“Medicated Glasses,” “Food is Sweet,” “I Want to Ease Myself”: Q and A on Nigerian English Expressions
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In this edition, I answer several questions on Nigerian English usage and on the...
“Sacrifice” by the Poor Amid Subsidies for the Rich in Nigeria
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The poor in Nigeria are being denuded of all subsidies that subside their existe...
Subsidy, deregulation, liberalization: Nigerian English’s Most Abused Terms
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi The Buhari government’s battle to strangulate the masses through petrol price in...
Unraveling of the Monumental Fraud in Petro Price Hike
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi When I wrote an impassioned article last week about the eye-watering executive ...
Fuel Price Hike: The Language and Grammatical Illogic of a Regulated Deregulation
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Language is a powerful tool often used by the ruling elite to control narratives...
Petrol Price Hike: Time to Occupy Nigeria Again
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In 2012 when the Goodluck Jonathan administration arbitrarily hiked the pump pri...
Popular Everyday English Expressions We Inherited from Shakespeare II
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi This week’s column is a sequel to last week’s . For readers who missed the first...
Re: Urgency of Reforming Nigeria’s Primitive Postgraduate Education
I have no space to publish the deluge of responses my column of last week ignited, but read below a sample which collectively paint a pic...
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