
Farooq Kperogi
Columnist at Peoples Gazette
Professor of Journalism @KennesawState University, columnist @nigeriantribune, author of Glocal English; Nigeria's Digital Diaspora; & Digital Dissidence & SMC.
Articles
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1 week ago |
nairaland.com | Farooq Kperogi
RUFAI TELLS SENATOR NATASHA TO PRESENT HER EVIDENCE; ALSO CLARIFIES THE SENATE PRESIDENT’S NAME ON DR DURU’S PHONE, NOT THE SENATE PRESIDENT BUT A CONTACT USING HIS NAMEOpinion: Let me begin by thanking Ojy Okpe for bringing this matter to the Arise Morning Show. It appears, it was Ojy who personally fought to bring this news out. Arise TV strangely blacked out Sandra Duru’s podcast.
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1 week ago |
nairaland.com | Farooq Kperogi
For our every-last-Saturday-of-the-month “Diaspora Dialogues” podcast on April 26 on the topic “Kyari Out, Ojulari In: Politics and Corruption in NNPC,” my colleagues—Dr. Osmund Agbo in Houston, Texas, and Professor Moses Ochonu in Nashville, Tennessee—and I invited revered oil industry expert Mr. Dan Kunle as our guest.
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3 weeks 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.
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1 month 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.
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1 month 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.
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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

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

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