A HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIGANCI AND DIGAWA RELIGIOUS GROUP IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: In the history of Islam, doctrinal disagreements that resulted in the formation of sects were unavoidable, as the Prophet Mohammed is said to have predicted (S.A.W). 1Also, the notion of regeneration (Tajdeed) is based on another Propheti...
View DetailsAN INVESTIGATION ON TEACHERS AND STUDENTS PERCEPTION OF FACTORS AFFECTING STUDENTS PERFORMANCE IN GEOGRAPHY EXAMINATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The term ‘‘examination’’ or ‘‘test’ has been defined as an instrument or systematic procedure for measuring a sample of a person’s behaviour with a view to evaluating that behaviour against standards i....
View DetailsASSESSMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL INFLUENCES ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF SOCIAL STUDIES STUDENTS
Background to the Study: Education is the most important component of human resources development and is accorded a pride of place in many countries‟ developmental activities. There is no doubt that the importance of education cannot be underscored because there...
View DetailsASSESSMENT OF GOVERNMENT’S COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY IN NIGERIA’S INTERNAL SECURITY (2009 – 2013)
Background to the study: Since the return to democratic rule in 1999, Nigeria has witnessed series of ethno- religious and resource-based violence that have taken terror dimension and threatened its internal security. Terrorism, either international or domes...
View DetailsASSESSMENT OF TEACHING AND LEANING OF I.R.S AND THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF ICT IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL AYEDAADE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, OSUN STATE
Background to the Study: Information and communication technology (ICT) is gaining importance in today's society, dubbed the information age, since it is considered to facilitate and accelerate our entrance into an information-based environment. In addition,...
View DetailsCOMBATING CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF THE ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION (EFCC)
INTRODUCTION: Nigeria became an independent nation on the 1st of October 1960. A country richly endowed with monumental geographical and diverse natural resources ranging from crude oil to gas (natural), coal al, et. Nigeria possesses potential market ability for rapid econo...
View DetailsEFFECT OF CASHLESS POLICY ON SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS IN NIGERIA
Background of the study: There have been a consistent agreement in the body of extant literatures (Daasi, 2012; Nelson & nelson, 2010; Gboski, Joshua & Stephen, 2007) that small and medium scale enterprises have the tendency to improve the economy of any nation through jo...
View DetailsA HISTORY OF MUSLIM CHRISTIAN ACTIVITIES
ABSTRACT: This work examines the History of Muslims-Christian activities among the Igala people of Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State, from 1979 to 1992. The work examines the activities of Christians and Muslims. It also shows the relationship between all the religions th...
View DetailsEDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR CURBING FEMALE TRAFFICKING: A CASE STUDY OF EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
Background Of The Study: What a world we live in a male framed world where global economics sets in a concrete a system of winners and losers with poverty disadvantages, and minimal choice for many as the consequences.
The climate is ripe for men&r...
View DetailsECONOMIC IMPLICATION OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT: Nigeria has a long history of religious conflicts, some of the most virulent being those of the ‘Maitatsine’ (1980s) and ‘Boko Haram’ (July 2009). The latter matched the former in intensity, organization, and spread. Given t...
View DetailsEDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR CURBING FEMALE TRAFFICKING: A CASE STUDY OF EGOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
Background Of The Study: What a world we live in a male framed world where global economics sets in a concrete a system of winners and losers with poverty disadvantages, and minimal choice for many as the consequences.
The climate is ripe for men&r...
View DetailsTHE SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENTS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOL
Background to the study: Social problems are issues happenings which are frequently occurring in the society in recent times. They are the issues that affect everybody in the society. The issues are of great concern to both the young and adults. They are not pers...
View DetailsTHE THREATS TO SUSTAINABLE PEACE IN NIGERIA; THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The political uncertainty, conflicts and turbulence in Nigeria poses serious concerns for the citizens and noncitizens in the region. However, “Nigeria remains handicapped by political malpractice, deep economic contradictions, social inequalit...
View DetailsTHE CHURCH'S INVOLVEMENT IN THE CHALLENGES TO LASTING PEACE IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The political instability, strife, and unpredictability in Nigeria present significant apprehensions for both local inhabitants and foreigners in the vicinity. Nevertheless, Nigeria continues to be beset by political sabotage, profound economic incon...
View DetailsUNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL AND GLOBAL CRISIS MANAGEMENT: A CASE STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES INVASION OF IRAQ, 1991-2008
CHAPTER ONE
1.1 INTRODUCTION
Evaluation of the Iraq conflict cannot be finished until the roles performed by two key actors—the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and the United States of America (USA)—have been de-mythified (C...
View DetailsTHE POLITICIZATION OF RELIGION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE NIGERIA FEDERALISM
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION: Before Nigeria became independent on October 1, I960, the nation went through a long period of colonial administration. This, what is today known as Nigeria wa...
View DetailsTHE RELEVANCE OF AFRICA TRADITIONAL RELIGION IN THIS MODERN AGE: SCHOLARS PERSPECTIVES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: African traditional religion refers to the indigenous or autochthonous religion of the African people. It deals with their co...
