A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF OUT-DOOR PLAY ENVIRONMENT IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC PRE-SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA
Background to the Study
Children's play has always been a natural phenomenon. Children who are healthy and not disabled (physically challenged), according to Aziza (2000), cannot live without playing in their natural environments. In some cultures,...
View DetailsTHE EFFECTIVE USE OF MULTIMEDIA IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: "Multimedia" is currently the buzzword in educational technology. Multimedia here refers to combining different electronic media, commonly computers and videodiscs, in teaching materials. This new generation is using digital media for learn...
View DetailsTHE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF FM RADIO TRANSMITTER
ABSTRACT: An FM transmitter is an electronic device which, with the aid of an antenna, produces radio waves. The transmitter itself generates a radio frequency alternating current, which is applied to the antenna. When excited by this alternating current, the antenna radiate...
View DetailsA PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF SLANG AND CATCHY PHRASES USED IN SOME SELECTED NIGERIAN HIP-HOP SONGS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION: Language is a major and an indispensable tool in human existence. No wonder Microsoft Encarta (2009) defines it as “the principal means used by human beings to communicate with one another”. Language is primarily spoken, although it can be transf...
View DetailsA CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPACT OF WESTERN MEDIA ON THE FASHION PREFERENCES OF NIGERIAN YOUNG WOMEN
ABSTRACT: This study was carried out to examine the influence of western media on the fashion choices of Nigerian women using female students of Legacy University, Okija as case study. Specifically, the study aimed at showing how the contents...
View DetailsAN INVESTIGATION INTO PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF WOMEN OBJECTIFICATION IN NIGERIAN MUSIC VIDEOS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The value of connectivity can not be overemphasized. Communication has from the onset been a central and crucial aspect of human life. Without communicating, humans can not exist since communication is the only way by which concepts and i...
View DetailsAN INVESTIGATION INTO THE LEVEL OF AWARENESS AMONG TERTIARY STUDENTS REGARDING THE PRESENCE OF THE 18+ WARNING SIGN ON ALCOHOL ADVERTISEMENTS
Background: The impact of advertising on the consumption of alcoholic beverages, particularly among young people, has been recognised as a significant contributing factor (Alcohol Concern, 2013). By employing various advertising execution techniques, including but not limited to...
View DetailsAPPLICATION OF AUDIO VISUAL AIDS IN TEACHING ACCOUNTING IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
INTRODUTION: Teaching and learning activities are interesting when instructional materials are used effectively and efficiently in a classroom-teaching situation. It is necessary for the teacher in the learning of Accounting in Nigeria to use visual aid material...
View DetailsEARLY CHILDHOOD CARE EDUCATION: EVALUATION ADHERENCE OF PROVIDERS TO THE NATIONAL MINIMUM STANDARDS ON EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Background of the Study: People and nations are what they are because of the nature and types of education they have been exposed to. Education is a process of developing knowledge ability in learners in such a way that they use it to improve their ...
View DetailsATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF UNDERGRADUATES TOWARDS FILM ADVERTISEMENT
Background of the study: Film is indeed an important art and craft of mankind. It is also based on the projection of all still images in a continuous manner and at high speed in a way that seem moving images. The film medium is based on creative expression....
View DetailsATTITUDES OF TECHNICAL AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION STUDENTS TOWARDS STUDENTS’ INDUSTRIAL WORK EXPERIENCE SCHEME (SIWES) (A case study of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State)
Background to the Study: Attitude as a concept is concerned with individuals’ way of thinking, acting, and behaving. Attitudes are formed as a result of some kind of learning experiences. Attitude is fundamental to understanding social perception of people...
View DetailsCOMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE PERFORMANCES OF GOVERNMENT OWNED AND PRIVATELY OWNED MEDIA ORGANIZATION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: The role of the broadcasters and the broadcast media...
View DetailsDESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A METRE BRIDGE
BACKGROUND HISTORY OF WHEATSTONE BRIDGE: The study of electricity is an important aspect of physics because electricity plays a key role in the modern world. The working of most modern appliances such as radio, television, computers and calculators, refrige...
