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Commissioner in 2012, Eghagha was kidnapped but regained freedom after sixteen days. That encounter made him write a short story entitled "Your Death Hour is 10 O’clock". He was Acting Dean
Faculty of Arts University of Lagos in 2015 and Head of Department of English, University of Lagos from 2016 to 2019. Eghagha has supervised many PhDs and was made a full professor in 2010. Eghagha is Honorary Colonel of the
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Commissioner for Higher Education in Delta State by the former governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, in January 2009, serving until December 2014. He was reappointed Delta State Commissioner Government House from December 2014 to May 2015. Midway into his tenure as
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Graduate Assistant in the Department of English, University of Lagos. in 1988, he transferred to Ondo State University, Ado Ekiti (now University of Ado Ekiti) as Lecturer II. He was Secretary,
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Grammar School Sapele, Delta State in 1972. After graduating with a West African School Certificate (Division II) in 1976, he attended Baptist High School Port Harcourt, in
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Creative Artist: A Journal of Theatre and Media Studies
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Hope Eghagha revealed that he is a "literary child of
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