Celebrating ASUU-FG’s Historic Reset with Caveats
By Farooq A. Kperogi After sixteen years of stalemate, serial strikes and ritualized brinkmanship, the Federal Government and the Academic ...
New Beginning as Head of Journalism in My School
By Farooq Kperogi I am starting the New Year and the new semester with a new responsibility. I will head Kennesaw State University’s Journa...
Where’s Kano’s Former SSG Bichi?
By Farooq Kperogi In late 2024, it came into the open for the first time that the relationship between Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso and his protégé,...
Wike Getting Awfully Close to Fighting Tinubu
By Farooq A. Kperogi Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike revels in controversies, contentious public disputations, vitupera...
Yansh, Nigeria’s Most Famous Linguistic Export, Now in the Dictionary
By Farooq Kperogi I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word for a woman’s posterior, which prob...
Tinubu’s Top-Down, One-Partyist Reelection Strategy
By Farooq A. Kperogi What most Nigerians recognize as Nigeria’s creeping descent into stifling one-partyism, with what seems like the unsto...
When a Tax Law is an Illegality
By Farooq A. Kperogi What began as a routine legislative reform of the Nigerian tax system by the Bola Tinubu administration has transmogrif...
Merry Christmas and a Message for My Nigerian Friends
By Farooq Kperogi As Christians around the world mark Christmas today, I join millions in wishing my Christian friends a blessed and joyfu...
Nigeria’s Growing Begging Economy
By Farooq A. Kperogi As the economy bites harder and end-of-year festivities rev up, the routine “tax” on middle-class Nigerians (the few o...
Tinubu’s New Tax Regime as Sovereignty for Sale
By Farooq A. Kperogi For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration plans...
Remi Tinubu’s Power Trip with Gov. Adeleke
By Farooq Kperogi Sometime in 2022, when it became clear to me that Tinubu would win the APC presidential nomination and go on to win the pr...
Why is Matawalle Still a Defense Minister?
By Farooq A. Kperogi Even the severest critics of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration admit that the last few days have seen what appear (...
Trump Effect in Gen. Musa’s Ministerial Appointment
By Farooq Kperogi While I am delighted that President Bola Tinubu appears to be taking security more seriously than he previously did (signa...
Badaru Out, Musa in?
By Farooq Kperogi It has just been announced that Tinubu’s defense minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has resigned on “health grounds.” In ...
Is Former INEC Chair Yakubu Now an Ambassador?
By Farooq Kperogi Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said in his press statement today that former INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has b...
General Uba’s Death and Our Debt to the Military
By Farooq A. Kperogi In 2020, The Atlantic published an explosive story, which claimed that in 2018 Donald Trump told advisors he could no...
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