Identity is an integral part of human existence and as a cognitive phenomenon it is regarded as a basis for selfrealisation and actualisation. Popular culture is an important conduit through which identity can be formulated and expressed. Music on the other hand as an expressive art is a major appendage of popular culture and a fertile ground for identity negotiation and formulation, in this instance through language use. This paper investigates the music- Hip hop, the language- Yoruba and examines how the artiste- Ruggedman employs the use of the mother-tongue while exploiting the general acceptability of the Yoruba language to popularise hip hop music in Nigeria .The research argues that, through the artiste‟s Yoruba linguistic affiliation he is able to formulate a national identity with a language not his own in a country where there is an overt subscription to ethnic loyalty rather that national.

This paper goes towards 2nd purpose to study the impact of these factors corporate culture (CC) to employee’s loyalty (EL). Since then built models depth study of the relationship CC to the MW research and application in practice in Lilama7. The study results showed that the factors that CC has a strong impact on employee’s loyalty in Lilama7.

Manifesto is important tool in ensuring winning the seat in general election, while giving improvement and enhancing the quality of life in the country. Several categories are defined based on geographical perspective in manifesto, namely safety of our family, a better quality of life, gender equality and empowering youth, generate strong and sustainable growth, balanced development progress for bridging the gaps, increasing access to education and standard, and people’s threatened crime-disaster hazard. Manifesto successfully implemented will bring better life to citizen in the country.

In early 2012, Indian National Rupee shortage in Bhutan had portents of being aggravated. Royal Monetary Authority resorted by stopping housing and vehicle loans, lowering CRR, prioritizing imports which affected lending, profitability and assets of commercial banks. The paper intends to study impact of government policies on three leading banks of Bhutan including Bank of Bhutan, Bhutan National Bank, and Druk Punjab National Bank of Rupee crunch and measures adopted by banks to overcome it. Primary data were collected through 100 questionnaires with 50 from BOB, 25 from BNB and 25 from DPNB, and supplemented by internet, blogs, journals, newspapers and annual reports of RMA, Phuntsholing being study area. Data collected were analyzed with MS-Excel and SPSS. The findings and analysis have been concluded with suitable recommendations to avoid recurrence of INR crunch.

The process of globalization in modern world has affected all spheres of our life – politics, economy and culture. To realize these processes people should have a common means of communication – a lingua franca. The English language has become this lingua franca, as about 1, 5 billion people speak English today. People of different cultural, ethnic and religious identities should have more to share than ever before. And one of the means of their crosscultural communication in many parts of the world today is the English language. People today communicate beyond national borders by e-mailing, chatting, blogging besides speaking and writing. Global networking has produced new societies of hybrid and very often conflicting cultures, where people are to become pluricultural individuals. The article deals with the problems of national language variety definition in general and special lexicography. The definition of the term “national language” is given; its subcategories, such as “dialect”, “form”, “variety”, and “variant” are analyzed, and the ways of the national language formation and changes are described.

This article was written to sensitize Nigerian students, staff and faculty of tertiary institutions to the problem of plagiarism. The study emanated from the humanistic point of reasoning and used data from secondary source to: (i) explain the concept of plagiarism, (ii) discuss various forms of plagiarism, (iii) highlight the causes of plagiarism and (iv) explain the consequences of plagiarism. The study also indicates how to avoid plagiarism in academic presentations in order to ensure academic integrity in higher education systems in Nigeria.

One of the major challenges to transformation in Africa is insecurity due to socio-religious upheavals. The level of insecurity in some countries in Africa is so high that it poses great threat to transformative bids in various facets of governance. Constant security reports in the audio-visual and print media are largely on the negative to the point that one is forced to assume that the experience is now the order of the day. The perpetrators of the evil act seem to be taking advantage of concentration of security vigilance on city-centres rather than local settings where the recruitment and training of the hoodlums seem to be carried out more. This implies that there is the need for an administrative procedure that will easily detect and nip the socio- religious upheavals in the bud. This paper therefore, proposes the indigenous administrative procedure of king and his counsellors in South-west Nigeria to transform the African societies to a more peaceful atmosphere. This is because the indigenous administrative virtues being proposed accounted for the enduring peaceful scenarios in the traditional African societies.

