This paper seeks to investigate the official communicative activities among Nigerian paramilitary formations in
Akwa Ibom State, with a view to determining the peculiar forms generated through morphological processes that
occur in their interactions. The agencies selected for the study are: the Nigeria Police Force, the Federal Road Safety
Corps and the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps. The theoretical framework adopted for, and considered
relevant to the study is Lieb’s Theory of Process Model of Word Formation. The theory offers a comprehensive
approach which accounts for all processes of word formation in a unified way. Data used for the study were collected
through participant observation and unstructured interview of personnel while on duty within the office environment
using random sampling method. The findings indicate that the operatives used English language for their formal
conversations to communicate paramilitary ideology. In addition, they were found to have used unique lexical
choices created specifically to serve the communication needs of the interlocutors. It is therefore recommended that
operatives of these agencies should ‘simplify’ their morphologically-conditioned terminologies in particular, and the
language in general, such that the public which they are meant to serve could understand.
Keywords: Paramilitary formations, English language, Communication needs, Words formation, Lexical choices.