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Farooq Kperogi

Atlanta, Georgia

Columnist at Peoples Gazette

Professor of Journalism @KennesawState University, columnist @nigeriantribune, author of Glocal English; Nigeria's Digital Diaspora; & Digital Dissidence & SMC.

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  • 5 days ago | nairaland.com | Farooq Kperogi

    Last week, in response to mounting, difficult-to-controvert, empirically impregnable accusations that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu disproportionately favors his Yoruba ethnic group in consequential federal appointments, the presidency circulated a list of Tinubu’s appointments to countermine the firmly fixed national narrative of Tinubu’s unexampled ethnocentrism but was compelled to withdraw it because it was embarrassingly error-ridden and factually inaccurate.

  • 1 week ago | thenews-chronicle.com | Farooq Kperogi

    When vigilantes incinerated traveling Hausa hunters in Uromi, Edo State, on the mistaken assumption that they were “Fulani herdsmen,” countless Hausaphone Muslim northerners sent the videos to me with commentaries that reeked of unappeasable wrath. Because there is a 6- to 5-hour time difference between Atlanta and Nigeria, some of the people who shared the videos with me became noticeably impatient with the perceived delay in my response.

  • 2 weeks ago | theconclaveng.com | Farooq Kperogi

    The military government of Niger has officially made Hausa the country’s new national language, moving away from its colonial past where French played a central role. The change was announced in a new charter released on March 31, published in a special edition of the government’s official journal.

  • 2 weeks ago | realnewsmagazine.net | Farooq Kperogi

    Tinubu’s authoritarian attack on democracy in Rivers State 2 MIN READ Opinion By Farooq KperogiIN the wake of a Supreme Court-triggered crisis in Rivers State —masterminded by Nyesom Wike, whose outsize influence over the judiciary has earned him the fittingly dubious distinction of being the de facto head of Nigeria’s “judiciary” — President Bola Tinubu has, with a stroke of imperial presidential pronouncement, declared a state of emergency and suspended democracy.

  • 2 weeks ago | centurypost.com.ng | Farooq Kperogi

    President Bola Tinubu’s Senior Special Assistant on Social Media by the name of Dada Olusegun reportedly said on Thursday that had Nigerians elected former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as president, they would have been sweltering in the same snake pit of torment and economic decline as Argentinians are.

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Farooq Kperogi
Farooq Kperogi @farooqkperogi
19 Apr 25

In this week's Saturday Tribune column, I look at the reigning controversy about Tinubu's unashamed privileging of this ethnic group in his government. Tinubu’s Lagos-Centric Yorubaization of Nigeria https://t.co/VPh6e4H0SN

Farooq Kperogi
Farooq Kperogi @farooqkperogi
14 Apr 25

Carnage on the Plateau https://t.co/yvnuESTbCr

Farooq Kperogi
Farooq Kperogi @farooqkperogi
14 Apr 25

Tinubu's Fake Ambassadors https://t.co/BJeiL4Cayz