, the pupils were not restricted from their normal dailyactivities. The cardiovascular variables measured were subjected to frequency counts,percentages, normative table scores, mean and standard deviation for analysis and discussions.Results show that the average age of the pupils was 9 years 8 months, 68 (56.7%) of theparticipants were male while 52 (43.3%) were female; the post-training mean height of theparticipants in the PRE group is 1.36±0.09m while that of weight is 29.52± 5.82kg. It alsoreveals that post-exercise HR (81.86bpm within 80-120bpm) of the participants were at thenormal level and their average post-exercise blood pressure (98.94/61.87mmHg) werenormal within 100-120/60-75mmHg.