Mixed Grill

Talking about national development, a glance at the news headlines across the world points to the fact that getting the children off the streets and making quality and affordable education...

Well, now that the corona virus also known as COVID 19 is here with us the expression ‘contact the corona virus’ has become common place. Even the experts, the medical...

I n recent weeks, I have followed with real curiosity the efforts Victoria Ibezim-Ohaeri, a Havard trained lawyer and Executive Direc- tor, Spaces for Change, is making to document factors...

S till on the index of forbidden expressions, we have this popular statement that the writer easily falls for, ‘Stake- holders’ when attempting to explain a group of people with...

How often do we express our thoughts and ideas wrapped in phrases that are among what the pragmatics of the language refers to as index of forbidden expressions? There are...

F ear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dis- sipate...

Prior to the re-emergence of de- mocracy in Nigeria in May,1999, political pundits specifically blamed the socioeconomic and political instability on the military. Specifically, while many at that time roundly...

No doubt the phrases ‘un- derprivileged’ and the ‘less privileged’ have lived with us for several years right from when some of us were in the kindergartens or nursery schools....

F rom the content of Hernando De Soto’s book; The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else, a book about the transformation of dead...

L et’s face it, that clichés are expressions that have lost their original impact because they have been overused are not in contention any longer. There are several of them...