Category: Opinion
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Why hasn’t Russia mobilised its vast air power against Ukraine? Experts
Before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, United States intelligence had predicted a blistering assault by Moscow that would quickly mobilise the vast Russian air power that its military assembled in order to dominate Ukraine’s skies. But the first six days have confounded those expectations and instead seen Moscow act far more delicately with its air power,…
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How Ukraine Conflict Could Affect U.S. Economy
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve policymakers on Thursday signaled the conflict in Ukraine will not budge them from their expected course of rate hikes ahead. But the impact on the U.S. economy could be felt in sundry ways, from the price people pay for gasoline at the pump to a hit to household wealth. Here is…
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Justice for Evil By: Oluwatoyin Hawal Momolosho
By: Oluwatoyin Hawal Momolosho Is there any way to bring evil to justice, because a lot of people are committing crimes, rituals, and suicide under its name? And if we ask them for the reasons for committing such heinous acts, they’ll say it’s evil. Then, who is this much touted evil? Is evil a human…
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An Incursion into Raping By Oluwatoyin Hawal Momolosho
By: Oluwatoyin Hawal Momolosho In Nigeria of today, raping has become the main menace in our country. About two days ago , I read one of my brother’s pieces, Abdulganiyu Abdulrahman Oniyere, an advocate of Peace and ambassador of Islamic Studies. When I got deep in thought in his piece, I became well inspired to…
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Pantami’s Professorship: Why I Will Continue Calling FUTO, Fraudsters’ University Of Technology, Kperogi
A professor of Journalism in the United States and foremost columnist, Farooq Kperogi, has given details why he will continue to call the Federal University of Technology (FUTO) Fraudsters’ University of Technology over the professorship given to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami. Pantami was in September last year appointed the professorship…
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Kanuri Origins of the Tinubu Family by FAROUK KPEROGI
There is probably no “indigenous” Lagos family that is more famous than the Tinubu family. But, although the family is now clearly culturally Yoruba, its ethnic provenance is traceable to what is now Borno State, according to Lagos historians, underscoring the historical and sociological inaccuracy of notions of ethnic purism in Nigeria. The patriarch of…
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N100Million Challenge And Davido’s Super Donation To The Orphanage
By: Busy Brain For the past few months, one who is familiar with my writings and updates on pages of newspapers, either Nigerian Tribune, the Nation, or any of the online platforms would observe a hiatus. Countless times, I have been challenged by associates, friends, fans through calls and text messages for not writing for…
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Sponsors of Nigeria’s Terrorist Bandits
By Farouq Kperogi On October 20, 2021, the bandits, whom the Wall Street Journal says have “collaborators inside the army” and who are “better equipped with larger-capacity advanced weaponry than national security agencies,” detonated explosives on the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and caused the indefinite suspension of rail transportation between Abuja and Kaduna. What has become…
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That peace may return to Great Ife: A rejoinder, by BOLANLE BOLAWOLE
The “rejoinder” you are about to read, titled “Deepening neglect of public-funded education in Nigeria: OAU students’ protests as a metaphor”, was written by Prof. Omotoye Olorode, one of my mentors at the then University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in response to the latest “students crisis” at Ife, with reference to two of…
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Lamido Sanusi’s Manic Megalomania in Kaduna by Farouq Kperogi
On October 12, I received a message on WhatsApp, which the platform flagged as being “forwarded many times,” about how former Emir of Kano Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (or whatever he calls himself these days) caused Governor Nasir el-Rufai to fire his Chief of Staff for the “offence” of referring to Sanusi as the “former emir…