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Akingbe, Niyi. "Speaking denunciation: satire as confrontation language in contemporary Nigerian poetry." Afrika Focus 27, no. 1 (February 25, 2014): 47–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2031356x-02701004.
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Contemporary Nigerian poets have had to contend with the social and political problems besetting Nigeria’s landscape by using satire as a suitable medium, to distil the presentation and portrayal of these social malaises in their linguistic disposition. Arguably, contemporary Nigerian poets, in an attempt to criticize social ills, have unobtrusively evinced a mastery of language patterns that have made their poetry not only inviting but easy to read. This epochal approach in the crafting of poetry has significantly evoked an inimitable sense of humour which endears these poems to the readers. In this regard, the selected poems in this paper are crowded with anecdotes, the effusive use of humour, suspense and curiosity. The over-arching argument of the paper is that satire is grounded in the poetics of contemporary Nigerian poetry in order to criticize certain aspects of the social ills plaguing Nigerian society. The paper will further examine how satire articulates social issues in the works of contemporary Nigerian poets, including Niyi Osundare, Tanure Ojaide, Chinweizu, Femi Fatoba, Odia Ofeimun, Ezenwa Ohaeto, Obiora Udechukwu and Ogaga Ifowodo. Viewed in the light of artistic commitment, the paper will demonstrate how satire accentuates the role of these poets as the synthesizers/conduits of social and cultural concerns of Nigerian society for which they claim to speak. As representatively exemplified in the selected poems, the paper will essentially focus on the mediation of satire for the impassioned criticism of social and moral vices, militating against Nigeria’s socio-political development.
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Akpah, Bartholomew Chizoba. "Satire, humour and parody in 21st Century Nigerian women’s poetry." European Journal of Humour Research 6, no. 4 (December 30, 2018): 133. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2018.6.4.akpah.
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21st century Nigerian women poets have continued to utilise the aesthetics of literary devices as linguistic and literary strategies to project feminist privations and values in their creative oeuvres. There has been marginal interest towards 21st century Nigerian women’s poetry and their deployment of artistic devices such as satire, humour and parody. Unequivocally, such linguistic and literary devices in imaginative works are deployed as centripetal force to criticise amidst laughter, the ills of female devaluation in the society. The major thrust of the study, therefore, is to examine how satire, humour and parody are deployed in selected Nigerian women’s poetry to reproach and etch the collective ethos of women’s experience in contemporary Nigerian society. The study utilises qualitative analytical approach in the close reading and textual analysis of the selected texts focusing mainly on the aesthetics of humour, satire and parody in challenging male chauvinism in contemporary Nigerian women’s poetry. Three long poems: “Nuptial Counsel”, “Sadiku’s Song” and “The Sweet, Sweet Mistress’ Tale” by Mabel Evweirhoma and Maria Ajima respectively were purposively selected. The choice of the selected poems hinges on the artistic vigour, especially the evoking of laughter, mockery and condemnation of hegemonic strictures through the use of satire, humour and parody. The paper employs Molara Ogundipe’s Stiwanism, an aspect of Feminist theory in the analysis of the selected poems. The poets have shown the interventions of humour, satire and parody as linguistic devices in condemning and highlighting peculiarities of women peonage in Nigeria.
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Diala, Isidore. "Bayonets and the carnage of tongues: The contemporary Nigerian poet speaking truth to power." Journal of Commonwealth Literature 52, no. 1 (July 26, 2016): 116–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021989415575800.
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The paradigmatic antagonistic relationship between the Nigerian poet and the despot in his guise as a military ruler has often been examined in terms of a hegemonic contestation of power between unequal rivals. The military state’s typical response to the poet’s “truth” with the display of excessive might, often involving the emblematic battering of the poet’s tongue by the imposition of silence even in its eternal form of death, entrenches the notion of a powerful antagonist pitted against a weak opponent who nonetheless incarnates the spirit of the masses. A close reading of anti-military Nigerian poetry, however, underscores that the situation was replete with paradoxes: the inability of power to ignore apparent powerlessness; the ultimate triumph of powerlessness over power; and the fascinating replication in the counter-discourse of the (discursive) strategies of the dominant hegemony it battles against. This study highlights these trends in contemporary Nigerian poetry inspired by military despotism by paying particular attention to the work of the “third generation” of Nigerian poets.
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Olujinmi, Bunmi. "The Yorùbá Poets and the Nigerian Economy." Journal of Social Sciences 15, no. 3 (November 2007): 263–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09718923.2007.11892591.
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Diala, Isidore. "Nigeria and the Poetry of Travails: The Niger Delta in the Poetry of Uche Umez." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 317–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001036.
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Especially since the execution of the writer and Ogoni activist, Ken Saro–Wiwa, international attention has been drawn to the plight of the Niger Delta. Oil-rich but cynically plundered and exploited, the Niger Delta has become symbolic of the Nigerian nation itself, fabulously endowed yet, paradoxically, virtually a beggar nation. This accounts in part for the increasing fascination of a growing number of Nigerian poets, Deltans and non-Deltans alike, with the representative plight of the Niger Delta. In , the first published volume of the emergent Nigerian writer Uche Peter Umez, Nigeria's characteristic social ills are etched in memorable lines. But Umez's special focus is on the Niger Delta. Given his own position as a non-Deltan from a part of Igboland that has been the target of punitive cartography, this concern foregrounds the varied dimensions of Nigeria's oil politics.
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Mohammad, Ghada A., and Wafaa A. Abdulaali. "Mahmoud Darwish and Tanure Ojaide." Ars & Humanitas 14, no. 1 (June 23, 2020): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/ars.14.1.41-53.
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Darwish, the spokesman of Palestine, and Ojaide, the voice of Nigeria, are endowed with a faculty for articulating a message, a vision or an opinion for their nations. They are intellectuals essentially tied to the needs of their communities. Both poets belong to countries that witnessed different types of political, economic, and social turmoil. They inspire the oppressed nations to persist in their struggles against the regimes which deprive them of their right to live happily and peacefully. Darwish experienced many displacements that turned him into an embodiment of exile, in both existential and metaphysical terms, beyond the external, and the metaphorical, in his interior relations with self and poetry. His poetry of exile mirrors the socio-political atmosphere under the Israeli occupation. He utilizes poetry as a weapon in his fight to achieve freedom and independence. Similarly, Ojaide’s poetry is engaged with the crises of his homeland, the Niger Delta. He belongs to the generation of Nigerian writers who used their literary productions as a weapon against social injustice and an instrument in resisting imperialism. To him, there is a direct relationship between literature and social institutions. The principal function of literature is to criticize these institutions and eventually bring about desirable changes in society. This study aims at examining Darwish and Ojaide as poets of exile by observing their exilic experiences and investigating certain poems that typically help dive into their external and internal sense of displacement. The study also highlights the concepts of home and homelessness. It brings to light the poets’ deep yearning for a sense of belonging and their insistence on regaining the motherland toward which they show a profound attachment and permanent commitment. They use words as a therapeutic means to compensate for the lack of a physical homeland. A comparison between the two poets is also provided.
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Egya, Sule Emmanuel. "Contemporary Nigerian Female Poets: Toyin Adewale and Unoma Azuah." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 34, no. 2 (April 1, 2012): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/ces.5458.
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Egya, Sule E. "The Minstrel as Social Critic: A Reading of Ezenwa–Ohaeto's." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 179–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001028.
