Farooq Kperogi

Quick Facts

Full Name	Farooq Kperogi
Occupation	Linguist
Date Of Birth	Mar 30, 1973(1973-03-30)
Age	51
Birthplace	Baruten
Country	Nigeria
Birth City	Kwara State
Horoscope	Aries

Farooq Kperogi Biography

Farooq Kperogi is one of the most popular and richest Linguist who was born on March 30, 1973 in Baruten, Kwara State, Nigeria. Kperogi was born in 1973, in Okuta, Baruten local government area of Kwara State, Nigeria. He attended Bayero University between 1993 and 1997, where he received bachelor’s degree in mass communication. He obtained a master’s degree in communication at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and a Ph.D. from Georgia State University in the United States in 2011.

Kperogi was among the presidential speechwriters during Obasanjo’s administration and had taught journalism at Ahmadu Bello University and Kaduna Polytechnic. He teaches journalism at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, United States. He is also the author of Glocal English: The Changing Face and Forms of Nigerian English, published in 2015, as the 96th volume in series of Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotic.

Farooq Kperogi Net Worth

Farooq Kperogi is one of the richest Linguist from Nigeria. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Farooq Kperogi 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Farooq Adamu Kperogi (born 1973), is a Nigerian academic, media scholar, public speaker and newspaper columnist. As a former journalist, Kperogi had been a reporter and news editor at many Nigerian newspapers including the Daily Trust, Daily Triumph and the now defunct New Nigerian .

After graduating from Bayero University, Kano, Kperogi started working as reporter with newspapers in Katsina and Kano before joining the Media Trust as correspondent for the now defunct Weekly Trust. He also worked for the now defunct federal government-owned paper, the New Nigerian, in the early 2000s. Kperogi began his academic career between 2000 and 2002 at Kaduna Polytechnic, where he taught journalism and mass communication. He also taught at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria for brief time in 2004. Between 2002 and 2004, Kperogi worked in President Olusequn Obasanjo’s administration as a presidential speechwriter and researcher. Kperogi writes two columns, “Politics of Grammar” and “Notes from Atlanta”, for the Abuja-based Daily Trust weekend editions. Kperogi has written extensively about Nigerian English

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Farooq Ranked on the list of most popular Linguist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Nigeria. Farooq Kperogi celebrates birthday on March 30 of every year.