By Farooq A. Kperogi I just read the genuinely stirring story of an uncommonly talented U.S.-based Nigerian automotive designer by the nam...

I have chosen to pause this week and give space to reader reactions to various issues I raised here in the past few weeks. The reactions are...

This guy's story is truly inspiring. It will be the subject of my next column in the Weekly Trust. I also found this GM video where Jela...

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...