English Department

• Give students a good grounding and effective mastery of the English Language in its various applications to achieve adequate self-expression and self actualization in the English Language.
• To produce graduates who possess an informed literary stimulus.
• To equip such graduates with adequate knowledge of the full range of major land marks in English and African Literatures in all genres and periods.
• Adequately prepare the students for post-graduate studies in the English Language, Linguistics and / or Language teaching in Nigerian School and Colleges.
• Enable students to overcome certain deficiencies in their English without compromising standard.
• To impart a humanistic perspective to such graduates by acquainting them with literature as an expression of man’s spiritual essence.

LIST OF ACADEMIC STAFF
Head of Department:   Associate Professor Umelo Ojinmah B.A, PhD

• Prof. Zaynab ALKALI. (B.A, M.A, PhD African Literature and Creative Writing).
• Associate Professor Umelo OJINMAH. (B.A, PhD. African, Commonwealth and Comparative Literatures).
• Associate Professor Lubasa NTI’NSEENDI. Language and Literature in Education.
• Dr. Amirikpa OYIGBENU. (B.A, M.A, PhD African / Oral Literature).
• Dr. Halima Buhari SEKULA. (B.A, M.A, PhD African Literature / Creative Writing).
• Mallam Al-Bishak MON. (B.A, M.A African / Oral Literature).
• Mallam Salisu RAJ. (B.A, M.A Semantics and Pragmatics)
• Mr. Adewole  A. ALAGBE. (B.A, M.A Grammar / Phonology).
• Mr. Bdliya Idrisa Mohammed
• Dr. Terhemba SHIJA. (B.A, M.A, PhD African Literature).
• Dr. Mrs. Bridget MADU (B.A, M.A, PhD Socio-Linguistics)
• Ms. Joy AWOROH. (B.A, M.A Semantics)
• Mr. Daniel Mole PHILIP. (B.A, M.A African Literature).
• Mr. Stephen O. DAVID. (B.A, M.A Pragmatics / Psycholinguistics).
• Mallam Tanimu YUSUF. (B.A, M.A Sociolinguistics / Grammar).
• Mallam Auwal IBRAHIM. (B.A Applied Linguistics).