By Farooq A. Kperogi Selective perception is an instinctive cognitive bias that predisposes us to perceive reality in ways that reinforce...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Let me begin by stating that I have problems with the term “conspiracy theory.” Its invocation is sometimes no more tha...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Hypercorrection is a grammatical error inspired by a false, ill-digested analogy. For example, people who have been tau...

By Farooq A. Kperogi It seems fairly obvious that Nigeria is the target of the Obama administration’s mapping of what one might call the new...

By Farooq A. Kperogi A language columnist for a prominent Nigerian newspaper whom I deeply respect—and who is a fan of this column—recently ...

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...