Kemi Adeosun Isn't a Victim, but She's Not Alone
By Farooq A. Kperogi, PhD Twitter: @farooqkperogi There are three false but popular narratives about former Minister of Finance Kemi ...
Touchscreen, not Screen touch, number plate, not plate number: Nigerian English Q and A
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi 1. Question: Is it “screen touch” or “touch screen? Answer: Until I recei...
Abba Kyari’s Cowardly SLAPP against the Punch over Alleged Scam
By Farooq Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In American media law, SLAPP is an acronym for “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Par...
Re: Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s anti-Saraki Ilorin purism
What follows is a response to my two-part series on the Ilorin identity and the place of the Sarakis in it. The author advances the same s...
Nigerian English Words You Won’t Find in Any Modern Dictionary
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Nigerian English is filled with words that are either exclusively invented by Nig...
Trump, Buhari, Xenophilia and “Lifeless” “Integrity”
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi President Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters are frothing at the mouth with impotent r...
It’s “Academic,” not “Academician” 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...
Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s Anti-Saraki Ilorin Purism (II)
By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last week, I pointed to the presence of non-Muslim Fulani pastoralists in Afonja’...
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