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Eribo, Festus. "Higher Education in Nigeria: Decades of Development and Decline." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 24, no. 1 (1996): 64–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1548450500004996.
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On October 1, 1960, the British colonialists departed Nigeria, leaving behind one lonely university campus at Ibadan which was established in 1948 as an affiliate of the University of London and a prototype of British educational philosophy for the colonies. Thirty-five years into the post-colonial era, Nigerians established 40 new universities, 69 polytechnics, colleges of technology and of education. Twenty of the universities and 17 polytechnics are owned by the federal government while the state governments control the others. Nigerian universities are largely directed by Nigerian faculty and staff. The student enrollment in the universities is on the increase, reaching an estimated 400,000 Nigerian students and a handful of African and non-African students.
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Eribo, Festus. "Higher Education in Nigeria: Decades of Development and Decline." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 24, no. 1 (1996): 64–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502212.
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On October 1, 1960, the British colonialists departed Nigeria, leaving behind one lonely university campus at Ibadan which was established in 1948 as an affiliate of the University of London and a prototype of British educational philosophy for the colonies. Thirty-five years into the post-colonial era, Nigerians established 40 new universities, 69 polytechnics, colleges of technology and of education. Twenty of the universities and 17 polytechnics are owned by the federal government while the state governments control the others. Nigerian universities are largely directed by Nigerian faculty and staff. The student enrollment in the universities is on the increase, reaching an estimated 400,000 Nigerian students and a handful of African and non-African students.
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Iwuagwu, Emmanuel Kelechi. "The Need For a Contemporary Nigerian Philosophy to be Taught at Every Level of Nigeria’s Educational Programme." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 12, no. 26 (September 30, 2016): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2016.v12n26p249.
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This paper while acknowledging the importance of an in-depth study of Western philosophy as well as African philosophy for students of philosophy department holds that this content will not bring about the ethical, socio-political and economic reengineering very much needed in Nigeria. It is the contention of this paper that there is great need for social value reorientation in Nigeria and philosophy should provide the hub for this reengineering of the Nigerian society. The paper argues that there is a big vacuum at the base of Nigeria’s educational system where the students lack any philosophical sense of direction and do not as much as know the philosophy that underlies the societal way of life. The paper employing a critical philosophical appraisal of the current state of affairs argues that philosophy should not only be merely introduced to university students as one of the general courses studied for one semester, it should be studied from the nursery/primary school level through the secondary school to the university level. The content according to this paper should be well articulated as Contemporary Nigerian Philosophy with emphasis on moral leadership training with focus to incorporate future leaders into national values as well as inculcate in them a sense of patriotism which will help address the current ethical, socio-political and economic problems confronting the present day Nigerian society. The paper concluded by advocating the philosophical formulation of a generally acceptable value design to be copied by every segment of the society which will be taught as Contemporary Nigerian Philosophy at all levels of the Nigerian educational program and for all students whether in public or private schools.
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Oyekunle, Adegboyega O. "Political Corruption and the Future of Nigerian Politics." International Law Research 4, no. 1 (October 29, 2015): 178. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ilr.v4n1p178.
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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of political corruption on the Nigerian society. It examines the future of the political status of Nigeria given the present experiences in the polity. The paper employs the analytic and critical method of philosophy, with a view to showing the influence of Machiavelli’s political philosophy on the Nigerian political elites. The central argument of this paper is that the interpretation of politics in the Machiavellian way, its adoption and practice by Nigerian political elites stand as the root cause of political corruption in the country.
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Presbey, Gail. "Sophie Olúwọlé's Major Contributions to African Philosophy." Hypatia 35, no. 2 (2020): 231–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.6.
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AbstractThis article provides an overview of the contributions to philosophy of Nigerian philosopher Sophie Bọ´sẹ`dé Olúwọlé (1935–2018). The first woman to earn a philosophy PhD in Nigeria, Olúwọlé headed the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lagos before retiring to found and run the Centre for African Culture and Development. She devoted her career to studying Yoruba philosophy, translating the ancient Yoruba Ifá canon, which embodies the teachings of Orunmila, a philosopher revered as an Óríṣá in the Ifá pantheon. Seeing his works as examples of secular reasoning and argument, she compared Orunmila's and Socrates' philosophies and methods and explored similarities and differences between African and European philosophies. A champion of African oral traditions, Olúwọlé argued that songs, proverbs, liturgies, and stories are important sources of African responses to perennial philosophical questions as well as to contemporary issues, including feminism. She argued that the complementarity that ran throughout Yoruba philosophy guaranteed women's rights and status, and preserved an important role for women, youths, and foreigners in politics.
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Mohammad, Dahiru Sale, and Sarimah Ismail. "Comparative Analysis Between Nigeria and Malaysia Education Policies and Employability Skills in Tvet Curriculum." Open Journal of Science and Technology 2, no. 2 (October 19, 2019): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.31580/ojst.v2i2.912.
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Nigeria and Malaysia have almost similar historical background; both had sultan as spiritual and government leader in their major areas, colonized by British and got independence in 1960 and 1957 respectively. Presently, Malaysia has recorded human development increments from 1980 to date and aspire to be a developed country in 2020. While Nigeria has recorded poverty increments from 1980 to date and it may likely be among underdeveloped countries in 2020. The purpose of this study was to make judgments about Technical and Vocational Education and training (TVET) systems of Malaysia and Nigeria. The idea was to see what makes Malaysian system successful and how Nigeria addressed its TVET problems. The methodology employed in this paper was analytical method of study that involved evaluation based on critical reading and review of materials which include Nigeria and Malaysia education philosophies, policies, TVET curriculums, employability skills, Malaysian Human Development Index and Nigeria’s Poverty Incidence. Findings revealed that education philosophy and education policy of Malaysia is intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced based on firm belief and devotion to God while Nigerian education philosophy and policy are limited to intellectual and physical development. Malaysia TVET curriculum is equipped with employability skills including core skills, generic skills and personal attributes which are likely contributed to Malaysian human development and full employment of TVET graduates. Malaysia has recorded increments in human and economic developments from 1980 to date while Nigeria TVET curriculum has not been integrated with employability skills which are likely contributed to Nigeria’s poverty incidence and high Nigerian unemployment rate across all educational levels including TVET graduates at both secondary and tertiary levels. Nigeria has recorded steady increase of poverty incidence from 1980 to date.
