By Farooq A. Kperogi The kidnapping of schoolchildren and teachers in Oyo State is horrifying enough by itself. It does not need the embelli...

By Farooq A. Kperogi Sometime in January this year, a senior Lagos-Ibadan journalist called my attention to a news story in which Hannatu Mu...

 By Farooq Kperogi  I just read that Isa Ali Pantami, the previously intense, PDP-phobic Sheikh who invoked a famous malediction against the...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi For more than a year, a conscientious, cosmopolitan retired senior military officer from the North has told me that hi...

By Farooq Kperogi Yesterday, human rights lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, called my attention to a simple but important legal point that has been l...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi The late Muhammadu Buhari wrested power from Goodluck Jonathan in a never-before-seen political upset of an incumbent ...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi The federal government’s decision to prohibit recipients of honorary doctorates from prefixing “Dr.” to their names is...

 By Farooq Kperogi  I just read that Gombe APC has settled on a man whose last name is Gwamna as its consensus candidate for governor in 202...

 By Farooq Kperogi As I pointed out in my Saturday Tribune column , a common refrain among online devotees of Nigerian opposition figures is...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi There is really no opposition in Nigeria in the true sense of the word. There are only politicians who have been tempo...

 By Farooq A. Kperogi I came of age in Nigeria during absolutist, totalitarian military regimes and was shaped by the anti-military rhetoric...

By Farooq Kperogi INEC said it investigated its chairman and found him not guilty of the allegation that he tweeted partisan support for Bol...

  By Farooq A. Kperogi Intra-state cultural and subregional tensions are building up in Kwara State ahead of the 2027 governorship elections...