Nigerian Words and Expressions that are Untranslatable into English
Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I’d planned to write this article last week, but the egregiousness of the grammatica...
Great News on Discontinuation of HND in Nigeria
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The most consequential news story this week, for me, wasn’t the 2019-reelection-f...
Buhari’s Democracy Day Speech is a Grammatical Embarrassment
By Farooq A. Kperogi, PhD Twitter: @farooqkperogi People have asked why I have never subjected President Muhammadu Buhari’s English t...
El-Rufai’s Hypocritical Xenophobia and Obadiah Mailafia’s Fulaniphobia
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Gov. Nasir El-Rufai loves to flaunt his appointment of "non-indigenes"...
“Sannu da Shan Ruwa,” or “Eku Ongbe,” is Untranslatable into English
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Every Ramadan season, without fail, I get a steady stream of questions from my Ha...
Ibrahim Idris: Inspector General for the President (IGP)
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi I refused to jump on the bandwagon of ridiculing IGP Ibrahim Kpotun Idris over his “tran...
No, “Mosque” Doesn’t Come from “Mosquito”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Several months ago, a couple of people drew my attention to a Facebook status upd...
Prof. Saleh Abdu: Appreciation to an Exceptional Teacher
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I had intended for the publication of this column to be coterminous with “Teacher...
Nigerian and American English Clash in Fake Pro-Buhari Trump Quotes
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I have stated several times that one of the goals of this column is to equip my r...
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