By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigerian English, in general, is characterized by a rather overinflated affection for excessively recondite vocabulari...

By Dr. M.S. Abubakar I would like to congratulate Farooq Kperogi for his brilliant two-part essay on the Degree/HND dichotomy which appeare...

Re: 10 Most Annoying Nigerian Media English Expressions Thanks so much. There are other annoying things that are obviously grammatically wro...

Below are a few of the several reactions I received from my readers on many of articles. I will publish the rest in due course. Re: “ What d...

It appears that the recent wrong-headed classification of Nigeria as a "country of interest" (read: a terrorist country) by the Ob...

This absolutely hilarious but nonetheless instructive list came to my inbox today and I thought I would share it with my readers. It had me ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi While on a visit to a friend’s house a few days after Abdul-Mutallab’s treacherous misadventure, I saw a man here who l...

By Farooq A. Kperogi My former American student who is now my Facebook friend wrote a status update on Dec. 31, 2009 that got me thinking...

By Farooq A. Kperogi The intense anxiety and unease that Nigerians in the diaspora now feel in the wake of Umar Farouk Abdul-Mutallab’s a...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Of the major parts of speech of traditional grammar—nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions and conju...

By Farooq A. Kperogi If you are a university graduate who has been socialized to disdain polytechnics as inferior higher education instit...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Former youth and sports minister Alhaji Saidu Samaila Sambawa, in an overly showy effort to impress the Kebbi State gov...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter:  @farooqkperogi In the past few weeks, I have received no fewer than 10 emails from readers of this colum...

A new research has just shown that Louisiana, one of America's poorest states, has the happiest people in the country and New York, one ...