MULTIMODALDISCOURSEANALYSISOFSELECTEDPOLITICALCARTOONSINNIGERIANNEWSPAPERS  

2019-08-14
Overthe pastfew decades,communication has becomemultimodalbecauseamessagethatis;multimodalismoreconvincingthanamessagethatismonomodalinnature.Infact,viewerawarenessandunderstandingincreasewhenthereisafusionofmorethanonesemioticresource,becauseeachofthesemioticresourcesplaysitsownroleindevelopingatextormessage.ThestudyaimsatanalysinglinguisticandnonlinguisticsemioticresourcesofselectedpoliticalcartoonsintwoNigeriannewspapersinordertoinvestigatehowtheywereusedtoprojectsocio-politicalissues.Fourteen(14)politicalcartoonsthatdepictedvariouspoliticalactivitiesduringthe2019generalelectioninNigeriawereanalysedusingKressandvanLeeuweenvisualsocialsemioticapproachtomodalityastheoreticalframework.Resultsoftheanalysisrevealedthatthelinguisticsemioticresourcewhichisthetextualcomponentofthecartoonhelpsincomplementingthemeaningsofthenonlinguisticsemioticresources.Itwasalsoobservedthatthelinguisticsemioticresourcesprovidethereaderwiththesurface(semantic)meaningwhereasthenonlinguisticresourcesprovidetheviewerwiththehidden(pragmatic)meaningofwhatthecartoonistintendstopassacrosstothetargetaudience.Thestudyconcludesthatvisualimagesarelinguistictoolsthatcanbeusedforinterpretationandunderstandingofsensitiveissuesmostespeciallywhenstrongandpowerfulpoliticalissuesarediscussed. Keywords:Multimodal,Politicalcartoon,Semioticresources,Nationaldailies

IMPACT OF RISK MANAGEMENT ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS IN NIGERIA  

2019-08-14
Financial management crisis around the world has proven that risk management practices are indispensable for organizations that aim at sustaining customer and shareholder patronage. The bank’s motivation for risk management ...

IMPACT OF CREDIT RISK INDICATORS ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF DEPOSIT MONEY BANKS’ IN NIGERIA  

2019-08-14
Banks today are the largest financial institutions around the world, with activities that influences everyday human life. Deposit money banks, notwithstanding their importance, are facing risks in the course of ...

EFFECT OF INTERNAL CONTROL SYSTEM ON ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC SECTOR IN KWARA STATE, NIGERIA  

2019-08-21
Non compliance with internal control practices have been a major concern for organisations in developing countries. Organisational effectiveness is affected by inefficiency of employees in their operational activities. As a ...

EFFECT OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE OF LISTED INSURANCE COMPANIES IN NIGERIA  

2019-08-21
The persistent increase in reported cases of frauds and other accounting scandals around the world has heightened the debate on the effectiveness of corporate governance mechanisms at safeguarding the shareholders’ ...

EFFECT OF OUTSOURCING ON THE PERFORMANCE OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES IN KWARA STATE  

2019-08-30
Business functions have increasingly become complex in the face of globalization and rapid competition. Thoroughly examining the motivations, expectations, and justifications for outsourcing critical operations functionality enables organizations to make ...

PREVALENCE AND ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY PATTERNS OF ASYMPTOMATIC BACTERIURIA IN HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS IN ILORIN, KWARA STATE, NIGERIA  

2019-09-05
This study investigated the prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of bacterial isolates of urinary tract infections among HIV-positive patients. A cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 randomly selected HIV-positive patients ...

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GENESIS CREATION STORY AND YORÙBÁ MYTH OF CREATION  

2019-09-05
Creation was made by God with His potent power in Genesis creation story and this idea was also inherent in African settings especially amidst the Yorùbá people. The divergent of ...

TAXATION POLICY FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERFOMANCE OF SMALL SCALE ENTERPRISES IN NIGER STATE, NIGERIA.  

2019-09-09
This study was carried out to investigate the taxation policy factors associated with the performance of small scale enterprises in Niger state, Nigeria. In order to achieve this, four specific ...

BIOREMEDIATION OF SPENT ENGINE OIL IN SOME SELECTED CONTAMINATED SOILS  

2019-09-10
The aim of this research is to investigate bioremediation of spent engine oil on some selected contaminated soils. Soil samples were collected from five (5) mechanic workshops along Taiwo-Oke within ...