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FAROOQ KPEROGI

January 23, 2021

Three fallacies in Falola’s “diss” of diasporan academics over ASUU

It’s OK to be an excellent teacher and a middling researcher or a terrific researcher and a passable teacher.

Professor Toyin Falola
January 9, 2021

Kukah, Pantami, and self-interested government critics

Anyone who defended—or, worse, still defends—Jonathan has no moral right to criticise Buhari.

January 2, 2021

Why Abba Kyari’s Death Was 2020’s Most Momentous Moment

In this week’s column, I will bring together some of my published thoughts and predictions on Abba Kyari before and after his death.

Late Abba Kyari
December 26, 2020

Bakare didn’t defend Tinubu; he defanged him

Everything about Tinubu — from his very name to his claims of being from Lagos State, from his source of income to his parentage — is an elaborately fraudulent scheme.

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
December 19, 2020

Six queries on the kidnap and release of the Kankara schoolboys

The absence of unambiguous answers to these queries is the biggest driver of conspiracy theories about the abduction.

Kankara schoolboys. [PHOTO CREDIT: Bashir Ahmad]
December 12, 2020

To secure northern lives, first secure northern brains

Before we secure the North, we need to secure the brains of its people so that when they don’t invest unrequited love in deodorised frauds like Buhari.

Bandits used to illustrate the story
December 5, 2020

Ganduje and fraudulent American “Professorships” for Nigerian politicians

Bought honorary doctorates have lost their gravitas and the “Dr.” title has now lost its sheen among Nigerian politicians.

Abdullahi Ganduje
November 28, 2020

Where’s Buhari? Is That a Body Double in Aso Rock?

Buhari appears to be dead and replaced by a body double because he is wracked by the ravages of dementia.

President Buhari -2
November 21, 2020

My 2018 predictions about Buhari’s “NextLevel” now materialising

APC’s NextLevel campaign isn’t just deficient in creativity; it’s also a shameless theft of an organisation’s intellectual property.

President Muhammadu Buhari
November 14, 2020

Why Trump-loving Buhari critics are bigoted Christofascists

It’s amazing what kind of self-indulgent cognitive bias causes people to condemn a vice in one person but praise it as a virtue in another.

President Buhari and President Trump