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

By Farooq Kperogi My scholarly interest in the rhetoric of collective identity construction has made me an aficionado of what is called recr...

By Farooq Kperogi My good friend Professor Moses Ochonu casually wrote a lighthearted Facebook update a few days ago about a former Nigerian...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi The server glitch that led to unnaturally high failure rates in Lagos and southeast states in Joint Admissions and Ma...

 By Farooq Kperogi Say whatever you like about Sule Lamido, but one thing is beyond dispute: he is one of Nigeria's most consistent poli...

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the aftermath of Pope Francis’ death, many Africans on the continent and in the diaspora wondered if the Catholic ...

By Farooq Kperogi I just read that Professor Abayomi Sunday Fasina, Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), has filed a...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi For our every-last-Saturday-of-the-month “Diaspora Dialogues” podcast on April 26 on the topic “Kyari Out, Ojulari In...

By Farooq A. Kperogi If economic health, social vitality, and the raw pulse of public opinion were the only indicators relied upon to progno...

 By Farooq Kperogi On April 21, as the clock struck 9 p.m., terror descended upon Desa, a tranquil town known officially as Ilesha Baruba, n...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi My wife is an imperfect example of what late American conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh once satirically call...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola A...

 By Farooq Kperogi A few days ago, on Facebook, I stumbled upon a haunting photo of three little children, their tiny bodies savagely hacked...