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Ezenwa–Ohaeto is one of the modern Nigerian poets who, in their creative endeavours, have continued to tap the rich sources of orature in their culture, in what is now known as 'the minstrelsy tradition'. The maturity of his explorations of the minstrelsy tradition comes through in the last volume of poetry he published before his death, (2003). In a close reading of some selected poems from this volume, this contribution not only looks at the minstrelsy tradition so central to Ezenwa–Ohaeto's poetry, but, more broadly, explores the social vision of Ezenwa–Ohaeto as an African poet. Unlike his earlier volumes of poetry, takes a critical swipe at the inadequacies of advanced countries in Europe and America in what we may call the poet's transnational imagination. In his chants across the world (the volume is an outcome of his many travels), Ezenwa–Ohaeto examines the issues of racism, equity in international relationships and, as is characteristic of his oeuvre, the moral and ethical failures of leaders in Africa.
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Nwagbara, Uzoechi. "Earth in the Balance The Commodification of the Environment in and." Matatu 40, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 61–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001005.
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Tanure Ojaide and Niyi Òsundare are among the foremost politically committed Nigerian poets at present. The overriding concern in virtually all their literary works is commenting on the politics of the season. In Òsundare's words, poetry is “man meaning to man.” For Ojaide, a creative writer is not “an airplant” that is not situated in a place. Both writers envision literature should have political message. Thus, in Òsundare's collection (1986) and Tanure Ojaide's (1998) the major aesthetic focus is eco-poetry, which interrogates the politics behind oil exploration in Nigeria as well as its consequences on our environment. Both writers refract this with what Òsundare calls “semantics of terrestiality”: i.e. poetry for the earth. Eco-poetry deals with environmental politics and ecological implications of humankind's activities on the planet. Armed with this poetic commitment, both writers unearth commodification of socio-economic relations, environmental/ecological dissonance, leadership malaise and endangered Nigerian environment mediated through (global) capitalism. Both writers maintain that eco-poetry is a platform for upturning environmental justice; and for decrying man's unbridled materialist pursuits. Thus, the preoccupation of this paper is to explore how both poetry collections: and interrogate the despicable state of Nigeria's environment as a consequence of global capitalism.
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Ogene, Mbanefo S. "Transition and the Problems of Modern Nigerian Poetry: An Overview of Selected Nigerian Northern and Southern Poets." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 17, no. 3 (September 29, 2017): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v17i3.4.
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Esamagu, Ochuko. "Towards Environmental Justice: An Ecopoetical Reading of Ikiriko and Otto’s Poetry." International Journal of Language and Literary Studies 2, no. 4 (December 26, 2020): 243–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.36892/ijlls.v2i4.449.
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Ecology is a study that transcends disciplinary boundaries. It has roots in the sciences but enjoys a number of representations in the humanities, specifically through literature. Several African writers have in their imaginative works, portrayed the devastating condition of the environment in a 21st century technological-driven world and also proposed solutions to this malady. In fact, environmental degradation has become a global issue, hence, the pressing need for a lasting panacea. Attempts at literary ecocriticism in Nigerian literature have largely focused on prose fictional works and the poetry collections of older and second generation poets like Tanure Ojaide. Consequently, little research has been carried out on the representation of environmental degradation in the poetry of more contemporary poets like Ibiwari Ikiriko and Albert Otto. This paper therefore, is a critical, close reading of Ikiriko and Otto’s poetry engagement with environmental degradation. The paper adopts the notion of ecopoetry from the ecocritical theory, which accounts for poetry foregrounding questions of ethics in relation to the environment. It acts as a reminder to humans of their responsibility towards the earth and challenges the existing status-quo that has the environment and the common people at the mercy of the ruling class. In this paper, Ikiriko’s Oily Tears of the Delta and Otto’s Letter from the Earth are subjected to literary and critical analysis to examine their preoccupation with the destructive onslaught on nature, and the traumatic experiences of the marginalised. Amidst the environmental depredation, the poets express hope and revolutionary fervour towards the rejuvenation of their society.
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Onyejizu, Raphael Chukwuemeka. "Versifying Unease in Postcolonial Nigerian Society: Politics of Corruption and Oppression in Akan Essien’s Stabbed Alive. Rage Alive and Halima Amali’s I Want to Join Them." UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities 22, no. 1 (July 8, 2021): 191–224. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/ujah.v22i1.8.
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Postcolonial Nigerian society is confronted by corruption and oppression that emerged in the wake of independence. In recent times, these challenges have evolved in the creative consciousness of writers in their versified writings. Poetry, which serves as a veritable medium for the projection of philosophical thought, reflects these vagaries as the unique genre employed by poets for humanity that is dismayed by the irony of hope and survival. This paper examines corruption in politics and oppression of the masses. It showed that the drawbacks witnessed in the country attribute to the aforementioned variables. The choice of Essien’s Rage Alive. Stabbed Alive (2010) and Amali’s I Want to Join Them (2016) is informed by the fact that there is a lack of scholarly research on these collections. The paper adopts spivak’s postcolonial framework in the context of the Nigerian society, while the descriptive method of textual analysis aimed to show how political leaders in their deployment of corrupt and oppressive schemes, advance their kleptomaniac agenda. Thus, the study submits that for a functional and progressive society to exist, fundamental changes in its socio-political affairs must be undertaken.
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Akingbe, Niyi. "MYTHOLOGIZING YORUBA ORATURE: LOBOTO MIZING SWIVELLED PULSES OF LAUGHTER IN NIYI OSUNDARE’S WAITING LAUGHTERS AND REMI RAJI’S A HARVEST OF LAUGHTERS." Imbizo 6, no. 2 (June 21, 2017): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/2803.
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Every literary work emerges from the particular alternatives of its time. This is ostensibly reflected in the attempted innovative renderings of these alternatives in the poetry of contemporary Nigerian poets of Yoruba extraction. Discernible in the poetry of Niyi Osundare and Remi Raji is the shaping and ordering of the linguistic appurtenances of the Yoruba orature, which themselves are sublimely rooted in the proverbial, chants, anecdotes, songs and praises derived from the Yoruba oral poetry of Ijala, Orin Agbe, Ese Ifa, Rara, folklore as well as from other elements of oral performance. This engagement with the Yoruba oral tradition significantly permeates the poetics of Niyi Osundare’s Waiting laughters and Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters. In these anthologies, both Osundare and Raji traverse the cliffs and valleys of the contemporary Nigerian milieu to distil the social changes rendered in the Yoruba proverbial, as well as its chants and verbal formulae, all of which mutate from momentary happiness into an enduring anomie grounded in seasonal variations in agricultural production, ruinous political turmoil, suspense and a harvest of unresolved, mysterious deaths. The article is primarily concerned with how the African oral tradition has been harnessed by Osundare and Raji to construct an avalanche of damning, peculiarly Nigerian, socio-political upheavals (which are essentially delineated by the signification of laughter/s) and display these in relation to the country’s variegated ecology.
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Osadume, Richard C., and Edih O. University. "Port Revenue Performance and Economic Growth: The Nigerian Ports Authority Experience, 2010-2019." LOGI – Scientific Journal on Transport and Logistics 11, no. 2 (November 1, 2020): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/logi-2020-0010.
