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The basis of the Nigerian legal system appears multi-faceted, the fact that the country had contact with colonialism and the intervening military rule as against a truly democratic arrangement bequeathed at the independence of the country are source of concern. The paper adopts the doctrinal research method to attempt a critique of perspectives of the actual basis of the Nigeria legal system. The paper looks at some relevant concepts, the fountain in term of the grundnorm, customary law together with brief historical facts, and characteristic nature of Nigeria legal system to interrogate some perspectives. The paper founds that the fountain of the legal system is more of being jurisprudential in nature and concludes that the basis of Nigerian legal system is multi-faceted but ultimately founded on the constitution.

The Empirical Study of The Contributions of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAS) to The Economic Development of Ilorin Metropolis, capital of Kwara State of Nigeria, was informed by the fact that CBN/NDIC (1995) confirmed that there was distress in the Nigerian financial industry; Besley, et al (1994) observed that there was little focus of economists on the activities of ROSCAS; and Ijaiya (2002) suggested that there should be further studies conducted on the informal financial institutions in Ilorin Metropolis. So the researcher obtained primary data to analyze the views of four hundred respondents who were ROSCAS members in the study area. Data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential models of data analysis. After using E-View 3 software package to run the regression analysis, the hypotheses tested were to know the relationship between the years of employment of respondents and the number of ROSCAS they have joined; their savings and income relationship; and the relationship between the items bought with loans obtained from ROSCAS. Students" t-test was conducted on the first two hypothesis while f-statistic was employed on the last hypothesis. The results of the tests did not conform with the priori assumptions. It was discovered that respondents were likely to join ROSCAS even if they do not earn income, contribute about thirty percent of their incomes to ROSCAS and this showed that savings to the purse of ROSCAS are not idle but active funds which could lead to an instantaneous multiplier effect of over one hundred and forty growth of the economy. As such ROSCAS" membership did promote cordial relationship between the lenders and the borrowers, employment generation, increase in output, consumption, savings, investment, and price stability because interest charges were absent in their dealings. It was recommended that individual persons, households, firms and governments should do everything possible to promote ROSCAS by prompt payment of dues, organization of ROSCAS, ensure that ROSCAS were available, and promulgate ROSCAS" laws respectively. Finally, the study of Keynesian, Simple Multiplier shall be extended to the savings of people to ROSCAS.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted globally in September 2015 are set to measure development and progress in countries until 2030. China, second to the United States in the global development agenda, by its relations with Africa and Zambia, particularly in the provision of foreign aid currently plays an important role in the development of Zambia's economy. The large amount of foreign aid provided by China has led to assertions that Zambia is being put in a debt burden, especially as China holds 28 percent of Zambia's external debt. Zambia's debt burden stands at 60 percent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 21 percent in 2011 and its debt stock was USD9.37 billion in 2018. Zambia was one of the beneficiaries of debt forgiveness in 2005. The weight of its debt however led to the International Monetary Fund in August 2018, classifying Zambia as a high-risk low-income country having debt distress and inability to service its debt. This study in examining China-Zambia economic relations, explores the impact of Chinese aid on Zambia's economic development. It investigates the role of this aid in the fulfillment of the SDGs and Zambia's Vision 2030 of being "a prosperous middle-income nation". The study adopts Dependency Theory of Raul Prebisch as the theoretical framework of analysis. This explains the economic relations of states and the development of the third world by the interactions between states with inequality being a key feature of these interactions. The paper concludes by providing policy options to salvage the Zambia's economy and improve on the standard of living of its citizens.

Rural tourism entrepreneurship is a tourist industry which revolutionizes businesses and prompting economic development across the globe. It encompasses huge range activities, natural or man-made attractions, amenities and facilities, transportation, marketing and information systems. It is also an important export for 83% of the developing countries and the main export for one third of them. In 2000, developing countries recorded 142.6 million international arrivals an increase of 95% compared to the figures of 1990.However, only developing countries with effective natural and man-made tourism supporting and enhancing infrastructure have been able to develop their tourism sector and seize the attendance advantages. Rural areas of Nigeria possess some distinctive peculiarities which can be transformed into attractive tourist centers.In spite of all these, rural tourism areas are still faced with myriad problems which include poor finance inadequate awareness and education, lack of progress in developing the rural of progress in developing the rural tourism potentials inadequate legislation, insecurity, entrepreneurial inertness, over-dependent on oil among others. This paper focuses on the impact and challenges of rural tourism entrepreneurship as strategy for economic development in Nigeria. It reviews literature rural tourism, tourism entrepreneurship potentials and classifications of Nigerians tourism potential's destinations. The paper concludes that Nigeria Government should encourage rural based tourism entrepreneurship development by addressing the challenges facing rural tourism entrepreneurship in the country.

The building is an important part of a hotel offering, whose quality must be improved towards achieving better guests satisfaction. The quality of a building is directly associated with the quality of its architectural design, which is why several studies have established a relationship between hotel design quality, and its guests' satisfaction. As the possible input resources of hotel design, management and financing are ever limited, it has become necessary to examine design quality itself, in this case in terms of its constituents, and identify which aspects of it mostly impact hotel guests' satisfaction decision. This paper, therefore, aimed to identify the perspective in which guests assess the design quality of hotels, with the explicit objectives of identifying and grading the extent of the impact of each dimension of design quality on guests' satisfaction. Employing the philosophical framework of the Design Quality Indicator (DQI) tool with its design quality dimensions, however with the addition of hotel atmospherics aspect obtained from literature, this is a quantitative study, using data obtained from 333 administered questionnaires, spread across sixteen hotels - one from each of the sixteen federal approved local government areas of Lagos metropolis. Design quality was found to be a significant predictor of guests' satisfaction; and also Hotel Atmospherics, as a dimension of design quality, emerged as the only significant predictor of guests' satisfaction, as well as having the strongest singular relationship with it amongst other dimensions of design quality.

