Kwankwaso-Yusuf Rupture and Echoes of Saraki
By Farooq Kperogi The public rupture between Gov. Abba Yusuf and his “godfather” and in-law, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has the visible trappings...
New York Times and Onitsha Screwdriver Seller's Data
By Farooq A. Kperogi The New York Times of January 18, 2026, published an explosive story showing how unverified and methodologically ques...
Why Giving in Nigeria Often Backfires
By Farooq Kperogi I have learned two interrelated lessons about giving in Nigeria. First, giving large sums of money to economically depriv...
When Clickbaity Headlines Become the News
By Farooq Kperogi Sensationalism, exaggeration and strategic ambiguity are part of the craft of headline casting. Headlines are designed to...
When Writing Loses Its Human Voice
By Farooq Kperogi I admit that I am behind the times when it comes to AI-generated writing. Or perhaps I am suffering from what been called ...
Celebrating ASUU-FG’s Historic Reset with Caveats
By Farooq A. Kperogi After sixteen years of stalemate, serial strikes and ritualized brinkmanship, the Federal Government and the Academic ...
New Beginning as Head of Journalism in My School
By Farooq Kperogi I am starting the New Year and the new semester with a new responsibility. I will head Kennesaw State University’s Journa...
Where’s Kano’s Former SSG Bichi?
By Farooq Kperogi In late 2024, it came into the open for the first time that the relationship between Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso and his protégé,...
Wike Getting Awfully Close to Fighting Tinubu
By Farooq A. Kperogi Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister Nyesom Wike revels in controversies, contentious public disputations, vitupera...
Yansh, Nigeria’s Most Famous Linguistic Export, Now in the Dictionary
By Farooq Kperogi I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word for a woman’s posterior, which prob...
Tinubu’s Top-Down, One-Partyist Reelection Strategy
By Farooq A. Kperogi What most Nigerians recognize as Nigeria’s creeping descent into stifling one-partyism, with what seems like the unsto...
When a Tax Law is an Illegality
By Farooq A. Kperogi What began as a routine legislative reform of the Nigerian tax system by the Bola Tinubu administration has transmogrif...
Merry Christmas and a Message for My Nigerian Friends
By Farooq Kperogi As Christians around the world mark Christmas today, I join millions in wishing my Christian friends a blessed and joyfu...
Nigeria’s Growing Begging Economy
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...
Tinubu’s New Tax Regime as Sovereignty for Sale
By Farooq A. Kperogi For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration plans...
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