Yansh, Nigeria’s most famous linguistic export, now in the dictionary – Farooq Kperogi I started writing a short, casual article on yansh (the Nigerian Pidgin English word...
Tinubu’s top-down, one-partyist reelection strategy, By Farooq Kperogi What most Nigerians recognize as Nigeria’s creeping descent into stifling one-partyism, with what seems like the unstoppably expanding...
Assertion, Retraction, and Responsibility: Lessons from the Kailani–Dangote Episode By Mudashir ‘Dipo’ Teniola The controversy surrounding Prof. Kailani’s remarks about Aliko Dangote did not arise from...
How a Misleading Channels TV Headline Reignited Nigeria’s Religious Tensions In Southwestern Nigeria, the historic heartland of the Yoruba ethnic group, religious coexistence was once deeply...
When a Tax Law is an illegality, By Farooq Kperogi What began as a routine legislative reform of the Nigerian tax system by the Bola Tinubu...
Experts Warn US Strikes in Nigeria Could Harm Civilians, Fuel Sectarian Tensions Security analysts and local observers have raised concerns over the recent United States military...
Nigeria’s growing begging economy, By Farooq Kperogi As the economy bites harder and end-of-year festivities rev up, the routine “tax” on middle-class Nigerians (the few of...
Tinubu: Ade Ori Okin befits KWAM 1, not Awujale crown Tunde Odesola (Published in The PUNCH, on Friday, December 19, 2025) Blood is thicker than water,...
Tinubu’s new tax regime as sovereignty for sale, By Farooq Kperogi For weeks, I deliberately avoided commenting on the sweeping new tax regime the Bola Ahmed...
Disaster Looms: Otedola Bridge Must Be Demolished and Rebuilt Immediately — Expert A project management expert and scholar, Dr. ‘Jubreel Odukoya, has urged the Lagos State...