Notes from Atlanta with Farooq Kperogi

In Nigeria after nearly a decade

I was in Nigeria from December 12 to December 19 for the public presentation of Dis Life No Balance: An…

1 year ago

Fake accents on Nigerian airplanes and airports

I have been in Nigeria in the last few days for the public presentation of Dis Life No Balance: An…

1 year ago

Why the north suddenly cares about northern lives

It should be made clear from the outset that I am overwrought with immense grief by the heartbreaking but unintentional…

1 year ago

How to stop judicial coups against democracy in Nigeria

The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), one of Nigeria’s most prominent pro-democracy NGOs, invited me to make a virtual…

1 year ago

Nigerian judiciary as lost hype of justice

The idea that the “judiciary is the last hope of the common man” is a banal, flyblown cliché that is…

1 year ago

Tinubu and Ganduje shouldn’t play with fire in Kano

The Court of Appeal on Friday upheld the verdict of the Kano State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal that reversed the…

1 year ago

Tinubu wants even broke universities to fund him

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so…

1 year ago

What critics of Rufai Oseni don’t know about journalism

A viral, contentious dialogic confrontation between Arise TV’s Rufai Oseni and one Jesutega Onokpasa, identified as a lawyer and “APC…

2 years ago

Nigeria’s not broke; It’s political elites that are ‘broque’

Minister of Budget and National Economic Planning Abubakar Atiku Bagudu said last week Thursday that Nigeria is so stone-broke, so…

2 years ago

Tinubu, Sanusi, subsidies, and the economics of empathy

In response to my September 30 column titled “Thought Subsidy Was Bad. Why is Tinubu Bringing it Back?” a Facebook…

2 years ago

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