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Ekanem, Samuel Aloysius, and Peter Bisong Bisong. "IMPLICATIONS OF FEYERABEND’S ANARCHISTIC PHILOSOPHY FOR NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES." Social Sciences, Humanities and Education Journal (SHE Journal) 2, no. 1 (January 31, 2021): 13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25273/she.v2i1.8547.
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Education is a very important variable of economic growth and development. It could be said that the rate of growth of an economy is directly proportional to the quality of education meted on the populace. This is the reason every society strives to educate its citizens. However, Nigeria remains backward in terms of education delivery. There are millions of unemployable graduates rooming her streets searching for jobs. Though many reasons could be pointed as the cause of this, this work beams its searchlight on policymaking and implementation. It argues that if the right policies are made and dutifully implemented, the quality of education would improve. Using the tool of Feyerabend’s anarchism, the work analysed the Nigerian Policy of education, pointing at areas of weaknesses and recommending action points for government and policymakers. It concludes that if Feyerabend’s anarchism is made to guide policy-making in Nigeria, educational progress would ensue.
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Egbekpalu, Purissima. "Philosophy and Human Development: Nigerian Context." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 18, no. 2 (July 20, 2017): 67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v18i2.4.
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Rauf, Zaka, and MUSA YUSUF. "RELEVANCE OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION TO CURRICULUM THEORY AND DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN HUMANITIES 3, no. 2 (August 15, 2015): 256–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jah.v3i2.5107.
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Attempts of undue separation of the philosophy of education and curriculum theory and development in the teaching of systematic functional education have been seriously criticized. This has been so because it is not in the best interest in the teaching of an intelligent and national curriculum which forms the bedrock to the development of a truly vibrant educational system in Nigeria. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to investigate the relevance of the philosophy of education to the development of an intelligent curriculum which is imperative to the teaching of functional education in the technical, the sciences, the humanities and social sciences towards the revitalization of the Nigerian educational sector.
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Pucherova, Dobrota. "Afropolitan narratives and empathy: Migrant identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah and Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference." Human Affairs 28, no. 4 (October 25, 2018): 406–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2018-0033.
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Abstract The article analyzes two novels of migration by Nigerian women authors in the context of Afropolitanism: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah (2013) and Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference (2013). It is argued that Afropolitanism obscures the reasons why migration from Africa to the West has been increasing in the decades since independence, rather than decreasing. In comparing the two novels, the article focuses on empathy towards and solidarity between fellow Nigerians, which has been seen by Nigerian philosopher Chielozona Eze as crucial for building African civil society and functional state.
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Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka, Folajimi Oyebola, and Ulrike Gut. "“Abeg na! we write so our comments can be posted!”." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 31, no. 3 (March 8, 2021): 455–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.19038.unu.
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Abstract This paper examines three borrowed pragmatic markers from Nigerian Pidgin into Nigerian English, abeg, sef and na, with a view to exploring their meanings, frequencies, spelling adaptability, syntactic positions, collocational patterns and discourse-pragmatic functions in Nigerian English. The data which were extracted from the International Corpus of English-Nigeria and the Nigerian component of the corpus of Global Web-based English were analysed quantitatively and qualitatively, using the theory of pragmatic borrowing. The results indicate that the three pragmatic markers differ distinctly in their frequency across text types, syntactic position, the range of pragmatic meanings, the number of spelling variants and their collocations: abeg is used as a mitigation marker which can also function as an emphasis marker, sef is an emphasis marker but has additive and dismissive functions, while na is used purely as an emphasis pragmatic marker. The study shows the influence of Nigerian Pidgin on Nigerian English.
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Bolaji, David. "Emurobome Idolor and the Discourse of Nigerian Art Music: A 60th Birthday Celebration." AFRREV IJAH: An International Journal of Arts and Humanities 9, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ijah.v9i1.6.
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This article focused on some of the contributions of Emurobome Idolor in the Nigerian music studies. His scholarly contributions cut across different areas of Art Music including Ethnomusicology, Music Composition, Conducting, African Music and Music education in Nigeria. This article identifies and acknowledges the ideological concept of Idolor’s Philosophy towards excellence. Also, this article justified and abstracted some musical attributes that he portrayed as a scholar in Nigerian Art music. Empirical method of research was used for this study, through the holistic overview of some of his scholarly publications and two of his art music compositions titled “Glory Hallelujah and Nigeria’ Otoro So Owan. Through abstractive analysis of these creative works, younger art composers will learn and acquire divers’ compositional techniques that can be used and adopted in promoting African indigenous music.
Key Words: Hard Work, Philosophical Perspective, Art Music and African Music
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Elechi, Maraizu. "Western Racist Ideologies and the Nigerian Predicament." Dialogue and Universalism 31, no. 1 (2021): 87–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/du20213116.