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AbstractThe Study examined Port Revenue Performance and Economic Growth: The Nigerian Ports Authority Experience, 2010 to 2019. The objective of this study is to examine the effect of Port Revenue Performance on Nigeria's economic growth by critically evaluating the Nigerian Ports Authority Performance. The neoclassical growth theory was employed in the study and the Nigeria Ports Authority was chosen as its sample, covering the period from 2010 to 2019. The study used secondary time series data sourced from the Nigeria Ports Authority and the National Bureau of Statistics and used the ordinary least square regression and the Engle-Granger co-integration to test the variables at the 5% level of significance. The findings showed that total revenue to gross registered tonnage had positive and significant effect on economic growth while operating surplus to operating revenue showed a negative but significant effect and operating surplus to cargo throughput showed insignificant effect; there was no co-integration between the variables. The study concludes that Port revenue performance affects economic growth in the short-run only, and it recommends amongst others that policy makers should formulate appropriate and implementable regulatory framework that will address infrastructural deficits at the ports and stimulate increased utilization by major foreign vessel companies.
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Oyewole and Francis Olufemi. "Influence of work automation on the performance of nigerian ports." Journal of Management and Science 10, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 12–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/jms.10.3.
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The study examined the influence of work automation on the performance of Nigeria ports. The study population was the entire sea-ports in Nigeria. In line with the purpose of study, the study adopted the survey/cross sectional approach. The major research instrument used collect data was the questionnaire. Thirty (30) copies of questionnaire were distributed to the respondents from the six major sea-ports in Nigeria. The respondents were department heads and senior port managers. Work automation was used as the independent variable of the study and measures of port performances were productivity and the throughput level of the sea-port. Two hypotheses were developed and tested to determine the extent of the relationship between the study variables. Pearson product moment analysis was used to test the stated hypotheses with the aid of statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS 22.0). The findings of the study revealed that to a very large extent, work automations are often used as key performance indicators (KPI) in Nigeria port. This is true of the system of administration of all port management authority in Nigeria. To a very large extent, the study observed that ports give room for the assessment of work automations. To a very large extent, the respondents were allowed to make variety of inputs on work automations in their various sea-ports. Staff of the ports have the requisite skills to give critical assessment on the issues of work automations. Conclusively, it is evident from the study that there is significant relationship between work automations and productivity in Nigerian ports and there is significant relationship between work automations and cargo throughputs in Nigerian ports. Therefore, port managers should improve on the service quality of their port by recommending improve work automation of the port activities in such a manner that will aid the effective performances of the port operations.
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Oyewole and Francis Olufemi. "Influence of work automation on the performance of nigerian ports." Journal of Management and Science 10, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 12–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26524/jms.3.3.
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The study examined the influence of work automation on the performance of Nigeria ports. The study population was the entire sea-ports in Nigeria. In line with the purpose of study, the study adopted the survey/cross sectional approach. The major research instrument used collect data was the questionnaire. Thirty (30) copies of questionnaire were distributed to the respondents from the six major sea-ports in Nigeria. The respondents were department heads and senior port managers. Work automation was used as the independent variable of the study and measures of port performances were productivity and the throughput level of the sea-port. Two hypotheses were developed and tested to determine the extent of the relationship between the study variables. Pearson product moment analysis was used to test the stated hypotheses with the aid of statistical package for the social sciences (SPSS 22.0). The findings of the study revealed that to a very large extent, work automations are often used as key performance indicators (KPI) in Nigeria port. This is true of the system of administration of all port management authority in Nigeria. To a very large extent, the study observed that ports give room for the assessment of work automations. To a very large extent, the respondents were allowed to make variety of inputs on work automations in their various sea-ports. Staff of the ports have the requisite skills to give critical assessment on the issues of work automations. Conclusively, it is evident from the study that there is significant relationship between work automations and productivity in Nigerian ports and there is significant relationship between work automations and cargo throughputs in Nigerian ports. Therefore, port managers should improve on the service quality of their port by recommending improve work automation of the port activities in such a manner that will aid the effective performances of the port operations.
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Ifeanyi, Eleagu, Greene, and Akonye, Enyioma Joseph. "Seaports Administration in Nigeria: A Study of Apapa Port Complex." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 14, no. 17 (June 30, 2018): 281. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2018.v14n17p281.
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The administration of the seaports in Nigeria rests solely on the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). This means that, the Port Authority plays an important role in the economic and trade development of Nigeria. Nigeria Ports Authority operates under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Transport with the responsibility of providing specific ports and harbour services for the country’s maritime industry. Presently, Nigerian Ports Authority controls eight (8) major ports excluding oil terminals with a cargo handling capacity of about 35 million tons per annum. However, this paper examined Nigeria ports authority in the effective and efficient port administration in Nigeria, using Apapa port complex as a case study. The paper also examined the role of port worker in achieving the Federal Government objectives in the establishment of sea ports in Nigeria. The paper equally looked at the developmental process of sea ports in Nigeria, as well as the reasons/need for the establishment of sea ports in Nigeria. The paper by extension looked at the setbacks faced by the Nigeria seaports in general and Apapa port in particular since its establishment. The general system theory was used as our theoretical framework of analysis. Based on the poor conditions and inadequate state of equipment at the port, the paper suggests that the Apapa port management in particular and the management of other sea ports in general should facilitate the procurement and maintenance of the functional equipment in the ports to enhance speedy cargo handling. In addition, more warehouses/storage facilities should be built to accommodate incoming and outgoing goods and services therein, among others.
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Idris, Dr Yahaya, and Abu-Ubaida Sani. "Future Situation of Northern Nigeria from Poetic Mirror: The Outstanding Prophesiers from Hausa Poets." International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Invention 5, no. 10 (October 3, 2018): 4998–5002. http://dx.doi.org/10.18535/ijsshi/v5i10.01.
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Abstract: Since the early ages of modern socialization amongst the Hausas, i.e. learning to read and write, poetry had been a good instrument used in educating, enlightening, orienting and passing across important messages among host of related others. Most of the early Hausa poet were knowledgeable, who had sound experience of the national affairs. They were also critical thinkers, so skeptical about the present and zealous of foreshadowing the future. They sometimes warned humanity on the dangers they forecasted, urging peoples to change attitudes for better. Against this background, this paper traces a number prophesies made by some Hausa poets, which have turned realistic. The poet forecasts some disastrous outcomes to loom Northern Nigeria, shall the Northerners dare not to cease certain attitudes and some bad practices. This paper traces the instances of such prophesies made by poets, which are obviously realistic today. The study is limited to three selected poems viz: AJM, TSW and MAHRƘW. However, the study found that, a number of prophesies made by the selected Hausa poets in forms of warning and or alarms have been realized. Finally, the paper tabled some suggestion among which one is, that reading and listening to poems should aimed beyond mere passion of its tranquil nature. There teachings should rather be carefully studies and fittingly utilized.
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Ajiboye, Esther. "Polarisation and the Sustenance of Biafra Secessionist Discourses Online." Journal of Asian and African Studies 55, no. 4 (October 24, 2019): 475–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909619883403.
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This study examines polarisation in citizens’ online discourses about Biafra agitations in Nigeria. Using critical discourse analysis and the appraisal framework, it analyses 350 Biafra-related posts sampled from Nigerian digital communities. Analysis reveals that polarisation is discursively strengthened through labelling, ethnocentrism, generalisations, and historical allusions. This study concludes that the creation, consumption and unfettered distribution of such polarised discourses reflect Nigeria’s unitarist-federalism. It adds that the instigation of this socio-political fact about Nigeria can foster the cultivation/reinforcement of cognitive biases, harmful ideologies, and consequently, radicalisation/violence. It recommends that the minders of the Nigerian state should amicably address the Biafran agitations.
