Top Cutest and Strangest Nigerian English Idioms
By Farooq A. Kperogi What appears below was first published in three installments in my language column in the (Nigerian) People's Dai...
Re: Beyond Yar’adua: Tributes to Living Heroes
We all clearly love stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, as these emails show. What follows is only a sample of the scor...
Tributes to Little-Known Living Heroes (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi Continued from last week 2. Adagbo Onoja . A few people probably know this mild-mannered, even-tempered, ad...
Beyond Yar’adua: Tributes to Little-Known Living Heroes
By Farooq A. Kperogi A number of my readers wrote to tell me that they were expecting to read my tribute to the late President Umar Mu...
Broken English, Pidgin English and Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi Is Nigerian English the same as (Nigerian) Pidgin English or, for that matter, “broken English”? I have been asked t...
Re: Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, that was Embarrassing!
As I said I would some weeks back, I am sharing with you a sample of the streams of emails I received from readers in response to my article...
Readers Talk Back—Plus a Q & A
By Farooq A. Kperogi As is my tradition, I have decided to pause to give room for my readers to talk back to me—and to other readers of t...
Common Errors of Reported Speech in Nigerian English
By Farooq A. Kperogi There is a pervasive kind of error in reported speech in Nigerian English, especially in Nigerian media English, th...
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