Most countries consider ISIS as one of the most dangerous terrorist organization in which operation has brought a major threat to national security and peace in many countries, as well to human, regional and global security and peace because of its ability to amass combatants, funding, and territory. In achieving its goals to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state as well as to impose its worldwide view of Islam extremism, it practices political and military tactics by the use of ruthless force on both Muslims and non-Muslims people. Ethnic cleansing carried out by ISIS towards Non-Muslims can be considered a very serious crime and represents a part of terrorist actions which aims to force the scenario of dividing Iraq and creating a terrorist front in its occupied territories in Iraq. The rapid advance of ISIS in Iraq has completely changed the balance of power in the country. In addition, it threatens not only the integrity of the country, but also leads to redrawing of borders across wider regions.

Election through manifesto will ensure winning seat in general election. This research study determines respondent’s perception on appropriate manifesto design for the general election. Quantitative approach with questionnaire methods applied into Malacca State in targeting 100 respondents, where questionnaire are divided into two categories namely (1) respondent’s demographic profile, and (2) respondent’s perception on appropriate manifesto designed for general election. Result indicate majority are male with ages from 31 to 40 that working in private sector. Most of respondent studied until secondary level and having monthly income of RM 1501 to RM 2000. Respondents are likely to support registered political parties and vote for same party. At the same time, there are respondents that more preferred towards candidates, especially candidates that have confidence in making decision. Majority respondents receive all contesting candidate’s manifesto and understand every aspect that proposed in manifesto. Fortunately, manifesto becomes positive ‘attraction’ towards respondents in decision making. In other words, although majority respondents are preferred on candidate and party, however, they are more preferred to choose the manifesto that emphasizes on having a safer and a better life not only for themselves, but also for their children in the future generation. Therefore, election manifesto do influencing the respondents in chosen the candidate or party.

Nigeria’s federal system concentrates enormous political and economic powers in the centre. Thus, politics for the control of this very powerful centre have always been tense and often result to crises. This paper examines the political variables that accounted for power-shift, from the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples’ Democratic Party to Mohammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress. The paper holds that Jonathan’s acceptance of defeat opens a new chapter in the political history of Nigeria, which invariably would translate to the consolidation of democracy in the country. As a mark of conclusion, the paper suggests the following palliatives: politicians should sustain the Goodluck Jonathan spirit of sportsmanship, demonetization of the polity and a redefinition of the nation’s federal system, to devolve more powers to the component parts.

This study proposed to discover the important of Compliance with Safety Behaviour (CSB) in the context of Manufacturing Industry in Perak. The outcomes from this study may be helpful for industrial practitioners to understand all the influencing factors to CSB. The present study also aims to investigate if there is any significant relationship between safety attitude, management support, and safety rules and procedures towards compliance safety behaviour in Perak Manufacturing Industry. This safety analysis will provide guidance for management on how to develop specific safety programs. In addition, some of the outcomes stated in the study could be appropriate to other countries which facing similar state of affairs. The CSB, Safety Attitude, Management Support, and Safety Rules and Procedures instrument were used in this study. This study examines the direct relationship between safety attitude, management support and safety rules and procedures on compliance safety behaviour. Quantitative approaches with descriptive analysis method and multi-stage sampling method have been used in this study. Where, cluster method was conducted follows with stratified and simple random sampling method. A total of 770 questionnaires distributed to the manufacturing workers in Perak who had agreed to participate in this study. However, out of it only 480 questionnaires were returned and about 383 questionnaires were used for further analysis. Results showed that safety attitude, management support and safety rules and procedures have positive significant relationship between compliance safety behaviour.

