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Farooq Kperogi

February 12, 2022

Common ancestor of American Ebonics and West African Pidgin English

Centuries of separation haven’t severed our linguistic and cultural links. That’s fascinating.

Map of America and Africa
January 29, 2022

Clarity on Tinubu’s age and postsecondary education

Bola Tinubu needs to come clean about the true state of his health if he wants to be taken seriously as a contender for the presidency in 2023.

Bola Tinubu
January 1, 2022

With upcoming toxic fuel price hike, it’s a sad New Year

I wish I had a better way to welcome readers to the New Year. I really do.

President Muhammadu Buhari
December 11, 2021

Why the North bleeds and the people sleep

It isn’t only northern Muslims who are hypocrites. Most people are.

President Muhammadu Buhari and protesting youth
December 3, 2021

Farooq Kperogi’s ‘Nigeria’s Digital Diaspora’ wins top academic publishing award

The book asserts that a country’s transnational elite can shake its media ecosystem through distant online citizen journalism.

Farooq Kperogi and Nigeria's Digital Diaspora book
October 2, 2021

What weed did Buhari’s speech writers smoke?

The speech was, as usual, vacuous, insipid, poorly written, tediously mind-numbing, and filled with audaciously transparent lies.

Buhari
September 25, 2021

Adamu Adamu, ASUU must not strike again!

Children of the poor who are condemned to attend underfunded public universities as their only passports for social mobility will thank you.

Adamu-Adamu
September 18, 2021

Definitive case against Pantami’s FUTO fraudfessorship

I’m calling out Pantami’s professorial fraud not in spite of my being a Muslim and his friend but because I’m a Muslim and his friend.

Pantami and Oti
September 16, 2021

CAN suspends Gombe chairman for congratulating Pantami on dubious FUTO professorship

The Christian body said Sunday Congo’s message did not reflect its position on the controversial minister now infamous for his extremist views.

Pantami and Oti
September 4, 2021

Why political power damages the brain — and how to reverse it

What is it about power that makes people such obtuse, self-centered snobs?

Buhari