The Director of the Correctional Service Special Study Centre of the National Open University of Nigeria, Francis Enobore, has called on sub-national governments and well-meaning Nigerians to support ...

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has conferred degrees on six inmates of the Medium Security Custodial Centre in Kuje, Abuja.

The couple is going to purchase the house? Or the couple are going to purchase the house? Even after all my years of editing, I can still get tripped up trying to make verbs agree with collective ...

The National Open University of Nigeria is now on the same level with other Nigerian Universities. The Pro-Chancellor of the institution, Prof Peter Okebukola said the recent signing of its (Amendment ...

Apostrophes are equal opportunity humiliators. As I wrote recently, apostrophes incriminate less-word-savvy types by popping up in plurals like “We play bridge with the Smith’s” and “He had two ...

Writers and language geeks inherit a ranking system of sorts: verbs good, adjectives bad, nouns sadly unavoidable. Verbs are action, verve! “I ate the day / Deliberately, that its tang / Might quicken ...

Linguists have long believed that the sound of a word reveals nothing about its meaning, with a few exceptions of words like “buzz” or “beep” that are known as onomatopoeia. But a new study analyzing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Zebras gather in a dazzle, hyenas a cackle and rhinos a crash – or occasionally a stubbornness, depending on their mood. Some creatures ...

The word ‘plural’ comes from the Old French ‘plurel’ which means ‘more than one’. A noun is a word used to identify something.There are a lot of nouns.There are many patterns to look out for when you ...

Everyone loves a collective noun. So many tiny novelty Christmas books have been created cataloguing them all for people to read out in bored company. "Did you know that the collective noun for crows ...