Sacred Objects (SOs) are an important aspect of religious beliefs and practices of many
churches in Nigeria, including churches in Ibadan. Previous studies on SOs explored mainly
symbolic, ritual and spiritual values ...
Disability, a motif in African fiction, is used as a trope of postcolonial disillusionment and empowerment. Existing studies on disability in African fiction have concentrated mostly on its literal interpretations, with ...
Significations are important features of disaster narratives that have consistently featured
in online news. Previous linguistic studies on disaster mainly focused on lexicosemantics,ix
discourse patterns and rhetoric ...
Entitlement, which typifies context-bound expression of individuals’ rights, power and privileges
over environmental resources, constitutes a major theme in news reports on herdsmen-farmers
conflict on Nigerian online ...
Public opinion columns in Nigerian newspapers often provide vital information on
sociopolitical issues. Previous studies on political media discourse focused on how public
opinions shape pre-election political debates ...
Slangy expressions, a means of communication among groups of people in casual and
informal settings, are commonly deployed by youths in motor parks. Previous studies on
slangy expressions have focused either on Anglophone ...
The need to implement the Rights of Vulnerable Children (RVC) has remained an issue of global concern. Previous studies on RVC and agencies implementing them have largely been from the legal, educational and medical ...
Francophone novels, including Calixthe Beyala’s, are prominent for their stylistic choices
and aesthetics. Previous studies on Calixthe Beyala's novels focused largely on feminism,
anti-patriarchal preoccupation and ...
African migrant fiction, which recreates characters’ experiences at home and abroad, is
increasingly preoccupied with the representation of dystopian realities. Critical appraisals
of the fiction have largely focused on ...
Bilingual aphasia, an acquired language disorder in which individuals exhibit parallel impairment in the different modalities of speech in two languages, is a major global public health issue. Extant phonological studies ...
Apology, a face-supporting act that maintains harmony between interactants in
discourses, also occurs in drama texts, including those of Wole Soyinka and Ola
Rotimi. Extant linguistic studies on apology largely focused ...
Mosque administration, the art of managing the mosque affairs, is usually the duty of an imam with the assistance of other personnel. Existing studies on mosque administration in southwestern Nigeria focused mainly on ...
The telecommunication industry is characterised by intense competition, which requires the deployment of creative and innovative Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) tools by service providers to attract new and retain ...
The representation of political leaders in editorials provides insight into the media organisations'
perception of their policies, activities and socio-political reforms of these leaders. Previous
studies on Nigerian ...
Translation, a means through which messages are conveyed to non-native speakers of a language, is deployed in subtitling of films, including Túndé Kèlání's. Existing linguistic studies on Yorùbá films focused mainly ...
Multilingualism is one of the features of language contact that characterise language use in
the public space of cosmopolitan areas like Ibadan. Existing linguistic studies on landscape
mostly focused on semiotic analysis ...
Physics is an important science subject that should be given a solid foundation at
secondary school level. However, reports have shown that students, especially in Ondo
city, Nigeria, considered it as a difficult subject ...
Exclusive Breastfeeding (EB), the feeding of infants with breastmilk only in the first
six months of life, is a determinant of nutritional status of children and an
enhancement of nursing mothers’ health. Previous studies ...
ABSTRACT
Ḥalāl food is food that is in conformity with the Sharī‘ah dictates. However, in the South West, Nigeria, a number of foods patronised by Muslims are largely produced and supervised in the context of Codex ...