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Ajiboye, Esther, and Taiwo Abioye. "When citizens talk: Stance and representation in online discourse on Biafra agitations." Discourse & Society 30, no. 2 (February 2, 2019): 117–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957926518816197.
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Biafra secessionist agitations in Nigeria continue to generate varied conversations online and offline. This study applies critical discourse analysis and the appraisal framework in examining social actor representations in the ongoing Biafra agitations in Nigeria. It analyses posts produced by interlocutors, as they express variegated stances towards the agitations and its actors, within two vibrant Nigerian digital communities, Nairaland and Nigeria Village Square. This study identifies binary social actor positioning, revealing both negative valence and positive self-representation strategies towards the agitations and principal social actors in the agitations. Expressed within the appraisal resources of attitude, engagement and graduation, these valuations result in the distribution of socially and emotionally constructed identities for the principal social actors in the agitations. Such distribution is socio-cognitive, as there is the likelihood that the representations might evolve into the creation of new ideological orientations or the reinforcement of existing ideological leanings, whose consequences are potentially double-edged for tranquillity in the Nigerian polity.
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Taiwo Stephen Fayose, Lanre Adebara, and Folashade Adeola Bolarinwa. "On the image promotion on social media by polytechnic students in Nigeria." World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews 9, no. 1 (January 30, 2021): 188–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2021.9.1.0009.
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The research examined the reasons polytechnic students join social media such as Instagram and what they intend to learn from celebrities on Instagram in order to have their ideal body image for self-esteem. The study identified different measures polytechnic students used to achieve desired body image and the level of psychological effect Instagram posts have on their body image. The analysis is based on the findings of a questionnaire survey carried out in two higher institutions in Nigeria (N=600). The results revealed Nigerian students are highly conscious of their body image (91.2%), they employed different measures to achieve their desired body image, the rate at which Nigerian students patronized products advertised on Instagram to acquire ideal beauty standard is relatively high (61.5%) and finally, level of psychological effect of Instagram posts on body image is approximately high (88%).
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Oripeloye, Henri. "Factional realities in Remi Raji's Gather My Blood Rivers of Song." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 54, no. 1 (March 24, 2017): 170–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tvl.v.54i1.11.
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This paper explores the transformative vision of the Nigerian poet, Remi Raji from imaginative mooring in his earlier works to factional realities in Gather My Blood Rivers of Song published in 2009. In some poems in this collection, Raji embraces factional realities as he grapples with the narration of actual existence in Nigeria. This signifies a movement away from the speculative construct of the imagination as he presents the tangible properties of events, not as history, but the facts in reality. This differentiates him from other writers who merely re-echo or document events. Based on the materialist frame of reference presented in some of the poems in this collection, Raji is able to enact plausible narrations that have identifiable referentiality through which he guides his poetic presenta- tion of actual human existence.
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Eguzo, K., A. Jacob, C. Okwuosa, F. Mbogu, N. Owuenyi, I. Okoye, C. Eguzo, et al. "Exploratory Use of Cloud Computing and Social Media for Prostate Cancer Advocacy in Nigeria." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 127s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.19900.
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Background and context: Prostate cancer is the commonest cancer affecting Nigerian men, with worse outcome compared with men from the developed world. There is limited public awareness about prostate cancer in Nigeria. Oga Blue 4 Prostate Awareness (OB4PA) was created by a consortium of Nigerian nonprofits for prostate cancer advocacy (PCA). Aims: -Design PCA using videos, printed brochure and social media -Implement PCA in five Nigerian states -Evaluate the reach and impact of PCA campaign Program/Policy process: Community-based participatory process, involving the medical community, prostate cancer survivor, and the public was used. Multimedia teaching was used to enhance learning and retention; social media was used to engage groups and individuals. Content development involved iterative consultation among project leaders, medical experts and target audience, often on social media. High-quality teaching videos were recorded in English and Nigerian Pidgin languages. Videos ensured consistency and ease of broadcast. Videos were accessed by OB4PA partners through cloud computing (OneDrive). Facebook was used to promote the campaign, engage local audience, and for Facebook Live presentation. Local health professionals projected the video in appropriate language to audiences in religious and community groups. Brochure detailing clinical features and local service providers was distributed. Audience evaluation was obtained following each interaction. Outcomes: In 6 weeks, 20 presentations were made to 1800 persons. The Facebook Live presentation had 1500 views, reached 9302 people and was shared 107 times. A total of 25 Facebook posts were made, resulting in 628 like, 1908 video views, 160 shares, and reached 14,222 people. Almost all participants had positive feedback on the free and detailed advocacy. Most questions focused on the causes and prevention of prostate cancer, especially on the use of nutritional supplements. What was learned: Cloud computing enabled us to have one presenter; this eliminated the need to find a presenter for each organization. Audience appreciated simplified videos used in explaining the disease process and need for personalized early detection. Facebook live presentation attracted the most reactions on social media, with most comments showing that people liked the intervention. Audience feedback showed that adding advocacy cellphone video by a survivor helped demystify prostate cancer. Having the main presentation video in different file formats and sizes enhanced sharing on social media, as most Nigerians access the Internet on cell phones. Reliable access to projectors was challenging, especially in remote areas. Overall, use of cloud computing and social media were crucial in the success of the PCA project. Lessons from OB4PA informed the design of the current We Can, I Can Conquer Cervical Cancer Awareness project in Nigeria.
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Onuoha, Onyekachi. "Eclipse in Rwanda as Remembering in Pyschosocial Poetics of Trauma." English Linguistics Research 8, no. 3 (September 12, 2019): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v8n3p25.
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Trauma exists in a synthetic mode of the referential and this is the underlying temperament in Eclipse in Rwanda. The genocide that is chronicled in the narratives of the Nigerian Civil war as recreated in Joe Ushie’s Eclipse in Rwanda foreshadows the pogrom in the mid 90s. Using Cathy Caruth’s concept of trauma as a theoretical framework, this paper examines Eclipse in Rwanda as remembering in psychosocial poetics of trauma. This paper further explicates Eclipse in Rwanda as a text of memory, which poetically captures the trauma and foreshadows the social construction of natives/ non-natives in Africa at large and in Nigeria in particular. Through the poems analysed in this paper, our findings show that Tutsis’ genocide is a poetic fulcrum for the poet to pensively recall the Nigerian Civil War and other hotspots/ narratives of politically motivated violence against fellow citizens. Eclipse in Rwanda attempts to entrench the memories of the dead in us through the poetics of remembering and by so doing indict the collective consciences of the society.
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Hamid, M. Abdul, and Lateef Onireti Ibrahim. "THE SPREAD OF ARABIC LITERARY WORKS." El-HARAKAH (TERAKREDITASI) 9, no. 1 (April 13, 2008): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/el.v9i1.4666.
