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Zanga-Zanga and Tinubu’s Crumbling Northern Alliance

Global UpfrontAug 10, 2024August 10, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Twitter: @farooqkperogi The 10-day nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that end today, known by the reduplicative compound “Zanga-Zanga” in Hausaphone northern Nigeria, have ruptured

Tinubu: A Tyrant In The Making

Global UpfrontAug 5, 2024August 5, 20240

By By Farooq Kperogi President Tinubu’s self-serving speech–which basically sang his own praises, said he’d heard the people’s anguished cries but won’t do anything about

Five Lessons From The Ongoing Hunger Protests

Global UpfrontAug 3, 2024August 3, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that are convulsing the neoliberal fundament of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu administration are redefining and

Protests: Tinubu’s Real Troubles Are Just Beginning

Global UpfrontJul 27, 2024July 27, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In light of his planned astronomical hike in petrol prices euphemistically called “subsidy removal” in 2023, which his opponents

“Mesu Jamba,” A Slur Against Ilorin People, Is A Linguistic Fraud

Global UpfrontJul 20, 2024July 20, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi One of the responses I got to last week’s column repeated a historically and sociolinguistically suspect claim about the

Tinubu And The “Yoruba Emir” Of Kano

Global UpfrontJul 13, 2024July 13, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi The contest for royal supremacy between Muhammad Sanusi II and Aminu Ado Bayero took an explicitly ethnic turn a

LGBTQ Storm in $150 Billion Samoa Deal Teacup

Global UpfrontJul 6, 2024July 6, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi In the last two days, my social media feed has been suffused with impassioned expressions of grief and outrage

Further Thoughts on Being Sick and Tired about Nigeria

Global UpfrontJun 29, 2024June 29, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Twitter: @farooqkperogi, Saturday, June 29, 2024 Columnism is, after all, self-expression before it is public commentary. In fact, all forms of

I Am Sick And Tired Of Being Sick And Tired

Global UpfrontJun 22, 2024June 22, 20240

By Farooq Kperogi When I sat down to write my column this week, I was overwhelmed by the multitude of issues I wanted to address:

“New” National Anthem is National Self-Debasement

Global UpfrontJun 1, 2024June 1, 20240

By Farooq A. Kperogi Twitter: @farooqkperogi Nothing in my adult life has made me more ashamed to be a Nigerian and more inclined to completely