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Opinion: Kemi Badenoch’s Yoruba Identity Meets Inconvenient Truths – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor December 21, 2024

Kemi Badenoch, current leader of the UK’s Conservative Party, recently disavowed her Nigerian identity because of her resentment at being associated with northern Nigeria. “Being…

Opinion: Dele Farotimi, Afe Babalola, and Streisand Effect – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor December 7, 2024

When 95-year-old legal luminary Afe Babalola weaponized the Nigerian police to arrest and detain activist Dele Farotimi over alleged defamation in his book, Nigeria and…

Opinion: Petrol is Cheaper in Atlanta than in Nigeria – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor November 30, 2024

At the current exchange rate of 1,647 naira to the dollar, a gallon of petrol in Atlanta equates to approximately 5,200 naira or 1,102 naira…

Opinion: What Trump’s Comeback May Mean for Africa – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor November 10, 2024

Donald Trump is no more interested in religious morality than he is in the theological reveries of his African fan base. He is, in truth,…

Opinion: Nigerians Will Miss Tinubu After He is Gone – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor October 26, 2024

I fully anticipate that most Nigerians will figuratively call for my head after reading this headline. How could it be that a leader who has…

World Bank’s 15-Year Death Sentence on Nigeria – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor October 19, 2024

The World Bank’s Senior Vice President by the name of Indermit Gill, who is originally Indian, incited mass panic in Nigeria on October 14 when…

Tinubu, Remi, and Akpabio Mocking Nigerians’ Hardship – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor October 12, 2024

The torment of incessantly escalating petrol prices and the consequent surge in the cost of everything have plunged Nigerians into a precipitous decline in quality…

Tinubu Dramatizes Hollowness of Nigeria’s “Independence” – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor October 5, 2024

October 1 is celebrated as Nigeria’s Independence Day. But Nigeria isn’t independent. It is, for all practical purposes, a dependent state, a satellite state, whose…

October Surprise in American Presidential Elections – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor September 28, 2024

Several faithful readers of this column who have followed it from the mid-2000s in the Weekly Trust have asked me to spice up my columns…

Opinion: Why Only Nigerians Call Petrol PMS – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor September 14, 2024

There is a widespread misconception in Nigerian journalistic circles that “premium motor spirit” is the proper name for petrol, and this misconception appears to be…

Opinion: The 18-year-old Age Limit for School Certificate – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor August 31, 2024

The directive by education minister Professor Tahir Mamman to the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council to not register candidates who…

Tinubu: Overfed Father of Starving Children – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor August 24, 2024

The unfailingly abiding emotional investment I have in the wellbeing of common people springs forth from my experiential and mediated identification with the twinge of…

Zanga-Zanga and Tinubu’s Crumbling Northern Alliance – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor August 10, 2024

The 10-day nationwide #EndBadGovernance protests that end today, known by the reduplicative compound “Zanga-Zanga” in Hausaphone northern Nigeria, have ruptured the coalition that President Bola…

Opinion: Further Thoughts on Being Sick and Tired about Nigeria – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor June 29, 2024

Others called my attention to the Nigerian Labor Congress borrowing the perspective and language of the column I wrote on the economic apartheid in socially…

Opinion: Tinubu’s June 12 Fall: Humor, Karma, Compassion – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor June 15, 2024

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s harmless trip-and-fall mishap at the Eagle Square in Abuja during this year’s June 12 Democracy Day celebration simultaneously got camps of…