Opinion: What Trump’s Comeback May Mean for Africa – Kperogi
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,…
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Opinion: Nigerians Will Miss Tinubu After He is Gone – Kperogi
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
“New” National Anthem is National Self-Debasement – Kperogi
Nothing in my adult life has made me more ashamed to be a Nigerian and more inclined to completely divest my emotions from Nigeria than…
The 2019 Tinubu Speech We Ignored is Biting Back – Kperogi
At the 11th Bola Tinubu Colloquium on March 29, 2019, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then only a powerful but unofficial pillar of the APC, gave us…
Minimum Wage, Maximum Deceit and Moral Cowardice – Kperogi
After three months of bootless committee meetings in the comfort of air-conditioned offices at the cost of one billion naira (President Bola Tinubu approved 500…
Why Yahaya Bello Does Not Represent the Youth – Kperogi
First of all, Yahaya Bello became a governor at 41 in 2016. There's no country in the world where 41 is regarded as "youth." He…
