
Editor in Chief’s Voice
We want to thank you for having kept faith with us all this while. We have seen our journal grow over the last three years in leaps and bounds. It has been because of your support. We continue to crave your indulgence to help us spread the word concerning the good work we are doing here. As you can see from the TOC for this edition, the listed papers are as diverse in spread as in the subject matter they cover within the field of humanities. Academic discourse continues to be a veritable basis of our being and craft. Indeed, if we do not critically assess and discuss issues around us, we will die naturally as academics. However, our continuing commitment to our craft, despite all the issues surrounding it globally, continues to show that in the Ivory Tower lies the solution to the problems the world seeks answers to. I hope we will not disappoint our world. It is in the spirit of scholarship that I welcome you to another volume of our journal in the Faculty of Arts, The NOUN Scholar, volume 3, number 1. This has been prepared for your delight and greater insight.
Welcome to our world of The NOUN Scholar!
Prof Iyabode Omolara Akewo Nwabueze, MNAL
Editor-in-Chief
THE NOUN SCHOLAR: Journal of Arts and Humanities
Volume 3 Number 2, December 2023.
Language for Higher Education: The Place of the English Language in Nigeria
Joy Eyisi, Sheriff Olamide Olatunji, Joy Eyisi Jr
Is the Pandemic So Far Gone? – A Semiotic Analysis of Covid-19 Fading Imageries
Iyabode Omolara Akewo Nwabueze, Bibian Ugoala, Felicia Oamen, Gloria Anetor
Community Perception on Prevalence of Female Involvement in
Substance Abuse in Sabon-Tasha, Kaduna State
Alheri Vanessa Bala,
Joshua Olumide Orimiyeye

Child Narrative Voice as Satire for Rape in Ernest Emenyonu’s
“What the Babysitter and my Bishop had in Common”
Juliet Nkane Ekpang, God’sgift Ogban Uwen
Violent Conflicts in Tivland: An Ethical Assessment of the Loss of
Human Dignity and Moral Values in the Contemporary Society
Simeon Iember Aande, Godwin Aondover Gbande
A Generative Account of Allomorphic Variations in Nigerian English: Some Observable Typologies in L2 Spoken Prose
Ubong E. Josiah, Hannah Clifford
Open Distance Learning and Foreign Languages: Challenges and Prospects of Learning French Language in the 21st Century
Manasseh Teryima Akese, Akpen Augustin Leval
A Critical Discussion of Imam Al-Ghazali’s Philosophical Analysis of Dhātul-Lah (Essence of God)
Murtala Abdus-Salam Ajani