Friday, April 26, 2024

FAROOQ KPEROGI

July 15, 2023

Jamaica is West Africa in the Americas

People here embrace their Africanness with fierce pride.

Farooq Kperogi
July 8, 2023

Three lessons from the ethnicisation of the JAMB controversy

Never make judgements solely on the basis of surface impressions.

Jamb logo and Mmesoma Ejikeme
July 1, 2023

Subsidy removal as elite banditry, reverse Robin Hoodism

No society that brazenly starves and robs its poor to enrich its rich should expect to make progress or enjoy peace.

Bola Tinubu and Nigerian masses
June 24, 2023

Why Tinubu’s hiring and firing frenzy excites Nigerians

The demographic profiles of new appointees also help people to situate a new government’s direction and to get a sense of the identity categories it seeks to privilege or demote.

President Bola Tinubu
June 17, 2023

Did Kashim Shettima transform from “Boko Haram Sponsor” to Anti-Muslim Muslim?

Some Fulani herders were labelled “Boko Haram terrorists” with whom Shettima was allegedly hatching sinister designs.

Kashim Shettima
June 10, 2023

Why northerners don’t call Tinubu “Jagaban”

Borgu has always been a melting pot that fuses multifarious cultural influences from far-flung places.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu
June 3, 2023

President Tinubu and dangers of subsidy removal

Any government that can’t eliminate corruption and ensure that people who need subsidies get them has no reason to exist.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Nigerian masses
May 27, 2023

Femi Adesina’s parting doctoral fraud

Adesina doesn’t have the gravitas of the people whose names were unconventionally prefixed with “Dr.” even though they only had honorary doctorates.

Femi Adesina
May 20, 2023

Buhari’s last-minute provocations of Bola Tinubu

The president-elect is wise enough not to take the bait.

Bola Tinubu and Buhari in Jos
May 13, 2023

PhD graduation of a Hausa-Yoruba Nigerian in America

The route to Abdulbasit Kassim’s immersion in northern Nigerian culture wasn’t without a few little prickly thorns.

Abdulbasit Kassim