Essays on Lagos

Yes. Nancy Grace seems to be fast in making conclusions and individual judgements. From the cases cited, Nancy seems naïve in the legal field and the way she manages vital information is extremely unprofessional. Grace used the murder of her college fiancée by a coworker to gather popularity and fame among the general public. Without even waiting for the official investigation reports to be broadcasted, she even reported that a random stranger was behind the incident. Nancy Grace doesn’t seem affected by the murder and her persistent cries for truth and justice are all in a ...

Analysis of the Language of New Social Media

Introduction Recent technological advancements in computers, phones, and internet based communications have become an integral part of people’s lives. Social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn have attracted million of English-speaking users who communicate and connect via the sites on a regular basis. The use of the internet communication technologies has undoubtedly shaped the way people communicate. Users share their thoughts and photos, organize their social lives, or at the very least have their lives significantly influenced through some form of internet-based interaction. This has had a huge effect not only on the physical interaction but ...

Welcome to Lagos

Welcome to Lagos is BBC documentary that depicts the life of people in the most populated city in Nigeria. This film is unique and interesting because it shows another side of poverty and dirty places as well as poor living conditions, with which it is often characterised by foreigners. People living there are cheerful and resourceful, full of energy and beliefs in their future, seeing a great opportunity in just everything, starting from the perfume bottle found in the rubbish and finishing with the writing rap songs and performing them at the stage to the people having fun. The ...

In Orlando Patterson’s The Children Of Sisyphus, the biggest problem is poverty, destitution, and poor living conditions. The situation is so bad that people eat from the dump site, and there is no access to clean water, food or good housing. Patterson highlights the plight of the slum dwellers in the downtown Jamaica, Sisyphus, showing the inevitability that the residents find themselves in, with grinding poverty that reduces their humanness to the level of scavengers. To Patterson, the slum dwellers represent a collapse of government institutions and the threat of discrimination on race. Noteworthy, it is the racism ...

What will make a young man who has just completed higher education to migrate from the rural set up to an urban one? This movement of inhabitancy from one geographical area to another either on temporary or permanent basis is caused by different factors that are either personal or occupational among others. Soon after independence, the third world states migration from rural areas to urban centers has been on the increase citing difference in economic opportunities and natural conditions, for example, the climate, soils or relief. Thus people migrate as their response to this. The high and better level ...

Research Title: Effects of Globalization on Small and Medium-scale Businesses in Nigeria

1.0 Introduction Technological advancement has facilitated communication, transportation, and socioeconomic interaction across the globe. Consequently, the technological dynamics have gradually transformed the world into a global village and most activities are carried out in real-time. This phenomenon is referred to as globalization. Globalization has advanced businesses operations by influencing faster startups and real-time control of operations. Consequently, most business people can manage, monitor, and control their businesses from anywhere across the global network. Nigeria’s Lagos capital, being an economic hub, has significantly benefited from globalization, where most businesspersons have established small, easy-to-learn businesses. Most small businesspeople use the ...