Conflict is a universal phenomenon that is inevitable in human interaction. Hence, it cannot be avoided in the interaction between Christianity and African Traditional Religion. Since Christianity came in contact with the traditional religion, there has always been a sharp conflict between traditionalists and Christians. This bitter conflict has led to wanton destruction of lives and property, and this has become a source of great worry to the writers. This work investigates the conflicts existing between the two religions since the introduction of Christianity in Igbo land. It examines the nature, pattern, rationale for the conflicts. The method adopted by this study is qualitative and comparative. Both oral interviews and library materials were used. The study validates the following: There is occasional destruction of lives and property and demolition of the people's artifacts and groves by Christians, and this has led to reduction in the sources of income of the people, and in the tourist sites available in most Igbo towns. It also led to syncretism in the people's culture. Finally, it helped in refining some obnoxious beliefs and practices of the Igbo race.

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This study examines synonymy in Standard Igbo (SI) to empirically determine if absolute synonyms actually exist in SI. By the application of cognitive linguistic theory and by adopting a descriptive survey method, the study tries to ascertain the factual behavior of synonyms in SI. The data used for this research work are gathered from documented materials from authors who have written on Igbo synonymy. Forty-six pairs of Igbo synonyms are subjected to analysis using the interchangeablity/substitution method to determine if members of a pair can always substitute each other in all contexts. The study discovers that there are always subtle but noticeable meaning differences realized between the members of the pairs, which is caused by contextual, collocational, and connotative restrictions. The study concludes that members of synonymous pairs in the SI differ from each other when they are placed in certain contexts. Hence, absolute synonyms do not exist in SI as claimed by some of previous scholars.

This paper studied subscribers' perception of General System for Mobile Communication (GSM) services, which they receive from network providers in light of their claims, which were encapsulated in their slogans. The study's primary objective was to find out if these GSM operators, mainly AIRTEL, ETISALAT, GLOBACOM and MTN, lived up to their claims in terms of the quality of services rendered to their subscribers. The two independent variables used in the study were age and location, while customers' satisfaction was the dependent variable. The study's findings show that each of these GSM network providers violated the maxims of quantity and quality to various degrees by not providing good quality calls, SMS and internet services to their customers as they claimed in their slogans.

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