Borgu, Northern Nigeria, and Yoruba History
By Farooq A. Kperogi My December 21, 2024, column titled “ Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths ,” where I set out to ...
NNPC and Fresh Perspectives on Ojulari’s Identity
By Farooq A. Kperogi Last week’s column on what I called the “relentless Yorubacentric take-over of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company...
A Death that Has Deeply Broken My Family’s Heart
By Farooq Kperogi I am shattered beyond words can express by the sudden passing of my dear friend and brother, Ndagana Baba Alhaji. His los...
Tinubu’s Buharization of the NNPC
By Farooq A. Kperogi After the sustained, unwarranted personal attacks I endured for eight years from northerners for unswervingly calling ...
New IGP: Why Progressive Northerners Should be Embarrassed
The following article was first published on my Facebook wall on January 14, 2019 . I am republishing it for archival purposes. By Farooq...
Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths
By Farooq A. Kperogi Kemi Badenoch, current leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, recently disavowed her Nigerian identity because of her...
A Reflection on Daily Trust’s Tension with Tinubu
By Farooq A. Kperogi As a media scholar who engages with Nigeria's media landscape from the safe yet impassioned perch of the diaspora,...
What Ghana Has Taught Nigeria and America about Democracy
By Farooq Kperogi Ghana has taught both Nigeria and the US a masterclass in electoral integrity and democratic maturity in its just concl...
Dele Farotimi, Afe Babalola, and Streisand Effect
By Farooq A. Kperogi When 95-year-old legal luminary Afe Babalola weaponized the Nigerian police to arrest and detain activist Dele Farotim...
Notorious, Overprotected Sexual Predator at Ekiti University
By Farooq A. Kperogi A lecturer at the Federal University Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE) by the name of Dr. Anthony Agbegbedia is in the eye of the sto...
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