NUC releases 2017 ranking of Nigerian universities (Full list)

Ahmadu Bello University emerges Highest ranked University in Nigeria (SEE Full List)[size=8pt][/size]

Congratulations To Amadu Bello University, Zaria. The National University Commission has released its rankings for all Universities in Nigeria, both private and government owned, and the rankings show quite curious results.

According to the ranking, out of over hundred ranked university in Nigeria, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria came out top, beating University of Lagos , and Obafemi Awolowo University to second and third place respectively.

Viral photo of Youth Corpers Offloading Rice from a Trailer

 

This clearly shows that the government of the day has failed the youth of this great nation....

NYSC Set To Launch Job Portal To Bridge Gap Between Employers And Corps Members

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) will soon launch a job portal that would help employers find corps members with requisite skills and qualifications that match their needs.
The Lagos State NYSC Coordinator, Prince Mohammed Momoh said in an interview yesterday at the

University don urges on peace building clubs in schools

By JIDAUNA DARING
A Lecturer with the Department of Theatre and Film Arts University of Jos, Dr. Reuben Embu has stressed the need for secondary schools to set up peace building clubs, in order to forge for oneness in their respective schools in the country.
Dr. Embu who is the Principal Investigator, Peace Building Project, University of Jos, disclosed this at the institutions peace building programme for secondary schools, held at the Open Air Theatre of the institution, last Thursday.
He said the project was an initiative of the University of Jos in partnership with TETFUND, which it hoped to explore and channel the students, creativity towards consolidating the peace on the Plateau and beyond.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Nine )

ECONOMIC RELEVANCE OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM TO THE BROADCAST MEDIA IN NIGERIA

Considering the fact that the sole aim of establishing any media enterprise is profit oriented, most media establishments tend to patronize more of western media content because it is cheaper to buy foreign media content than to produce  local programmes. In doing this, the broadcast media saves some reasonable amount of money for other purpose. Importing foreign media content also saves a broadcast media establishment the cost of sending correspondence outside the country of its operation get news story.

EFFECTS OF FOREIGN CULTURE ON THE LIVES OF NIGERIAN STUDENTS

Rattle by the current stiff competition by the television stations, the Nigerian television industry has continued feeding viewers with foreign programmes at the expense of

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Eight )

2.7       REASONS FOR CULTURAL IMPERIALISM IN NIGERIA

There are a lot of reasons for cultural imperialism in broadcast media in Nigeria.

 FINANCE: The economy of the country is not in a good shape due to mismanagement and outright corruption. The financial crunch resulting from the bad economy acts like an incubus on television especially with regard to such programmes that involve huge financial stakes. Mid January, 2006, ten (10) broadcasting organizations (including some television stations) were closed down by the NBC for failure to fulfill their financial obligations to the commission, to enable the renewal of their broadcast licenses (Osakue and Elo, 2010). According to Silas Yisa (then Director General of the Commission) “after a mutually agreed decision in which the affected broadcasters were to pay half of the amount owed, most of them still refused to pay their debt, some as old as the day the stations commenced operations” (personal communication, January 19, 2006, cited in Osakue and Elo, 2010).  In a situation like this, the broadcast media may find it impossible to do their own programmes.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Seven)

2.6       THE CONCEPT OF CULTURAL IMPERIALISM THROUGH THE BROADCAST MEDIA

The term imperialism occurs in different spheres of our human endeavours. The term Imperialism is associated with political, economical, social and cultural domination by a powerful nation over a less powerful nation. In this case, they western countries (developed countries) appear to be dominating the third world countries that happen to have inadequate technological power to compete with these technologically advanced countries of the world.
A man’s pride lies in his confidence and his personality is greatly nurtured in his culture. Man is essentially the product of his culture; it beats and moulds a person into a particular shape. Culture makes one speak, dance, think and behave in a particular way. As soon as a child is born, nature assigns him the task of actualizing himself through culture; it is culture that makes one Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, Kanuri, Tiv, Eggon etc. Nigerian youths are the most vulnerable victims of cultural imperialism. Most of them can no longer speak the Nigerian local languages. Our mode of dressing has been totally distorted by western civilization through foreign films and broadcast media content. Today

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Six)

2.4       The Concept of television viewership 

            TV programmes are design and packaged to attract and retain audience viewership interest and the same time influence behavioural attitude.

            This account for why TV performs socializing functions as well as social control functions

Nwosu (2004, p.32) explained the social change intent/focus of TV foreign programme thus:

The culture, politics, the sophistication of society has crime about principally through communication of forces knowledge, influence and development.

Through TV programmes issues are raised and agenda is set for discussion which helps in the formation of public opinion and influence.

It therefore suffices that the consistent repetition of foreign TV programmes either soap operas, talk shows etc set raise an issue for public debate for the purpose of opinion formation, attitude change and impact.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Five)

2.3       The concept of TV programming

Programming is the basis of TV messages transmission. TV message content is packaged disseminated in the form of programmes. The act of TV programming according to Duru (2002,p.134): “Is a segmental activity that presumes organization materials into a coherent programme service suitable to the target audience”.

Every TV programmes must be thus be packaged to carry out the functions of the press. Explaining these functions, Nwosu (2004, p.31-34) noted the following:

Importance in the discussion and debate, importance on social control, importance in social change, importance in industrial complex.