View DetailsTHE RELEVANCE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A STUDY OF SELECTED MILITARY OPERATIONS IN KADUNA STATE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Since the beginnings of the mid 1900s, the scientific field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) went through periods of intense d...
View DetailsTHE MENACE OF FULANI HERDSMEN BANDITRY ATTACKS ON NIGERIAN CHURCHES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study: From the dawn of the 21st century with a terrible acceleration in recent years, there has been a continued increase in verifi...
View DetailsTHE CAUSES AND EFFECT OF DIARRHEA AMONG CHILDREN IN BENIN CITY
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Diarrhea is recognized as a major cause of child morbidity and mortality in developing countries (Banda et al., 2007; Gorter et al., 1998; Kosek, Bern, & Guerrant, 2003). View Details
THE CONCERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: The terrorist attacks that took place in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, District of Columbia on September 11, 2001 were acts of war against the i...
View DetailsTHE EFFECT OF BOKO HARAM ON MUSLIM CHRISTIAN RELATIONSHIP: A STUDY OF MADAGALI LGA IN ADAMAWA STATE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Religiosity is an indispensable aspect of humans. It is one of the most active factors and impulse in the component and chara...
View DetailsTHE EFFECT OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION ON ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY IN VERITAS UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: Creating a work environment and atmosphere that helps to satisfy the aspirations, needs and interests of employees and stimul...
View DetailsAN EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION ON ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: Establishing a conducive work environment and atmosphere that caters to the aspirations, needs, and interests of employees, w...
View DetailsASSESSING ALTERNATIVE SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR PUBLIC LIBRARIES
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Library is a learning institution equipped with treasures of knowledge, maintained, organized and managed by trained pe...
View DetailsCIVIL MILITARY RELATIONS AND LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT IN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF FOURTH REPUBLIC NIGERIAN SENATE.
CHAPTER ONE
Introduction : Eric Hoffer once noted that, “there are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith; a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, bias for simple solutions – to cut the knot r...
View DetailsTERRORISM AND IT'S IMPLICATIONS ON GLOBAL SECURITY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (A CASE STUDY OF NIGERIA)
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
Terrorism poses a significant global security challenge, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Numerous militant and terrorist organisations have emerged, transforming the continent into a...
View DetailsTHE REPRESENTATIONS OF IGBO MONARCHY IN NOLLYWOOD FILMS OVER THE TWO DECADES OF 1996 TO 2015
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
In our consumption-oriented and mediated society, much of what comes to pass as important is based often on the stories produced and disseminated by media institutions. Much of what au...
View DetailsFatherhood and Fatherland in Chimamanda Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus"
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION: SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Purple Hibiscus, by third-generation Nigerian novelist Chimamanda Adichie, is (at its most basic level) a coming-of-age tale. Fifteen-year-old Kambili and Jaja, her older brother, must face political unrest, uncaring...
View DetailsIN SEARCH OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE: ORGANIZATIONAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES CONFRONTING WOMEN IN BANKING AND MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRMS IN SOUTHWEST NIGERIA
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
In this study, I explore the challenges that hinder married women’s access to work-life balance as they juggle between family and work roles. The research shows that long working hours, competitive workplace, and unstable economy in Nigeria prevent...
View DetailsANALYSIS OF STUDENTS’ ACHIEVEMENT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES USING DIFFERENT TEACHING METHODS IN SELECTED SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN KANO METROPOLIS, KANO STATE, NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
Pretest, posttest quasi-experimental method was used in the study "Analysis of Students’ Achievement in Islamic Studies using Different Teaching Methods in Selected Public Secondary Schools in Kano Metropolis, Kano State, Nigeria."One control gr...
View DetailsTHE IMPACT OF BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN NIGERIA (STUDY BORNO STATE)
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The safety of lives and property has been a major source of concern for Human right from time immemorial, the search for security forms part of the reasons why ―people aggregated into bands, tribes, kingdoms, and nation-states to join internation...
View DetailsKNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION OF DIVORCE AMONG CHRISTIAN FAITHFUL IN IKWO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA EBONYI STATE NIGERIA
Background of the study
Divorce is one of the core vices that have posed a lot of challenges to human kind in different dimensions. This is true in that, the problem of divorce is not just to Christians alone but people from all works of life. According...
View DetailsA COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON THE CONCEPT OF FREEDOM OF RELIGION UNDER THE SHARI‘AH AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
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This study analyzes the compatibility of Shariah with International Law on freedom of religion. As a subject of colossal complexity and variation, detailed examination is restricted to the highly contentious issues of the right to change religion (otherwise termed apostasy in I...
View DetailsA COMPARATIVE STUDY OF WIFES RIGHT TO MAINTENANCE IN ISLAMIC AND STATUTORY LAWS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF ZARIA AND SABON-GARI COMMUNITIES OF KADUNA STATE.
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Majority of men in the society are ignorant of the wife’s right of maintenance in Islamic and statutory laws. HoweverIslam has provided the wife with the right to maintenance as enshrined in the holy Quran and statutory law respectively. But certain factors are militating...
