MOLECULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA) ISOLATED FROM BLOOD SAMPLES OF PATIENTS ATTENDING SELECTED HOSPITALS IN ILORIN, NIGERIA  

2021-11-19
Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a major pathogen responsible for many hospital- and community-acquired infections worldwide with bacteraemia being a major and serious outcome caused by this pathogen. Staphylococcus aureus ...

MOTIVATIONAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH BUSINESS SUBJECT TEACHERS’ JOB SATISFACTION IN PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN OYO STATE, NIGERIA  

2020-05-27
The study determined the motivational factors associated with business subject teachers’ job satisfaction in public secondary schools in Oyo State. The study employed descriptive survey. The population of the study ...

MUHAMMED JAMIU YAQUB_17-27-PAR017_ARABIC LANGUAGE-Phd.pdf  

2021-07-15
د ة ّ بلاغي من أساليب الكلام الساحرة، يزرع في أرضه الخصبة Nرزة، وأسلوNً به من الأفكار المعجبة والخيالات المدهشة والانفعالات الصادقة، ّ الكاتب أو الشاعر ما يحس المكان والزمان، ...

MULTI-LEVEL TEXT CRYPTOGRAPHY USING ADVANCED ENCRYPTION STANDARD AND RESIDUE NUMBER SYSTEM WITH DIFFIE-HELLMAN AS EXCHANGE KEY  

2021-05-19
Information security is one of the vital concerns especially in this present era with an extensive rise in the usage of the internet. Important information such as bank details, private ...

A MULTILEVEL DATA ENCRYPTION STANDARD CRYPTOSYSTEM WITH RESIDUE NUMBER SYSTEM  

2022-06-07
Data security is very crucial in maintaining the confidentiality of information that contains sensitive data which should only be known by certain parties. Every society needs secured data to maintain ...

A MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED 2019 POLITICAL CAMPAIGN POSTERS IN KWARA STATE  

2021-05-13
Political campaign posters have become one of the major means of creating awareness of the candidates to the electorates. Multimodal discourse is an approach that combines various methods of analysis ...

A MULTIMODAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF SELECTED CHURCH SIGNBOARDS IN ILORIN, NIGERIA  

2021-05-03
Communication in the modern world has assumed a new dimension as the over-reliance on verbal/written expression of the past is being jettisoned for multimodal communication. Multimodality draws on a wide ...

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

MULTINATIONALS’ DOMINANCE AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF INDIGENOUS FIRMS IN THE UPSTREAM SECTOR OF THE NIGERIAN PETROLEUM INDUSTRY  

2019-07-23
This study examined the effect of multinationals’ dominance on operational performance of indigenous firms in the upstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry. The Nigerian economy is heavily reliant on ...

MULTINATIONALS’ DOMINANCE AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF INDIGENOUS FIRMS IN THE UPSTREAM SECTOR OF THE NIGERIAN PETROLEUM INDUSTRy  

2019-07-23
This study examined the effect of multinationals’ dominance on operational performance of indigenous firms in the upstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry. The Nigerian economy is heavily reliant on ...