Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi

Why Nigeria’s best is always in its past

A version of this article was first published in my June 21, 2014 column. It is still relevant today. The…

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House of Reps’ legislative banditry against universities

I would have missed the story of the devious designs by members of the House of Representatives to extort vice…

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Tinubu’s accurate 12-year-old prediction on subsidy removal effects

ON January 11, 2012, Bola Ahmed Tinubu published a sober, thoughtful, deeply insightful, and penetratingly foresightful article titled “Removal of…

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Hunger protests: Why Tinubu can’t govern like Buhari

The biting hunger and unnaturally rising price spiral in Nigeria instigated primarily by the removal of petrol subsidies and the…

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Tinubu, Nigeria is sinking and streets are full of tears

The searing torment that everyday folks are going through in Nigeria right now is so dire, so unbearably extreme, and…

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North and Tinubu’s back-to-Lagos moves

When my uncle called me over the weekend, he had no time for the customary conversational courtesies that typically preceded…

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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…

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Tinubu getting governance right but economy wrong

IT takes a special kind of partisan bullheadedness— or an acute amnesia of the immediate past— to fail to acknowledge…

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Foul stench of Buhari’s corruption and Betta Edu

In a June 23, 2020, article titled “Sabiu Yusuf’s Fat Bank Accounts that Shocked CBN Governor” where I revealed that…

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Rising Salafist and pentecostal religious bigotry in Nigeria

It is Pollyannaish daydreaming to expect that two aggressively competing, proselytizing faiths such as Christianity and Islam can ever cohabit…

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