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<p>The development and spread of Arabic literary works cannot be separated from the founder and its figures both from Arabic spoken-country and non-Arabic one. Syaikh Adam Abdullah al Ilori is one of the figures in Nigeria that has significant role in spreading Arabic literary works and at once educating the next generation as litterateur and the expert of Arabic literature in Nigeria. In line with the aim, there are five strategies developed by Syaikh Adam al Ilori; 1) memorization, b) direct teaching of Arabic literary works, c) teaching the principles of <em>aruud</em>, d) training to create the Arabic poems, and e) holding competition to encourage young poets. These five strategies are effective to be applied in Nigeria in aiming for spreading Arabic literature and creating the expert of it so that many writers were born in Nigeria such as Abu Bakar Umar, Roji Suliman, Abdul Baqi Syuaib, and many more.</p><p> </p><p>Perkembangan dan penyebaran karya sastra Arab tidak bisa dilepaskan dari para pelopor dan para tokohnya baik dari negara Arab sendiri maupun dari negara non Arab. Syaikh Adam Abdullah al Ilori adalah salah satu tokoh sastra Arab di Nigeria yang punya peran signifikan dalam penyebaran karya sastra Arab dan sekaligus mencetak generasi penerus sebagai sastrawan dan ahli di bidang sastra Arab di Nigeria. Dalam membentuk generasi sastrawan di bidang sastra Arab (syair), ada lima startegi yang dikembangkan Syaikh Adam al Ilori, yaitu a) dengan cara hafalan, b) mengajarkan karya-karya sastra Arab, c) mengajarkan kaidah-kaidah aruud, d) melatih membuat syair-syair Arab, e) mengadakan kontes-kontes pada momen-momen penting sebagai ajang kreativitas para penyair muda. Lima strategi ini sangat efektif digunakan di Nigeria dalam menyebarkan karya sastra Arab dan membentuk generasi yang ahli di bidang sastra Arab sehingga telah banyak melahirkan sastrawan-sastrawan di Nigeria yang ahli di bidang sastra Arab seperti: Abu Bakar Umar, Roji Suliman, Abdul Baqi Syuaib, dan lain sebagainya.</p>
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Akinyẹmi, Akintunde. "D. A. Ọbasa (1879–1945): a Yoruba poet, culture activist and local intellectual in colonial Nigeria." Africa 87, no. 1 (January 27, 2017): 1–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972016000668.
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AbstractThis article examines the works of one of the earliest Yoruba poets, Denrele Adetimikan Ọbasa (1879–1945), a member of the local intelligentsia in colonial Nigeria. In my assessment of the poet as a culture activist and local intellectual, I draw on biographical information, extensive archival research and relevant textual illustration. The central argument of the article is that Ọbasa exploits Yoruba communal oral resources for ideas, themes and other linguistic influences in his poetry. Therefore, the essay explores the creative ability of Ọbasa to preserve different forms of oral literary material in his poetic composition and how he uses the folkloric materials as instruments for raising the social consciousness of his readers. At this level, the article argues, Ọbasa transforms oral traditions into metaphorical and symbolic language that best articulates his political or philosophical positions. Thus, orality is not static, but dynamic, flexible and adaptable to change. The main article offers translations of excerpts from Ọbasa's poetry, while the online supplementary material offers more complete samples of Ọbasa's poems.
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Akinnuwesi, Boluwaji A., Omokhoba B. Yama, Alade M. Rahman, and Stephen G. Fashoto. "Berth Allocation Model for Container Terminal using Genetic Algorithm Technique: Case of Apapa Wharf, Lagos, Nigeria." Journal of Computer Science and Its Application 28, no. 1 (September 10, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jcsia.v28i1.1.
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The Nigeria ports plays a vital role in socio-economic growth by being a cheap mode of conveying shipments for importation and exportation. The number of vessels coming into the Nigerian ports every year is on the average of about 4,900. A well flourishing and efficient ports and cargo management will in no doubt put a developing economy such as Nigeria in a leading pedestal with developed nations. Thus, stakeholders in container terminals are concerned about discharging containers as fast as possible, with the purpose of saving terminal costs. This study is driven to minimize the time being used up by ships in container terminal using genetic algorithm (GA) and thus attain maximum efficiency. The limited berth space in the wharf lead to berth allocation problem (BAP) and an optimal solution is required. Moreover, high berth occupancy results in congestion where vessels are queuing to be served. This leads to high turn-around time and results in bad service for the container terminal. The aim of this study is to develop and implement a genetic algorithm based model for berth allocation (i.e. GAMBA) with the view to minimize the total delay times of vessels at container terminals. A study of the operations in Apapa wharf was done with the view to understand the berth allocation process vis-à-vis the challenges therein. The relevant parameters required for berth allocation were identified and GAMBA was developed using the identified parameters. GAMBA was implemented using real life data collected from the container terminal, Apapa, Lagos, Nigeria. The results showed that increasing the quay length by 250m has a very similar outcome on the container port’s efficiency as reducing the proportion of increasing handling time by 0.0025 h/m. This revealed that the outcome on the container port’s efficiency by increasing the quayside length was the same as reducing the proportion of increasing management time. Based on these results, the optimized allocation of container storage and the automation of the handling process can be proposed as cheaper alternatives to construction and development of the containers port in relation to increasing the productivity of the port.
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Lugard, Sunday Bontur. "Risks and Challenges in Public-Private Partnership Projects in Nigeria: A Case Study of the Concession of Murtala Mohammed Airport 2 Terminal (Lagos) to Bi-Courtney Nigeria Ltd." KAS African Law Study Library - Librairie Africaine d’Etudes Juridiques 6, no. 4 (2019): 563–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/2363-6262-2019-4-563.
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Public-private partnership (PPP) has gained global recognition as the key vehicle for the provision of necessary public projects due to the continual inability of governments to fund infrastructural needs of their people - Nigeria is not different as the governments at national and sub-national levels have adopted this model of infrastructural development as a means of addressing this challenge. The Federal government of Nigeria has also keyed into the opportunity of exploiting the financial muscle and management capabilities/expertise of the private sector to the PPP as a platform for the funding and execution of public projects, especially commercial infrastructure like roads, ports, airports, rail system, and public services in the area of healthcare. It was on this premise that the federal government, through the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), entered into concession agreement over the building and operations of MM2 airport with Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Ltd, which agreement has been the subject of disputes that have not been fully addressed yet. The goal of this research is to espouse the continuous use of PPP as a medium for the provision of critical infrastructure to the Nigerian populace, while not being oblivious of the need to ameliorate the business environment in the country through the rejigging of the legal and regulatory framework in order to guarantee transparent transactions through public disclosures, timely disputes resolutions framework, among others.
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Nwafor, Jacob Njideka, Kehinde Kazeem Kanmodi, and Babatunde Abiodun Amoo. "How Enlightening and Reliable Are Cancer-Related Posts on Social Media Platforms? Opinions of a Sample of Nigerians." Journal of Health and Allied Sciences NU 11, no. 03 (May 11, 2021): 141–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1729776.
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Abstract Introduction On social media, several pieces of cancer-related information are being shared among people. This study aims to survey the Nigerian public, exploring their opinions on the influence (as per enlightenment) of cancer-related information on social media on them, and explore their opinions on the reliability of cancer-related posts they see on social media platforms. Methods This study was a descriptive cross-sectional online survey of 236 Nigerians, using an e-questionnaire. Collected data were analyzed using SPSS version 20 software (IBM Corp, New York, NY, United States). Results The majority (56.4%) of the respondents were females, 66.5% were within the age range of 20 to 29 years, and 92.4% had tertiary level of education. Virtually all (98.7%) of them had an Internet-enabled phone, and 99.6% were users of social media. The most used social media platform among them was WhatsApp while the most educative social media platform, according to them, was Facebook. Also, 96.6% (227/235) of those respondents who were social media users were of the opinion that social media is very useful for cancer education. However, only 68.5% (161/235) of them had learnt something new about cancer on social media platforms, of which 23.0% (37/161) rated the cancer information they have accessed on social media to be somewhat reliable. Conclusion Social media is highly influential in educating Nigerians on issues pertaining to cancer. However, not all cancer-related information posted on various social media platforms is reliable; hence, social media users should always take extra caution while consuming cancer-related posts on social media platforms.
