Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi

The 2019 Tinubu speech we ignored is biting back

AT the 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium on March 29, 2019, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then only a powerful but unofficial pillar…

12 months ago

Minimum wage, maximum deceit and moral cowardice

AFTER three months of bootless committee meetings in the comfort of air-conditioned offices at the cost of one billion naira…

1 year ago

Why Yahaya Bello does not represent the youth

A persistent but entirely illogical and factually inaccurate response to my column on former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello revolves…

1 year ago

Yahaya Bello’s EFCC Comeuppance

I am not from Kogi State, but I have strong opinions on former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello—as most Nigerians…

1 year ago

BBC, Betta Edu, and her Ministry of Corruption

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic…

1 year ago

Tinubu’s anti-people, reverse Robin Hoodist ‘courage’

pRESIDENT Bola Ahmed Tinubu is so inordinately inebriated by his IMF-motivated decision to remove subsidies on petrol that at every…

1 year ago

Nigeria’s inflation has turned to ‘Greedflation’

The naira is progressively rebounding against the dollar and petrol prices have remained largely stable, but inflation keeps rising almost…

1 year ago

Zenith Bank’s new MD and the burden of successful women

IT so often happens that whenever a Nigerian woman makes the news as having been appointed to a high position…

1 year ago

Names for pig and pig meat in English Muslims should know

In the spirit of Ramadan, I am republishing a revised version of an article I wrote in June 2017 in…

1 year ago

Rise of Right-wing Economic Populism in Nigeria

Over the last few months, I have unconsciously transitioned from keyboard diarrhea to mental constipation and have pulled back from…

1 year ago

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