By Farooq Kperogi I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word for a woman’s posterior, which prob...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi What most Nigerians recognize as Nigeria’s creeping descent into stifling one-partyism, with what seems like the unsto...

By Farooq A. Kperogi What began as a routine legislative reform of the Nigerian tax system by the Bola Tinubu administration has transmogrif...

 By Farooq Kperogi  As Christians around the world mark Christmas today, I join millions in wishing my Christian friends a blessed and joyfu...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi As the economy bites harder and end-of-year festivities rev up, the routine “tax” on middle-class Nigerians (the few o...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration plans...

By Farooq Kperogi Sometime in 2022, when it became clear to me that Tinubu would win the APC presidential nomination and go on to win the pr...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Even the severest critics of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration admit that the last few days have seen what appear (...

By Farooq Kperogi While I am delighted that President Bola Tinubu appears to be taking security more seriously than he previously did (signa...

  By Farooq Kperogi It has just been announced that Tinubu’s defense minister Mohammed Badaru Abubakar has resigned on “health grounds.” In ...

By Farooq Kperogi Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said in his press statement today that former INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu has b...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi In 2020, The Atlantic published an explosive story, which claimed that in 2018 Donald Trump told advisors he could no...

 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 In Nigeria, elite oppression and callousness are often mostly abstract. Most people at the lower end of the social scal...

By Farooq Kperogi A social media contact familiar with Lt. A.M. Yerima reached out to me after my last update to say that the young man is n...