This work was inspired by the need to contribute in giving the necessary direction to the development of Standard Nigerian English comparable to a native standard variety of the language. Accordingly, I have chosen to carry out in the work a comparative analysis of the English nominal group structures and structural types in the essays of selected regular columnists in the internationally well-known English-medium American Time and Newsweek, and Nigerian Tell and Newswatch magazines, so that on the basis of the findings we could discuss the extent to which the emergent Standard Nigerian...