“Academician” Or “Academic”? Q and A on Nigerian English Errors and Usage
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Although many Nigerians, including Professor Wole Soyinka, use “academicians” an...
Adamu Adamu, Please Bring Back Nigeria’s Teacher’s Colleges
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I want to congratulate Malam Adamu Adamu on his well-deserved appointment as min...
Re: “Mathematical Enoch Opeyemi and the Making of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419ner
Readers of this column weighed in on last week’s column with the above title . Enjoy. Thanks for yet another explosive expose on a Nig...
“Barbing Salon” or “Barbing Saloon”? Q and A on Nigerian English Usage
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi It is “barbing salon,” “barbing saloon” or none of the two? Is the expression “n...
“Mathematical” Enoch Opeyemi and the Making of Another Nigerian Intellectual 419er
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The moment I read about Dr. Enoch Opeyemi's claim to have solved the 156-yea...
Re: Tribute to Haliru Dantoro, Emir of Borgu
Readers shared many thoughtful comments on last week’s tribute to the late Haliru Dantoro. I share a few of them below: Thanks for th...
Tribute to Haliru Dantoro, Emir of Borgu
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi I woke up from my power nap on October 30, 2015 to see a missed call from vetera...
El-Rufai’s Kufena Hills and Metaphors of Death in Nigerian Public Discourse
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Everyday public discourse in Nigeria is disturbingly suffused with casual refere...
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