Bad Grammar
By Ebere Wabara THE NATION ON SUNDAY of April 5 welcomes us today with this wrongdoing: “I escaped death by the whiskers (by a whisker)” The Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) rounds off its...
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By Ebere Wabara I must make it clear that the first part of the compendium entitled “Media Gaffes & Essays”, plus other interventions, is not a comprehensive textbook on the English language. In...
View ArticleErrors Codified
By Ebere Wabara All the common mistakes below and much more are contained in this section, with detailed explanations where necessary. This conspectus is just to whet your appetite ahead of syntactic...
View ArticleMedia Gaffes & Essays
By Ebere Wabara IT must be made clear that the first part of this compendium, Media Gaffes & Essays, is not a comprehensive textbook on the English language. In other words, the reader will not...
View ArticleDevelopmental Media
By Ebere Wabara “Reps (Reps’) speaker: South East coalition lobbies Buhari” NATIONAL Mirror of April 27 comes up with copious grammatical crises: “We’ll restore peace in (to) APGA—Ufomba” Next is its...
View ArticleMedia Intellectualism
By Ebere Wabara Three weeks ago, May 12 precisely, I presented my third book entitled ‘Media Gaffes & Essays (plus other interventions)’ at the Bolaji Akinyemi Auditorium of the Nigerian...
View ArticleMedia Abuse (1)
By Ebere Wabara LET me declare from the outset that querulous Theodore Ahamefula Orji of Abia State is the worst governor the country has ever produced and will never experience again for...
View ArticleMedia Abuse (2)
By Ebere Wabara Despite the creation of the Abia State Environmental Protection Agency (ASEPA), headed by Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, the governorship stooge of Orji who has taken over from his benefactor,...
View ArticleHeavy Downpour?
Last month’s edition of The Nigeria Political Economist published by a friend of mine, Ken Ugbechie, welcomes us this week with just three blunders: “Majority (A majority) of the applicants who pleaded...
View ArticleWhooping For Whopping
Daily Sun BusinessWEEK of June 22 welcomes us today: “…agricultural industries whose products have been declared pioneer products on satisfying certain condition (a certain condition or certain...
View ArticleEducation Review
The Nation on Sunday of June 21, 2015, welcomes us today: “In this report, our correspondent in Yenagoa…writes about oil spill in some communities and how the people are demanding for action from the...
View ArticleFixed Expressions
By Ebere Wabara THE NATION ON SUNDAY Front Page of June 28 did not defend its freedom: “Five northern govs raise alarm (the alarm) over ‘evil forest’” In headline casting, it is usually the tradion...
View ArticlePurists’ Critique
“Truck crushes okada rider to death” (The PUNCH metro headline, July 8) I have always wondered how when a truck or any other articulated vehicle crushes a man he still survives. For me, except there...
View ArticleImproprieties
Thisday Style welcomes us today: “Assistant Style Editor FUNKE BABS-KUFEJE and AYODEJI ROTINWA profiles (profile) the man, his plan and his chances….” “THE Nigerian Army, conscious of its commitment...
View ArticleGrounds, Not Ground
National Mirror front, views and inside pages of July 23, 2015, welcome us this week after a long break from this column with all manner of flaws: “…the arrest and prosecution of some former ministers...
View ArticleFixed Expressions
By Ebere Wabara THE NATION ON SUNDAY Front Page of June 28 did not defend its freedom: “Five northern govs raise alarm (the alarm) over ‘evil forest’” In headline casting, it is usually the tradion...
View ArticleWhooping For Whopping
Daily Sun BusinessWEEK of June 22 welcomes us today: “…agricultural industries whose products have been declared pioneer products on satisfying certain condition (a certain condition or certain...
View ArticleWhooping For Whopping
By Ebere Wabara Daily Sun BusinessWEEK of June 22 welcomes us today: “…agricultural industries whose products have been declared pioneer products on satisfying certain condition (a certain condition or...
View ArticleWhooping For Whopping
Daily Sun BusinessWEEK of June 22 welcomes us today: “…agricultural industries whose products have been declared pioneer products on satisfying certain condition (a certain condition or certain...
View ArticleEducation Review
The Nation on Sunday of June 21, 2015, welcomes us today: “In this report, our correspondent in Yenagoa…writes about oil spill in some communities and how the people are demanding for action from the...
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