Archive for month: August, 2022

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between organisational justice, job satisfaction, employee voice, communication, and organisational citizenship behaviour (OCB) in selected local government institutions in Abuja, Nigeria. Questionnaire were used to obtain data from employees of three (3) local government institutions and SPSS version 23.0 was used for data analysis. A positive correlation was found between all the independent variables and the dependent variable (OCB) as well as between the mediating variable and the dependent variable. Regression analysis showed that the model is a good fit, the independent variables predicted the dependent variable by 82.4%. The results of the study showed that employee trust, employee voice and organisational justice were major factors that contributed significantly to organisational citizenship behaviour. However, job satisfaction has positive and lowest contribution to the organisational citizenship behaviour. Effective communication was negatively mediated between the independent variables and the dependent variable.

With the success and the user base of Social Networking Sites as tools for digital communication and exchange of information and its advancement in industrialization, science, technology, and various environmental issues taking place locally and globally, this social media can be utilized as a tool to promote awareness regarding various current environmental issues. This study aims to investigate the psychological perception on the role of Facebook users in reporting human rights abuses: A study of Endsars Protest and also how Nigerians use social networking sites such as Facebook as a platform to reach out to the world and Nigeria government to create a perceptual awareness on police brutality in Nigeria which started with their request to End SARS (Special Anti-robbery Squad) department. This study aimed at to find out the psychological perception on audience exposure to Human Right Abuses on Facebook Awareness and to find out the significant gender difference on the psychological perception on the role of facebook users in creating Awareness on Human Right abuses on Endsars protest. Survey research method was adopted coupled with 100 copies of questionnaires that were administered to 100 respondents that were drawn among the selected areas in Keffi Local Government using a simple random sampling technique. However, the data collected were analysed and interpreted using simple statistics (using tables) as a descriptive statistics; were hypothesis one stated that: There will be a significant relationship on psychological perception on audience exposure and human rights abuses on facebook awareness (M=40.07; SD=5.61), (M=31.16, SD=6.07) and hypothesis two stated that: There will be a significant gender difference on the psychological perception on the role of facebook users in creating Awareness on Human Right abuses on Endsars protest. It is recommended that, The online media must serve essential functions by accepting and fulfilling certain obligations to the nations; Social media users (Facebook Users) should be enlighten on how protesters and Facebook users uses social media handles to influence others and Read and gain knowledge of many national activities, what they believe and stand for will immensely help in reshaping the thought those being or on the cause of being influence

The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide a comparative analysis of dream of and dream about in the COCA and BNC. A major point to note is that in the COCA, dream of and dream about show the same pattern in three genres, whereas they do not show the same pattern in five genres. A further point to note is that in the COCA, dream of is the furthest type from dream about in the TV/movie genre, whereas dream of is the nearest type to dream about in the spoken genre. It is significant to note that in the BNC, dream of and dream about show the same pattern in three genres, whereas they show a different pattern in four genres. It is noteworthy that dream of is the furthest type from dream about in the fiction genre of the BNC, whereas dream of is the nearest type to dream about in the non-academic genre. The COCA clearly shows that dream of freedom is the most preferred by Americans, followed by dream of love, dream of home, and dream of life, in descending order. The COCA also shows that dream about competition is the most preferred by Americans, followed by dream about girls, and dream about flying, in that order. Additionally, it is interesting to note that only 14.28% of the total nouns belong to the collocations of both dream of and dream about. It is also interesting to point out that dream of being and dream about being are the most preferable ones for Americans. Finally, this paper argues that only 48.14% of the total gerunds belong to the collocations of both dream of and dream about.

The ultimate goal of this paper is to provide a detailed analysis of L2 learners’ acquisition of binding. It is worth noting that the L2 learners seem to support Chomsky’s binding theory and the coargunment-based binding, but they preferred Chomsky’s binding theory to the coargument-based binding theory. In the case of local binding, 75% of the L2 learners entertained Chomsky’s binding theory, whereas in the case of LD-binding, 60% of the L2 learners entertained the coargument-based binding theory. Chomsky’s binding Theory consists of local binding and LD-binding. These are accounted for by the c-command condition and the governing category. The coargument-based binding theory is accounted for by the assumption that binding principle A applies between the coarguments of a predicate. In this paper, we carried out two surveys with respect to the two hypotheses. A pretest was performed without providing information about the two hypotheses. A posttest was performed after providing the two hypotheses. After this, we considered the SD and t-value. This paper argues that our t-value (2.036) is larger than 1.96, which in turn suggests that this t-value shows a meaningful difference between the pretest and posttest. This paper also argues that local binding was first acquired by the Korean learners of English, followed by LD-binding, c-command (overlapping reference), and the TSC, in that order. A major point to note is that learning difficulty arose and errors resulting from negative transfer occurred since Korean and English are not identical. A further point to note is that the L2 learners acquired less marked structures before more marked ones.

We know from the research into Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008 that the root causes of the crisis were invariably viewed from the three perspectives, namely (a) increasing global imbalances (capital flows), (b) monetary policy that might have been too relaxed, and (c) poor supervision and regulation. However, what remains poorly understood is the interplay between financiers, bankers, and the institutional and structural context. This study examines the interactions between financiers, bankers, and the institutional and structural context and how they engendered financial crisis and the implication of GFC to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The literary study was deployed to answer these questions. The findings showed that, firstly, institutional pressures and specific profit opportunities had been conceived in the financial markets and then shaped the risky behaviour of the bankers. Secondly, structural pressures conceived in a ‘systemic risk’ in financial markets promoted the scale of the financial crisis, and thirdly, the COVID-19 pandemic is different from GFC, the pandemic crisis exerting a more radical and sudden effect. It has placed the real economy out of action immediately and wholly – evaporating supply and demand concurrently.