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Op-ed Editor March 6, 2017

Opinion: The saint Farooq Kperogis of this world and the emerging commercial intellectual writers/activists

by Mu'awiyyah Yusuf Muye Since the coming of this government, a lot of critics have emerged as expected. What has been hard to swallow is how some critics allow their…

Op-ed Editor March 6, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: The vicious lies of the Hausa Service of the Buhari Media Center exposed

by Farooq Kperogi The Hausa version of the Buhari Media Center is infinitely more vicious and more shamelessly immoral in its lies and propaganda than the English version. I have…

Op-ed Editor March 4, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Propagandocracy and the Buhari Media Center

The Buhari government is an absolute propagandocracy, that is, a government conducted by intentionally false and manipulative information. And this is so because the very foundation of the government is…

Op-ed Editor February 28, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Black American vernacular English expressions you should know

by Farooq Kperogi Black American Vernacular English Expressions You Should Know By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the spirit of America’s Black History Month, which is observed every February,…

Op-ed Editor February 27, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: I didn’t belong to a BMC-like group Under Obasanjo

by Farooq Kperogi I usually ignore cheap, easily falsifiable smears against me by BMC minions. But I’ve chosen to suspend my social media paternity leave (LOL!) to respond to an…

Op-ed Editor February 25, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Why Osinbajo is succeeding where Buhari failed

by Farooq Kperogi There finally seems to be some movement in the country. A new life has been infused into the country. There is now legitimate reason to be hopeful.…

Op-ed Editor February 15, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Orwellian doublespeak about Buhari’s health

by Farooq Kperogi Doublespeak is intentional manipulation of language to conceal uncomfortable truths or to cleverly tell outright lies. The term came to us from George Orwell, although he didn’t…

Op-ed Editor February 13, 2017

Opinion: APC is PDP in new clothes

by Anonymous Any time Buhari Media Center/Buhari Media Organization minions try to erect the false binary between PDP and APC and to talk of "16 years of PDP misrule," show…

Op-ed Editor February 4, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: The dangerous criminalisation of Fulani ethnicity

by Farooq Kperogi The Nigerian mass media—and the online echo chambers they have spawned on social media and elsewhere—have normalized the pathologization and criminalization of the Fulani ethnic identity through…

Op-ed Editor January 30, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Presidential lying in defense of corrupt “Executhieves”

by Farooq Kperogi People who have read my column for the last few weeks might be led to suppose that I really do hate President Buhari, that I get kicks…

Op-ed Editor January 23, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: Princes, not Kings, are called “His Royal Highness”

In this week’s column, based on requests from readers, I explain why the popular Nigerian English “His Royal Highness” is strange to English speakers outside Nigeria. I also explain why…

Azeez January 1, 2017

Farooq Kperogi: A Hopeless Budget and Capture of Sambisa Forest

By Farooq Kperogi Outgoing American Vice President Joe Biden once said, “Don't tell me what you value; show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.” What would…

Op-ed Editor December 24, 2016

Farooq Kperogi: Tragicomedy of a corrupt “anti-corruption” government

by Farooq Kperogi This column has lately become more passionate about goings-on in Nigeria’s political and economic spheres than is usual. I can’t help it. The country is perilously adrift.…

Op-ed Editor December 16, 2016

Farooq Kperogi: Conditions for praising Buhari

by Farooq Kperogi Buhari apologists say I have never praised Buhari since he came to power. Well, I am no praise singer. I am a scholar. But I have defended…

Op-ed Editor November 10, 2016

Farooq Kperogi: Is our standard of English actually falling or is that just a myth?

by Frooq Kperogi There is an enduring chronocentric arrogance in our assessment of notions of quality all over the world. (Chronocentrism is the false, narcissistic belief that one’s or another…

Op-ed Editor October 25, 2016

Farooq Kperogi: “Outrightly,” “Faithfuls,” “Graduands”: Q and A on Nigerian English and learner Errors

by Farooq Kperogi Over the past few days, I was dragged into many online arguments about the grammatical correctness of certain popular Nigerian English expressions. My responses to these conversations…

Op-ed Editor September 20, 2016

Ikeogu Oke: Buhari is not the plagiarist

The truth, however, is that contemporary Nigeria, with its many problems and the need to inspire the citizenry to overcome them, can yield great presidential speeches with no bearing…

Azeez September 19, 2016

Here’s how much Buhari spent on the treatment of his ear infection

The Senior Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu on Sunday said the President spent less than £50,000 (N20.5m) on the treatment of an ear infection…

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