Opinion: Why the North Suddenly Cares about Northern Lives – Kperogi
It should be made clear from the outset that I am overwrought with immense grief by the heartbreaking but unintentional killing of 126 innocent men,…
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Opinion: How to Stop Judicial Coups Against Democracy in Nigeria – Kperogi
The Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC), one of Nigeria’s most prominent pro-democracy NGOs, invited me to make a virtual presentation from my base in…
Opinion: Nigerian Judiciary as Lost Hype of Justice – Kperogi
The idea that the “judiciary is the last hope of the common man” is a banal, flyblown cliché that is habitually huckstered in Nigerian judicial…
Opinion: Tinubu Wants Even Broke Universities to Fund Him – Kperogi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is really having a ball—at the expense of the rest of Nigeria. He has become so comfortable in his presidential self-indulgence…
Disturbing Signals of Descent into Lawlessness: Chidoka Writes AGF Over Gross Violation
The former Aviation Minister, Osita Chidoka has written to the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, over the…
Opinion: Ignorance of America that Atiku’s Lawyers and Supporters Betray – Kperogi
As I have stressed repeatedly, I have no partisan emotional investment in the political brawl between President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku…
Opinion: Thought Subsidy Was Bad, Why is Tinubu Bringing it Back? – Kperogi
A September 21, 2023, enterprise news report (i.e., a news report that’s not from a news release or a press conference) from the Daily Trust…
Kano Governorship Election Tribunal: Why the Verdict Can’t Stand – Kperogi
I detest political cultism, which the Kwankwasiyya movement represents, and also resent Governor Abba Yusuf’s incipient governance by destructive vengeance, which saw him remorselessly destroying…
Opinion: Mujahid Asari Dokubo and the life cycle of the law of rule – Odinkalu
On a Friday in July 2005, Bayo Ojo, a Senior Advocate of Nigerian (SAN), quietly absconded from work in an office in Victoria Island, Lagos,…
One Hundred Days After Buhari – Garba Shehu Hits Back at Critics
This week, President Muhammadu Buhari clocked 100 days away from office after completing two terms of four years each as President of Nigeria. He chose…
Opinion: Why Tinubu Must Restore Fuel Subsidies Now – Kperogi
A speculative news story from TheCable about President Bola Ahmed Tinubu considering a temporary restoration of petrol subsidies in light of the current unspeakable adversity…
Opinion: El-Rufai’s Betrayal and Akpabio’s Buffoonery – Kperogi
Former Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai’s rumored withdrawal from consideration as a minister in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s government because high-tensile inter-elite intrigues torpedoed his…
Opinion: Tinubu’s Risky Niger Gamble, Shetty’s Embarrassment – Kperogi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday wrote to the Senate to inform it of an impending “Military build-up and deployment of personnel for military intervention to…
Davido: Why Yoruba and Hausa Muslims Reacted Differently to Video – Kperogi
Music star Davido’s social media promotion of a new song by Logos Olori (whose real name is Olalekan Emeka Taiwo) titled “Jaye Lo” where men…
Opinion: IMF’s Neoliberal Sadomasochistic Paradise is Finally in Nigeria – Kperogi
It used to be that, like all normal human beings, ordinary Nigerians chafed at policies that choked and squeezed the life out of them, and…
Opinion: APC Chairmanship; Time to Prioritise National Unity – Chidoka
APC National Chairman and Secretary resigned today paving the way for the Party to reorganise its leadership. I am not a member of the APC…