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Racism is responsible for discrimination against some citizens in Nigeria. It influences government's policies and actions and militates against equity and equal opportunity for all. It has effaced indigenous values and ebbed the country into groaning predicaments of shattered destiny and derailed national development. Racism hinges on superciliousness and the assumed superiority of one tribe and religion over the others. These bring to the fore two forms of racism in Nigeria: institutional and interpersonal racisms. The Western selfish motive to dominate, marginalize, and sustain economic gains, political expansion, psycho-mental control, and socio-cultural devaluations escalated racism in Nigeria. Racist ideologies were entrenched through the selfish ventures of slave trade, colonialism and neo-colonialism, which enforced an unprecedented unjust harvest of impugnable systemic practices. Neo-colonial forces continue to promote ethnocentrism, cultural imperialism, and the dehumanization, exploitation, oppression, and suppression of Africans. Adopting a methodical approach of critical analysis, this article spotlights the negative effects of racism on Nigeria's development. However, the bristling challenges of racist ideologies can be resolved within the epistemological compass of gynist deconstruction approach to human thought and action for a better universe of one human race.
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Ahove, Michael Adetunji. "Paradigm Shifts of the African Worldview." Environmental Ethics 40, no. 4 (2018): 343–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/enviroethics201840433.
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Africa is the most vulnerable region of the world due to anthropogenic climate change challenges on account of dependence on nature for the sustenance of agriculture as her main source of income, high level of poverty, and low level of literacy. Climate change adaptation involves strategies of adjusting to the negative effects of climate change, while climate change mitigation involves techniques that help to reduce production of greenhouse gases through burning fossil fuels. The African worldview from the frontier of Nigerian epistemological and ontological perspectives as it finds expression in climate change adaptation and mitigation is built on the foundations of its relationship with nature, traditional religion and belief systems, agricultural practices, and some other day-to-day practices. Worldview analysis of the contemporary Nigerian has been conducted and classified into Original African, Westernized African, and Little Here-and-There African, a paradigm existing in Nigerians irrespective of level of Western education. What will be the fate of the younger Nigerian climate scientist in a globalized and technologically competitive world? This question gives rise to further discussion on the principles and application of the theory of Culturo-Techno-Contextual Approach as postulated by Peter A. Okebukola and applied to creating an environment for meaningful learning on climate change adaptation and mitigation for the future generations of Nigerians.
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Olawoyin, Olusegun Noah. "Religious Epistemology in John Hick’s Philosophy: A Nigerian Appreciation." Open Journal of Philosophy 06, no. 02 (2016): 201–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpp.2016.62019.
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Adeyemi-Suenu, Adebowale. "Armed Rebellion and the Future of Self-Determination in the Niger Delta." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 43 (November 2014): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.43.18.
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Armed rebellion has remained a constant decimal in the relation between the states and rebel groups in contemporary strategic discourse. The resolve by the Niger people of Nigeria to resort to arms and their agitations appear to have found deeper understanding within the context of history. This paper takes a historical look at the foundations of the agitations of the people of the Niger Delta and the ultimate decision to address their displeasure through the use terror or armed rebellion. It addresses the philosophy underpinning self-determination programmes of the Niger Delta militants and the responses of Nigerian state to the agitations of the Niger Delta militants. The paper therefore concludes that the use of arms as the ultimate ratio may remain the future of relationship in the Niger Delta because of the fundamental defects in the policies of the Nigerian state.
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Ubale Yahaya, Dr Jibrin. "Political Ideology of Aristotle and It’s Connection to Operation of Good Governance and Peaceful Living in Nigeria." Addaiyan Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences 7, no. 1 (October 10, 2019): 20–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.36099/ajahss.1.7.2.
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Philosophers have played significant roles in understanding the historical development of man, societal changes and events that had been guided by their thought and thinking. This paper, therefore, is an attempt to study how the ideas of Aristotle's political philosophy can help Nigerian political leaders in giving maximum happiness to the citizens by providing an environment of sustainable peace and other related social services to the citizens. The objective is to analyze the relevance of Aristotle's political ideas to the art of governance and leadership in Nigeria. As Nigerian political leaders struggle to provide welfare to the citizens, it will be important to adopt some of the philosophical premises advocated by great philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to the process of governance. The study made use of secondary sources of information as to its methodology. The study has found out that if Nigerian political leaders will apply Aristotle’s political ideas such as his prescription on the duties of state, the importance of education to the citizens and the idea of private property to the art of governance, then there is need for contemporary elected leaders of Nigeria to be able to give maximum happiness to the citizens through the provision of conditions for peaceful environment and providing for basic social amenities which are relevant to improving lives of the general members of the society.
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Enemuo, John-Paul Chinedu. "John Locke’s concept of state: A panacea for the challenges of Nigeria democracy." OGIRISI: a New Journal of African Studies 15, no. 1 (October 19, 2020): 214–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/og.v15i1.14s.
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Nigerian form and practice of democracy is very faulty, ranging from the foundation to the very level of the actual practice of democracy. Most political office holders in Nigeria arrive at the corridors of power through avenues devoid of generally accepted standard of democratic principle, it is in Nigeria that one gets to hear and see that power is actually taken and not given as is provided by the principles of democracy. John Locke in his political theory presented consent as the bedrock of democracy and went further to outline the aims of civil government. Consequently, any civil government that deviates from the provisions of the social contract theory, stands the risk of dissolution. From the foregoing, the reverse is the case in the Nigerian socio-political space. This work makes use of analytical method in philosophy to investigate the shortcomings in the characteristics of democracy being practiced in Nigeria, it would analyze John Locke’s concept of the state placing it in line with current trends in the Nigerian political scene. The researcher discovered that what is practiced in Nigeria falls short, far below standard of what is generally known and practiced worldwide as democracy which by implication is the “government of the people, by the people and for the people, viewing it through the lens and window of Lockean provision. Finally, this paper concludes that Nigeria politicians and office holders should eschew selfishness and pursue that which would contribute positively to the commonwealth. Democracy is people/masses oriented. Once a nation misses this target, the glory of that nation automatically starts corroding and subsequently fades away, and the result is seen in the gross suffering of the citizens.
