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Author: search.filters.author.Awogu-Maduagwu Edith AbisolaStart date: 2021

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    Linguistic-stylistic analysis of the language of leadership in the political arena and the business world
    (Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2025) Ehibor Oremire Judith; Eyisi, Joy; Odukoya, Jonathan A.; Ogbulogo, Charles U.; Ugorji, C. U. C.; Odo, Onyekachi; Chimuanya, Lily; Abiodun-Eniayekan, Eugenia; Awogu-Maduagwu Edith Abisola; Adesiyan Rebecca U.
    This study explores the role of language in leadership within the political and business contexts, employing James MacGregor Burn’s Transformational Leadership theory and analysis of Wala’a Bunaiyan and Kelsie McWilliams, as well as Michael Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics. It distinguishes between the language used by political leaders (Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Mohammadu Buhari, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu) and business leaders (Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, Femi Otedola, Mike Adenuga, and Jim Ovia) in Nigeria. By analysing speeches through qualitative and quantitative methods, the study highlights how linguistic styles and choices vary distinctively between the two sectors, influenced by their specific contexts and communication strategies. Findings reveal that each sector’s language reflects its unique strategies, styles, and objectives, shaping public opinions and societal societal values. The research underscores the importance of recognsing these differences to enhance communication and understanding across different sectors, advocating against broad generalisations.
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    Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery: An Appraisal of Causes and Effects in Nigeria
    (Migration Letters Volume: 20, No: S7, 2023) Osimen Goddy U.; Olu-Owolabi Fadeke Esther; Apeloko O. D.; Awogu-Maduagwu Edith Abisola
    Human trafficking is widely recogni::.ed as a form of contemporary slavery with a range of socioeconomic ramifications. In Nigeria, this form of contemporary slavery is common. Nigeria, regrettably, is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking, which is a disgusting position to hold. With the associated effects and implications on people's life in the nation, the epidemic has taken on complicated dimensions and grown elusive. It is on this backdrop this study looks at the causes and effects of the scourge in Nigeria, using Edo State as a case study. The study which adopts the descriptive survey research design method. Data collected were analysed and expressed descriptively. The study revealed among other things that, poverty and unemployment are the main drivers of human trafficking in Nigeria. The necessity to build coordinated and well-articulated initiatives that fight human trafficking in Nigeria is thus suggested, among other things.
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    Nigerianness and Misrepresentations of Names and Signatures: Should the Colonized adopt the English-Language Naming Conventions?
    (ISVS e-journal, Vol. 10, Issue 11, 2023) Osimen Goddy U.; Daudu Basil Osayin; Awogu-Maduagwu Edith Abisola
    History has it that the British once colonized Nigeria, South Africa, and India amongst others. South Africa and India, to a very great extent, have standardized their naming system while Nigeria is yet to standardize its naming system even though it is a common practice for Nigerians to start with their surnames or last names. Name arrangement and misrepresentations have become a problem for most Nigerians and this has escalated to a national problem. The work, therefore, adopts the quantitative method of investigation using questionnaires and interviews as instruments for data collection to get first-hand information from judicial workers and non-judicial workers alike. The responses ewceived from the respondents were further descriptively analyzed to ascertain the truth of their assertions. From the investigation carried out, the findings show that lack of consciousness and proper education, among other things, are largely responsible for name and signature misrepresentations in Nigeria. It is, therefore, recommend that the Nigerian government and principal stakeholders of the various organizations should organize sensitization programmes often. However, most importantly, Nigeria needs to standardize its naming system for proper placement and recognition in the world.
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    Linguistic-stylistic analysis of the language of leadership in the political arena and the business world
    (Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2025-02) Ehibor Oremire Judith; Eyisi, Joy; Odukoya, Jonathan A; Ogbulogo, Charles U.; Ugorji, C. U. C.; Odo, Onyekachi; Chimuanya, Lily; Abiodun-Eniayekan, Eugenia; Awogu-Maduagwu Edith Abisola; Adesiyan, Rebecca U.
    This study explores the role of language in leadership within the political and business contexts, employing James MacGregor Burn’s Transformational Leadership theory and analysis of Wala’a Bunaiyan and Kelsie McWilliams, as well as Michael Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics. It distinguishes between the language used by political leaders (Olusegun Obasanjo, Umaru Musa Yar’adua, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, Mohammadu Buhari, and Bola Ahmed Tinubu) and business leaders (Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, Femi Otedola, Mike Adenuga, and Jim Ovia) in Nigeria. By analysing speeches through qualitative and quantitative methods, the study highlights how linguistic styles and choices vary distinctively between the two sectors, influenced by their specific contexts and communication strategies. Findings reveal that each sector’s language reflects its unique strategies, styles, and objectives, shaping public opinions and societal societal values. The research underscores the importance of recognsing these differences to enhance communication and understanding across different sectors, advocating against broad generalisations
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    TRADITION AND LEADERSHIP IN ELECHI AMADI’S THE GREAT PONDS
    (International Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Reviews Vol.11 No.1, 2021-01) Onwuka, Edwin; Awogu-Maduagwu Edith Abisola
    Explorations of indigenous African traditions in pre-colonial and colonial African societies in imaginative literatures have historical and aesthetic values. Historical for the great insights they offer on the human condition and social experience in pre-literate communities; and aesthetic for the refreshing and exciting images of the African world recreated through the human imagination and the genius of gifted writers. Elechi Amadi’s The Great Ponds is a quintessential novel that imaginatively recreates an authentic African community totally regulated by its tradition to the exclusion of any Western or foreign influence. This paper explores tradition as a central motif in the novel with an aim to highlight its centrality in regulating social existence and communal harmony in the society depicted in the text. It also interrogates leadership and the models reflected in the novel on political and military planes. The study is a qualitative and library based one limited to content analysis of the novel in focus. It therefore contributes to criticism on the nexus of history and literature. It highlights supernatural and mythical social experiences through analyses of traditional world-views about gods, ancestors, the dibia, and leadership in traditional Igbo societies. New historicism is the theoretical perspective deployed in the paper.