By Farooq A. Kperogi The torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nig...

By Farooq Kperogi  When I first began teaching here in the United States several years ago, I was frequently mistaken for a student. Initial...

By Farooq Kperogi I am just learning that today is World Teachers' Day. I honestly didn't know such a day existed. In celebration of...

By Farooq A. Kperogi October 1 is celebrated as Nigeria’s Independence Day. But Nigeria isn’t independent. It is, for all practical purposes...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Several faithful readers of this column who have followed it from the mid-2000s in the Weekly Trust have asked me to ...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi I had said to myself and to people close to me that I would never write again on the untenably rising prices of petrol...

By Farooq A. Kperogi I am taking a break from political commentary to everyday language usage this week. A few weeks ago, a British journali...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Many Nigerians invested hopes in the Dangote Refinery and thought it would bring stability to Nigeria’s chaotic petro...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi The directive by education minister Professor Tahir Mamman to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the Nat...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi The unfailingly abiding emotional investment I have in the wellbeing of common people springs forth from my experienti...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi The President Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration likes to psychologically anesthetize Nigerians who are grieving from t...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi The 10-day nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that end today, known by the   reduplicative compound “Zanga-Zanga” i...

By Farooq Kperogi I had been distraught with deep sadness over what I thought was the unwarranted, self-denigrating, and counter-productive ...