By Farooq A. Kperogi It needs to be pointed out, however, that relying on emergency departments for the delivery of babies can be dangerous....

By Farooq A. Kperogi A reader who read my article last week asked to know how Nigerians who come to America to have babies get medical atten...

By Farooq A. Kperogi When you are in America, don’t fall sick—as if anyone can choose when and where to fall sick! But, seriously, if for an...

Read what I wrote about this last year (in my Weekly Trust column and on my blog) when most people didn't seem to be thinking in this di...

By Farooq A. Kperogi This was the question that the wife of my American friend asked me when she and her husband came to pick me up from ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Over the past week, my first daughter, Sinani, and I traveled to my hometown of Okuta (origi...

By Farooq A. Kperogi This week’s ruminations were inspired by two events that occurred in May. The first was an Internet debate I had with a...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi President Barack Obama has by now firmly established a reputation (or, if you like, a notorie...

By Farooq A. Kperogi From my experience, many young Muslims across the world have an ambivalent relationship with America. They love the pro...

Hmmm... Is this guy REALLY as faithful to Michelle as he's been cracked up to be? Well... And what are these old men looking at?

By Farooq A. Kperogi On June 29, 2009 71-year-old Jewish-American financier Bernard Lawrence Madoff (pronounced MEIDOFF) was sentenced to 15...

By Farooq A. Kperogi This first appeared in my column in the Saturday, July 15, 2006 edition of Weekly Trust, Abuja, Nigeria. If you thi...