Analyzing the advantages of TV at carry out the afore stated functions Nwaeze and Nkoli noted

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Four)

CHAPTER TWO

LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1     INTRODUCTION

The world information flow controversy is perhaps the most topical issue in international communities today. This global controversy is basically about the demand by the south for a change in the present pattern of information flow between it and the north. The south also knows that the third world or under developed or developing countries of the world contends that there is gross unbalance both in quality and quantity, in global information flow between the south and the north, also known as the first world countries of the world.

            This unbalance according to the south has placed it at the receiving end as developing countries are daily bombarded with information and other media materials which do not meet their development needs and more importantly tend to debase their culture and portray them as inferior in the eyes of all.

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part three)

1.8       SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This study is delimited to full- time students of University of Nigeria Nsukka community located in Nsukka Local Government of Enugu  State. The researcher shall however, study subset of students population. Hence, 300 level students of Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies  and Mass Communication departments will be studied.

The researchers’ choice of these departments is justified from the inter relationship between their courses and Western television content. The assumption is they are better equipped to provide relevant answers to the research questions.

1.9       LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

Mass Comm Project: Students Perception of Western Television Programmes(Part Two)

1.3       STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

There is no doubt that western television programmes have offered a lot of meaning and purpose to the social lives of Nigerian students. Some students see them as a way to shake up and release tensions. Some others value their entertainment functions and some see them as a way to keep in touch with the so called latest fashion trend.  Whichever way the youths perceive western television programmes, is an indication of their bias against local programmes.

Classroom collapse kills 4-year-old pupil in Abuja

The collapse of a classroom block at Monsil Nursery and Primary school Kado, Life Camp has killed a 4-year-old Nursery 2 pupil, Daily Trust reports.
The incident occurred at about 10am on Wednesday morning while the children were on break.
The boy was said to have been sitting on the corridors when part of the mud building collapsed on him.
The Municipal Zonal Education

Make service year voluntary- Sen Shehu Sani tells FG

Senator Shehu Sani has asked the Federal government to make service year voluntary or provide life insurance cover for all corpers during the programme. Sani said this during a condolence visit to the family of Lawal Kontagora, a youth corps member allegedly killed by unknown gunmen in Kaduna recently.

“This is not the first time, it has always been the case, when it happens, we mourn we condemn the action. This happened in my constituency and he is part of my constituency. I have a duty to pursue this case to its logical conclusion. If such things happen to others and they are being ignored, I virtually will not fold my arms and see this kind of things happen. I am taking this issue to the National Assembly. We have to choose what to do and being a corps member. It is either the government makes the service year voluntary or there should be increased funding or insurance’’ he said

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OMG! How UNILORIN PhD graduand dies on convocation day

A postgraduate student of Arabic at the University of Ilorin, AbdulHafeez Adedimeji, died on Saturday, the day he was to receive his doctorate at a convocation. Sources told Punch correspondent that another doctoral graduand died shortly before the ceremony.

"Sir help me Out so we can have sex"- Female student begs lecturer via exam script .

A obviously dull, female student of Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, Imo State thought she could get better grades by offering sex to her lecturer. Perhaps the lecturer is one of these stony faced sorts, so instead of approaching him directly, she wrote her offer, in barely legible handwriting, on her answer sheet during examinations.

16 year old boy invents a car in Ebonyi state (photos)

One Ihere-serg Mascot a 16 year old boy from Ebonyi State Wednesday, presented a car he assembled himself to the Executive Governor of Ebonyi State Engr. David Nweze Umahi at the Governor’s office, Abakaliki. Ihere told press men that his car does not emit gas and does not use fuel, but is powered by solar energy. The young engineer was allowed to drive the car around before the governor.More photos after the cut.

PMC: Let’s talk NYSC ..

I’ve spent the better part of the past week listening to my friend do some variation of ranting about his NYSC registration. We cycled from understandable problems  (passport photo too small) to logical (passport photo too large) to inexplicable (passport background not white when it actually is white).
Of course, having gone through the process, (or something even more convoluted, involving an online upload of several documents followed by a trip to Abuja to deliver said documents in person to a

ABU Zaria Team Wins The Shell Eco-marathon Competition In South Africa

Shell Eco-marathon challenges student teams around the world to design, build and drive the most energy-efficient cars.
After a successful launch in 2014, Shell Eco-marathon came back to South Africa in 2015 to see 12 teams from South Africa and Nigeria take to the track to battle for ultimate energy efficiency.

In 2016, the competition is hosted by the School of Electrical Engineering from the University of Johannesburg again, and took place at the Zwartkops Raceway.
 
 Shell Eco Marathon Result 2016

ABU Zaria Team won the Shell Eco Marathon as the result was released some few hours ago. Jubilation at Faculty of Engineering, ABU Zaria over the victory by the Team!

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BREAKING NEWS: Unijos Permanent Site Library Is On Fire

 

The Permanent site library of the University of Jos is Currently on fire. The fire was said to engulf the library at around 7: 45pm. An eyewitness who is a student of the university who came to the skybank hall of the university to study, said before the fire, there was a power surge, and before we knew what was going on, there was smoke everywhere and that was when we raised alarm and some of us present called the fire service. By the time of filing this report, the men of Plateau State Fire Service have the situation under control.