By Farooq A. Kperogi The last few days have witnessed intense social media debates among the Nigerian chattering classes about the unaccept...

  By Farooq Kperogi Google Scholar just alerted me to another citation of my work in what has turned out to be yet another AI slop masquerad...

By Farooq A. Kperogi The Nigerian political space and preparations for the 2027 general elections have been electrified with the high-decibe...

By Farooq Kperogi My erudite lawyer friend Kenneth Ikonne’s Facebook comment yesterday about a certain Erica Nlewedim (an Igbo woman who spe...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Please join me to raise a glass to celebrate Hadiza Usman Ma'aji, whom the Senate of Ahmadu Bello University, Zar...

By Farooq A. Kperogi On June 16, the final day of my three-week visit to Nigeria, I met with my dear friend Malam Ali M. Ali, Managing Direc...

 By Farooq Kperogi During my recent three-week trip to Nigeria, I found myself in a strange kind of informational blackout. I had no access ...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Sometimes, it takes the unburdened and free-spirited perceptions of outsiders, particularly children, to appreciate t...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi In a June 9, 2025, interview with TVC, Maryam Abacha claimed that the more than $3.8 billion recovered from the Unite...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi On May 30, 2025, Ghana’s Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) issued what it termed a "final caution" agains...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi There is supposed to be a formidable coalition of powerful regional and national political forces working to upstage P...

 By Farooq Kperogi Yesterday’s light-hearted post about African English pronunciations using the example of how Nigerians, Kenyans, and Gha...

  By Farooq Kperogi If you listen carefully to English spoken across Anglophone Africa, you'll notice three unmistakable "accent ca...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the symbolic and political nucleus of the Sokoto Caliphate, an imperial, illiberal, power-drunk governor who is held...