The Postgraduate Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2024
The 21 st century, being replete with issues that have continued to form the corpus of literary d... more The 21 st century, being replete with issues that have continued to form the corpus of literary discourse, has provided the platform for creative writers to ventilate their creative prowess, in the bid to contemplate societal issues. For instance, feminist critics have continued to take advantage of the changing society to advance their thoughts on the treatment, representation and profiling of women. Thus, the growing concerns of feminist writings could be said to have consistently assume different dimensions, as these writings continue to echo the harsh realities that the 21 st century woman grapples with. These concerns have grown beyond the former projections of women being subservient and relegated, to being sexually commoditised, 'thingified' and objectified. This paper deploys the theory of feminism and the concept of sexual objectification to examine female sexuality and the challenges of survival. The paper examines Kaine Agary's Yellow Yellow and its depiction of the sexuality of women in the face of economic hardship and societal neglect. Although Yellow Yellow has been used by different scholars to illustrate the Niger-Delta condition, especially as it relates to environmental degradation, this study takes a different approach, by focusing on the 'thingification' and commoditisation of the female sexuality as a means for survival in the poverty-ravaged Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.
Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (JOLAN), 2017
There are a number of major and minor languages that today struggle with extinction. Thus, both m... more There are a number of major and minor languages that today struggle with extinction. Thus, both major and minor languages are endangered. The desire for the survival of these languages demands a visit to the past. As such, the series of debates in the past regarding the adoption of one African indigenous language as the official language for the African continent have pathetically, only succeeded in advancing suggestions that have not yielded any positive outcome. This is akin to the Nigerian socio-political context where several attempts at carving a national language for the country have been unprolific. Some of these debates have argued for the adoption of one indigenous language for being more effective in enhancing national development and its sustainability. Thus, the assumption that the sundry linguistic phenomenon that has characterized the African continent, using Nigeria as a microcosm, has given birth to societal issues/vices, such as: civil strife, social unrest, and many other vices occasioned by the language barrier which has continually posed difficulty in communication amongst different linguistic groups in Nigeria. All these have culminated into thwarting developmental goals in Nigeria. This seems to portend that, there is no unity in diversity; no national development, no sustainable development as a result of linguistic diversity. The aim of this research is, therefore, to evaluate how linguistic diversity in Nigeria has marred national development or sustained it. This paper will advance the proposition for the relevance of the trio: language, literature and education for sustainable development. In order to achieve this, the paper will carry out an evaluation of the following concepts: Language, Literature, and education for sustainable development through an array of other critical materials. Similarly, the paper will assess the interwoven relationship, by comparing and contrasting these terms showing the manner in which the multilingual nature of Nigeria, literature and educational policy of Nigeria affect national development. The paper concludes by advancing the argument that education in Nigeria is on the verge of collapse. The paper recommends the need for sound educational system and policies through a robust review of the National Policy on Education, as well as an overhauling of the entire educational institutions in Nigeria for sustainable development.
Dutsinma Journal of English and Literature, Jul 11, 2021
Forensic Discourse is a field of research that has generated great activity in the last decades, ... more Forensic Discourse is a field of research that has generated great activity in the last decades, especially as it relates to crime prevention and solution. It is a growing inter-disciplinary study with great potential applications concerned with the study of language use in context in relation to the law. This paper sought to ascertain if forensic discourse is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) using the features of CDA to compare forensic and CDA. Findings from the study reveal that doing a forensic discourse is essentially doing a CDA. Therefore, the paper advances the proposition, using Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero, that forensic discourse is, in fact, Critical Discourse Analysis. For, like CDA, Forensic Discourse attempts to uncover and/or reveal what is implicit or hidden. Again, like CDA, forensic discourse seeks to understand and expose crime in the society with the view to creating a better and an improved society. The paper concludes that in spite of the very important role forensic discourse plays, linguistic testimonies are sometimes fraught with controversies. Hence, judicial practitioners may be reluctant to accept them as they may view them as not sufficiently reliable.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are ... more According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are blind. Of this figure, 90 percent live in developing countries and constitute the world's most invisible and poorest minorities. In Nigeria, about one million people are estimated to be completely blind while about 3 million have one form of visual impairment or the other. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), as part of effective assessment delivery, adopts the use of Braille Assistive Technology tool for the blind candidates who sit for the Board's examinations in Nigeria. The paper examines the importance of this technology and how it has helped to deliver effective assessment to the blind candidates. The overall objective of the paper therefore is to reiterate the need for the inclusion of the blind in the provision of university education in the African region for both human and national development. Data for the study was extracted from the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) applications and admissions' statistics for the 2008-2011 academic sessions. Descriptive statistics was used in the analysis and findings revealed that Braille technology has no disadvantage on the performance of the blind candidates and thus, should be encouraged.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are ... more According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are blind. Of this figure, 90 percent live in developing countries and constitute the world's most invisible and poorest minorities. In Nigeria, about one million people are estimated to be completely blind while about 3 million have one form of visual impairment or the other. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), as part of effective assessment delivery, adopts the use of Braille Assistive Technology tool for the blind candidates who sit for the Board's examinations in Nigeria. The paper examines the importance of this technology and how it has helped to deliver effective assessment to the blind candidates. The overall objective of the paper therefore is to reiterate the need for the inclusion of the blind in the provision of university education in the African region for both human and national development. Data for the study was extracted from the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) applications and admissions' statistics for the 2008-2011 academic sessions. Descriptive statistics was used in the analysis and findings revealed that Braille technology has no disadvantage on the performance of the blind candidates and thus, should be encouraged.
