Mixed Grill

Still on cutting down on boring and long winding expressions, it is pertinent to point out a few of the long winding statements that unnecessarily occupy space and are frequently...

Grandiloquence or what the purists and masters of the language call flowery statement confuse than inform or educate the listening or reading publics. Media organizations, especially the broadcast media unique...

It is reasonable to argue that ‘history is an unending dialogue between the present and the past through a continuous process of interaction between the historian and his facts’. Likewise,...

In every human endeavour, time is of essence. People are in a hurry to flip through the content of the newspaper, read the headlines, listen to the radio and watch...

…The good news; we have the overwhelming support of youth votes….The bad news; the youth never bothers to vote- -Anonymous By Jerome-Mario Utomi Similar to many other Nigerians that demonstrated...

It has become the norm to hear people speak or write, what I call the Nigerian coinage or invented phrase not found in the English lexicon of current English, ‘invitees’...

The expression “return back,” wrongly used though appears to have gained currency over time. The frequency has endured to the annoyance of the English pragmatists. The intension could easily be...

P rior to 2017, when The Federal Government during one of the Federal Executive Council Meetings presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari decided to stop Nigeria’s membership of 90 International...