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Chimee, Nkemjika. "The transformative power of European technology in resource exploitation: reflections on the oil presses and railways of colonial Nigeria." Global Environment 13, no. 3 (October 1, 2020): 555–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/ge.2020.130303.
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Technological innovations, which in the nineteenth century were principally developed by European nations, were a crucial factor in transforming economies – not only those of the countries in which they originated, but also those of their colonies. This case study of Nigeria explores the way the British controlled the colony and subjugated the local people as a result of their superior technology. Upon taking over the territory, to aid the country's economic development, they began to construct railway lines to link major resource zones of the north and south. This facilitated the more efficient shipment of natural resources from these zones to the coastal ports for onward shipment to Britain. Indigenous production and the rendering of palm oil were transformed by the introduction of oil presses. The article examines the transformative impact of technology in resource exploitation, focusing specifically on railways and oil presses and their impact on Nigerian society.
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Chikere, Chigozie A., Calistus C. Ibe, Mobolaji S. Stephens, Obiageli N. Nze, and Wilfred I. Ukpere. "Motivating Factors for Cargo Diversion from Nigerian Ports to Neighbouring Ports." Journal of Economics 5, no. 1 (April 2014): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09765239.2014.11884986.
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Omene, Godwin E., E. C. Odogwu, and Tom E. Allen. "FIRST AFRICAN OIL SPILL COOPERATIVE: CLEAN NIGERIA ASSOCIATES." International Oil Spill Conference Proceedings 1987, no. 1 (April 1, 1987): 151–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.7901/2169-3358-1987-1-151.
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ABSTRACT In November 1981 the petroleum companies operating in Nigeria formed a cooperative with the general purpose of developing an oil industry-sponsored organization for combating oil spills. The organization was named Clean Nigeria Associates (CNA). Individual oil companies operating in Nigeria now have and have had in the past the capability to combat oil spills, but most were unprepared to handle major oil spills. Thus, the main thrust of the cooperative was to develop an equipment stockpile and response capability commensurate with major spill risks. Through competitive bidding, Halliburton Nigeria, Ltd. was selected as the cooperative contractor. Agreements were formally signed in September 1984. Since that time the equipment required by the association was procured by Halliburton and put in place at two locations, Warri and Port Harcourt. These two locations were selected because of their proximity to major production areas. Bases were established at Nigerian Ports Authority facilities which were set aside for oil field operations. Thus, equipment warehouses are in excellent positions to respond to marine spills, and to respond to land spills by road. The equipment stockpile consists of 27,000 ft of booms, 28 skimmers—both for protected waters and offshore, 4,000 bales of sorbents, 26 pumps, 14 boats (ten 15 ft and four 49 ft) and an assortment of vehicles and other support equipment. CNA has a dedicated staff of 38. The staff consists of management, equipment operators, mechanics, boat crews, and support personnel. Since December 1984, training of national personnel on spill response and safety has been a high priority and has continued to this date.
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Nwokedi, Theophilus Chinonyerem, Obed C. Ndikom, Chigozie Uzoma Odumodu, and Ifiokobong I. Okonko. "Economic Justification for Development and Operationalization of Rail-Freight-Corridors Between Hub-Seaports and Inland Container Depots in Nigeria." Romanian Journal of Transport Infrastructure 9, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 52–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/rjti-2020-0004.
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Abstract The study provided economic justification for private sector investment in developing, revitalizing and making operable, the rail-freight-corridors between hub-seaports and inland container depots in Nigeria. It estimated the operator-benefits and profitability potentials of investment in each of the ten rail-freight-corridors consisting of existing but inoperable and proposed rail routes from the major seaports to the Inland container depots in different geopolitical regions of Nigeria. Secondary data on the import and export (cargo generation) capacities of each of the ICD regions to and from the respectively connected hub-seaport were obtained from the Nigerian ports authority statistical report covering a period of two years (2018 – 2019) based upon which the annual expected revenue earnings of the operators were estimated. The cost of investment was also obtained. Benefit-Cost-Ratio (BCR) and Net Present Value (NPV) were used to estimate the operator-benefits and profitability potentials of each rail route. It was found that six of the rail routes have BCR > 1; and NPV>0; implying higher operator-benefits over costs within the period while four of the rail-routes have BCR <1; and NPV <0; implying higher operator-costs over benefits.
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Muhammad Safiyyu Abdul Kadir. "Athar al-Shi‘r fī Tadwīn al-Aḥdāth al-Tārīkhīyah fī al-Qarn al-Tāsi‘ ‘Ashar: Qaṣīdat al-Shaykh Muhammadu Bello ibn al-Shaykh Usman ibn Fodio fī Ghazwat Kano Unmūdhajān." Al-Ma'rifah 17, no. 1 (April 30, 2020): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.21009/almakrifah.17.01.09.
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Poetry is a notable record for historical events, a tool for arousing enthusiasm and a capability of emotional expression that drives society. The objective of this article is to investigate and appraise the degree for special literary description on poetic influence in the recording of historical events in the 19th century in Nigeria. The article contains a biography of the poet Shaykh Muhammadu Bello bin Sheikh Usman bin Fodio and preamble that will assist in understanding the meaning of historical Arabic poetry. The theme of this article comprises the meaning of historical Arabic poetry, word expression, skills in the language of poetry, the poet’s artistic doctrine, and the belief of the poet feels. The poetry of historical events is counted among the best poems in Arabic literature of the past and present period. The author collected lots of data and will use the descriptive and analytical methods in carrying out the research.
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Ugboma, Chinonye, Callistus Ibe, and Innocent C. Ogwude. "Service quality measurements in ports of a developing economy: Nigerian ports survey." Managing Service Quality: An International Journal 14, no. 6 (December 2004): 487–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09604520410569829.
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Nwakanma, Obi. "Okigbo Agonistes: Postcolonial Subjectivity in "Limits" and "Distances"." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 327–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001037.
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Among Africa's leading twentieth-century poets, Christopher Okigbo occupies a most interesting space. Born to Igbo Roman Catholic parents in Eastern Nigeria, Okigbo studied the Classics and began to write poetry as a means of re-identification with his primal world. Yet both his life and his poetry staked a claim to a universalist impulse, and, as a colonial subject interpreting the postcolonial moment, Okigbo rejected a narrow, essentialist categorization of either himself or his poetry. He rejected the Africa Prize in 1966, claiming that "there is no such thing as African poetry, there is only good poetry or bad poetry." Okigbo appropriated signs and tropes from a vast range of sources, emphasizing the cosmopolitan, hybrid, transborder nature of signs and language in the postcolonial text. Yet Okigbo's poetry exhibits the recursive fantasy, displacement, and disorientation of a problematic imaginative cosmos. I argue in this essay that Okigbo, especially in the poems "Limits" and "Distances," was expressing his attempt to engage in an agonistic search, a quest for some stable identity. In interpreting the chaotic space of postcolonial experience, the poet Okigbo reflects what Homi Bhabha describes as a "mixed and split text of hybridity" – the double-toned voice of postcolonial anxiety.
