By Farooq A. Kperogi Like a stranded mariner gasping on the shores of irrelevance, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai writhe...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Former President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s autobiography triggered questions about the onomastic etymology of “Badam...

 By Lasisi Olagunju In his column last Saturday , my friend and brother, Farooq Kperogi, reminisced his previous piece on unusual Muslim nam...

By Farooq A. Kperogi The autobiography of former self-styled “President” Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida has already been parsed for its self-ser...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi This third installment in the Nicholas Said column series expands on my previous pieces and brings the discussion to ...

By Farooq Kperogi   Among the shiny new universities President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has established is the Federal University of Agriculture an...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi This column continues from last week . Isaac Jacob Rochussen, the patrician from the Netherlands who brought Nicholas...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is celebrated every February, I am continuing my tradition of w...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Although 2025 has only just begun, the Machiavellian maneuvers and the increasingly tensile, high-decibel political shr...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Ever since I started consciously monitoring the business of the government, I have always wondered why Nigeria’s yearl...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Emir of Kano Muhammadu Sanusi II on Wednesday became an involuntary, if narcissistic and self-important, humorist who ...