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...
Author(s): Odoziaku StephenAbstractSpace exploration stands as a universal endeavor designed to unlock the doors to crucial knowledge hidden in the cosmos, and as humanity continues to explore the secrets of the universe for its benefit, the establishment of sustainable energy systems is a prerequisite for maintaining the regular operation of a space base. After Apollo 11’...
Author(s): Giwa Macnun AdemolaAbstractThis study examines the effect of capital structure on the profitability of Deposit Money Banks
(DMBs) in Nigeria between 2014 and 2024 using yearly data. The research specifically
investigates how debt-equity composition influences banks’ financial performance, measured
through return on equity (ROE). Employing a Panel Autoregressive ...
Author(s): John Ehi AbojeAbstractMalaria remains a significant public health challenge, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, despite ongoing efforts to eradicate the disease. Recent advancements, including the rollout of malaria vaccines, such as RTS,S/AS01 and R21/Matrix-M™, offer new avenues for prevention. However, the rise of resistance to anti-malarial ...
Author(s): Mosadoluwa FasasiAbstractThis study investigates meme coins on the Solana blockchain through the triad lens of culture, economics and technical architecture. Drawing on anthropological frameworks of memetics, market dynamics and network performance data, this research investigates how internet culture materializes into real-world financial instruments and the imp...
Author(s): Oladapo Oyinkansola PreciousAbstractThis study investigated the effects of aqueous leaves concoctions of Adansonia digitata and Corchorus olitorius on the serum proteins, antioxidants and the liver enzymes of rats administered with fried oil. A total of thirty-six (36) Wistar rats were distributed into 6 groups of 6 rats each, such that, all groups were fed on rat chow and ...