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AFEJUKU, TONY E., and E. B. ADELEKE. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 47, no. 1 (August 22, 2016): 97–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-90000397.
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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as ‘second generation’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of the means by which Osofisan achieves his artistic objective is the use of myths and legends from Yorùbá mythology. Specifically, we shall show in this essay that Osofisan makes use of the myths of OEango and Èṣú and the legends of Môrèmi and Solarin as a means of thematic exploitation. By so doing, he creates a unique contemporary Nigerian theatre which other playwrights emulate and develop. Many Colours Make the Thunder King, Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels, Morountodun, and Who Is Afraid of Solarin? are used as illustrative texts.
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Olukoju, Ayodeji. "Background to the Establishment of the Nigerian Ports Authority: The Politics of Port Administration in Nigeria, c. 1920–1954." International Journal of Maritime History 4, no. 2 (December 1992): 155–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/084387149200400208.
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Owolabi, A. O. "Trip patterns in Akure, Nigeria: A land-use analytical approach." Journal of Transportation Management 21, no. 3 (October 1, 2010): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.22237/jotm/1285891560.
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For transportation planners, the use of Origin-Destination (OD) matrix adjustment, is receiving considerable attention. However, there are concerns about the validity of results, primarily related to the number and location of traffic count posts. This leads to the question “What would be the best set of traffic count posts to use in OD matrix adjustment modules?” It has been proved that solving this problem is cumbersome. There have been several attempts (either exact or heuristic approaches) to address this problem. But due to the inherent complexities, there is no efficient and easy-to-use methodology able to address situations on the scale of actual cases. This study demonstrates a simple way of identifying traffic count posts tailored to deal w ith real-size cases. The proposed methodology is based on a maximum matrix coverage criterion. Using a limited number of incremental trials, a set of links whose traffic flows give maximum coverage of the demand and maximum fitness to the corresponding traffic count rates are identified as traffic count posts. The results show that more traffic count posts do not necessarily yield a better result. This article reports on a project conducted for the public works ministry of the UAE city of Sharjah.
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Awuzie, Solomon. "Grief, resurrection, and the Nigerian Civil War in Isidore Diala’s The Lure of Ash." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 58, no. 2 (June 21, 2021): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/tl.v58i2.6793.
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As part of the third generation of Nigerian poetry, Isidore Diala’s The Lure of Ash focuses on the Nigerian Civil War experience of 1967–1970, the grief associated with it, and the resurrection of the Biafran agitation. Being a collection that is derived from the rural world of the Igbo cosmology, Diala’s The Lure of Ash portrays the Nigerian Civil War in a sensuous and emotive tone. It accounts for the poet’s belief in the regeneration of the lives of the dead Biafran soldiers. The symbols of fire and ash are significant for interpreting the poet-speaker’s grief in the collection. The collection also succeeds in painting a picture of the Nigerian Civil War experience where the bitter memory of the war resonates, while representing poetry as the healer of the pain and wounds of the war.
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Akin Adesokan. "Technicians of the Secular: Yoruba Poets and their Nigeria Publics." Research in African Literatures 48, no. 2 (2017): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/reseafrilite.48.2.02.
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Oghojafor, B. E. A., O. L. Kuye, and G. C. Alaneme. "Concession as a Strategic Tool for Ports Efficiency: An Assessment of the Nigerian Ports." American Journal of Business and Management 1, no. 4 (November 30, 2012): 214. http://dx.doi.org/10.11634/216796061706213.
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This paper examined the problems bedeviling the operations of the Nigerian ports before the concession programme of 2006 and how well the concession has improved the performance of the Ports system. Data were collected through secondary methods such as annual reports, as well as interview and media reports. The content analysis method was adopted in analyzing the data. The findings of the study showed that the concession may for all its worth have been able to earn more income for the government but the Authority has failed to keep its part of the contract agreement especially as it concerns the provision of the enabling environment for port operations; infrastructures were still lacking, dwell time has not substantially reduced and corruption still soared high. The paper submits that the regulators of the maritime system need to do more to ensure that it is not paying lip service to its vision of being the leading port in Africa.
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Ugochukwu, Françoise. "Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka at 80, Ivor Agyeman-Duah (Ed.) - book review." Issue 1 1, no. 1 (June 12, 2018): 107–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2516-2713/2018/v1n1a7.
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Wole Soyinka, best known as a Nigerian writer, playwright and Nobel laureate, has been a staunch supporter of the Nigerian cinema, and one of his plays, Death and the King’s horseman, is currently in the process of being adapted to the screen. He embodies the link between the Nigerian society, Yoruba culture and Nollywood. This book of essays in honour of Wole Soyinka’s life and works, offered to him on his 80th birthday, brings together a good number of contributions - short paragraphs, long essays, formal interviews, impromptu conversations and poems. The authors of these texts include a former general Commonwealth secretary, university dons from various fields, internationally acclaimed writers such as Ngugi, Aidoo or Mazrui, diplomats and politicians, journalists, students and personal friends.
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Afejuku, Tony E., and E. B. Adeleke. "Myths, Legends, and Contemporary Nigerian Theatre." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 54–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901004.
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Femi Osofisan belongs to the new breed of writers, inadequately referred to as the ‘second generation of writers’. An accomplished writer whose works include plays, poems, essays, and novels, Osofisan is widely regarded as the most significant playwright in Africa after Soyinka. As a committed playwright, Osofisan focuses on the reappraisal of his immediate society and the challenges of living in this society. He calls attention to all that is undesirable in the politics, economy, and religion of contemporary Nigeria and asks for a change of attitude which, hopefully, will bring sanity to the country. One of the means by which Osofisan achieves his artistic objective is the use of lore from Yorùbá mythology. Specifically, we shall show in this essay that Osofisan makes use of the myths of Ṣango and Èṣù and the legends of Môrèmi and Solarin as a means of thematic exploitation. By so doing, he creates a unique contemporary Nigerian theatre which other playwrights emulate and develop. We shall use Many Colours Make the Thunder King, Esu and the Vagabond Minstrels, Morountodun, and Who’s Afraid of Solarin? as our illustrative texts.
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Gbodofu, Khalil Mohammad Usman. "السبك المعجمي في ديوان السباعيات لعيسى ألبى أبو بكر: دراسة تحليلية نقدية AS-SABAK AL-MU‘JAMI FI DIWAN AS-SUBA‘IYAT LI ‘ISA ALBI ABU BAKR: DIRASAH TAHLILIYAH NAQDIYAH." EL HARAKAH (TERAKREDITASI) 21, no. 2 (December 3, 2019): 351. http://dx.doi.org/10.18860/el.v21i2.5930.
