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Farooq Kperogi

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Sep 26, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Farooq Kperogi

    Sanusi and the betrayal of El-Rufai (opens the original)

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    A few days before Nasir El-Rufar’s trending, impassioned September 23 letter talking about the “apparent silence” of friends and family members he had “publicly stood by,” I read social media posts lamenting Emir Muhammadu Sanusi I’s supposed betrayal of El-Rufai in his hour of need, especially in light of the role El-Rufai played in rescuing Sanusi from banishment. I thought the assumption that Sanusi had abandoned his friend was unfair and that even El-Rufai would be reluctant to reach that co

  2. Article · Sep 12, 2026 · Farooq Kperogi

    We need more Oloyedes in govt agencies (opens the original)

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    I didn’t get a chance to write a retrospective evaluation of Professor Is-haq Oloyede’s tenure as JAMB registrar when most people did after his departure in July because the time of his exit competed with more pressing national discourses that invited my intervention. But I have always been haunted by a gnawing guilt that I haven’t shared my own assessment of a man who, though fallible like the rest of us, transformed a consequential educational institution in remarkable ways. I have met Profess

  3. Article · Sep 5, 2026 · Farooq Kperogi

    How exile prepared Ribadu for Trump confrontation (opens the original)

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    A Christian friend called me a few days ago after news spread that scores of my Borgu cousins who had gathered for Juma’at prayers at Kpenya Mosque in Dekara District of Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State were abducted by terrorists. He said the international publicity that attends attacks such as this must have contributed to the waning of the “Christian genocide” narrative that had reduced Nigeria’s complex security crisis to a simplistic, one-dimensional story of Muslims killing Chris

  4. Article · Aug 29, 2026 · Farooq Kperogi

    Now that Tinubu and Atiku agree on cheap petrol (opens the original)

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    Last week, I argued that Atiku Abubakar’s promise to restore petrol subsidy had rattled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu because it finally opened a policy flank on which the president is acutely vulnerable. Events since then have strengthened my conviction. Tinubu has gone from deriding Atiku’s proposal as evidence of “serious ignorance” of governance and economics to suddenly talking about the imperative to lower transportation costs and make Nigerians benefit from cheaper fuel. After meeting gover

  5. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Farooq Kperogi

    Why Atiku’s subsidy gambit rattles Tinubu (opens the original)

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    Atiku Abubakar may finally have discovered the issue that can draw political blood from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. And I am enjoying seeing the president and his inner circle squirm in discomfort like cats stranded on a hot zinc roof. On Thursday, barely a day after official campaigns began for the 2027 presidential election, Atiku pledged to restore petrol subsidies if Nigerians elect him president. That pledge, more than anything he has done lately to dislodge Tinubu, is the clearest signal

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