Unravelling of the Corruption in Buhari’s “Anti-Corruption” Fight
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The latest thunderbolt from the Head of Service of the Federation that President...
“Pregnant for a man,” “Spinster,” “Thuggery”: Nigerian English Q and A
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: A contributor to your column once observed that it is only Nigerian ...
How about the Other “Mainas” in Buhari’s Government?
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi President Muhammadu Buhari is infamously impervious to, and even contemptuous of...
“Add weight,” “on my mind”: Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: I had a conversation with a native English speaker sometime ago. In ...
World Bank, Buhari, and Presidential Subnationalism
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, in a news conference on October 12, reported ...
CBN’s Aisha Ahmad, Misogynistic Bullying, and Religious Hypocrisy
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi At least two categories of (male) Nigerian social media denizens were disconcerted ...
Semantic Bleaching in English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Just like skin bleaching is the chemically induced lessening of the melanin of a...
Femi Adesina and the Godification of Buhari
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Dissent and criticism are not only core structural components of democracy, they...
Old Forgotten English Words We Should Start Using Again
Language is always in a state of flux. It hardly ever happens that archaisms stage a comeback in languages. However, lately, people have d...
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