View DetailsEXAMINING THE EFFECTIVENESS AND CHALLENGES OF CBN CASHLESS POLICY ON RURAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Background of the study: The financial system of any economy is responsible for mobilizing savings for productive investments and ensuring efficient resource allocation. Banks have traditionally played an active role in this regard. A large volume of literatures such as those of...
View DetailsTHE INFLUENCE OF OMO DETERGENT TELEVISION COMMERCIALS ON CONSUMER’S PATRONAGE OF THE PRODUCT (A CASE STUDY OF WARRI METROPOLIS)
Abstract: The study investigated the influence of Omo Detergent Television Commercials On Consumer’s Patronage Of The Product In Warri Metropolis, to which three (3) major questions serve as a guide. The question includes, Is Omo detergent television commer...
View DetailsTHE ROLE OF THE RADIO IN PROPAGATING CULTURE IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Culture entails the way of life of people culture is the total way of life of a people, culture can also be defined as the identity through which a particular set of people are identified.
Every society, no matter how...
View DetailsAN ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECT AND CAUSES OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR AMONG STUDENTS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: In the past decades due to the side of schools regards compulsory education, child labour laws, deviant behaviour have been problem to the school which they have always found difficult to handle. Deviance is found every where people live here is no a...
View DetailsTHE IMPACT OF NTA ENUGU IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF COAL CAMP COMMUNITY OF ENUGU SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF ENUGU
Background of the Study: NTA Enugu is the focus of this study and it comprises television. The sophistication of these media of communication distinguished it as wonders to communication. NTA is an institution used for simultaneous transmission of informatio...
View DetailsTHE ROLE OF MASS MEDIA IN SOCIALIZING CHILDREN (A CASE STUDY OF EDO STATE)
ABSTRACT: Journalists willing to advocate for children and young people face the challenge of counterbalancing negative images or 'deionization' (Franklin and Horwath 1996) of children and, particularly, of adolescents, in print, television and film. Starkly contrasting w...
View DetailsTHE ROLE OF RADIO AND TELEVISION IN RURAL DEVELOPMENT
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: This work is designed to study how rural dwellers utilize radio in comparison with television message to effect social change. Other communication channels, like the inter personal communication, traditional communication or what Frank Ugboajab calle...
View DetailsTHE TELEVISION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SENSITIZATION OF THE PUBLIC ON THE PREVENTIVE MEASURES AGAINST THE CORONA VIRUS IN NIGERIA
Background of the Study: In the event that a country experiences an outbreak of disease, it is the responsibility of the government, through the Ministry of Health, to rise to the challenges by allocating a significant amount of money and establishing facilities...
View DetailsTRENDS OF ICT (AUDIO-VISUALS) IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Background to the study: The era of the teacher being a reservoir of knowledge is past. The world is moving at a jet speed as a result of advancement in technology. More, importantly, technology entails information and communication which can be defined as the ha...
View DetailsTHE PERCEIVED EFFECT OF FEMALE PROSTITUTIONS: A CASE STUDY OF OREDO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF EDO STATE
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Sometimes called “the world’s oldest profession”, pr...
View DetailsTHE INFLUENCE OF OMO DETERGENT TELEVISION COMMERCIALS ON CONSUMER’S PATRONAGE OF THE PRODUCT. (A CASE STUDY OF WARRI METROPOLIS)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY: Advertising is said to be paid, non-personal communication from an identified sponsor using the mass media to persuade or inf...
View DetailsTHE INFLUENCE OF SMART PHONES AND SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: The emergence of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and internet facilities have drastically affected almost every facet of human life. Currently, it is greatly evi...
View DetailsTHE INFLUENCE OF TELEVISION EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMMES ON VIEWERS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION: “Communication is at the heart of all social intercourse” – Amadou M’BOW (1980:8). Television Communication has now grown to a planetary scope “Television is widel...