The importance of item banking to public examinations cannot be overemphasized giving its contrib... more The importance of item banking to public examinations cannot be overemphasized giving its contribution to examination security. It potentially allows for the creation and depositing of several calibrated test items which can also be grouped into parallel forms from which tests can be withdrawn and deployed to a group of candidates. The use of item banking became imperative in test administration with the adoption of the Computer Based Test (CBT) as a testing mode in 2013 by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Thus, from the 2013 UTME, the Board began the assembling of a pool of over 1000 test items each of the twenty-three subjects tested in the UTME from which it can withdraw items for use. In a similar fashion, NABTEB, as an examination body uses standardized test in measuring scholastic achievements. The use of item banking has, thus, spanned a number of years in NABTEB. JAMB and NABTEB item banks are repositories of extensive information
The Postgraduate Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies, 2024
The 21 st century, being replete with issues that have continued to form the corpus of literary d... more The 21 st century, being replete with issues that have continued to form the corpus of literary discourse, has provided the platform for creative writers to ventilate their creative prowess, in the bid to contemplate societal issues. For instance, feminist critics have continued to take advantage of the changing society to advance their thoughts on the treatment, representation and profiling of women. Thus, the growing concerns of feminist writings could be said to have consistently assume different dimensions, as these writings continue to echo the harsh realities that the 21 st century woman grapples with. These concerns have grown beyond the former projections of women being subservient and relegated, to being sexually commoditised, 'thingified' and objectified. This paper deploys the theory of feminism and the concept of sexual objectification to examine female sexuality and the challenges of survival. The paper examines Kaine Agary's Yellow Yellow and its depiction of the sexuality of women in the face of economic hardship and societal neglect. Although Yellow Yellow has been used by different scholars to illustrate the Niger-Delta condition, especially as it relates to environmental degradation, this study takes a different approach, by focusing on the 'thingification' and commoditisation of the female sexuality as a means for survival in the poverty-ravaged Niger-Delta region of Nigeria.
Journal of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (JOLAN), 2017
There are a number of major and minor languages that today struggle with extinction. Thus, both m... more There are a number of major and minor languages that today struggle with extinction. Thus, both major and minor languages are endangered. The desire for the survival of these languages demands a visit to the past. As such, the series of debates in the past regarding the adoption of one African indigenous language as the official language for the African continent have pathetically, only succeeded in advancing suggestions that have not yielded any positive outcome. This is akin to the Nigerian socio-political context where several attempts at carving a national language for the country have been unprolific. Some of these debates have argued for the adoption of one indigenous language for being more effective in enhancing national development and its sustainability. Thus, the assumption that the sundry linguistic phenomenon that has characterized the African continent, using Nigeria as a microcosm, has given birth to societal issues/vices, such as: civil strife, social unrest, and many other vices occasioned by the language barrier which has continually posed difficulty in communication amongst different linguistic groups in Nigeria. All these have culminated into thwarting developmental goals in Nigeria. This seems to portend that, there is no unity in diversity; no national development, no sustainable development as a result of linguistic diversity. The aim of this research is, therefore, to evaluate how linguistic diversity in Nigeria has marred national development or sustained it. This paper will advance the proposition for the relevance of the trio: language, literature and education for sustainable development. In order to achieve this, the paper will carry out an evaluation of the following concepts: Language, Literature, and education for sustainable development through an array of other critical materials. Similarly, the paper will assess the interwoven relationship, by comparing and contrasting these terms showing the manner in which the multilingual nature of Nigeria, literature and educational policy of Nigeria affect national development. The paper concludes by advancing the argument that education in Nigeria is on the verge of collapse. The paper recommends the need for sound educational system and policies through a robust review of the National Policy on Education, as well as an overhauling of the entire educational institutions in Nigeria for sustainable development.
