By Farooq A. Kperogi For more than a year, a conscientious, cosmopolitan retired senior military officer from the North has told me that hi...

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 A. Kperogi My December 21, 2024, column titled “ Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths ,” where I set out to ...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week’s column on what I called the “relentless Yorubacentric take-over of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi  Kemi Badenoch, current leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, recently disavowed her Nigerian identity because of her...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explici...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Last Saturday, I attended the Ph.D. graduation of a treasured mentee of mine by the name of Abd...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Three unanticipated, barely perceptible, but nonetheless significant and potentially seismic ...

By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi I had no idea that “Ayagi” or “Eyagi” is the Nupe exonym (i.e., external name) for Yoruba people u...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi You don’t promote unity by simply glibly mouthing off infuriating platitudes about unity being ...