FUTO ASUU’s Fraudulent “Clearing” of Pantami’s Fraudfessorship
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi This is a quick, hurried response. A friend just called my attention to a news story in today'...
Ikoyi Tragedy and Casual Bigotry Against Yoruba Muslims
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Amid the grief of the heartrendingly tragic collapse of the 21-storey luxury apartment building...
Saraki and Shettima Exceptions to Political “Godfatherism”
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Almost all so-called political godfathers in Nigeria ultimately fall out with the political godson...
Don’t Understand My “Big Grammar”? I’m Not Writing for You!
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Each time I write, a class of Nigerian social media users routinely write to whine that my “gram...
Facebook’s “Meta” Metamorphosis: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook—along with Instagram and WhatsApp— will now be subsu...
Wonders of Hausa-Speaking Northern Christian Names
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Hausa-speaking Christians in Nigeria’s far north are the most invisible demographic in Nigeria....
So “Murtala” is actually “Murtadha”?
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @afarooqkperogi As people who read me know, I am passionate about the epistemology of personal names, which lingu...
Sponsors of Nigeria’s Terrorist Bandits
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi On July 18, 2021, so-called bandits shot down an Alpha Jet belonging to the Nigerian Air Force...
Video of el-Rufai's Chief of Staff Begging Former Kano Emir Sanusi
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, former Emir of Kano, otherwise known as Tsohon Sarkin Kano , said in a text ...
Lai Mohammed a Liar and a Thief?
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Lai Mohammed’s notoriety as a compulsive and inveterate liar is already secure and unchallengeable...
Former Emir of Kano’s Manic Megalomania in Kaduna
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi On October 12, I received a message on WhatsApp, which the platform flagged as being “forwarde...
Arewa and Oduduwa More Alike than Unlike
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The past few months have ignited impassioned and frenzied political brickbats between the elite...
On Abdulrasak Gurnah's Nobel Prize in Literature
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The announcement of Professor Abdulrasak Gurnah as the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literatur...
What Weed Did Buhari’s Speech Writers Smoke?
By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi I’ve stopped bothering to listen to or read Muhammadu Buhari’s speeches for quite a while now n...
Why the Mambilla Scandal Doesn't Excite Me
By Farooq Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi First shared on my Facebook and Twitter timelines An unusually large number of people have asked ...
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