The author, a Nigerian journalist and graduate student in journalism here in the United States, sought my help to amplify his family's a...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Recent events show a widening pattern of killings, abductions and reprisals stretching from Borno to Zamfara, Kebbi, N...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi The events and atmospherics of the past few days in Nigeria feel eerily and frighteningly familiar. They are redolent ...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the last few weeks, kidnapping in Nigeria has escalated into such a terrifyingly contagious...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi It should be made clear from the outset that I am overwrought with immense grief by the heartb...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The cultural and ethnic melding of Northern Nigeria’s Hausa and the Fulani people is so deep, ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Information minister Lai Mohammed instructed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to pena...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi News from Nigeria these past few weeks read like an implausibly dystopian fictional plot writte...

By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In May 2019, a terrorist bandit who identified himself as Ibrahim Umar, was arrested after a faile...

By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Kadaria Ahmed is my senior in the profession for whom I have tremendous respect not only because o...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Quite a few readers requested me to offer a perspective on the protests that seem to be sweepin...