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Farooq Kperogi
March 6, 2017
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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 selfish agenda to becloud their sense of reasoning. One of those critics is Professor Farooq Kperogi, who has been the hardest non-partisan critic of President... Read More
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March 6, 2017
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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 never in my entire life seen a morally depraved and debauched government like this! These contemptible dolts wake up every single morning and think of... Read More
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March 4, 2017
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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 fraud. When you defraud people into electing you and you have no substance to justify the trust they invested in you, you either apologise and... Read More
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February 28, 2017
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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, I have decided to share with my readers African-American English expressions that I’ve learned in the course of my stay in America. While many of... Read More
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February 27, 2017
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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 inane allegation against me by the operating head of the Buhari Media Center. (Recall that they had denied the existence of the group. We’re getting... Read More
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February 25, 2017
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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. Why has it taken the ascendancy of Osinbajo to the acting presidency to achieve this? The answer is simple: symbolic presence. Buhari lacked symbolic presence... Read More
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February 15, 2017
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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 use it himself. The term he used in his famous book titled 1984 is “newspeak,” which he said consists in limiting the range of words... Read More
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Sultan
February 4, 2017
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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 their popularization of the odious “Fulani herdsmen” collocation. Criminalizing and pathologizing an entire ethnic identity is often the precursor to genocide. That’s why an ignorant... Read More
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January 23, 2017
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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 “the Gambia” is always preceded by the article “the.” You will find other questions and answers on grammar and usage as well. Traditional rulers in... Read More
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January 1, 2017
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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 you say the Buhari government values based on its 2017 budget? Narcissistic self-absorption, profligacy, and corruption are some of the things that jumped out at... Read More
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December 24, 2016
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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. Hopes are sinking. And time is running out. I simply can’t afford the luxury of indifference and blithe unconcern. In spite of the awful performance... Read More
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November 10, 2016
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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 generation is superior to generations that came before and/or after it). We perpetually bewail the fall in the standards of everything, especially language, presumably from... Read More
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October 25, 2016
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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 form the core of today’s column. Is the word “outrightly” an illegitimate word even though some online dictionaries have an entry for it? Why don’t... Read More
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September 19, 2016
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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 in the UK. Prof. Farooq Kperogi had alleged that the President spent £6m during his treatment in June. But Shehu in a Facebook post denied the... Read More
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