NO VICTOR, NO VANQUISH IN THE NIGERIAN CIVIL WAR: ANALYSIS OF THE RECURRENT BIAFRA SEPARATIST AGITATION IN SOUTHEASTERN NIGERIA

No Victor, No Vanquish in the Nigerian Civil War: Analysis of the Recurrent Biafra Separatist Agitation in Southeastern Nigeria

This paper examined the factors sustaining separatist agitation in southeastern Nigeria.This study sourced information from secondary materials.Twenty articles published between 2018 and 2023 were purposively and randomly selected from peer-reviewed and open-access journals through the Google search engine using the phrase Biafra separatist agitati

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The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 and its ancient ghosts: comparison, history and the ever-present need to fight authoritarianism

Brazil is facing one of its most severe political crises since 2016, with several impacts in its gradual process of democratization.In this context, the main argument in this work is that many of the ghosts that scary the Brazilian society in the Twenty-First century are direct heirs of an unresolved Self Defense (pre-constitutional) past, whose ri

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The Gap Between Global Tuberculosis Incidence and the First Milestone of the WHO End Tuberculosis Strategy: An Analysis Based on the Global Burden of Disease 2017 Database

Zhenyu Pan,1– 3 Jun Zhang,1,2,4 Qingting Bu,5 Hairong He,1 Ling Bai,1 Jin Yang,1,2 Qingqing Liu,1,2 Jun Lyu1,2,6 1Clinical Research Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, X

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Pragmatic (In)appropriateness of Diminutives in Russian Language

The article discusses the issue of pragmatic meanings of diminutive forms in the Russian language from the point of view of politeness and speech act theories.The impact of diminutives on Hand and feet set the illocutionary force and perlocutionary effects of speech acts raises the question of their appropriateness in various communicative situatio

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