Thursday, July 9, 2026

FAROOQ KPEROGI

February 25, 2023

Obi may win popular vote, lose national spread, then what?

APC’s Bola Ahmed Tinubu and PDP’s Atiku Abubakar will divvy up the Muslim vote more or less equally.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar
February 18, 2023

Which candidate will benefit from Buhari’s naira policy?

Peter Obi might also theoretically benefit from the financial constraining of Tinubu, but whether it will be enough to one-up Atiku remains to be seen.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar
February 11, 2023

Buhari burning Nigeria because he wants to catch a BAT

Inflicting mass hurt on a large swath of people gives Buhari immense joy.

President Muhammadu Buhari and Bola Tinubu
February 4, 2023

Three major shifts in 2023 presidential campaign

How these changing dynamics will impact the outcome of the election is still up in the air.

Peter Obi, Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Atiku Abubakar.
January 28, 2023

The Tinubu-Buhari cold war is becoming a hot war

This was completely preventable political self-harm.

Muhammadu Buhari and President Bola Tinubu
January 21, 2023

Chatham House and Nigeria’s growing cultural cringe

Cultural cringe is the deep-rooted inferiority complex that causes psychologically damaged, formerly colonised people to inferiorise and disdain their own country and its culture.

Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu in Chatham House
January 14, 2023

From “Muslim-Muslim” to “Is he really a Muslim?”

The dominant chatter in northern Nigerian Muslim discursive spheres now revolves around the suspicion that Tinubu isn’t a Muslim.

Bola Tinubu
January 7, 2023

Only constant thing about Nigeria is its dysfunction

A genuinely concerned and angry African American friend once asked me if congenital idiocy is the precondition for ascension to leadership in Nigeria.

Blackout
December 31, 2022

Toyin Falola, a transcendental academic giant at 70

Toyin Falola, an endowed professor of history at the University of Texas whom I have called the patriarch of African academics in North America, isn’t an everyday individual.

Toyin Falola
December 24, 2022

Forecast of what Atiku, Tinubu, or Obi govts might be

Money may not be as decisive in determining the outcome of next year’s election as it did in previous years.

Bola Tinubu, Peter Obi and Atiku Abubakar