• 13 Words Nigerian Journalists Really Need To Stop Using

    All the words you’re tired of seeing.

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    1. Para-venture

    The sentence doesn’t even make sense.

    2. Revert Back

    Almost as irritating as ‘reverse back’.

    3. Fingers

    And in case you didn’t realise, ‘fingers’ in this case means ‘calls out’  or ‘names’.

    4. Flays/Flayed

    What are you people flaying?!

    5. Penetrate

    Stop. Please stop.

    6. Defiled

    Do they not realise ‘defile’ is a synonym for ‘rape’??

    7. On Seat

    Bruhhh… do they mean ‘present’ or ‘available’?

    8. Left No Stone Unturned

    All this big grammar sha…

    9. Feedbacks (sometimes written as feed-backs, as if that makes it better)

    Da fuq?

    10. Severally

    What they mean is multiple times…

    11. Out To Destroy

    Always going for the over dramatic.

    12. Lambasts

    What happened to ordinary ‘criticize’?

    13. Impregnate

    Nigerian journalists can’t go a day without this word.

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