Tonto Dikeh: Potential vs potentials

“Potential’ is an uncountable noun but almost everyone keeps counting and pluralising it. So, often, you hear some say ‘Nigeria has many potentials’, ‘The company has a lot of potentials’ etc. Yet, all Nigeria has is ‘potential’, ‘a lot of potential’ or ‘a great deal of potential’. As we noted in some past lessons in

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