Tag: Farooq A. Kperogi
World Bank’s 15-year death sentence on Nigeria
Ecuador, too, suffered a devastating financial crisis when it adopted policies that hollowed out its middle class. The World Bank…
“Mesu jamba,” a slur against Ilorin people, is a Linguistic fraud
The fact that members of Afonja’s jama were war-mongering mercenaries and bandits, not to mention non-Muslims, redounded to the semantic…
Further thoughts on being sick and tired about Nigeria
Well, we don’t criticize because we think we would do a better job than the people we criticize. An English…
“New” National Anthem is National Self-Debasement
A country whose symbolic song of independence is inspired, written, and composed by the appendicular remnants of imperialist oppressors of…
Yahaya Bello’s EFCC Comeuppance
He began his tenure as governor as the symbol of hope for youth inclusion in governance. But he soon became…
Zenith Bank’s new MD and the burden on successful women
But it gets worse. He talked about concerns over her red dress, why she uses her maiden name as her…
Six Agenda Items for Tinubu’s Success
To avoid Buhari’s fate, Tinubu should assemble his cabinet members while he is awaiting his inauguration and announce them within…
2023 Election highlights imperative of Power Rotation
The constitution should draw up a schedule of power rotation so that every region and sub-region of the country will…
Why Tinubu’s win stings some and soothes others
Obi and Buhari also share the same qualities of self-righteousness, pretense to austerity, populism, hyperbolized or fictive past “achievements,” and…
APC’s propaganda and politics of exclusion from 2023 Election
In focusing almost exclusively on the contest of supremacy between Tinubu and his sidekick, Osinbajo, we rhetorically marginalize alternatives in…