INTRODUCTION Nigeria is a multi-ethnic nation with various cultural groups that are about three hundred in number. In 1947‚ Nigeria was not yet a nation. Nigeria now has been a multi-national society‚ one of the sociological problems of building Nigeria as a nation is multi-ethnicity with its concomitants such as multilingualism and completive ethnicity. There were varieties of lines which existed between the various states and people which were the predecessors of modern Nigeria. But on the other
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Definitions of Language Many definitions have been given to language by language scholars. Alo (1995) cites some of these definitions‚ which we reproduce below: “Language is the primary and most highly elaborated form of human symbolic activity…made up of symbols made by sounds produced by the vocal apparatus….” (A. A Hill) “Language is any set of system of linguistic symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with
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TITLE PAGE MULTILINGUALISM IN NIGERIA: A BLESSING OR A CURSE? PREFACE Multilingualism is an issue that has become a subject of discussion in a variety of language related disciplines. Some researchers discuss multilingualism as a sociolinguistic concept through which issues of language contact and the status of the mother tongue can be interrogated. Others see multilingualism as a political matter‚ that is‚ an issue which requires solutions to language problems from the policy makers who are
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directed towards me is “where do you prefer living: Nigeria or America?” Unfortunately‚ I cannot really answer that question because both places are completely different in my eyes. I have come to the realization that I am torn between two places I dearly love. Nigeria‚ my homeland‚ was my first love and where I spent majority of my childhood. America‚ the land of great opportunities‚ was where I cultivated most of the beliefs I brought from Nigeria. Although both countries share my common love for
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distinguished itself as a leading institution and a major contributor to the economic advancement in Nigeria. Guaranty Trust Bank Plc with its headquarter at Victoria Island‚ Lagos as at December 2011 had an operating income of N141.729 billion‚ net income of N52.654 billion‚ total asset of N1‚525.010 billion and a total equity of N235.911 billion and it had more than two thousand‚five hundred employees in Nigeria. Its subsidiaries include Guaranty Trust Assurance Plc‚ GTB Registrars Ltd‚ GT Homes Ltd‚ GTB
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The Beginning of British Imperialism in Nigeria Adam Coleman History 210: World History October 19‚ 2011 The novel Things Fall Apart‚ by Chinua Achebe‚ depicts the Igbo culture of Nigeria in the 1890’s‚ as well as the beginning of the British colonization of these people. Achebe describes the Igbo culture in fairly great detail in the novel‚ including different portions of the society and many of the laws and beliefs of the culture. The spread of Christianity brought by British missionaries
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Throes of Floods‚ in: The Guardian‚ Thursday‚ October 8‚ pp: 9. Durotoye‚ B.‚ 1999. Human Occupation of Hazard Areas in Nigeria‚ in: Oshuntokun‚ A. (ed.) Environmental Problems of Nigeria. Lagos: Friedrich Ebert Foundation. Edward-Adebiyi‚ R.‚ 1997. The Story of Ogunpa‚ in: The Guardian‚ Saturday‚ May 17‚ pp: 5. Folorunsho‚ R. and L. Awosika‚ 2001. Flood Mitigation in Lagos‚ Nigeria Through Wise Management of Solid Waste: a case of Ikoyi and Victoria Islands; Nigerian‚ Paper presented at the UNESCO-CSI
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RURAL POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN Nigeria In addressing this topic; Rural Poverty Alleviation‚ it is necessary to define each of the words in this phrase. Efforts will therefore be made to clearly describe/define the following words; Rural‚ Poverty‚ and Alleviation. WHAT IS RURAL? To define what is rural is daunting task‚ because the word rural is an inexact term that can mean different thing to different people. For example‚ what is considered rural in a place like United States of America and United
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ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN NIGERIA By SAHEED AKINMAYỌWA LAWAL Department of Sociology University of Ibadan Nigeria. Tel+234(0)8058536815 Email: akinmayowalawal@yahoo.co.uk Paper Presented at the First African Entrepreneurship Seminar‚ organised by School of Entrepreneurship and Business‚ University of Essex‚ U.K‚ Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria‚ University of Abuja‚ and Bayero University‚ Kano. Held at Conference Room (Anambra)‚ Transcorp Hilton‚ Abuja‚ NIGERIA. 31st March-2nd
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systems of Nigeria‚ with particular focus on the lack of responsive and appropriate supervision in the educational sub-sector. The reform efforts in education have not been yielding appropriate result because many of them are mere political rhetoric without necessary supervision and follow up actions. Nigeria therefore need to re-arrange her priorities and values by providing adequate funding and supervision for a healthy teaching/learning process in educational institutions in Nigeria so as to be
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