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KWARA COMMUNITY GIVES HERDSMEN SEVEN-DAY QUIT NOTICE

The community under the aegis of Oro Descendants Union, in a statement titled, ‘We reject unlawful occupation of land in our community by Bororo/Fulani,’ signed by the National President and National Publicity Secretary of the union, Alhaji Uthman Balogun, and Mr. Kayode Adeyipo, respectively, said that the herdsmen allegedly evicted from Oyo State, had occupied Okerimi-Oro community since the last week of January, 2021. Oro people are the kinsmen of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed. The people of Oro land in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State have issued a seven-day ultimatum to herdsmen in Okerimi-Oro community to relocate to ensure security in the area. Come and ads with us @hixcoblog.com  We promise to serve you better  We are fidelity on our blog.

what is society

A  society  is a  group  of individuals involved in persistent  social interaction , or a large  social group  sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same  political  authority and dominant cultural expectations. Societies are characterized by patterns of relationships ( social relations ) between individuals who share a distinctive  culture  and  institutions ; a given society may be described as the sum total of such relationships among its constituent of members. In the  social sciences , a larger society often exhibits  stratification  or  dominance  patterns in subgroups. Societies construct patterns of behavior by deeming certain actions or speech as acceptable or unacceptable. These patterns of behavior within a given society are known as  societal norms . Societies, and their norms, undergo gradual and perpetual changes. Insofar as it is  collaborative , a society can enable its members to benefit in ways that would otherwise be diffi

what is science.

Science , any system of knowledge that is concerned with the physical world and its phenomena and that entails unbiased observations and systematic experimentation. In general, a science involves a pursuit of knowledge covering general truths or the operations of fundamental laws. Science can be divided into different branches based on the subject of study. The  physical sciences  study the inorganic world and  comprise  the fields of  astronomy ,  physics ,  chemistry , and the  Earth sciences . The biological sciences such as  biology  and  medicine  study the organic world of  life  and its processes.  Social sciences  like  anthropology  and  economics  study the social and cultural aspects of  human behaviour .   Science is further treated in a number of articles. For the history of Western and Eastern science, see  science, history of . For the  conceptualization  of science and its interrelationships with  culture , see  science, philosophy of . For the basic aspects of the scie

sociology definition

Sociology , a  social science  that studies human societies, their interactions, and the processes that preserve and change them. It does this by examining the  dynamics  of  constituent  parts of societies such as institutions,  communities , populations, and gender, racial, or age groups. Sociology also studies  social status  or stratification,  social movements , and  social change , as well as societal disorder in the form of crime,  devi ociology KEY PEOPLE Marshall B. Clinard Max Weber Émile Durkheim Herbert Spencer Auguste Comte T.H. Marshall Mirra Komarovsky Bruno Latour Andrew Greeley Gunnar Myrdal RELATED TOPICS Social science Criminology Social psychology Sexology Typology Structural functionalism Ekistics Structuration theory Demography Law of three stages Social life overwhelmingly regulates the  behaviour of humans , largely because humans lack the instincts that guide most  animal behaviour . Humans therefore depend on  social institutions  and organizations to inform t

media and sociology

mass media, sociology of  A medium is a means of  communication  such as print, radio, or television. The mass media are defined as large-scale organizations which use one or more of these technologies to communicate with large numbers of people (‘mass communications’). Dependent upon innovations in the electronics and chemicals industries, the period between 1860 and 1930 was a formative moment for the mass media. These years saw the development and introduction of still photography, moving photography (cinema), cable telegraphy, wireless telegraphy, the phonograph, the telephone, radio, and television. These new technologies formed part of the wider transformation in  popular culture  during this period and typified the new more intensive capitalization of the leisure industries and their associated concern to address mass audiences. As defined by C. Wright  Mills  in The  Power Elite  (1956), the mass media have two important sociological characteristics: first, very few people can

Lai Mohammed’s kinsmen ask herdsmen to vacate Kwara community

THE people of Oro land in the Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State and kinsmen of the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, have issued a seven-day ultimatum to herdsmen in Okerimi-Oro community to relocate to ensure security in the area. The community under the aegis of Oro Descendants Union, in a statement titled, ‘We reject unlawful occupation of land in our community by Bororo/Fulani’, signed by the National President and National Publicity Secretary of the union, Alhaji Uthman Balogun and Mr. Kayode Adeyipo respectively, said that the herdsmen allegedly evicted from Oyo State, had occupied Okerimi-Oro community since the last week of January, 2021.

Declare state of emergency on security, Senate tells Buhari

The Senate on Wednesday asked the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd), to declare a state of emergency on security without further delay. The red chamber made the call following a point of order by Senator Sani Musa (APC, Niger East), on the abduction of students and staff of the Government Science Secondary School in Kagara, Niger State in the early hours of Wednesday. Musa said the terrorist who whisked their victims away were dressed in military uniforms.

BUHARI APPOINTS ‘YOUTHFUL’ ABDULRASHEED BAWA AS EFCC CHAIRMAN

Femi Adesina, presidential spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday.He said the president conveyed his request in a letter to Senate President Ahmad Lawan.Bawa, who is 40 years old, is one of the pioneer EFCC cadet officers from 2005                                     Place your ads He is currently the Lagos zonal head of the anti-graft agency. He will be taking over from Mohammed Umar who has been in acting capacity since July 2020 after the suspension of Ibrahim Magu over allegations of corruption. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics, and a master’s degree in international affairs and diplomacy.