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Philip O. EKIUGBO

Senior Lecturer, University of Benin, Benin City

Department of Linguistics Studies

philip.ekiugbo@uniben.edu

+2347062851103

Academic Qualifications

  • PhD (Linguistics, Phonology), Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka
  • M.A (Linguistics), University of Benin, Benin City
  • B.A (Linguistics), Delta State University, Abraka

  • Fellow, Ife Institute of Advanced Studies
  • Fellow, NYI Global Institute of Cultural, Cognitive, and Linguistic Studies

Work Experience

  • Senior Lecturer, University of Benin, Aba (2025-Date)
  • Lecturer, National Institute for Nigerian Languages, Aba (2020-2025)
  • Editor, Ughelli Times of Nigeria Magazine, Ughelli, Delta State (2016-2020)
  • Editorial Assistant, Christian Times of Nigeria Magazine, Ughelli (2013-2016)


Publications

  1. Aziza, R. O., P. O. Ekiugbo, E. M. Ajiboye and C. Onakpoberuo. (2026). Computer Terms in Urhobo. To appear in: Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies 5.
  2. Ekiugbo, P. O. (2025). On the Orthography of Urhobo-English Loanwords. Aridon: The International Journal of Urhobo Studies 4: 108-133.
  3. Akinbo S. and P. O. Ekiugbo (2024). Iconicity as the motivation for morphophonological metathesis and truncation in Nigerian Pidgin. Open Linguistics 10(1): 20240013
  4. Ekiugbo P. O. and J. U. Edu (2024). Discourse patterns in corporate earnings calls. In F. O. Imu, P. O. Ekiugbo and A. U. Kabir (eds.), Navigating the fecund fields of linguistics, literature, literacy and communication studies: a festschrift in honour of Professor Obiajulu A. Emejulu, Pp. 369-378. Aba: National Institute for Nigerian Languages.
  5. Eme, C. A. and P. O. Ekiugbo. (2024). Hiatus Resolution in Urhobo: A Constraint-Based Account. An-Najah Research Journal B (Humanities) 32(2): 403-418.
  6. Ekiugbo, P. O. and C. A. Eme (2023). Coda Adaptation in Urhobo-English Loanwords: A Constraint-Based Account. Journal of Linguistics and Language Teaching 14(1): 107-120.
  7. Ekiugbo, P. O. 2022. Rule Ordering in Uvwie. Macrolinguistics 10(1): 89-107. [PDF]
  8. Ekiugbo, P. O. and E. M. Darah. 2022. and E. M. Darah. (2022). A Survey of Language Use by Speakers of Minor Nigerian Languages in the Social Media Spaces. Hayatian Journal of Linguistics and Literature 6(1): 273-292. [PDF]
  9. Darah, E. M. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2022. Psychological Manipulation in Political Discourse: A Case Study of Facebook Posts on Urhobo Language Curriculum. TRANS-KATA: Journal of Language, Literature, Culture, and Education 3(1): 13-21.
  10. Ekiugbo, P. O. and C. U. C. Ugorji. 2019. A Descriptive Phonology of the vowel system of Uvwie. Linguistique et Langues Africaines 5: 89-107. [PDF]
  11. Ejobee, L. O. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2018. Children and Language Choice: A Case Study of Abraka Speech Community. Journal of Linguistic Association of Nigeria 21(1): 110-115. [PDF]
  12. Ekiugbo, P. O. 2018. A Note on Lexical Nominalization in Urhobo. In: S. I. Awhefeada, E. Ojaruega and P. E. Omoko (eds), Scholarship and Commitment: Essays in honour of G. G. DARAH, Pp. 473-478. Lagos: Malthouse Press Limited.
  13. Ekiugbo, P. O. and A. Diffre-Odiete. 2018. Is Erohwa Still Alive? Journal of Linguistic Association of Nigeria (Supplement III): 60-67.
  14. Ekiugbo, P. O. and T. V. Ayunku. 2018. Affixation Types in Izon. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation1(3): 1-5.
  15. Emonefe, A. O., C. U. C. Ugorji and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2017. Is Uvwie a Dialect of Urhobo? University of Benin Journal of Humanities 5(1): 27-52.
  16. Ikoyo-Eweto, E. O. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2017. A Phonetic Analysis of Uvwie Vowels. Journal of West African Languages 44 (2): 1-13.
  17. Darah, M. E. and P. O. Ekiugbo. 2014. Dissecting the Phenomenon of Borrowing in Urhobo. Journal of Linguistics, Language and Culture 1: 17-27.

Projects

Urhobo Bibliography

A Collection of Research Works on Different Aspects of the Urhobo Language and People.

Northcole's Collections

A Project on Northcote Whitridge Thomas' (1868-1936) Anthropological Collections on the Urhobo People.

Emejulu Festschrift

A collection of well-researched scholarly essays in honour of Professor Obiajulu A. Emejelu, both to mark his end of tenure as the fourth substantive Executive Director of the National Institute Nigerian Languages, Aba, Nigeria and to celebrate his contributions to diverse fields of knowledge.