Farooq Kperogi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Farooq Kperogi

Nigerian academic

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1973

Place of Birth: Baruten, Kwara State, Nigeria

Profession: journalist, academic, linguist

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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 .
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.