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Prof. Idowu Odebode

Professor Idowu O. Odebode (Commonwealth Fellow) graduated from the Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife with a specialization in English. He also attended the Nigerian Institute of Journalism in Lagos, where he bagged a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism before proceeding to the University of Ibadan for M. A. English (language) and Ph.D. in English (language) respectively. He was the first recipient of the American Name Society’s Emerging Scholar Award (ANSESA) in Chicago (2008) and the founding president, Society for the Study of Names in Nigeria (SSNN). He was a visiting lecturer/ Commonwealth Fellow at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, the United Kingdom in 2015. He is the incumbent Director of General Studies, Redeemer\'s University and the former Head of Department (English). His areas of interest include Onomastics, Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics.
His objectives, among others, are: to live a principled and righteous life; to discharge his duties as being accountable to God always.

Professor

Faculty Of Humanities

ENGLISH STUDIES

odebodei@run.edu.ng
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