Tag: Farooq Kperogi
Today’s Noisemakers: Ayo Sogunro, Farooq Kperogi, Tope Oshin, others
Every day on the Nigerian Internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we ...
Today’s Noisemakers: Farooq Kperogi, Kaduna government, Dipo Awojide, others
Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we ...
Farooq Kperogi: Unravelling of the corruption in Buhari’s “anti-corruption” fight
by Farooq Kperogi The latest thunderbolt from the Head of Service of the Federation that President Buhari was actually aware ...
Farooq Kperogi: How about the Other “Mainas” in Buhari’s Government?
by Farooq Kperogi President Muhammadu Buhari is infamously impervious to, and even contemptuous of, public opinion. That’s why his order ...
Farooq Kperogi: World Bank, Buhari, and Presidential Subnationalism
by Farooq A. Kperogi World Bank president Jim Yong Kim, in a news conference on October 12, reported President ...
Farooq Kperogi: Femi Adesina and the Godification of Buhari
by Farooq Kperogi Dissent and criticism are not only core structural components of democracy, they, in fact, mark the difference ...
Farooq Kperogi: El-Rufai’s morbid fixation with the death of his political enemies
By Farooq A. Kperogi There is no doubt that Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai embodies one of the most morbidly ...
Farooq Kperogi: JAMB’s mediocre cutoff- An unconventional view
by Farooq Kperogi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) recently reduced the cutoff for its standardized admissions test ...
Farooq Keprogi: This is why Garba Shehu is failing at his job
by Farooq Kperogi People who know that presidential spokesman Malam Garba Shehu was my undergraduate journalism teacher never fail to ...
Farooq Kperogi: America’s South is like Nigeria’s North and vice versa
by Farooq Kperogi It is all too easy to look at the United States and be led to suppose that ...
Farooq Kperogi: How “Bello” Became Nigeria’s most universal “ethnic” name
by Farooq Kperogi This article has been in the works for months. Each week I decide to work on it, ...
Farooq Kperogi: Ango Abdullahi and his lie about Northern Nigerian Colonial Economy and Niger Delta Oil
by Farooq Kperogi In my May 6, 2017 column titled “Top 8 Popular National Lies that Won’t Die in Nigeria,” ...
Farooq Kperogi: What angry Nigerians are getting wrong about the National Assembly’s legislative immunity bill
by Farooq Kperogi A lot of ignorant social media commentators are beating up on the Nigerian Senate for passing “Bill ...
Farooq Kperogi: Buhari, not Nnamdi Kanu is responsible for Biafra
by Farooq Kperogi On the surface, it sounds oddly counter-intuitive to suggest that President Muhammadu Buhari is the principal reason ...
Farooq Kperogi: The intellectual case against Nigeria’s break up [Pt IV]
by Farooq Kperogi One of the biggest germinal tragedies of Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe has pointed out in his The ...
Farooq Kperogi: The intellectual case against Nigeria’s break up (Pt III)
by Farooq Kperogi What I have said about the Yoruba people (see part II) is also true of many other ...
Farooq Kperogi: The intellectual case against Nigeria’s break up (Pt II)
by Farooq Kperogi I want to begin this week’s instalment by responding to a challenge thrown at me by a ...
Farooq Kperogi: The intellectual case against Nigeria’s break up (Pt 1)
by Farooq Kperogi In light of the strains imposed on our quest for national unity by the renewed agitation for ...
Farooq Kperogi: Large lies of lying Lai Mohammed
In a recent TV interview, Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed said he had never lied. That’s a lie, Lai’s ...
Farooq Kperogi: Growing cottage industry of internet falsehoods around Buhari’s health
by Farooq Kperogi President Buhari’s health is now the biggest source of clickbait (i.e., intentionally misleading or outright false headlines ...
Farooq Kperogi: Xenophilia, fake sovereignty and Nigeria’s slavish politicians
By Farooq A. Kperogi Sometime in 2012 at the height of Goodluck Jonathan’s unnerving incompetence amid rising Boko Haram insurgency, ...
Farooq Kperogi: Appreciation to my primary and secondary school teachers
by Farooq Kperogi Americans observe the first week of May as “Teacher Appreciation Week” to honor their primary and secondary ...
Farooq Kperogi: Top 8 popular national lies that won’t die in Nigeria
by Farooq A. Kperogi In Nigeria, once lies and historical myths take roots, they are almost always impossible to uproot. But ...
Farooq Kperogi: Nigeria’s future is sadly still in its past
by Farooq Kperogi The other day I was reflecting on Nigerians’ new favourite pastime: endless griping about the increasingly disabling ...
Farooq Kperogi: Babachir Lawal’s suspension- praises and concerns
by Farooq A. Kperogi It’s great that after much dillydallying President Buhari has finally summoned the intestinal and testicular fortitude ...
Farooq Kperogi: Why President Buhari is wildly popular in the Muslim North
Someone suggested a few weeks ago on Facebook that President Buhari’s irrationally wild popularity in the Muslim north would require ...
Farooq Kperogi: The Dino Melaye distraction and school pride
by Farooq Kperogi Although Senator Dino Melaye is certainly not in the good graces of Aso Rock, the president’s handlers ...
Farooq Kperogi: In 2015, I told Buhari I’d be his watchdog, not his lapdog
In last week’s column titled “Psychoanalyzing Dishonest, Low-IQ Buhari Apologists,” I quoted a sentence from my April 4, 2015 column ...
Farooq Kperogi: Psychoanalyzing dishonest, low-IQ Buhari apologists
by Farooq A. Kperogi It was Sigmund Freud who first put forward a psychological concept called “projection.” It’s an ego ...
Farooq Kperogi: Why Government is losing the propaganda war
by Farooq A. KperogiNo non-partisan Nigerian with even the littlest intelligence doubts that willful lies and propaganda are the Buhari ...
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- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
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- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
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