Keywords: Democracy, Politics, Nigeria, Power, Government.
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Adeyanju, Nasirudeen Abdulrahim, Muhammad Umar, and Abdulraheem Muhammad Sunusi. "The Educational Philosophy of Boko-haram; Analysis from Islamic Perspective." Ulum Islamiyyah 32 (December 2, 2020): 55–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.33102/uij.vol32no.82.
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Abstract The Nigerian armed forces are doing their utmost to crush the Boko-haram insurgency. However, killing and dislodging members of the group does not indicate the total elimination of its ideology. The arguments of the movement against conventional education remain in circulation among people awaiting another generation to champion the course in a new identity. To eradicate the ideology and its influence, there is a need for thorough intellectual and logical responses to those arguments. It is against this background that this paper sought to analyse the movement’s arguments that conventional education should be prohibited on the ground that it originated from the West and was introduced in the country to promote Christianity. The paper realized that this argument is unfounded because conventional education is not a western property, rather a global heritage comprising the remarkable contributions of the Muslim world. Moreover, Islam does not forbid Muslims to benefit from any useful knowledge irrespective of where it originates from as long as it does not contravene Islamic teachings. It also found that using schools for promoting Christianity is not more applicable to many public and private schools in Nigeria today. The paper encouraged Muslims to pursue education to its highest level. Keywords: Boko-haram, Conventional education, Islam, Muslims, Nigeria
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Maikanti, Sale, Austin Chukwu, Moses Gideon Odibah, and Moses Valentina Ogu. "Globalization as a Factor for Language Endangerment: Nigerian Indigenous Languages in Focus." Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (MJSSH) 6, no. 9 (September 10, 2021): 521–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.47405/mjssh.v6i9.1055.
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Globalization can be viewed from economic, cultural and socio-political perspectives including information and communication technology (ICT). In view of this, it is seen as the increasing empowerment of western cultural values including language, philosophy and world view. In many African countries Nigeria inclusive, English language which is the language of colonization is gradually becoming a global language due to its influence and subsequent adoption as the official language by many African nations which are largely multi-cultural and multilingual under the British colony. This trend has not only relegated the status of Nigerian Indigenous languages to the background but has also threatened their existence in Nigeria which accommodates over 500 native languages. If this trend is left unchecked, the ill-wind of globalization will gradually sweep the native languages including the so-called major ones (Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba) out of existence particularly in Nigeria. This paper discusses globalization as one of the major factors for language endangerment with respect to Nigeria as a nation, with a view to proffering possible solutions capable of sustaining and empowering the nation’s socio-cultural and economic stability.
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English, Parker. "NIGERIAN ETHNOPHILOSOPHY, UNITARY EXPERIENCE, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT." Journal of Social Philosophy 22, no. 1 (March 1991): 102–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9833.1991.tb00024.x.
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Ameh, John Oko, and Koleola Tunwase Odusami. "Nigerian Building Professionals’ Ethical Ideology and Perceived Ethical Judgement." Construction Economics and Building 10, no. 3 (October 28, 2010): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ajceb.v10i3.1602.
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In recent years, Nigeria is often cited in the international media in connection with corruption and other unethical practices. The professionals in the Nigerian building industry are not immune from the national trend in ethical erosion. Moral philosophy or ethical ideology has been used to explain individuals’ reasoning about moral issues and consequent behaviour. This study examines building industry professionals’ ethical ideologies with a view to understanding their ethical behaviour in professional practice. In carrying out this investigation, building professionals in clients’ organisations, contracting and consultancy organisations within the industry were asked to respond to the Ethics Position Questionnaire (EPQ) designed by Forsyth in order to determine their idealism and relativism level. Subsequently, they were classified into one of four groups, representing different ethical ideologies. The result indicates that the dominant ethical ideology of building industry professionals is situationism. The study predicts that the attitude of building industry professionals in practice, given the current socio-political and economic situation of Nigeria would possibly be unethical because of the extreme influence situational factors have on their behaviour. This finding is a bold step and necessary benchmark for resolving ethical issues within the industry and should be of interest to policy makers. It is also useful for intra professional ethical comparison.
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Hassan, Aminu, and Reza Kouhy. "From environmentalism to corporate environmental accountability in the Nigerian petroleum industry." International Journal of Energy Sector Management 9, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 204–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijesm-05-2014-0008.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore firm–stakeholder environmental accountability relationship in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops, from the interdisciplinary literature, a normative framework that links the dominant environmentalism paradigm to the business-firm-causality environmental philosophy. The link is underpinned by the theory of stakeholder identification and salience to enable the identification and evaluation of the importance placed on each environmental stakeholder group by oil and gas companies in the Nigerian oil and gas sector. Findings – This paper submits that three factors, originating from how these companies identify and classify green stakeholders, lead to little and unimpressive efforts to effectively discharge environmental accountability. These factors include weak, legal powers of regulatory environmental stakeholders; non-recognition of the host communities as powerful environmental stakeholders; and non-recognition of the Nigerian public as legitimate environmental stakeholders. Social implications – Underestimating the importance of some key, environmental stakeholders and the weak powers of regulatory environmental stakeholders leads to limited commitments to environmental accountability by oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria. Inevitably, this results in persistent conflict, violence, destruction of the oil companies’ properties and other various forms of unrest common in the Niger Delta. Originality/value – The paper develops a unique normative framework from the relevant literature in environmental ethics, environmental management and environmental accounting that are used to evaluate firms-stakeholder environmental accountability relationship.
