Mixed Grill

Undoubtedly, we live in a nation where public leadership scorns ideas from citizens and sees it as a form of distraction to public policies. Again, ours is a country where...

This lesson is a follow up to last Sunday’s piece entitled ‘Never pluralise the word counsel,’ and for the benefit of doubt for those who may raise eyebrows, to get...

From available records, it was the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, enforcing EU laws and directing the union’s administrative operations, that in...

The seven-letter word, ‘counsel’, to put it plainly, is a legal term often associated with the law or the lawyer, or one who gives advice. Call them the counsellor, and...

It is not by any standard a palatable news report that the Federal Government made a total of N3.25tn in 2020, and out of which it spent a total of...

Often, the majority of people gloss over certain statements that could best be described as an aberration by the English purists, or at best display what I call I don’t...

The English purists and masters have come down hard on those bent on recycling stale and redundant expressions, especially idiomatic statements, or figures of speech they considered as worn-out phrases...

Many writers take them for granted. Punctuation marks, according to the experts of the language, are those marks that clarify and make plain one’s argument. One can imagine putting his/her...

As both the Federal and state Governments in Nigeria continue to allow the rate of out of school children, especially in the northern part of Nigeria, to swell in number,...

There are many of them that are still in vogue, even though they have outlived their usefulness. The language masters and purists advise that they should be used sparingly or...