CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Electricity is the most useful form of energy and constitutes one of the critical resources for modern life‚ poverty reduction and economic growth of any nation. Yet‚ for the past three decades‚ inadequate of electricity has been a regular feature in Nigeria‚ a country with about 150 million people. The electricity industry‚ dominated by National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) and later succeeded by the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) with
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Tammy J The Nation’s Contradictions Do the founders of our nation know how confused they must have seemed to the outside world? Historically we are taught that one of the major reasons for the development of the colonies in North America was the promise of freedom to practice religion in your own way. As we will see in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano‚ or Gustavus Vassa‚ the African‚ Written by Himself‚ “The 1805 Oration of Red Jacket‚” by Red Jacket‚ and “A Short Narrative
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Ethnic Group Conflict From the late 1940’s repeated fighting in the Middle East has brought with it challenges to several family organization‚ learning‚ and human rights (Huntington‚ Fronk & Chadwick‚ 2001). In 1967 employment of Palestinian lands by Israel‚ the Palestinian intifada uprising of the 1980’s and the immigrant standings of some Palestinian citizens only acted to intensify the community‚ cultural‚ and profitable situation in the Middle East. The fundamental clarification following
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The ethnic enclaves can be described as a form of close interpersonal organizations between individuals of a typical ethnicity living within close proximity of one another ‚ from this time forward alluded to as ethnic systems (Damm‚2009). 2.1.2 The failure and success of Ethnic enclaves Portes and Manning summarized the growth of the economy of an ethnic community can rely on 3 factors in particular ‚firstly it depends on a pre-existing presence within the host community ‚ and this was explained
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Asia Country Official and national Languages Other spoken Languages Afghanistan Pashto (Pashtu‚ Pushtu) an Eastern Iranian language‚ it is the native language of the Pashtun people. Dari Persian (Fārsī-ye Darī) also known as Afghan Persian. other Turkic and minor languages. Armenia Armenian (Hayeren) is an independent‚ one-language subgroup within the Indo-European language family. The unique Armenian alphabet‚ which consists of 39 characters‚ was created in 405 AD by a monk named
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by the residents of Maiduguri because of its strong opposition to Western education‚ which it sees as corrupting Muslims. Mohammed Yusuf established a religious complex that included a mosque and a school in 2002. Many poor families from across Nigeria and from neighboring countries enrolled their children in the school‚ which also served as a recruiting center for jihadis to fight the Nigerian State. In 2004 it moved to Kanamma‚ Yobe State‚ where it set up a base called "Afghanistan"‚ used to
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gele or headdress can be very tricky or at most quite frustrating. A not so good headdress could make the day’s event a miserable one‚ as you are constantly seen excusing yourself to the ladies room to fix it. As part of your traditional wedding regalia‚ you cannot afford to make a little mistake in getting the best style of the pack on your wedding day. Your gele should be tied well in advance like a day or two days before the wedding and not on the wedding day. This would help you choose the best
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CONFLICT OF ETHNIC GROUPS Psyc450 Christopher A. Page January 20th‚ 2013 There are many people in the world that are at war with each other and it’s a shame to see so many different types of ethnic groups that are so much different but on the other hand have a lot of things that are in common. Since the beginning of time there has always been some kind of jealousy or arguments between ethnic groups and
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of Language Many definitions have been given to language by language scholars. Alo (1995) cites some of these definitions‚ which we reproduce below: “Language is the primary and most highly elaborated form of human symbolic activity…made up of symbols made by sounds produced by the vocal apparatus….” (A. A Hill) “Language is any set of system of linguistic symbols as used in a more or less uniform fashion by a number of people who are thus enabled to communicate intelligibly with one another”
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when oil prices jumped to almost $40/bbl‚ the Since the oil prices collapse in the early 1980s‚ Nigeria experienced rapid external debt built-up and dwindling foreign exchange reserves: public and publicly guaranteed external debt increased from $4.3 billion to $11.2 billion‚ while foreign exchange reserves were almost exhausted‚ from $10 billion to $1.23 billion‚ all between 1981 and 1983. Nigeria had to borrow heavily from commercial sources‚
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