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Adeyemi-Suenu, Adebowale. "Terror and Insecurity: The Impact of Boko Haram Crisis on Nigeria’s External Image." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 43 (November 2014): 27–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.43.27.
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The use of terror as a ratio for resolving internal fundamental differences is not uncommon in neo-colonial societies. This is not saying that flashes of same are not recogn ised in the developed environment. The prevalence of this alternative appears as old as the political history of Nigeria. This work underscores the theoretical and historical basis of rebellion in Nigeria primarily focusing on the rise, fundamental philosophy and the vision of the Boko Haramists. The central thesis of this work is that Boko Haram activities have negative effects on Nigeria’s external image and fundamentally, it exposes the nature and dynamics of Nigeria’s security problems. The work contributes in part to the literature on this issue but significantly, it situates the problems within strategic logic which amplifies the degeneration of the problems and the incessant rebellion against the Nigerian State.
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Odebunmi, Akin. "Concealment in consultative encounters in Nigerian hospitals." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 21, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 619–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.21.4.06ode.
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Although communication in medical practice is reputed for exactitude and objectivity, many doctors in several countries make equivocal, concealing utterances in certain situations when relating with clients. This phenomenon, despite its importance in doctor-client interaction, has received little attention from language scholars who have discussed concealment mainly as a strategy in news delivery. The present study examines concealment items in the interaction between doctors and clients in South-western Nigerian hospitals and their pragmatic implications for medical communication in Nigeria. Fifty (50) conversations between doctors and clients on several ailments were tape-recorded in the six states of South-western Nigeria. Structured and unstructured interviews were conducted with selected doctors and clients. The corpus was examined for the linguistic and pragmatic resources deployed by doctors in concealing information, and was analysed using Jacob Mey’s theory of pragmeme and insights from the literature on news delivery strategies. Concealment was found to take place between doctors and clients in a two-phase mode: Referential and pragmatic. Utterances which have descriptive forms at the referential level assume subjective and divergent shades in the context of concealment at the pragmatic level. Nine concealment strategies (jargonisation, veiling, forecasting, mitigation, stalling, normalisation, dysphemisation, euphemisation and doublespeak) were found to be employed to achieve four broad goals: Preventive, palliative, culture-compliant and confidential with respect to 25 diseases /medical procedures. Concealment in consultative encounters takes into account the socio-psychological security needs of clients and attends positively to clients’ cultural expectations.
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Pratt, Cornelius B., and Gerald W. McLaughlin. "Ethical Dimensions of Nigerian Journalists and Their Newspapers." Journal of Mass Media Ethics 5, no. 1 (March 1990): 30–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327728jmme0501_3.
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Maduabuchi, Olisa Raphael, and Eugene Anowai. "Epistemic Investigation into the Problems and Challenges of Philosophy in Nigerian Society." Open Journal of Philosophy 08, no. 04 (2018): 428–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/ojpp.2018.84029.
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Bula, Andrew. "Literary Musings and Critical Mediations: Interview with Rev. Fr Professor Amechi N. Akwanya." Journal of Practical Studies in Education 2, no. 5 (August 6, 2021): 26–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.46809/jpse.v2i5.30.
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Reverend Father Professor Amechi Nicholas Akwanya is one of the towering scholars of literature in Nigeria and elsewhere in the world. For decades, and still counting, Fr. Prof. Akwanya has worked arduously, professing literature by way of teaching, researching, and writing in the Department of English and Literary Studies of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. To his credit, therefore, this genius of a literature scholar has singularly authored over 70 articles, six critically engaging books, a novel, and three volumes of poetry. His PhD thesis, Structuring and Meaning in the Nigerian Novel, which he completed in 1989, is a staggering 734-page document. Professor Akwanya has also taught many literature courses, namely: European Continental Literature, Studies in Drama, Modern Literary Theory, African Poetry, History of Theatre: Aeschylus to Shakespeare, European Theatre since Ibsen, English Literature Survey: the Beginnings, Semantics, History of the English Language, History of Criticism, Modern Discourse Analysis, Greek and Roman Literatures, Linguistics and the Teaching of Literature, Major Strands in Literary Criticism, Issues in Comparative Literature, Discourse Theory, English Poetry, English Drama, Modern British Literature, Comparative Studies in Poetry, Comparative Studies in Drama, Studies in African Drama, and Philosophy of Literature. A Fellow of Nigerian Academy of Letters, Akwanya’s open access works have been read over 109,478 times around the world. In this wide-ranging interview, he speaks to Andrew Bula, a young lecturer from Baze University, Abuja, shedding light on a variety of issues around which his life revolves.
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Iwuchukwu, Marinus. "Democracy in a Multireligious and Cultural Setting: The Nigerian Context." World Futures 59, no. 5 (January 2003): 381–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02604020310115.
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Ekwemalor, Chukwudi C., and Ifeoma E. Ezeobele. "Psychosocial Impacts of Immigration on Nigerian Immigrants in the United States: A Phenomenological Study." Journal of Transcultural Nursing 31, no. 3 (July 19, 2019): 276–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1043659619863087.
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Introduction. Nigerian immigrants constitute a major proportion of the increasing immigration trend from sub-Saharan Africa to the United States. However, limited studies exist on the psychosocial impacts of their immigration experiences. This phenomenological study, based on Husserlian philosophy, explored the perceptions of Nigerian immigrants about the psychosocial impacts of immigration to the United States. Method. Twenty Nigerian immigrants in Houston, Texas, constituting a purposive sample were interviewed face-to-face using semistructured guided questions and probes. Results. A thematic analysis using Giorgi’s approach revealed both positive and negative themes but mostly negative psychosocial experiences of migration to the United States. Discussion. The participants associated the most negative experiences with the lack of adequate preparation prior to migration and the cultural differences between the two countries. Notwithstanding that the findings of this study have health and immigration policy implications and increased awareness for potential immigrants, further studies are needed.
