By Farooq A. Kperogi Because human beings are prone to perceive nonexistent patterns, connections and intentional design even in random or u...

 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 Yesterday, human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, called my attention to a simple but important legal point that has been l...

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 There have been at least two prominent instances when President Bola Ahmed Tinubu betrayed what I have called presiden...

 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 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 On July 18, 2021, so-called bandits shot down an Alpha Jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force...