Browsing by Author "Maikeffi, Rabo"

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    APPROACH OFMAQASID ASH-SHARi'AH IN CONTROLLING KIDNAPPING IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
    (Department of Islamic Studies, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2022-01-01) Muhammad, Maishanu Aliyu; Abdullahi, Bara'atu; Maikeffi, Rabo
    Crime is almost part and parcel of all societies, especially in our contemporary times. Kidnapping has become a worrisome menace in Northern Nigeria. The aim of this research is to explore the objectives of Islamic law (Maqasid Ash-SharJ'ah) on crime control and management so as to have a decent environment with minimal commitment to avoidable crimes. The method adopted is through the perusal of related literatures available in the library and online as secondary sources, while Qur'an and Prophetic traditions provide the primary sources. Interviews was also conducted. The findings indicates that the high rate of unemployment among the youth after graduation from colleges, polytechnics and universities is a major cause of this evil act of kidnapping. Factors responsible for the crime are absence of God's consciousness by those that involved in the act, self-enrichment with quick money, inadequate security personnel and injustice from the side of Northern Nigerian governors are also contributing in this regards. The engagement of youth in different skills acquisition, provision of employment by private and public sectors can help in reducing the ungodly act, the paper recommends among others, that justice must be ensured at all levels from federal, state and local governments which can contribute immensely in eliminating crime in Northern Nigeria, to be specific a purposeful sampling method is adopted in the selection of three states from the three geo-political zones in Northern Nigeria. They are: Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba
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    EFFECT OF ETHNO-RELIGIOUS CONFLICT AMONG YOUTH IN NASARAWA STATE OF NIGERIA
    (Department of Islamic Studies, Nasarawa State University Keffi, 2021-09-16) Ishaq, Adam Ibrahim; Abdul-Wahab, Abdul-Qadir Ibrahim; Maikeffi, Rabo
    Nasarawa State is one of the country’s most ethnically and religiously heterogeneous entities. Since the advent of democratic rule in 1999> the heterogeneous nature of the Nasarawa State in terms of religion and ethnicity has created a major challenge of diversity management as evident in the prolonged inter-communal, religious and ethnic related conflicts that plagued the zone with grave humanitarian consequences. Deaths associated with these conflicts are unevenly distributed in terms of their frequency and intensity. Key drivers of these conflicts have been contestations over access to land control of political and economic power, as well as disputes over indigeneship, which reflects a conceptual difference enshrined in Nigeria's constitution. As the problem of ethnoreligious conflict among the youths in Nasarawa State comes into the limelight, this study intends to make an in-depth investigation into the effect of ethnoreligious conflict among the youth in Nasarawa State. The Paper focused on the ethnoreligious conflict in the Nasarawa State of Nigeria.
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    A MORPHO-PHONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MINIMAL PAIRS IN HAUSA AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES
    (Department of English, Nasarawa State University keffi., 2020-09-12) Shehu, Ibrahim Ahmad; Tanimu, Yusuf; Yakubu, Patience Vintse; Muhammad, Idris Ladan; Abubakar, Sirajo Muhammad; Maikeffi, Rabo
    The research aims at doing a morpho-phonological analysis of minimal pairs in Hausa and English Languages to bring to bear the problems Hausa speakers of English have in pronouncing English minimal pairs using contrastive analysis. The study is motivated into this investigation by some observed speech features of some ■ Hausa speakers of English as they communicate in English. This is observable when, for instcmce, a typical Hausa native seems to give some English minimal pairs similar pronunciations irrespective of the sound contrast distinguishing them. Thus, one hears a Hausa speaker of English pronouncing the following pairs of words: cope, cop and cup; fame and firm; pen and pain; mother and murder; Jun and phone; foam and form etc as if they were the same in spelling, pronunciation and meaning. The research established the basic factor affecting the Hausa pronunciation of English minimal pairs. The contrastive Analysis Hypothesis developed by Robert Lado (1957) was used as a theory for analysis. Data were ■ collected through audio-tape recording. A Sensonic (Sony Recorder) was used as an instrument in the recording. The population was drawn from three states in Northern Nigeria. The analysis revealed that most English and Hausa minimal pairs initial and final are consonantal, while medial are vowel based. Tone played a prominent role in distinguishing two or more lexical items in the Hausa language. The research recommended that the Hausa speakers of English (especially those in the study area) should make a stringent effort to become fully aware of their innate tendencies to commit the pronunciation errors identified in this research work so that they will be able to identify areas of similarity as well as the difference between ■ English and Hausa