Author(s): Ekwueme Paul ChukwukaAbstractProject delivery in the construction industry is strongly shaped by the contractual arrangement adopted for execution. The selected arrangement affects time, cost, quality, risk allocation, supervision, and stakeholder coordination. In Enugu State, the Smart School initiative provides a useful case for examining these issues because it is...
Author(s): Ekwueme Paul ChukwukaAbstractFor decades, Nigeria has carried the identity of an oil-producing nation. Oil has shaped public revenue, political calculations, export strategy, and national imagination. Yet the weakness of this model has also become painfully clear. Dependence on oil has left the economy exposed to price shocks, weakened productive sectors, and limited...
Author(s): Joshua Ifeoluwa OjeladeAbstractThis paper examines the philosophy of mortality through religious, philosophical, and scientific perspectives, ultimately arguing for the expansion of human choice regarding death. Religious traditions often frame death as a necessary transition and a gateway to ultimate reward, while philosophical systems such as Stoicism interpret it as...
Author(s): Harrison ObiefuleAbstractStablecoin use in emerging economies remains uneven, underscoring the importance of understanding the perceptions that shape adoption. This study explored how stability, security, usefulness, regulatory protection, and social acceptability influence stablecoin adoption in Nigeria. Guided by the Technology AcceptanceModel(TAM) and Perceive...
Author(s): Abdulhafiz IbrahimAbstractThis project presents the design and implementation of a cost-efficient
autonomous obstacle-evading vehicle, which is designed to operate in last-mile
delivery with Tiny Machine Learning (TinyML) and Internet of Things (IoT)
applications. Resolving the inefficiencies, high costs, and environmental impacts
of traditional last-mile ...
Author(s): Mosadoluwa FasasiAbstractThis paper examines a recursive puzzle embedded in Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979), tracing its structure through the book’s figure-ground framework. The paper establishes and reveals the puzzle’s full solution and proposes an original adaptation using the English vowels as a generative figure. The...
Author(s): Timileyin OkunlolaAbstractStage Management in academic theatre is a different ball game from stage management in other types of theatres. For instance, an academic theatre is a theatre that does not have a permanent production team because students are admitted, trained, and sent off upon graduation and the cycle continues the next academic session. Also, those wh...
Author(s): Divine ChideraAbstractThis essay extends the framework of ancestral memory I introduced in the prologue by zeroing in on ecological knowledge. I'm interested in how African and Afro-diasporic communities have encoded climate intelligence across generations—not as folklore, but as working technology. Drawing from real practices like Zimbabwean seed preservation...
Author(s): Ikeh ChideraAbstractThe era of space exploration has evolved from a quest for discovery to a vision of permanent settlement. As Earth faces escalating global challenges, humanity looks to space not merely as a scientific frontier, but as a potential new home. This article explores the foundational pillars of a future space society examining critical question...
Author(s): uchenna ezejioforAbstractThis research aims to examine the history of the Nigerian-Biafran civil war and the Biafran secessionist state. Current scholarship frames the Nigerian-Biafran civil war as an example of tribal conflict between the minority Igbo tribe in the southeast and predominant tribes in the north but fails to contextualize the war as an iteration o...