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<p>يتبوأ الشعر في التراث العربي النيجيري مكانة عالية جدا، يقرض علماء هذه البلاد أشعارهم في أغراض مختلفة، إذ يوجد في أشعارهم الرثاء والمدح والوصف ونحو ذلك، وهؤلاء العلماء يستخدمون أساليب متنوعة، فمنهم من يسلك مسلك البحور الخليلية المعروفة، ومنهم من يؤثر البحور المهملة، ومنهم من ينتهج منهج أصحاب الرباعيات أو الخماسيات أو السداسيات أو السباعيات أو غيرها. وأما هذه الورقة فإنها تهدف إلى إلقاء الضوء على أنماط السبك المعجمي الواردة في ديوان «السباعيات» للدكتور عيسى ألبى أبو بكر. تمثّل هذه الظاهرة فنّا جديدًا للدراسة النصية، وصورة شفافة للشكل المعجمي الذي يتناوله الدارسون المعاصرون في الكتب المقدسة، وفي بعض أعمال العلماء القدماء والمحدثين. استطاع الباحث في هذه الورقة أن يقف عند حياة الشاعر وأعماله العلمية والفنّيّة، وعند مضامين ديوان السباعيات، وتمكّن على دراسة أهم عناصر السبك المعجمي، حيث طبّق هذه العناصر على أبيات الديوان مركّزا على التكرار، والترادف، والمصاحبة اللغوية؛ مع التقويم النقدي والإشارة -في بعض الأحايين- إلى السبب الذي أدى بالشاعر إلى قرض قصائده. </p><p><br />Poetry in the Nigerian Arabic Heritage has attained a high level, as Arabic scholars used to compose their poems in different themes including elegy, panegyrics, description and others, while different styles have been explored. In the process of writing the poems, some of them applied the well-known Khalilian prosodic metres, others applied uncommon ones, while the rest was known to write poems in tetragon, pentagon, hexagon and heptagon. The main focus of this paper was to illuminate on the adopted styles of lexicographical shaping in “Diwan As-Subaiyyat” by Isa Alabi Abubakar. This phase stands out as a new art of textual study and a reflect of contemporary lexicographical form which researchers used to study aspect of scriptures and the works of the ancient and modern scholars. The researcher was able to give an account of the poet’s biography and his literary and artistic works particularly contents of the Diwan As-Subaiyyat. The researcher, in the course of studying the components of the lexicographical shaping in the Diwan, elucidates the values of repetition, synonymy, linguistic homogeneity with critical comments pointing into the reason that led the poet to writing the poems. In conclusion, the researcher summarized this study, presented its findings, before mentioning the bibliographies and references.</p>
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Babaleye, Samuel Oloruntobi Taye, Adamolekun Wole, and Nifemi Gbemisola Olofin. "Image Promotion on Instagram by Female Students in some Nigerian Universities." Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal 7, no. 11 (December 8, 2020): 494–502. http://dx.doi.org/10.14738/assrj.711.9177.
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The study investigated the Influence of Instagram Posts on the Body Image of Female Undergraduates in selected universities in southwestern Nigeria. It focused on the exposure of young females to “ideal” beauty standards portrayed on Instagram and the influence it has on them. The survey research design was adopted and questionnaires were used for data collection. The research instrument was administered on 285 respondents randomly drawn from five faculties of Afe Babalola University and Ekiti State University, both in Ado Ekiti, southwestern Nigeria. Social Comparison, Technological Determinism and Uses and Gratification Theories were used in the study. Three hypotheses were tested at 0.05 significance level. Chi-Square inferential statistics was used to determine results. With P-value 0.000126 < 0.05, it was concluded that Instagram posts have a significant negative influence on the body image of the respondents. The influence of body related posts on Instagram encourage young females to desire to conform to the “ideal beauty standards”. Hence, Instagram or social media should give a fairer and realistic representation of female body images without necessarily creating “beauty standards” to be achieved by these young female students. However, young female students should be selective in adopting certain beauty standards on Instagram. Parents and other moral organizations should sensitize the young females to the negative consequences of body image dissatisfaction and objectification
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Brigaglia, Andrea. "Sufi Poetry in Twentieth-Century Nigeria." Journal of Sufi Studies 6, no. 2 (January 30, 2017): 190–232. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22105956-12341302.
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Abstract This article presents the translation and analysis of two poems (the first in Arabic, the second in Hausa) authored by one of the most famous twentieth-century Islamic scholars and Tijānī Sufis of Kano (Nigeria), Abū Bakr al-ʿAtīq b. Khiḍr (1909–74). As examples of two genres of Sufi poetry that are rather unusual in West Africa (the khamriyya or wine ode and the ghazal or love ode), these poems are important literary and religious documents. From the literary point of view, they are vivid testimonies of the vibrancy of the Sufi qaṣīda tradition in West Africa, and of the capacity of local authors to move across its various genres. From the religious point of view, they show the degree to which the West African Sufis mastered the Sufi tradition, both as a set of spiritual practices and techniques and as a set of linguistic tools to speak of the inner.
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Gibbs, James. "The Writer and the Road: Wole Soyinka and Those Who Cause Death by Dangerous Driving." Journal of Modern African Studies 33, no. 3 (September 1995): 469–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00021212.
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A social activist with wide-ranging concern for the welfare of his society, Wole Soyinka is on record as saying that it was the death toll among students and colleagues which prompted him to become involved in road safety. These victims were among the grim statistics of accidents; for example, in 1988 a total of 9,077 people were killed on Nigerian roads, and 24,413 were injured.2 But it is clear from Soyinka's writing that his interest in ‘the road’, and the rich characters it throws up and crushes under foot, predates the slaughter of his students. Early poems such as ‘Epitaph for Say Tokyo Kid’, and prose pieces such as ‘Oga Look Properly’, testify to this, as does the work of the mid-1960s, which includes the satirical revue sketch ‘Obstacle Race’ (about the hazards facing drivers in Nigeria), his first novel, The Interpreters (London, 1965), with its memorable description of the death of Sekoni in a motor accident, and above all his play entitled The Road (London, 1965). When these are linked with Soyinka's interest in the god of the road, Ogun, it was not surprising to find a whole section of his first collection of verse described as ‘of the road’.
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Ugboma, Chinonye, Innocent C. Ogwude, Ogochukwu Ugboma, and Kenneth Nnadi. "Service quality and satisfaction measurements in Nigerian ports: an exploration." Maritime Policy & Management 34, no. 4 (August 2007): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03088830701539073.
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Achunine, E., I. Okoye, A. Nnamani, C. Okwuosa, and L. Nwamaka. "Increasing Cancer Awareness Through BWS Social Media Activities." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 238s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.95800.
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Background and context: Information is key. The Nigerian Communications Commission released a statement in December 2017 that 98.3 million people in Nigeria use the Internet. The increasing number of people that use social media and the unlimited access is a reason to do some level of awareness on these platforms. A huge opportunity to pass information and save lives in the process will be missed by not engaging social media. Aim: To increase awareness for prevention and early detection of cancer via social media and forming an online community in the process. Strategy/Tactics: Creation of cancer-related engaging contents with words, pictures and videos such as general information about cancer, preventive measures among others to get the attention of the audience and consistent posting of these contents. Informing the general public of our free screening exercises and activities. Program/Policy process: Creation of a content calendar for our posts on specific days and times, targeting of online audience through age, sex and location among others considering the campaign we want to push at a given time. Outcomes: After 3 months, we had 48,765 reach and 17,223 impressions on Facebook, 47,599 impressions on Twitter and 15,177 impressions on Instagram from 30 posts each. A very significant increase in the number of people that showed up to our vaccinations, screenings and other activities/programs. Positive response from people who were reached via social media, they were thankful for the basic information they got which they had no idea about. Dozens of people volunteered to work for our organization to help get rid of cancer. What was learned: Social media enabled us to reach a good number of people easily. Our target audience was very grateful for the information they got. In summary, the use of social media in raising awareness and passing information was very effective.