Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi

The Peter Obi tsunami, APC and PDP are underrating

FORMER Anambra State governor Peter Obi is inspiring a powerful, social media-enabled, youth-led political tidal wave that will radically change…

3 years ago

Five key takeaways from the APC convention

I was fed up with the unendingly immature political melodrama and indiscipline of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential primary…

3 years ago

Tinubu would be Sunday Igboho if he’s denied APC ticket

In Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s unusually acerbic and desperate political speech in Ogun State on Thursday, he dropped four unmistakably broad…

3 years ago

I officially don’t care who’s president in 2023

I am officially emotionally divested from the possible outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Irrespective of who wins it, Nigeria…

3 years ago

AGF Ahmed Idris’ “Blasphemy” against ASUU and Nigeria

I am intentionally appropriating, and extending the semantic boundaries of, the term “blasphemy” for this piece because it seems to…

3 years ago

Emefiele: An inept, heart-attack-loving presidential wannabe

Central Bank of Nigeria governor, Godwin Emefiele, embodies all that is wrong with Nigeria. He is infernally incompetent, mind-blowingly self-serving,…

3 years ago

ASUU: As students suffer, VCs’ wives and politicians smile

IF you want to measure the depth and breadth of any society’s depravity, moral decay, and hopelessness, look no further…

3 years ago

Only these kinds of people will buy nomination forms for N100m

There is an unexampled swarming of the presidential nomination arena by a motley crowd of wannabes. One argument for this…

3 years ago

Verbal primitivism as PR in an election year

IT’S election season in Nigeria. The political public relations industry is abuzz. Political hopefuls are hiring hacks to write tendentious…

3 years ago

INEC Chairman’s last chance to redeem his legacy in 2023

INEC chairman Professor Mahmood Yakubu is straight-up one of Nigeria’s most intelligent public servants. I know because I interacted with…

3 years ago

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