Top 10 Usage Errors in Nigerian English (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi 6. “Herbalist.” In Nigerian English, a herbalist is a witch doctor, a practition...
Buhari: From Criminalizing and Dividing Nigerians to Dissing Nigerian Youth
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi A president is supposed to be a country’s chief salesperson, biggest motivator, u...
Top 10 Usage Errors in Nigerian English (I)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Every English-speaking nation on earth has its repertoire of idiosyncratic soleci...
On Sexual Predation of Female Students in Nigerian Universities
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Nigerian cyberspace is lit up with the story of one Professor Akindele of the Oba...
“Emir of Yorubaland”: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Term “Emir”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Oluwo of Iwoland in Osun State, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, said on March 31 tha...
Hypocritical Vilification of TY Danjuma in the North
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi General T.Y. Danjuma has become a bête noire in my part of Nigeria, that is, the ...
“Who is Fooling Who?” Q and A on Popular Usage Errors
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Question: What is wrong with the expression “who is fooling who?” Someone told ...
Moghalu, Sowore, and the Diasporan Presidential Challenge
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Kingsley Moghalu, former CBN deputy governor and professor of the practice at Tufts ...
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