View DetailsA CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF ARTIFICIAL HUMAN REPRODUCTION: AN ISLAMIC LAW PERSPECTIVE
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Reproductive rights attained recognition at the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) with the proclamation that reproductive rights embraces “the right to attain the highest standard of sexual and reproductive health and the right to ma...
View DetailsA CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF THE CONCEPT OF IJBAR ON THE PRACTICE OF CHILD MARRIAGE UNDER ISLAMIC LAW
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This study critically analyzes the impact of the concept of ijbar on the practice of child marriage under Islamic law. While child marriage is widely criticized by the feminists on ...
View DetailsA CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE MEANS OF PROOF IN CIVIL LITIGATION UNDER ISLAMIC LAW
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This dissertation entitled "A Critical Analysis of the Means of Proof in Civil Litigation under Islamic law "primarily examined the principles of Islamic Law applicable to means of proof. In this regard, the essential means of proof have been highlighted, i.e., Shahad...
View DetailsAN ANALYSIS OF ISLAMIC CIVIL PROCEDURE IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
As a result of interactions between individuals, it is normal for dispute to arise. Islamic Law had provided the procedures through which such dispute can be judicially determined. Nigerian Courts are enjoined to apply procedural Rules enunciated by Makili Scho...
View DetailsAN ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF ABROGATION (NASKH) IN ISLAMIC LAW
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Abrogation is generally aimed at bringing about what will be of general good to mankind. In abrogation, an existing legal ruling is replaced with another better or similar ruling. However, there have been efforts by some modernists such as Abdullahi Saeed to reinterpret some te...
View DetailsAN ANALYSIS OF THE COVERAGE OF BLASPHEMOUS INCIDENTS IN DAILY TRUST AND THE PUNCH NEWSPAPERS
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Conflicts precipitated by religious discords or under such pretext, have resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and destruction of property worth billions of dollar in Nigeria, brewing mutual suspicion among its heterogeneous citizens, shipwrecking, ultimately, their cor...
View DetailsAN ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF TESTIMONY AS A MEANS OF PROOF IN NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
It is natural and common in human society to have between individuals a kind of dispute that may probably arise. Islamic Law had laid down and provides the procedures through which such dispute can be judicially determined. Nigerian Courts are enjoined to apply principles and R...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF LEGAL PLURARISM IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN NIGERIA
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It is trite beyound any equivocation that the Nigerian society is made up of people with diverse cultures, behaviours and ways of life. When the British came as colonial masters, they understood this and before they departed in October 1960, they devised ways of accommodating t...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF THE APPLICATION OF THE PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF ZINA IN NIGERIA
1.0General Introduction
Since the beginning of history, Zina has always been seen as an evil. There is complete unanimity of views among all social systems namely Roman, Indian, Greek, Jewish, Egyptian that the act is religiously sinful, morally wicked, socially evil. Social systems aro...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF THE CONCEPT OF ANIMALS PROTECTION AND ITS APPLICATION UNDER STATUTORY AND ISLAMIC LAWS IN NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF SOKOTO AND ZAMFARA STATES
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Generally, human beings relate and deal with animals in many instances. However, in the course of dealing or relating with animals, human beings take undue advantage of animals thereby subjecting them to abuses, and needles exploitations Thus, cruelty and maltreatment of animal...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF THE DOCTRINE OF HAUZI IN ISLAMIC LAW
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Hauzi is deemed as a principle that gives title to a holder of property for long period enjoying its benefit in his capacity as the owner. It is among the lawful means of acquiring ownership of property recognised by Islamic law. This research work An Appraisal of the doctrine...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPAC T OF GENDER EQUALIT Y ON WOME N’ S RIGHT TO WORK OUTSID E MATRI M ONI AL HOME IN ISLAM IC LAW
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This study entitled: “An Appraisal of the Impact of Gender Equality on Women’s Rights to Work in Islamic Law” has examined the Islamic perspective on gender equality and it is argued that Islamic law has elevated women and gives them a very dignified position,...
View DetailsAN APPRAISAL OF THE PRINCIPLES OF GIFT (HIBAH) IN ISLAMIC LAW AND ITS APPLICATION IN KADUNA, KANO AND KEBBI STATES
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Gift is a concept which every individual is engaged in willingly or unwillingly, either as a donor or recipient which has become part of the daily transactions of the society. The nature of gift has been conceived by scholars from different perspective creating divergence of op...
View DetailsAN ASSESSMENT OF TALAQ AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN ISLAMIC LAW: KANO STATE AS A CASE STUDY
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The right of divorce (talaq) is vested in the husband by Islamic law to terminate a marriage that fails to achieve its objectives, in order to protect the couples from the possible evil that may result from the failure of marriage. However, in the case of this research, the fin...
View DetailsAN ASSESSMENT OF THE OBJECTIVES OF ISLAMIC LAW (MAQASID AL-SHARI’AH) IN THE PRESERVATION OF THE FIVE ESSENTIAL VALUES (NECESSITIES) (MAQASID AL-SHARI’AH)
ABSTRACT
It is undisputable fact that nowadays, the Muslim world in particular has realized the dire need to write, translate and produce many books and articles on the topic of maqasid due to its importance in addressing and solving modern issues challenging the Muslim Ummah. It is in...
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