Wellington Onyebuchi Nwogu — Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Rumuolumeni
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
A vast number of Tanure Ojaide’s poetry ventilates the painful experience of the Niger Delta people. This paper investigates the past and present conditions of the Niger Delta environment in selected poems of Tanure Ojai...
A. Chukwudumebi Obute — AFREXTRACT Project, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
· Vol. 33, No. 2
· 08 September 2026
Iva Peša AFREXTRACT Project
Jackson Tamunosaki Jack AFREXTRACT Project
Since the evolution of the Nigerian literary tradition in the 1950s, itself a successor to orature, numerous writers have consistently opted to make society the epicentre of their enterprise. In fact, a handful have even...
Chisom Paula Ogamba — Babcock University, Illlisan Remo, Ogun, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Blessing Chidinma Aaron - Babcock University aaronb@hs.babcock.edu.ng
Olubunmi Idowu - Babcock University idowuo@babcock.edu.ng
Goodseed Ochulor - Babcock University ochulorg@babcock.edu.ng
This study interrogates how Nigerian newspaper reportage linguistically constructs the “perfect victim” and produces a hierarchical representation of rape victims. While prior studies have examined rape narratives throug...
Jeremiah Felix Nwachukwu — Rivers State University, Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Ibinabo Samuel Igonikon - University of Port Harcourt ibinabosamuel98@gmail.com
Political transitions generate democratic precarity when governments seek legitimacy through communication while citizens confront institutional uncertainty. Under Ibrahim Babangida’s military administration, Nigeria’s t...
Lilian Nwobiandu Maxwell-Akani — University of Africa, Toru-Orua
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
This article examines how seven works of contemporary Nigerian fiction encode precarity as a master condition that produces linguistic fragmentation, mediated through digital aesthetics and ecological collapse, generatin...
In the context of widening socio-economic inequalities, weakened state institutions, and growing conditions of global precarity, Nigerian Neo-Pentecostalism has emerged as a significant arena for negotiating religious au...
Prof. Ndidi Justice Gbule — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Where access to public infrastructure is uneven or unreliable, religious institutions may become part of the arrangements through which everyday participation is sustained. In Nigeria, Pentecostal churches increasingly c...
Paul Adedotun Adesupo — Department of Christian Religious Studies, Faculty of Education, Emmanuel Alayande of Education, Oyo, Oyo State. Nigeria.
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Christian marriage continues to be framed theologically through covenant, yet it is increasingly practised within social environments marked by uncertainty, mobility, and structural precarity rather than stability and pe...
Henry Eshiole Matthew — Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Edo State, Nigeria
· Vol. 33, No. 1
· 05 September 2026
Violence has become one of the defining historical realities shaping the trajectory of Christianity in contemporary Nigeria. While existing scholarship has extensively documented insurgency, communal conflicts, attacks o...
Anthonia Molokwu Nwaukoni — Delta State Polytechnic
· Vol. 26, No. 1
· 19 June 2026
Anthonia Anukwu
The activities of a teacher undergo major changes with the delivery of a multidimensional second-language program. As training advances from teacher-centred to student-centred and from a language-based to a needs-based a...
Eunice Chidinma Osuagwu — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 10 June 2026
Onuegbu Isaac Ameme
Nigeria presents a striking paradox: despite being one of the most
Christian-populated countries in Africa, the nation continues to
experience persistent economic underdevelopment, systemic
corruption, deep inequality...
Julius Nsirim Akani — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 32, No. 1
· 09 June 2026
Between Here and Nowhere: Migration, Belonging, and Nationality
in Segun Afolabi’s Goodbye Lucille” interrogates the complex realities of
Nigerian migrants in Europe, exploring the interplay of history,
identity, and...
Michael Alozie Nwala — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Ijeoma Chidinma Cookey
This paper examines the semantic relations at the sentence level in two of Patience Jonathan’s 2015 Campaign Speeches. The meaning of a sentence can be altered by a word, a sentence or a previously uttered word or senten...
Basil S. Nnamdi — University of Port Harcourt
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 02 July 2017
Ariche Chrisantus K
Man is an inquisitive being, a curious animal possessing an intellect
and endowed with an insatiable craving for knowledge. This incited
Aristotle to declare that all men by nature desire to know. Thus most
people...
Akpofure Oduaran — Delta State University
· Vol. 23, No. 1
· 01 February 2017
Pidgin and creoles, mixed languages and code-switching are some of the main outcomes of language contact. In Nigeria, as well as other ex-colonial countries in sub-saharan Africa, code-switching between the ex-colonial...
