1. ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICTS IN NIGERIA; ISSUES, CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS
Background of the study
Ethnic consciousness is the loyalty or attachment to an ethnic group either as a social, political and economic entity, or a cultural community. Whichever way we look at it, ethnic consciousness is based on the distinctiveness of...
2. EFFECT OF RATIONAL EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR THERAPY ON THE LEVEL OF GENERAL AND EXAMINATION ANXIETIES AMONG STUDENTS
ABSTRACT
This study will critically analyze published research on the effectiveness of Rational Emotive Education (REE), the educational derivative of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), with students. It will look at the history of societal views of childre...
3. POST RETIREMENT LIFESTYLE OF SOME NIGERIANS AND THE COUNSELLING IMPLICATIONS
Abstract
post - retirement is a very important stage in human development. post - retirement is inevitable in the lives of workers, whether in private or public sector. All workers must retire one time or the other in their lives. It is however unfortunate t...
4. EFFECTS OF RATIONAL-EMOTIVE BEHAVIOUR AND SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION THERAPIES ON SS1 STUDENTS’ TEST ANXIETY IN GOVERNMENT SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL, TOWNSHIP, JOS-NIGERIA
ABSTRACT
The study examined the effects of Rational-Emotive Behaviour and Systematic Desensitization therapies on SS1 Students‟ test anxiety in Government Senior Secondary School, Township, Jos. This was motivated by the increasing incidence of mass failure of students in West African E...
5. A Comparative Analysis of Rhetorical Devices in Selected Political Speeches of Nelson Mandela and Nnamdi Kanu
Background to the Study
Language is a set of signs and symbols used to pass messages across to people. Language, verbal and non-verbal, is a means of communication. In fact, the primary purpose of language is communication. Human beings express their thoughts, feelings and ideas through...
6. Lexicogrammatical Analysis of News Reporting of 2015 General Elections in some Nigerian Newspapers
Abstract
This study investigates the news reporting of 2015 General Elections in some Nigerian newspapers using the lexico-grammatical analysis paradigm of SFG. The print media is one of the major channels of information dissemination with a peculiar language use. The problem lies on th...
7. A LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF METAPHORS IN THE POETRY OF NIYI OSUNDARE
ABSTRACT
Poetic discourse has always been considered an important aspect of discursive practices that presents a scholarly approach to creative uses of language. Poetic discourse is considered to be comprehensively language-dependent; it relies mainly on the rhetorical and pragmatic con...