Studies have already acknowledged sexual scandals as public relations nightmares of higher institutions of learning. Therefore, we examined the crisis management strategies of Nigerian tertiary institutions and stakeholders reactions after the British Broadcasting Corporations sex-for-grades report. Adopting qualitative research, we analysed 13 available press releases of institutions retrieved from some institutions websites and sampled opinions of 20 stakeholders comprising parents, students and lecturers through a depth interview. We used Coombs theory of crisis response strategies: denial, diminish, rebuild and bolstering as thematic categories. We discovered that the institutions mostly used denial with diminish response strategy to blame societal decadence, scapegoat female students for and downplayed the severity of sexual harassment incidence by the institutions. More so, all the stakeholders distrust the credibility of local media in the reportage of sexual harassment cases. However, female students feel aggrieved that school administrations and national government neglected them for failing to outlaw sexual harassment and severely punish offenders. Therefore, we recommend that considering stakeholders perception of sexual harassment incidence in Nigerian ivory tower, Nigerian higher educational institutions should not adopt denial response strategy for sex scandal cases.

SECTION I: AUDIENCE PERCEPTION, PARTICIPATION, ETHNIC, IDENTITY FORMATION AND INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 1. Appreciating indigenous African language media' practices and processes- a transdisciplinary approach, Philip Mpofu, Israel A. Fadipe and Thulani Tsabangu -- 2. Kulfi is like a Tanzanian: The reception of an Indian Television Drama dubbed in Kiswahili, by Daines Nicodem Sanga, Mona Mwakalinga and Issau Athumani Mbura submitted Tanzania -- 3. Language Politics, Development and Sustainability of Books in the Nigerian Languages, by Osarobu Emmanuel Igudia -- 4. Time to be Represented: The Imperative for Investment in Igbo Language Radio, by Malachy O. Udejinta -- 5. Slang and the Semantic Sense of Sameness: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Shona Back Slang, by Enock Nyambo -- 6. Mass Communication and African Indigenous Societies: The Meeting Point, by Charles Oguntoye -- 7. Mission Statements, Role of Political Actors in Community Radio Stations-The Ghanaian Experience, by Mavis Essandoh -- 8. Expanding Language? Struggles that characterise the development of new words and meanings on Eswatini's national radio, by Maxwell Vusumuzi Mthembu and Nqobile Ndzinisa -- 9. African Languages and the Rhetoric of Gender Identity in Marginal Films Made Outside the Mainstream Film Industry in South Africa, by Gilbert Motsaathebe -- SECTION II: MEDIA REPRESENTATIONS, TEXT, CONTEXT AND INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 10. Re-tooling the Nigerian Society to combat Crime and Criminality: The Strategic importance of Proverbs in Child and Personality Development, by Mustapha Olalekan Rufai -- 11. Evaluation of an African indigenous Language Programme on Poly Ilaro 92.1 FM, Ogun State Nigeria, by Odu, Adejare Samuel & Alabi Oluwole Folaranmi -- 12. Examining the place of female musicians in Zimbabwe's music industry, by Edith Katiji and Richard Muranda -- 13. Ivbie edo nuzomo, wa ghima kweko kugbe:Themes in Edo (Bini) language Nollywood movies as development communication, Francis Amenaghawon -- 14. Use of non-verbal cues as Alternative to Verbal Communication before Tyrants in Selected Yoruba Films, Matthew Kolawole Oni -- 15. Multilingual online responses on the 'Hollywood-style' arrest of a defence lawyer in a high-profile case, Gilbert Motsaathebe -- SECTION III: HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS AND INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 16. Impact of Covid-19 on an indigenous newspaper, Kwayedza, by Takunda Maodza -- 17. Imole Yoruba Coverage of COVID-19 Pandemic in South West Nigeria, by Hassan Biodun Suleiman -- 18. Exploring Music Videos in Indigenous Languages and Behavioural Change towards Waste Management in Lagos State, Nigeria, by Babatunde Adeyeye, Evaristus Adesina, Darlynton Yartey and Emeka Uwam -- SECTION VI: BEAT ANALYSIS, PEACE JOURNALISM AND INDIGENOUS INDIGENOUSE LANGUAGE MEDIA -- 19. Indigenous Language as a Factor for Sustainable Development, by Akinwalere Ifedayo Nigeria -- 20. A Study of the Yoruba Language Newspapers in the Colonial Era, by Akangbe Adeniyi Clement.-21. Coverage of Development Issues, And Identity Formation in Alaroye Newspapers, by Stephen Odebiyi -- 22. Livelihood Improvement Through Participatory Mass Communications; A Study on Community Radio and the Lives of Women in Northern Ghana by Manfred Kofi Antwi Asuman and Subeshini Moodley -- 23. Building a Culture of Peace and Conflict Resolution through Indigenous Language Media (ILM), by Toyosi Olugbenga Samson OWOLABI & Hassan Adeniyi OLALEKAN -- 24. Indigenous Language Use in Advertising Campaigns: A Study of Airtel Nigeria's Users, by Adeniji O.C. and Akinbode S.A. .