Language accommodation, a phenomenon in urban sociolinguistics, is the conscious and conscientious use of other languages’ repertoire in communication. Existing works on urban sociolinguistics, particularly in the Nigerian ...

The establishment of prisons in colonial Western Nigeria was a social measure to curb criminality. Scholarly works exist on the prisons system in postcolonial Nigeria, but less on the colonial period. This study was, ...

Provisioning is an important aspect of military mobilisation that deals with stores and supply. Available studies on the Armed Forces in Nigeria during the colonial period have paid more attention to personnel, training, ...

Doctor-patient consultation is a communicative situation which enables doctors to understand patients’ health challenges in order to prescribe appropriate treatments. Earlier works on doctor-patient interactions, ...

Dialogic Internet Memes (DIMs), which aid communication of social interests and opinions on Social Networking Sites (SNSs), are used to share previous experiences and negotiate common ground through various contexts. ...

The vulnerability to crisis of the aviation industry requires prompt preparedness to handle a crash at a moment’s notice, especially by providing appropriate and effective communication responses. Previous studies on ...

Worowo (Senecio biafrae) is a semi-wild, indigenous and nutritious vegetable. Demand for worowo is increasing due to its nutritional values, thus necessitating its domestication for increased production. However, there ...

Smallholder farmers who account for 80-90 percent of agricultural production in Nigeria rely mainly on hired labour for farming. In order to enhance work output and attract better wages, hired farm labourers consume large ...

The conventional Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average with Exogenous Variables (arimax) model with Normal Error term and Multiple Linear Regression (MLR) require stringent assumptions of normality of error term and ...

Agricultural soil nutrients variability assessment for sustainable crop production has usually been through soil geochemical/chemical analyses which are laborious and expensive, thus necessitating the need for faster and ...