Boko Haram, Privatized Governance, and Poverty
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. A few people who read my column two weeks ago thought that, in condemning the emerging tendency in the nort...
The Arabic Origins of Common Yoruba Words
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I am taking a break from English grammar this week to discuss a fascinating 22-page article I read on the...
Re: Somaliazation of Nigeria and Imperative of Privatized Governance
Last week’s article with the abovetitle elicited more responses than I have I have space to publish them in weeks. Below is a representati...
Somaliazation of Nigeria and Imperative of Privatized Governance
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. As I sit on my computer to write this, I am so devastatingly downhearted by the current happenings in Niger...
Q and A on Metaphors and Usage
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Many of the questions in this week’s column were chosen from the responses I received from my three previous ...
Nigeria’s Failed World Bank Presidency Bid
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I really wanted to avoid discussing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid for the presidency of the World Bank. But s...
Q and A on Idioms, Nigerian Expressions, and Punctuations
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. This week I am going to respond to a few of the questions I’ve received from readers over the last few weeks...
Top 10 Grammatical Errors Common to Americans and Nigerians
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. It’s trite knowledge that grammatical errors in English—and, for that matter, all languages— are not the pres...
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