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...

By Farooq Kperogi I have read competing perspectives on the correctitude (or lack thereof) of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and Lt. A.M. Yerima’s...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Nigeria’s online and offline discursive arenas have been suffused with frenetic, impassioned, and intensely heightene...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi I was initially disinclined to write about the alleged attempted coup to dislodge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from po...

 By Farooq Kperogi Why is this Tinubu government so exasperatingly allergic to doing anything right? It issued a news release saying it had ...

By Farooq Kperogi It seems our world is inexorably moving in the direction of replacing the authentic with the synthetic. Increasingly, the ...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Chief Joseph Adeniyi Aderibigbe, the last of the secretarial redoubts who helped Sir Ahmadu Bello hold together the de...

By Farooq A. Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, like his predecessors, has the constitutional right to grant clemency. He draws this right...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi Everyone who is familiar with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unabashed Yorubacentricism expected him to appoint a Yorub...