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Why Is Matawalle Still A Defense Minister?

Global UpfrontDec 6, 2025December 6, 20251

By Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, December 06, 2025 Even the severest critics of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration admit that the last few days have

Trump Effect in General Musa’s Ministerial Appointment

Global UpfrontDec 3, 2025December 3, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi While I am delighted that President Bola Tinubu appears to be taking security more seriously than he previously did (signaled by

General Uba’s Death And Our Debt To The Military

Global UpfrontNov 29, 2025November 29, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, November 29, 2025 In 2020, The Atlantic published an explosive story, which claimed that in 2018 Donald Trump told advisors he could

Nigeria’s Return To The 2014 Nightmare

Global UpfrontNov 22, 2025November 22, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday, November 22, 2025 The events and atmospherics of the past few days in Nigeria feel eerily and frighteningly familiar. They

Wike’s Weak, Wild, Wicked Week

Global UpfrontNov 15, 2025November 15, 20251

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday November 15, 2025 In Nigeria, elite oppression and callousness are often mostly abstract. Most people at the lower end of

Three Quick Thoughts On Wike and Yerima

Global UpfrontNov 12, 2025November 12, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Wednesday, November 12, 2025 I have read competing perspectives on the correctitude (or lack thereof) of FCT Minister Nyesom Wike and

Trump, Christian Genocide, and Terrorism in Nigeria

Global UpfrontNov 8, 2025November 8, 20251

By Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, November 08, 2025 Nigeria’s online and offline discursive arenas have been suffused with frenetic, impassioned, and intensely heightened dialogic exchanges

The Coup That Dare Not Speak Its Name

Global UpfrontNov 1, 2025November 1, 20251

By Farooq Kperogi, November 1, 2025 I was initially disinclined to write about the alleged attempted coup to dislodge President Bola Ahmed Tinubu from power

Chief Aderibigbe: The Old North’s Last Custodian is Gone

Global UpfrontOct 25, 2025October 25, 20251

By Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, October 25 Chief Joseph Adeniyi Aderibigbe, the last of the secretarial redoubts who helped Sir Ahmadu Bello hold together the

Maryam Sanda And Tinubu’s Crisis of Clemency

Global UpfrontOct 18, 2025October 18, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday October 18, 2025 President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, like his predecessors, has the constitutional right to grant clemency. He draws this