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2023 Presidential Election Should be Cancelled; It’s Already Predetermined – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 29, 2022

With the help of Aminu Tambuwal, Atiku Abubakar has defeated Nysom Wike to win the PDP presidential primaries. I’ve seen people exultingly proclaiming that Atiku…

I Officially Don’t Care Who’s President in 2023 – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 28, 2022

I am officially emotionally divested from the possible outcome of the 2023 presidential election. Irrespective of who wins it, Nigeria will at best remain the…

INEC is in Bed with APC and Can’t Be Trusted – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 27, 2022

The only major political party that INEC's 6-day extension of the primary election timetable is designed to benefit is APC. There's no question about that.…

In Naija, Ethnicity and Religion Determine Outrage Over Crime – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 25, 2022

There seems to be a heightened (social media) obsession in Nigeria to call people out for what crimes they haven’t (yet) condemned—or that they have…

IPOB’s Full-Blown Barbarous Terrorism Must be Stopped – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 24, 2022

The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which also masquerades as Eastern Security Network (ESN) or Unknown Gun Men (UGM), has stepped up premeditated mass murders…

AGF Ahmed Idris’ “Blasphemy” Against ASUU and Nigeria – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 21, 2022

I am intentionally appropriating, and extending the semantic boundaries of, the term “blasphemy” for this piece because it seems to be the only term that…

Deborah: I’ve Lost Faith in Humanity – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 16, 2022

That such a large number of highly credentialed, full-grown northern Nigerian Muslim adults in full control of their mental faculties (who repeat the mantra that…

Emefiele: A Corrupt, Inept, Heart-Attack-Loving Presidential Wannabe – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 14, 2022

Central Bank of Nigeria governor Godwin Emefiele embodies all that is wrong with Nigeria. He is infernally incompetent, exceptionally corrupt, mind-blowingly self-serving, incomprehensibly clueless, overweeningly…

Murderers of Christian Woman in Sokoto Must Be Arrested and Punished – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 12, 2022

I just watched a bloodcurdling video clip of a bunch of murderous, maniacal brutes murdering and burning a Christian woman at the Shehu Shagari College…

Making Sense of APC’s Allcomers’ Presidential Contest – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 10, 2022

Even people who normally pontificate with cocksure certainty about politics in Nigeria are mystified by what’s going on at APC right now.

ASUU: As Students Suffer, VC’s Wives, Politicians Smile – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 7, 2022

If you want to measure the depth and breadth of any society’s depravity, moral decay, and hopelessness, look no further than how it treats its…

A President Saraki Won’t Pay Federal Workers’ Salaries – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor May 1, 2022

Bukola Saraki is one of the strongest contenders for PDP’s presidential nomination. On paper, his identity agnosticism (i.e., his capacity to be simultaneously a northerner…

Wike May Clown His Way to PDP’s Nomination – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor April 26, 2022

One of my new guilty pleasures is binge-watching videos of Gov. Nyesom Wike clowning around the country in his bid to win over PDP delegates.…

Verbal Primitivism as PR in an Election Year – Kperogi

News Leverage Editor April 23, 2022

It’s election season in Nigeria. The political public relations industry is abuzz. Political hopefuls are hiring hacks to write tendentious screeds that make them feel…