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…
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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…
Opinion: BBC, Betta Edu, and Her Ministry of Corruption – Kperogi
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) aroused the rage of Nigerians this week when it revealed in its periodic newsletter called “EFCC Alert” (which…
Opinion: Tinubu’s Anti-People, Reverse Robin Hoodist “Courage” – Kperogi
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is so inordinately inebriated by his IMF-motivated decision to remove subsidies on petrol that at every opportunity he has he brags…
Opinion: Zenith Bank’s New MD and the Burden on Successful Women – Kperogi
It so often happens that whenever a Nigerian woman makes the news as having been appointed to a high position that is, has been or,…
Opinion: How to Stop the Kidnapping Epidemic in Nigeria – Kperogi
Defense Minister Mohammed Badaru told Arise TV that abductions have skyrocketed in the FCT because kidnappers from the adjoining states of Niger and Kaduna are…
Opinion: Tinubu Getting Governance Right but Economy Wrong – Kperogi
"I was in Nigeria in December 2023 and saw firsthand the extreme, unbearable, and unexampled adversity that the vast majority of people have been thrown…
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,…
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: 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…
Why Tinubu’s Hiring and Firing Frenzy Excites Nigerians – Kperogi
After an unexpectedly sluggish start (it took him longer than usual to appoint his spokesperson, which conduced to the luxuriant flowering of avoidable rumors and…
Opinion: President Tinubu and Dangers of Subsidy Removal – Kperogi
It’s either President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his inner circle didn’t read my April 29 column titled “Six Agenda Items for Tinubu’s Success” or they…
Chatham House and Nigeria’s Growing Cultural Cringe – Kperogi
The increasingly central role that British think factory Chatham House is playing in Nigeria’s 2023 presidential election, which has seen most of our top presidential…
