Farooq Kperogi

It was always obvious to keen, disinterested observers that Bola Tinubu’s gamble in helping Buhari to ascend to power won’t pay off in the end; that his opportunistic political love affair with Buhari won’t be requited; and that the…

Not since 1993 when MKO Abiola chose Babagana Kingibe as his running mate has the religious complexion of a presidential ticket excited the passions of Nigerians as much as Bola Tinubu’s choice of Kashim Shettima as his running mate. It at…

If the general election holds in February next year, one of three people will be declared president: APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu, PDP’s Atiku Abubakar, or Labor Party’s Peter Obi. Only a natural disaster, such as death, can change that reality.…

Muhammad Buhari said on Wednesday that England’s King Charles III asked him if he had a home in London and that he triumphantly declared that he didn’t. Buhari then embarked on his boringly familiar sanctimonious self-congratulation about…

With an unusually inept Central Bank of Nigeria governor like Godwin Emefiele and the unprecedently anything-goes climate that the Muhammadu Buhari regime has engendered in the last seven years, I won’t be surprised if the main motive force…

If I get a dollar for every time random Nigerians that I don’t know from a hole in the wall want me to edit stuff (entire book manuscripts, articles, proposals, etc.) for them for free, I’d be a multimillionaire! But seriously, what…

“Obi-dients” are the new Buharists. Better get ready for their rank stupidity and pigheadedness should Peter Obi become president. They’re perpetually angry. They're narrowminded, verbally primitive, ignorant, tunnel-visioned automatons who…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said on Friday that it had “resolved to suspend the strike action embarked upon on 14th February 2022.” Suspension suggests the temporary interruption of an activity. But it’s time to stop…

Peter Obi's initial presidential campaign council proves the point I've always made in private to his fervid fans: after all is said and done, Obi is just another Establishment Nigerian politician who has neither the willingness nor the…

A US-based professor, Dr. Farooq Kperogi, says Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has turned from an ally to the "deadliest foe" of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Professor of Emerging Media and Journalism at the…

Several weeks ago, my 80-year-old paternal uncle, who is a community leader, called me to ask whom between Atiku Abubakar and Bola Tinubu he should vote and canvass support for. That was a strange request considering that in 2019 he…

Questions and concerns over Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s absence from the Nigerian public space, which has trended on Twitter for days on end, are not misplaced or ill-willed gotcha maneuvers by political detractors. They are legitimate expressions…

A US-based Nigerian professor, Dr Farooq Kperogi, has said that with Wednesday’s court judgement affirming his election as the Yobe North senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bashir Machina has thwarted Senate…

Ancient Greeks are credited with saying the truth is often the first casualty in war. I think in political campaigns, truth is also the first casualty, and we have started to see that already in the current election cycle in Nigeria. In…

Mrs. Aisha Buhari’s insensitive flaunt of the graduation of her daughter-in-law from a UK university while public universities in Nigeria are shut as a direct consequence of her husband's blithe unconcern instantiates the truism that…

I've been reading the education minister's press statements and media interviews regarding the ongoing ASUU strike, and I've been exhausted beyond description. He obviously has no plans to end the strike. Now, I'm actually thinking…

After the stream of impotent, poorly written insults that some ASUU members hurled at me for pointing out ASUU's inexplicably self-injurious poor information management, which allows the government to control the narrative of the ongoing…

In contemporary Nigeria, the term “restructuring” has become something of a “God term,” as rhetorical scholars call words and expressions that instinctively evoke warm fuzzy feelings in people, that galvanize people into action, that are…

On Thursday, Education Minister Adamu Adamu told news reporters that the federal government had resolved all outstanding disputes with ASUU and that the federal government’s insistence on withholding the salaries of lecturers for the period…

People who have read me in the past few months know that I am unambiguous in my support for ASUU's 6-months-plus-old strike even though I am personally affected by it because I have siblings and cousins that I support financially in…

A few days ago, I filled out an online form with my 5-year-old daughter, which required us to indicate our dates of birth using a drop-down menu. Her birth year is 2017, so I filled out her birth date in a breeze. Then it came time to…

Peter Obi comes across as a humble, conciliatory, mild-mannered, and good-natured person—in contrast to his toxic, obnoxious online devotees whose rhetorical causticity he habitually has a need to restrain with words of caution. I…

Information minister Lai Mohammed instructed the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) to penalize Trust TV with a N5 million fine for its factual March 5 documentary titled “Nigeria’s Banditry: The Inside Story” after former BBC…

It has come to light that Muhammadu Buhari has approved N1.4 billion from Nigeria's coffers (without the approval of the National Assembly!) to help the Republic of Niger buy vehicles for its government officials to fight insecurity while…

No president in the history of the world has been able to hypnotize citizens of a country with as much roaring success as Buhari has in Nigeria in the last 7+ years. Not even Adolf Hitler comes close. For example, like clockwork, every…

I woke up on Friday to clamorous social media buzz over Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar’s interview with Arise TV’s Reuben Abati and Tundun Abiola. His claim that it would be a miracle if Labour Party’s…

Facts I have uncovered from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) show that Labour Party’s Peter Obi may become Nigeria’s president next year by default because Bola Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar, candidates for the All…

This unidentified IPOB activist stepping on the Nigerian flag while robed in the colors of the Biafran flag is being falsely called Peter Obi’s son by people who resent Obi’s rising national visibility and potential disruption of the…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been on strike for nearly five months now. As a consequence, hundreds of thousands of students in public universities are idling away the days doing nothing. They are seething in anger and…

People who’re questioning Tinubu’s Chicago State University degree are barking up the wrong tree. A Bola Ahmed Tinubu indeed graduated from there after earning a 2-year community college diploma from Richard J. Daley College in Chicago.…