Dutsinma Journal of English and Literature, Jul 11, 2021
Forensic Discourse is a field of research that has generated great activity in the last decades, ... more Forensic Discourse is a field of research that has generated great activity in the last decades, especially as it relates to crime prevention and solution. It is a growing inter-disciplinary study with great potential applications concerned with the study of language use in context in relation to the law. This paper sought to ascertain if forensic discourse is Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) using the features of CDA to compare forensic and CDA. Findings from the study reveal that doing a forensic discourse is essentially doing a CDA. Therefore, the paper advances the proposition, using Wole Soyinka's The Trials of Brother Jero, that forensic discourse is, in fact, Critical Discourse Analysis. For, like CDA, Forensic Discourse attempts to uncover and/or reveal what is implicit or hidden. Again, like CDA, forensic discourse seeks to understand and expose crime in the society with the view to creating a better and an improved society. The paper concludes that in spite of the very important role forensic discourse plays, linguistic testimonies are sometimes fraught with controversies. Hence, judicial practitioners may be reluctant to accept them as they may view them as not sufficiently reliable.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are ... more According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are blind. Of this figure, 90 percent live in developing countries and constitute the world's most invisible and poorest minorities. In Nigeria, about one million people are estimated to be completely blind while about 3 million have one form of visual impairment or the other. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), as part of effective assessment delivery, adopts the use of Braille Assistive Technology tool for the blind candidates who sit for the Board's examinations in Nigeria. The paper examines the importance of this technology and how it has helped to deliver effective assessment to the blind candidates. The overall objective of the paper therefore is to reiterate the need for the inclusion of the blind in the provision of university education in the African region for both human and national development. Data for the study was extracted from the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) applications and admissions' statistics for the 2008-2011 academic sessions. Descriptive statistics was used in the analysis and findings revealed that Braille technology has no disadvantage on the performance of the blind candidates and thus, should be encouraged.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are ... more According to the World Health Organisation (WHO, 2011), about 39 million people in the world are blind. Of this figure, 90 percent live in developing countries and constitute the world's most invisible and poorest minorities. In Nigeria, about one million people are estimated to be completely blind while about 3 million have one form of visual impairment or the other. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), as part of effective assessment delivery, adopts the use of Braille Assistive Technology tool for the blind candidates who sit for the Board's examinations in Nigeria. The paper examines the importance of this technology and how it has helped to deliver effective assessment to the blind candidates. The overall objective of the paper therefore is to reiterate the need for the inclusion of the blind in the provision of university education in the African region for both human and national development. Data for the study was extracted from the Universities Matriculation Examination (UME) and the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) applications and admissions' statistics for the 2008-2011 academic sessions. Descriptive statistics was used in the analysis and findings revealed that Braille technology has no disadvantage on the performance of the blind candidates and thus, should be encouraged.
The importance of item banking to public examinations cannot be overemphasized giving its contrib... more The importance of item banking to public examinations cannot be overemphasized giving its contribution to examination security. It potentially allows for the creation and depositing of several calibrated test items which can also be grouped into parallel forms from which tests can be withdrawn and deployed to a group of candidates. The use of item banking became imperative in test administration with the adoption of the Computer Based Test (CBT) as a testing mode in 2013 by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Thus, from the 2013 UTME, the Board began the assembling of a pool of over 1000 test items each of the twenty-three subjects tested in the UTME from which it can withdraw items for use. In a similar fashion, NABTEB, as an examination body uses standardized test in measuring scholastic achievements. The use of item banking has, thus, spanned a number of years in NABTEB. JAMB and NABTEB item banks are repositories of extensive information
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