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Celebrating Buhari’s Death Vs Forgiving Him

Global UpfrontJul 19, 2025July 19, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, July 19, 2025 Two dominant narrative strands have emerged in Nigerian discursive spheres in the aftermath of former President Muhammadu Buhari’s death:

AI’s Threat To Journalism, Scholarship, Self-expression

Global UpfrontJun 28, 2025June 28, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, June 28, 2025 On June 16, the final day of my three-week visit to Nigeria, I met with my dear friend Malam

Seeing Nigeria From My American Daughter’s Eyes

Global UpfrontJun 21, 2025June 21, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, June 21, 2025 Sometimes, it takes the unburdened and free-spirited perceptions of outsiders, particularly children, to appreciate taken-for-granted cultural peculiarities. This fact

Hamdiyyah And Sokoto Governor’s Rejection-sensitive Dysphoria

Global UpfrontMay 24, 2025May 24, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, May 24, 2025 In the symbolic and political nucleus of the Sokoto Caliphate, an imperial, illiberal, power-drunk governor who is held hostage

In 2027, Tinubu Won’t Win; The Opposition Will Lose

Global UpfrontApr 26, 2025April 26, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, April 26, 2025 IF economic health, social vitality, and the raw pulse of public opinion were the only indicators relied upon to

Selective Outrage Over Mass Murders In Nigeria

Global UpfrontApr 12, 2025April 12, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi, April 12, 2025 When vigilantes incinerated traveling Hausa hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on the mistaken assumption that they were “Fulani herdsmen,”

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

Tinubu As Yesterday’s Rebel And Today’s Tyrant

Global UpfrontMar 22, 2025March 29, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s demonstrably unconstitutional suspension of the elected leaders of Rivers State and his illegal imposition of a retired military

Nasir El-Rufai’s Scorched-Earth One-Man Opposition

Global UpfrontMar 15, 2025March 15, 20250

By Farooq A. Kperogi Like a stranded mariner gasping on the shores of irrelevance, former Kaduna State governor Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai writhes in the uneasy

New Insights Into ‘Badamasi,’ ‘Gbadamosi,’ And IBB’s Paternal Heritage

Global UpfrontMar 8, 2025March 8, 20250

By Farooq Kperogi FORMER President Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida’s autobiography triggered questions about the onomastic etymology of “Badamasi,” his former last name, which appears to share