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Mariam Anana, Esther Senayon and Emmanuel Chinaguh
Nigeria’s cultural diversity and growing consumer market provide a context for examining how food packaging and labelling communicate brand and cultural meanings. This study examines the multimodal discourse … food product labels and packaging in Nigeria, focusing on food seasonings and spices. Six food products were purposively selected from the Nigerian food market. Adopting a qualitative research approach
Taiwo, Joshua AJENIFARI
threats, legitimating security action, and positioning citizens within security governance. This study examines a Nigeria Police Force (NPF) press release dated 16 February 2025 and published online on 17 February … events: it legitimates intensified policing and securitizes public vigilance as a civic responsibility within Nigeria’s internal security discourse
Ogechi I. Anyanwu, Uche J. Ngonadi and Elochukwu A. Nwankwo
properties have been identified as imperative for attending traditional festivals in some parts of Nigeria. This motivated this study to examine safety and security issues at traditional festivals … Eastern region of Nigeria, including Anambra, Imo, Abia, Enugu, Akwa Ibom, Ebonyi and Cross River states. The study adopted a qualitative research design and used ethnography in data collection
Anthony Elisha Anowu and Tunde Ope-Davies
This paper examines the use of lexicalisation in election petition tribunals in Nigeria. In adversarial courtroom settings, opposing legal teams often compete for the attention of judges and the jury … findings also show that lexicalisation aids contextualisation by situating the present study within Nigeria’s socio-political milieu
Ozoemena, Johnkenedy Azubuike, Ngwoke, Festus Uwakwe, Nwokolo, Basil Okwudilichukwu and Okoro, Judith C.
Habila in Waiting for an Angel to depict the era of military dictatorship in Nigeria. The study adopts the theory of New Historicism as its framework and Michael Halliday … novel under study in its historical moment and examines the political turmoil of Nigeria's unprecedented military era in the 1980s and late 1990s. The study uses Systemic Functional Grammar
Godwin Chibueze Didigwu, Matthew Chinenye NNuta and Bernice Nonye Ogbochie
Concerns about public trust and electoral legitimacy are becoming increasingly prominent as Nigeria approaches the 2027 presidential election. This study examines how trust and legitimacy are discursively constructed in emerging
Arilesere R. Mustapha and Funke J. Oni
construction of insecurity and economic crises in opposition manifestoes of five presidential candidates in Nigeria’s general election between 2015 and 2023 with a view to identifying the linguistic
Olusegun J. Omoboye and Samuel. A. Akinwotu
discourse strategies and linguistic markers of affectivity and rapport in online consultative encounters in Nigeria. Out of forty-six posts collected from the "Ask the Gynecologist Antenatal Support and Care
Chinaguh, Emmanuel C.
Religious identity remains a significant resource for political differentiation in Nigeria, where constructions of belonging can reinforce social boundaries and polarisation. This study examines how the category infidel functions
Mathias Okey Chukwu and Favour Raphael Ntor
representations of sex, men, and women in herbal sex-enhancement drug advertisements in Southeast Nigeria. The study is anchored on Lakoff and Johnson’s Conceptual Metaphor Theory (1980) and Entman