By Farooq A. Kperogi Coined by Scottish lexicographer  James Murray , back-formation is said to occur when speakers of a language inven...

By Farooq A. Kperogi What appears below was first published in three installments in my language column in the (Nigerian) People's Dai...

We all clearly love stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, as these emails show. What follows is only a sample of the scor...

By Farooq A. Kperogi   Continued from last week 2.  Adagbo Onoja . A few people probably know this mild-mannered, even-tempered, ad...

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...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Is Nigerian English the same as (Nigerian) Pidgin English or, for that matter, “broken English”? I have been asked t...