View DetailsTHE IMPACT OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES ON PUPILS ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES OF PRIMARY SCHOOLS
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Education, according to Qureshi, (2001) consists of two components. He classified these two components. He classified th...
View DetailsTHE IMPACT OF INTRODUCTION OF GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATION (GSM) ON THE NIGERIA ECONOMY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study: It a crystal clear that without communication, there would be no society. Communication gives room for peaceful co-existence...
View DetailsTHE EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON MUSIC ARTISTS, MUSIC CONSUMPTION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE NIGERIAN MUSIC INDUSTRY
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF STUDY: The activities of social media have increased overtime with the advancement in the level of technology in Nigeria and its effect...
View DetailsEFFECTS OF ONLINE ADVERTISEMENT ON CONSUMER BUYING BEHAVIOURS A CASE STUDY OF KONGA ONLINE SHOP (WWW.KONGA.COM)
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background to the Study: Advertisement plays an important role in modern era as it shapes the attitudes and perceptions of individuals and society which strikingly influences their buying behaviour (Edwards, 2005). Advertisement is considered the prime...
View DetailsTHE STUDY OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE NAIJA HIP-HOP MUSIC ON THE GENERAL WELL-BEING OF THE NIGERIAN YOUTHS
INTRODUCTION: Music is a common phenomenon that is found among the different cultures of the world and its importance and values cannot be over emphasised. Music is an age long art that has impacted greatly on humanity in so many ways beyond what words could describe. Experiences...
View DetailsINFLUENCE OF PARENTAL DISCIPLINE ON EMOTIONAL ADJUSTMENT OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN OGBIA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Discipline has been defined as a set of rules and regulations...
View DetailsASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF NOLLYWOOD MOVIES ON CULTURAL IDENTITY AMONG NIGERIAN YOUTH. A STUDY OF STUDENTS OF NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY KEFFI
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study: Throughout the course of history, various worldviews have consistently discerned the moral inclinations of individuals across...
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 DetailsAN INVESTIGATION INTO THE HISTORICAL GROWTH OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN NIGERIA
BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Wikipedia (2015) defines artificial intelligence as the intelligence shown by robots or software. AI stands for "artificial intelligence." It is also the name of an academic subfield within the subject of computer scien...
View DetailsDESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATED DIGITAL LIBRARY SYSTEM
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Digital Library System (DLS) extends and integrate approaches adopted in traditional libraries as well as in distributed information systems, to yield high-end information systems, services and institutions. Here...
View DetailsDESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF 20WATTS WIRELESS PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM
ABSTRACT
It has become inevitable that there would be communication and due to the inherent limitation of the human voice, the public address system came to being. A public address or “P.A SYSTEM” is an electronic amplification system with a mixer
,amplifier and lo...
View DetailsDESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF TETRIS GAME
ABSTRACT
Tetris is a very popular game that has served as an inspiration for many puzzle-style, tile- matching video games we have. It is a classic. The fan base is growing every year because there are many variations of the game each with its own adjustments and different ways of gamep...
View DetailsEVOLUTION OF REPRESENTATIONS OF IGBO MONARCHY IN NOLLYWOOD MOVIES (1996-2015)
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 audiences know and care about is based on the images, symbols, and narratives in radio, tele...
View DetailsTHE PERCEPTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS RADIO ABUJA LISTENERS ON PIDGIN ENGLISH BROADCASTING
1.0 Introduction
This chapter contains the background to the study and a statement of the problem which describes in clear terms the gaps which this study seeks to fill. This chapter highlights the objectives of the study, research questions, research hypotheses, signif...
View DetailsTHE PERCEPTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS RADIO ABUJA LISTENERS ON PIDGIN ENGLISH BROADCASTING (A CASE STUDY OF LUGBE RESIDENTS)
1.0 Introduction
This chapter contains the background to the study and a statement of the problem which describes in clear terms the gaps which this study seeks to fill. This chapter highlights the objectives of the stu...
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