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Ebo, Bosah L. "The Ethical Dilemma of African Journalists: A Nigerian Perspective." Journal of Mass Media Ethics 9, no. 2 (June 1994): 84–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327728jmme0902_2.
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Adetunji, Akin. "The interactional context of humor in Nigerian stand-up comedy." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 23, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.23.1.01ade.
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Research in the pragmatics of Nigerian humor is almost nil. This article, therefore, highlighted the major pragmatic strategies used by Nigerian stand-up comedians to involve their audiences in the creation of the interactional context of humor. Data comprised fifteen randomly-sampled extracts from the video compact disc recordings of the routines of five stand-up comedians. Analysis revealed the saliency of linguistic coding, stereotyping, formulas, call-and-response, self-deprecation, and shared experiences which not only involved both comedian and audience in humor production and consumption but which additionally reduced the stage authority of the comedian to the barest minimum. It was concluded that Nigerian stand-up comedy’s interactional tenor could be uniquely hinged on linguistic coding, essentially the code-alternation of Nigerian Pidgin (especially) and English Language.
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Ayimoro, Oluwatoyin Dorcas. "Attaining a Lifelong and Equitable Literate Society: The Challenges of National Policies on Education for All." American International Journal of Education and Linguistics Research 2, no. 2 (October 7, 2019): 46–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.46545/aijelr.v2i2.109.
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Evidence abounds on the fact that literacy and education are important for a developed State. Also, there are global records on the movement to a knowledge based economy rather than a resource based. Thus, globally efforts are being put in place to achieve a considerable percentage of literacy among citizens if not for all because a nation that refuses to place high premium on the education of her citizenry may be toying with her level of development. Nigeria is endowed with a rich culture and indigenous education but colonization disrupted the system she would have built upon to sustain her own philosophy. She is a signatory to policy documents on the attainment of Education for All (EFA). However, despite the institution of several policies on the promotion of literacy education from pre-independence till- date, Nigeria is still battling with a large population of illiterates especially, among its females; gender inequality and less development is evident in the society. This is a reflection of inadequate attention to lifelong learning opportunities for the citizenry. Policy formulation without adequate commitment towards development from all stakeholders also pervades the Nigerian society. This, question arise, will Universal Basic Education (UBE) thrive, especially within the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) taking into cognizance, the past history and the present situation on the approach to enhancing lifelong and inclusive EFA in Nigeria? Can the Universal Basic Education enhance an equitable society which will create an enabling environment for an all-round oriented sustainable development with equal opportunities for all? More so, education is essential for societal development. This paper thus examine past education initiatives of the Nigerian government within the context of enhancing a lifelong well informed egalitarian society.
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Ikhariale, M. A. "The Independence of the Judiciary under the Third Republican Constitution of Nigeria." Journal of African Law 34, no. 2 (1990): 145–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021855300008287.
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One of the fundamental principles underlying the Nigerian constitutional process is that of the independence of the judiciary. The concept, in its basic form, embodies the entire philosophy of constitutional democracy especially as emphasised by the preamble to the Constitution which is for “promoting the good government and welfare of all persons … on the principles of Equality, Freedom and Justice”. In a country such as Nigeria which is presently characterised by political and economic underdevelopment, it is generally considered constitutionally desirable that a viable contrivance such as the institutional separation of the judiciary from the other arms of the government is a necessary bulwark against all forms of political and social tyranny, administrative victimisation and oppression. In other words, the freedom of the judicature from any influence, whether exerted by the legislature or the executive, or even from the judiciary itself, which is capable of leading to any form of injustice, abuse, miscarriage of justice, judicial insensitivity or other court-related vices is a condition sine qua non for the establishment of a durable political order based on the rule of law and constitutionalism.The notion of the independence of the judiciary has its philosophical ancestry in the time-honoured theory of the separation of powers, a doctrine which incidentally features prominently in the allocation of state powers under the Nigerian constitutional scheme.
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Agius, Dionisius A. "Review of Kaye (1986): Nigerian Arabic—English Dictionary." Diachronica 4, no. 1-2 (January 1, 1987): 231–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.4.1-2.12agi.
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Mbachu, Dulue. "Nigerian journalists missing in Liberia." Index on Censorship 20, no. 6 (June 1991): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229108535128.
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A. Laleye, Solomon. "Democracy in Conflict and Conflicts in Democracy: The Nigerian Experience." Cultura 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10193-011-0008-x.
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Tosin Gbogi, Michael. "Language, identity, and urban youth subculture." Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 26, no. 2 (June 1, 2016): 171–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/prag.26.2.01tos.
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Towards the turn of the 20th century, a new wave of hip hop music emerged in Nigeria whose sense of popularity activated, and was activated by, the employment of complex linguistic strategies. Indirection, ambiguity, circumlocution, language mixing, pun, double meaning, and inclusive pronominals, among others, are not only used by artists in performing the glocal orientations of their music but also become for them valuable resources in the fashioning of multiple identities. In this paper, I interrogate some of these linguistic markers, using four broad paradigms: “Signifying,” “slangifying,” “double meaning,” and “pronominals and ghetto naming.” Under each of these areas, I show how Nigerian hip hop music is creating–through the mediation of language–sub-identities and a new subculture for a generation of urban youth.
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Ireyefoju, Paul Jackson. "Constructing Education for Self-Realization on the Basis of Plato's Human Psychology: The Nigerian Experience." International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences 48 (February 2015): 192–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ilshs.48.192.
