By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. As I sit on my computer to write this, I am so devastatingly downhearted by the current happenings in Niger...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Many of the questions in this week’s column were chosen from the responses I received from my three previous ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I really wanted to avoid discussing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala’s bid for the presidency of the World Bank. But s...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. This week I am going to respond to a few of the questions I’ve received from readers over the last few weeks...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. It’s trite knowledge that grammatical errors in English—and, for that matter, all languages— are not the pres...

I had not the faintest clue that my last week’s article on Sir Abubakar Tafawa’s Balewa’s 1961 visit to America would generate this much ...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter:  @farooqkperogi  A couple of days ago, I watched an enchanting 27-minute video of the July 1961 U....

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Over the past few weeks, the price of petrol in America jumped about 30 cents per gallon, that is, about 11 n...

By Farooq A. Kperogi My last week’s article on Reuben Abati’s abuse of the notion of metaphor in defense of his boss’ habitual verbal sl...

I am sharing with you the thoughts and insights that many readers shared with me by email and Facebook messages on the recent diplomati...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In his hopelessly incompetent attempt to explain away President Goodluck Jonathan’s proverbial cluelessness a...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. In the heat of the regrettable diplomatic pettifoggery between Nigeria and South over the March 2, 2012 depor...

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Now that it’s almost certain that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will emerge as the Republican ...