Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi

In 2027, Tinubu won’t win; the opposition will lose

IF economic health, social vitality, and the raw pulse of public opinion were the only indicators relied upon to prognosticate…

6 days ago

Tinubu’s Lagos-centric Yorubaisation of Nigeria

  LAST week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors his Yoruba…

2 weeks ago

Selective outrage over mass murders in Nigeria

WHEN vigilantes incinerated traveling Hausa hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on the mistaken assumption that they were “Fulani herdsmen,” countless…

3 weeks ago

Tinubu, Atiku, and Argentina: United by pain, divided by rhetoric

President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Social Media by the name of Dada Olusegun reportedly said on Thursday that…

4 weeks ago

Barbaric mass burning of innocents in Edo

I woke up on Friday morning to a deluge of forwarded, unwatchably terrifying videos showing 16 Hausa hunters, who were…

1 month ago

Tinubu as yesterday’s rebel and today’s tyrant

PRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s demonstrably unconstitutional suspension of the elected leaders of Rivers State and his illegal imposition of a…

1 month ago

Nasir El-Rufai’s scorched-earth one-man opposition

LIKE a stranded mariner gasping on the shores of irrelevance, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai writhes in the…

2 months ago

New insights into ‘Badamasi,’ ‘Gbadamosi,’ and IBB’s paternal heritage

FORMER President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s autobiography triggered questions about the onomastic etymology of “Badamasi,” his former last name, which appears…

2 months ago

Identity questions in IBB’s autobiography

AS someone who has a scholarly interest in—and is actually working on a book on—the rhetoric of collective identity construction…

2 months ago

Nicholas Said: Stolen from Borno, lost in America

This third installment in the Nicholas Said column series expands on my previous pieces and brings the discussion to a…

2 months ago

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