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Education for self realization is one of the cardinal point through wish our national philosophy and educational goals can be realized. Self realization is aimed at self confidence, self actualization, self reliance, independence, free and responsible citizenry who are capable of contributing meaningfully to the development of humanity. In realizing this goal, the schooling system largely depends on the instructional approach which makes both educators and learners to rely on classroom instructions to realize the self. It is true that much has been realized through this approach, yet it is not every learner that can benefit from the instructional approach. Using Plato's human psychology to construct education for self realization, the Nigerian learner will realize himself more because it will enable him to discover his potentials. But to what extent therefore can Plato's human psychology help in the construction of education for self realization in Nigeria education? The importance of this paper is that every being has desires and if such desires are matched with potentials and possibilities it may lead to the authentic self. The philosophical analysis method was employed in examining Plato's human psychology, education for self realization and how Plato's human psychology can be used to construct education for self realization in the schooling system.
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Suell, David Thomas. "Leave the Dead Some Room to Dance: Postcolonial Founding and the Problem of Inheritance in Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests." Political Theory 48, no. 3 (October 3, 2019): 330–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591719878403.
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In this essay, I examine Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s A Dance of the Forests in order to think through political founding. Viewing founding from the postcolonial context, I explore how members of a political community negotiate among the multiple pasts that continue to affect them, and what kind of institutions and actors are best equipped to pursue this critical part of the founding project. Situating Soyinka’s account against competing narratives of the postcolonial condition, I demonstrate how he uses Yoruba philosophy and cosmology to reframe the challenges and potentials of founding, and I illustrate how political actors should respond to these by adopting the role of “citizen-artists” who can learn from past struggles and overcome their overwhelming legacies. Read as a dramatic intervention into Nigerian democratic politics and as a work of political theory, A Dance offers a lens through which to interrogate founding within and beyond the postcolony.
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Unuabonah, Foluke O. "Direct quotations in Nigerian investigative public hearings." Text & Talk 38, no. 4 (June 26, 2018): 503–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/text-2018-0012.
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Abstract This paper examines the forms, frequency and pragmatic functions of direct quotations in Nigerian investigative public hearings on the Federal Capital Territory administration. The quotations are taken from 40 purposively selected investigative public hearings which are analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively from a discourse-pragmatic approach to quotations as well as from the perspective of metapragmatic act theory. The quotations involve both written and spoken quotations, self- and other-quotations, as well as actual and hypothetical quotations. Direct quotations are used in the hearings by quoters to frame their discourse, support their claims, indicate different stances, depict victimhood, serve as reminders, correct misunderstandings, and model discourse. The forms, distribution and functions of these quotations indicate how speakers in the hearings frame their discourse in order to help hearers interpret their talk appropriately.
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Oribayo, Helen Chukwudi, Ayodele Olalekan Shotunde, and Godwin Ehi Azenabor. "A Critical Reflection of Martins Buber’s Philosophy of Education and its Relevance in the New-State." Filosofiya osvity. Philosophy of Education 25, no. 2 (July 3, 2020): 114–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31874/2309-1606-2019-25-2-6.
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The aim of this essay is to examine the relevance of I and Thou through the lens of Martins Buber’s philosophy of education. The fundamental problem is that the educational system in the new-states like Nigeria is in need of re-orientation. Owing to this, policy formulators and educational practitioners need to see education in relational terms with regards to its relevance, implementation and its methodology together with the ends which education wishes to serve to as a facilitator of societal development. The method of critical analysis is useful to facilitate the re-orientation exercise. Findings show that Buber’s philosophy of education as embedded in the idea of I and Thou encourages interaction among individuals which are integral to the flourishing of positive relationship between the educational system and the community. Consequently, the paper attempts to unveil how this value position could impact positively on the Nigerian educational system in a bid to avert its decline. Buber’s I-Thou (You) relationship opens avenue for encounter in which people could engage with each other fully through dialogue. The education is based on authentic relations between teachers and learners where knowledge that is not imposed by the teacher is the basis of true pedagogy. In Buber’s idea of “I and Thou (You)”, personal relation should tend beyond individualism and collectivism for the future generations. The knowledge of self should be first and foremost: learners must be taught to explore their two autonomous instincts: the originator and the communion. Buber explains that the goal of the learner is to turn objective knowledge into active knowledge which helps in self actualization in the relational world.
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Raimi, L., and I. Adeleke. "A review and measurement of capacity utilisation in the Nigerian economy." Humanomics 25, no. 4 (October 30, 2009): 274–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/08288660910997647.
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Abdullahi, Abdurrahman, and Anwar Hasan Abdullah Othman. "Financial inclusion enhancement through the adoption of Islamic microfinance in Nigeria." International Journal of Ethics and Systems 37, no. 3 (June 28, 2021): 486–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijoes-02-2021-0040.
