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Fight Against Vanity Academic Titles in Africa

Global UpfrontJun 7, 2025June 7, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday June 07, 2025 On May 30, 2025, Ghana’s Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) issued what it termed a “final caution” against

Why The Anti-Tinubu Coalition Isn’t Coalescing

Global UpfrontMay 31, 2025May 31, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi There is supposed to be a formidable coalition of powerful regional and national political forces working to upstage President Bola Ahmed

JAMB’s Fiasco Is Horrible, But It’s Not Unexampled

Global UpfrontMay 17, 2025May 17, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, May 17, 2025 The server glitch that led to unnaturally high failure rates in Lagos and southeast states in Joint

The New Pope is “Black,” Now What?

Global UpfrontMay 10, 2025May 10, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi In the aftermath of Pope Francis’ death, many Africans on the continent and in the diaspora wondered if the Catholic Church

Mele Kyari’s Data Boys And Dan Kunle

Global UpfrontMay 3, 2025May 3, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday May 03, 2025 For our every-last-Saturday-of-the-month “Diaspora Dialogues” podcast on April 26 on the topic “Kyari Out, Ojulari In: Politics

Tinubu’s Lagos-Centric Yorubaization Of Nigeria

Global UpfrontApr 19, 2025April 19, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Saturday April 19, 2025 Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors

Tinubu, Atiku, And Argentina: United By Pain, Divided By Rhetoric

Global UpfrontApr 5, 2025April 5, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Social Media by the name of Dada Olusegun reportedly said on Thursday that had Nigerians

Barbaric Mass Burning Of Innocents In Edo

Global UpfrontMar 29, 2025March 29, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi I woke up on Friday morning to a deluge of forwarded, unwatchably terrifying videos showing 16 Hausa hunters, who were traveling