Azerbaijan (Atropatgan) is one of the main and ancient places of Iran where it has Aryan residents. In this paper, attempt is made to study the race and people living there from the perspective of anthropology and ethnology. In fact, it is based on this question that whether or not, the people resided in Atropatgan have an Aryan race as other Iranians. To find the answer, first we have considered the race of people in the Iranian Plateau based on appearance, color, hair, and skull regarding different zones, oldness and the presence of various nations as some factors making integrated races. Conducting the research based on field studies, we have considered the race of people in Atropatgan and measured their skulls. Moreover, we have done anthropological studies on items such as the color of skin and hair, head size, forehead, eyebrows and eyes in cities and villages of the eastern Azerbaijan. To do this, some measuring tools have been used like compasses to measure the head and skull-graduated compasses with a movable beam. Then, the researcher has compared racial characteristics in this area with other peoples of Iran. Thus, according to anthropological and ethnical criteria of people in Atropatgan, we came to this conclusion that they have the same race (i.e. Aryan) similar as other Iranians who are the reminders and grandchildren of Aryan and Parse Medes. Therefore, the opposite is completely rejected on the view of the racial characteristics and all documents accounts for their Aryan race.

Open green spaces are considered as an integral part of university campuses worldwide and the related studies reveal the significant impact of the green spaces on the quality of life in the campuses. Thus, scholars have also stressed the need of revitalization of outdoor green spaces in the Qatar university campus. This research investigates whether students‘ perception has an impact on usability of green spaces, precisely, at the Women‘s Engineering Building of Qatar University. It also considers the extent to which regional factors, such as climate and privacy, as per Islamic value, impact the perception of usability of open green spaces. A review of the literature was conducted for exploring the regional influence on perception and usability of green spaces. Site visits and field observation were conducted to understand the spatial nature of the green spaces in terms of privacy and the types of green space usage in the surrounding areas of the Women‘s Engineering Building. User‘s perception of green spaces and their impact on usability were collected through survey questions and questionnaires. In contrast to the views of the scholars, significant difference between perception and usability of the green spaces along the year, the findings reveal that (1) a certain resistance to the usage of the green spaces occurs in summer; (2) there is no significant threat to the perception of privacy, which, in turn, has no impact on the usability of green spaces at Qatar University‘s Women‘s Engineering Building.

This paper explored the influence of selected factors on the marketability of counterfeit and pirated products in Dar-es-salaam region using factorial analysis. The paper followed claims of an upsurge of counterfeit and pirated products in markets and the potential of resulting negative impacts on the health of individuals and overall economic development. A cross-sectional research design and structured questionnaires were used to collect information. The results suggest that factors like the level of income, education (awareness), price and government policies are the key drivers for the purchase of counterfeit and pirated products in Dar-es-salaam region. The study recommends of strengthening the enforcement mechanisms of the existing laws and regulations which deal with discouraging substandard products and unfair practices in markets, putting in place deliberate measures to increase public awareness of the consequences and effects ensuing from the use of counterfeit and pirated products, addressing shortfalls in the intellectual property rights protection laws and regulations and increasing surveillance by the police, inspectors and customs in informal border routes to minimize the problem.

This study was designed to examine the perspective of the student-teachers’ on the embedded soft skills program implemented in one of the public universities in Malaysian. The study sought to identify the most frequently learned soft skill elements in accounting courses; the relationship between awareness of the soft skills learned and the soft skills grade-performance evaluation; the most effective strategy used to adapt the soft skill elements; and, finally, to analyze the learning outcome achievement of the soft skills learned through accounting student-teachers’ perspective. The researcher surveyed 122 accounting student-teachers from the Faculty of Management and Economics (FME) using an adapted questionnaire from The Effectiveness of Academic Programs at Higher Education Institutions towards Lifelong Learning by Amaludin, Lee, Pandian, and Sirat [10] with coefficient alpha 0.92. The findings indicated the most frequently integrated soft skill elements in the accounting courses were critical thinking and problem solving. The relationship between awareness of the soft skill elements and marks of soft skills indicated the existence of a relationship that was statistically correlated at a p value less than 0.05with r= .460 for the highest relationship that existed between awareness of soft skill in leadership skills and marks of soft skills. Problem-based learning strategy was the most effective strategy used by the lecturers in adapting the soft skills learned, and the accounting student-teachers believed the learning objectives of the embedded 7 soft skill elements were achieved within the range of 57.4 to 88.5%.