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Purpose This paper aims to examine the determinants of intention to adopt Islamic microfinance among prospective customers in Nigeria, to enhance access to formal financial services. Design/methodology/approach The quantitative study used the proportionate stratified random sampling technique to collect data from 450 respondents, using close-ended questionnaires. The data was analyzed using analysis of moment structures-structural equation modeling. The decomposed theory of planned behavior (DTPB) was used as the underlying theory to test 10 hypotheses. Findings Results showed the intention toward the adoption of Islamic microfinance is high in Nigeria. In total, 8 of the 10 study hypotheses were supported, out of which attitude, subjective norm and perceived behavioral control were found to have a positive and significant influence on the behavioral intention to adopt Islamic microfinance. Consequently, the study recommends the need for stakeholders in the Nigerian financial system to embark on enlightenment campaigns that will improve the public attitude on the role of Islamic microfinance banks in the promotion of financial inclusion and poverty reduction. Research limitations/implications The study focused specifically on three selected states in Northern Nigeria that are predominantly Muslim. The findings and indeed the conclusions of the study, may not be suitable for generalization to other parts of the country. Practical implications The study found that three constructs: attitude, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control were found to affect behavioral intention. Thus, the Central Bank of Nigeria and Islamic financial institutions should tailor their enlightenment campaigns toward improving public attitude on the need to adopt Islamic microfinance banks to further enhance financial inclusion, and thus reduce the incidence of poverty. Islamic microfinance banks should complement their commercial products and services with Islamic social finance products such as Sadaqat, Zakat and benevolent loan, as is the practice in jurisdictions where Islamic finance is institutionalized. Social implications The social implication of the study is its ability to determine factors that will enhance financial inclusion in Nigeria. This will assist in reducing poverty and income inequality. Originality/value The study was also able to extend the DTPB by introducing awareness as an additional latent construct in explaining attitude.
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Odebunmi, Akin. "Participation configuration in a Nigerian university campus." Pragmatics and Cognition 20, no. 1 (May 7, 2012): 186–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/pc.20.1.08ode.
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Studies on participation and spatial orientations of college students have examined aspects of university life, as projected through language, from a reportorial or narrative perspective, but hardly any one of these studies has been devoted exclusively to how students’ participation structure, together with the activities participants orient to at the participation space, evokes shared socio-academic backgrounds and cultural constraints, a major way to gain access into the students’ cognitive and pragmatic tendencies. This research, thus, addresses itself to Nigerian college students’ participation configuration, their participant roles, and the illocutionary goals of their encounters within the Goffmanian participation framework and discourse pragmatic parameters. For data, 100 interactions amongst students of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, were taped and scrutinised for participation forms and spatial descriptions. Two types of participation structure are manifest in the interactions, namely, unmarked and marked participations. The unmarked participation structure is the regular frame in which Goffman’s ratification and non-ratification framework is strictly observed. The marked participation configuration, an unexpected interactional frame which bifurcates into accommodated and non-accommodated structures, takes interruptions by unaccredited participants as appropriate or inappropriate. The paper contends that participation configuration and contextual elements prescribe participant roles together with the pragmatic functions assigned to language and actions in the interactions. Thus, the illocutionary goals of participants, rooted in socio-academic matters and enabled by participation structures, spatial orientations and body language manipulations are contextually negotiated.
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Umeh, Joseph C., Robert A. Freeman, Dowey D. Garner, and David E. Blevins. "Attitudes of Nigerian physicians toward a national health service." Social Science & Medicine 23, no. 7 (January 1986): 701–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0277-9536(86)90118-8.
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Coetzee, Azille, and Annemie Halsema. "Sexual Difference and Decolonization: Oyĕwùmí and Irigaray in Dialogue about Western Culture." Hypatia 33, no. 2 (2018): 178–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12397.
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In this article we aim to show the potential of cross‐continental dialogues for a decolonizing feminism. We relate the work of one of the major critics of the Western metaphysical patriarchal order, Luce Irigaray, to the critique of the colonial/modern gender system by the Nigerian feminist scholar Oyĕrónké Oyĕwùmí. Oyĕwùmí's work is often rejected based on the argument that it is empirically wrong. We start by problematizing this line of thinking by providing an epistemological interpretation of Oyĕwùmí's claims. We then draw Irigaray and Oyĕwùmí into conversation, and show how this bolsters and helps to further illuminate and contextualize Oyĕwùmí's critique of gender. But the dialogue between these thinkers also reveals significant limitations of Irigaray's philosophy, namely her presumption of the priority of sexual difference, its rigid duality, and her failure to take into account the inextricable intertwinement of gender and race in the Western patriarchal order. Relating Irigaray's critique of Western culture's forgetting of sexual difference to Oyĕwùmí's critique hence demonstrates to what extent Irigaray's philosophy remains typically Western and how she therefore fails to escape the paradigm that she is so critical of.
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Onikoyi, Babatunde. "The developing new wave of Nollywood : a conversation with Niyi Akinmolayan." Issue 1 1, no. 1 (June 12, 2018): 23–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-2713/2018/v1n1a2.
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The new wave of Nollywood is largely defined by the operations and vibrant undertakings of young and serious minded filmmakers in Nigeria. This crop of filmmakers are determined to take over the industry by producing film and movies that possess the much desired lasting substance. These filmmakers are those who Jonathan Haynes has referred to as the “New Nollywood” filmmakers (Haynes, 2014) that gradually emerged with the coming of age of Kunle Afolayan’s The Figurine (2010). Niyi Akinmolayan, a film director and producer is a typical example of this group of filmmakers, whose filmic oeuvre is beginning to attract global attention and significance. In this interview, I engage the cineaste in a discussion that centres on him and permeate the universe of his works. I concentrate on his background and steady rise and development, his philosophy about film in general, and then Nollywood. I tackle him on the development of the various film technologies that have defined the Nigerian cinema. The conversation takes us through particular areas of film apparatuses such as storytelling, film narratives, directors, cinemas films, home videos, audience matter and pioneers of the industries, with reference to those who are unknown and that have influenced this visual creator at Anthills Studio.
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Hunt, Stephen, and Nicola Lightly. "Work In Progress: The religious beliefs of young Nigerian Pentecostals." International Journal of Children's Spirituality 5, no. 1 (June 2000): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/713670896.
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Soyinka, Wole. "The last despot and the end of Nigerian history?" Index on Censorship 23, no. 6 (November 1994): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03064229408535791.
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