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Farooq Kperogi : How To Stop The Kidnapping Epidemic In Nigeria

IN the last few weeks, kidnapping in Nigeria has escalated into such a terrifyingly contagious national epidemic that it’s now difficult to keep up with its spread and malignancy. When I decided to dedicate this week’s column to this phenomenon,…

When Air Force ‘Accidentally’ Bombed 236 Persons In Borno, Northerners Kept Quiet Under Buhari – Kperogi

KPEROGI, an activist and author, in his article on Saturday stated that some northern scholars had suddenly found their voice to reel out ethnic-religious sentiments in the wake of the latest accidental bombing by the Nigerian military in Tudun Biri,…

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Tinubu Wants Even Broke Universities To Fund Him – Farooq Kperogi

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence that he now wants to wring water from stones and deposit it into an ocean….

Tinubu, Sanusi, Subsidies And Economies Of Empathy, By Farooq Kperogi

IN response to my September 30 column titled “Thought Subsidy Was Bad. Why is Tinubu Bringing it Back?” a Facebook follower of mine by the name of Anas Mundi asked, “So why is SLS [i.e., Sanusi Lamido Sanusi] always agitating…

Three Lessons From The Ethnicisation Of The JAMB Controversy – Farooq Kperogi

OVER the last few days, I recoiled in horror and disgust as the fairly straightforward case of JAMB exam result fraud by 19-year-old Mmesoma Ejikeme of the Anglican Girls Secondary School in Nnewi, Anambra State, unwarrantedly intensified Nigeria’s preexisting primordial…

Presidents Who’ll Make Me Renounce Nigeria, By Farooq Kperogi

THERE are four current presidential aspirants whose (unlikely) ascension to the presidency will cause me to immediately renounce my Nigerian citizenship, stop my Nigeria- centered commentaries, and accept that the country of my birth is hopelessly irredeemable and unworthy of…

Lawan And The Supreme Court Of Shameless Judicial Bandits, By Farooq Kperogi

I was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed…

Tinubu’s Church Rat Reference To Climate Change Isn’t Wrong, By Farooq Kperogi

I frankly don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.” Tinubu merely deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors…