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Political Thought

Face-Saving Strategies and Context Collapse in Nigerian Socio-Political Social Media Discourse

Marcillina Chidinma Ibe — University of Nigeria Nsukka · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 16 June 2026

Oluchi Esther Ifeanyi Walter Ugwuagbor

Public discourse in Nigeria’s digital sphere has increasingly become a site of political contestation and identity struggle. As social media users engage in critique of governance, they often confront the dual challen...

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Philosophy & Ethics

Beyond Consent: Reclaiming the Digital Subject in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Tamunosiki Markson — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

This paper posits that the prevailing "notice and consent" framework governing data privacy represents a fundamental ethical collapse, primarily because it reduces the concept of human autonomy to a mere bureaucratic...

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Philosophy & Ethics

A Critique of Wittgenstein’s Critique of Metaphysics in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Remigius Achinike Obah — University of Port Harcourt · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

This paper did a critique of Wittgenstein’s critique of Metaphysics in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Wittgenstein, in this book dictates that the sole function of philosophy is to monitor the bounds of sense, to...

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Political Thought

How Editorial Cartoons in Nigerian Newspapers Critique Leadership and the Socio-Economic Implications of the 2023 Fuel Subsidy Removal

Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Onogbeye Vera Iruoghene

The removal of fuel subsidy in Nigeria in 2023 marked a major socio-economic and political turning point that generated widespread hardship and intense public debate. Editorial cartoons, as a form of visual political d...

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Political Thought

Socio-semiotic persuasion in Nigerian political cartoons: Visual discourses of the 2023 fuel subsidy removal

Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Onogbeye Vera Iruoghene

This study investigates socio-semiotic persuasion in political cartoons published in selected Nigerian newspapers during the 2023 fuel subsidy removal. Drawing on a socio-semiotic approach to multimodality, the study...

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Language & Linguistics

Myth and Ideological Resistance in Nigerian Meme Culture: A Semiotic Analysis of “No Gree for Anybody"

Lily Chimuanya — Covenant University · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

Ehioghae Esther Esohe Oremire Judith Ehibor

The phrase “No gree for anybody” emerged in early 2024 as a widely circulating slogan in Nigerian digital spaces. Rooted in Nigerian Pidgin, the expression extends beyond its literal meaning to index defiance, self-ass...

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Art, Music & Performance

Filmic Discourse of Tradition and Change in the Igbo Apprenticeship System (Igba Boi): A Critique of Kayode Kasum’s Afamefuna

Chisimdi Udoka Ihentuge — Alvan Ikoku Federal University of Education · Vol. 32, No. 1 · 10 June 2026

In the spheres of work and business, apprenticeship has been acknowledged as the oldest form of training. The Igbo apprenticeship system (Igba Boi) is a form of training which originated in South-East Nigeria and has...

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Sociology & Anthropology

The Refutation of the Tripartite Definition of Knowledge by Edmund Gettier: A Critical Appraisal

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...

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