asic Background of the topic: Beauty contests are popular in many parts of the world. The biggest‚ the Miss World competition‚ has been running annually since 1951‚ and although it is less popular in the UK now than it was in 1968‚ when it attracted 27.5 million TV viewers‚ it attracts an enormous worldwide audience - around 3 billion viewers in 115 countries. There are beauty contests for various categories of age‚ sex and sexuality; this topic focuses on adult womens beauty contests as overwhelmingly
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against authoritarianism‚ complacency and self delusion. Besides‚ in The Swamp Dwellers Soyinka satirises the betrayal of vocation for the attraction and power in one form or another. The Swamp Dwellers reflects the life of the people of southern Nigeria. Their vocation mainly is agro based. They weave baskets‚ till and cultivate land. They believe in serpent cult. They perform death rites. They offer grain‚ bull‚ goat to appease the serpent of the swamp. Traders from city come there for crocodile
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of various settlers‚ whom enforce their traditions onto the indigenous peoples. In the book Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe‚ Christian missionaries came to Nigeria- specifically where the Igbo tribe was located‚ and imposed their religion and culture upon them. Similarly‚ in the film Rabbit Proof Fence directed by Philip Noyce‚ the colonial government of Australia put in
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Right of a child to free‚ compulsory and universal primary education— Section 2 (15) of the Child Rights Act signed by 16 states in Nigeria) “Any woman who is married shall be deemed to be of full age.” — Section 29 (4b) of the 1999 Nigerian Constitution. Social media was awash last weekend with news that the Senate had signed a ‘child marriage act’ into law‚ legalizing marriage for girls under the age of 18. Although lawmakers have corrected this notion‚ saying that the section stated above only
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HISTORY OF ITSEKIRI‚ WARRI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA‚ DELTA STATE The Itsekiris are a peculiar and unique people in the Nigerian Niger Delta. They have inhabited their homeland‚ which now constitutes the Warri Local Government Areas of Delta State‚ Nigeria‚ for centuries. The Itsekiris have rich traditional and cultural practices. In the 15th century‚ the early Itsekiris adopted a prince (Ginuwa) from the kingdom of Benin as a monarch‚ and quickly united into a kingdom under his rule. Prior to this
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company in Nigeria‚ was incorporated in 1946 and recorded a landmark when the first bottle of STAR Lager beer rolled off the bottling lines in its Lagos Brewery in June 1949. This was followed by Aba Brewery which was commissioned in 1957‚ Kaduna Brewery in 1963 and Ibadan Brewery in 1982. In September 1993‚ the company acquired its fifth brewery in Enugu while in October 2003‚ a sixth brewery‚ sited at Ama in Enugu state was commissioned. Ama Brewery is the biggest brewery in Nigeria and the most
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THE AREA OF STUDT. Alaba International Market (Electronics) is the largest electronics market in Africa where all major international brands of electronics and allied products are offered for sale. The market situates in Lagos‚ the economic hub of Nigeria and the commercial nerve-center of commerce in Africa. The market occupies a land area approximately 2km by 1km on the Ojo Igbede Road. The on-going reconstruction work in Lagos by the action Governor‚ Alhaji Babatunde Raji Fashola‚ makes a drive
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2001;10:64–67. PubMed. 5. Ngwogu A‚ Otokunefo TV. Epidemiology of dermatophytoses in a rural community in Eastern Nigeria and review of literature from Africa. Mycopathologica. 2007;164:149–158. PubMed. 6. Alabi GO. The pattern of common childhood dermatoses in Ibadan. Nig J Paed. 1980;7:39–42. PubMed. 7. Ogunbiyi AO‚ Owaje E‚ Ndahi A. Prevalence of skin diseases in school children in Ibadan‚ Nigeria. Ped Derm. 2005;22:6–10. PubMed. 8. Oyedeji OA‚ Onayemi O‚ Oyedeji GA‚ Oyelami O‚ Aladekomo TA‚ Owa JA.
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Things Fall Apart is set in the 1890s and portrays the clash between Nigeria’s white colonial government and the traditional culture of the indigenous Igbo people. Achebe’s novel shatters the stereotypical European portraits of native Africans. He is careful to portray the complex‚ advanced social institutions and artistic traditions of Igbo culture prior to its contact with Europeans. Yet he is just as careful not to stereotype the Europeans; he offers varying depictions of the white man‚ such as
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SQUANDERMANIA MENTALITY: THE ROOT CAUSE OF SOCIAL EVIL UDEKE CHARLES NDUBUISI POPE JOHNPAUL 11 MAJOR SEMINARY‚ AWKA Charlitex2005@yahoo.com PREAMBLE Nigeria as a nation is ravaged by many internal problems. It is no longer news even to the blind that things are not the way they should be in our society. Nigeria problem is hydra-headed. Many scholars have viewed it from the different perspective as corruption‚ problem of leadership‚ indiscipline‚ greediness‚ consumerism‚ et cetera
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