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Omoleye Omoruyi September 4, 2018

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 read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social issues,…

Omoleye Omoruyi April 11, 2018

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 read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters,…

Op-ed Editor November 4, 2017

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 of, and perhaps even countenanced, the reinstatement and promotion of…

Op-ed Editor October 28, 2017

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 to fire Abdulrasheed Maina who was surreptitiously reinstated into the…

Op-ed Editor October 21, 2017

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 Muhammadu Buhari as having said the World Bank should “shift…

Op-ed Editor September 30, 2017

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 between autocracy and democracy. But it’s precisely these elements of…

Op-ed Editor September 23, 2017

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 toxic strains of political intolerance in Nigeria. He exteriorizes his…

Op-ed Editor September 2, 2017

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 for entry into Nigerian universities from the 40th percentile to…

Op-ed Editor August 26, 2017

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 email, call, or text me each time his media interventions…

Op-ed Editor August 19, 2017

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 it is impervious to internal divisions because it prefixes the…

Op-ed Editor August 12, 2017

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, something more pressing that invites my commentary comes up. But…

Op-ed Editor August 5, 2017

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,” I called attention to out-and-out historical lies that vast swathes…

Op-ed Editor August 2, 2017

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 Number 8,” which grants legislative immunity to members of the…

Op-ed Editor July 15, 2017

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 we’re contending with the intensified recrudescence of Biafra agitations. But…

Op-ed Editor July 8, 2017

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 Trouble with Nigeria, is that Nigeria has never had the…

Op-ed Editor July 1, 2017

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 ethnic groups in Nigeria. But, for reasons of space, I…

Op-ed Editor June 24, 2017

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 reader. The reader said India’s relative national cohesion is a…

Op-ed Editor June 17, 2017

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 Biafra and its reverberations across the country, some readers of…

Op-ed Editor June 10, 2017

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 latest lie. “I have always asked anybody to come out…

Op-ed Editor May 28, 2017

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 designed to make the reader click them in order to…

Op-ed Editor May 20, 2017

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, I made a tongue-in-cheek suggestion that Nigeria’s governance should be…

Op-ed Editor May 13, 2017

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 school teachers. In the spirit of this week, I want…

Op-ed Editor May 6, 2017

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 the stubborn persistence of lies is no reason to give…

Op-ed Editor April 29, 2017

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 dysfunction of the country. And I realised that one theme…

Op-ed Editor April 24, 2017

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 to “suspend” “cash-and-carry” SGF Babachir David Lawal of “grass-cutting” infamy.…

Op-ed Editor April 15, 2017

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 an entire doctoral dissertation to explain. I disagree. It doesn’t…

Op-ed Editor April 1, 2017

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 must be thanking Melaye for the week-long media circus he…

Op-ed Editor March 25, 2017

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 titled “After the Euphoria, What President-elect Buhari Needs to Know”…

Op-ed Editor March 21, 2017

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 defense mechanism, which disposes certain people to attribute to others…

Op-ed Editor March 11, 2017

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 government’s most potent tools of governance. That’s why I called…

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