Violating the Mother Tongue by ‘Emergent English-Phobic TC-Intellectuals’ in Nigeria (I)
My column last week about the tendency for everyday people to defend mediocrity in English usage among the Nigerian elite ignited an inter...
Buhari’s June 12 Pandering and Naivety of Yoruba Elite
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In politics, pandering refers to the insincere, opportunistic appeasement of a gr...
Response to Defenders of Presidential Grammatical Boo-Boos
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Every time my grammar column calls attention to grammatical infractions by member...
Obadiah Mailafia: From Fulaniphobia to Embarrassing Ignorance
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I normally don’t respond to responses to my column if the responses do no more t...
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"...
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