Congrats to Kingsley Moghalu on His New Appointment!
By Farooq A. Kperogi It is with great excitement—and perhaps, more than a little pride—that I congratulate my dear friend, Professor Kingsl...
By Farooq A. Kperogi It is with great excitement—and perhaps, more than a little pride—that I congratulate my dear friend, Professor Kingsl...
By Farooq A. Kperogi The World Bank’s Senior Vice President by the name of Indermit Gill, who is originally Indian, incited mass panic in ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi The torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nig...
By Farooq Kperogi When I first began teaching here in the United States several years ago, I was frequently mistaken for a student. Initial...
By Farooq Kperogi I am just learning that today is World Teachers' Day. I honestly didn't know such a day existed. In celebration of...
By Farooq A. Kperogi October 1 is celebrated as Nigeria’s Independence Day. But Nigeria isn’t independent. It is, for all practical purposes...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Several faithful readers of this column who have followed it from the mid-2000s in the Weekly Trust have asked me to ...
By Farooq A. Kperogi I had said to myself and to people close to me that I would never write again on the untenably rising prices of petrol...
By Farooq A. Kperogi I am taking a break from political commentary to everyday language usage this week. A few weeks ago, a British journali...
By Farooq A. Kperogi Many Nigerians invested hopes in the Dangote Refinery and thought it would bring stability to Nigeria’s chaotic petro...
By Farooq A. Kperogi The directive by education minister Professor Tahir Mamman to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the Nat...
By Farooq A. Kperogi The unfailingly abiding emotional investment I have in the wellbeing of common people springs forth from my experienti...
By Farooq A. Kperogi The President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration likes to psychologically anesthetize Nigerians who are grieving from t...