Category: Opinion
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Definitive case against Pantami’s FUTO fraud Professorship
By Farooq Kperogi There are basically three legitimate ways to become a professor: by climbing the professional ladder in a university; by being appointed to the position from outside academia in recognition of vast and varied industry experience or artistic wizardly in a field; and through a courtesy appointment. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami’s record does…
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FRCN Putting Lives Of Journalists At Risk- An Open Letter To Lai Muhammed
Busy Brain Writes From ‘Afghanistan‘ My heart bleeds as Jos is boiling; not only Jos, Nigeria is an abattoir, temple of killing, the castle of kidnapping. In Nigeria, the worse is happening and the regions are no longer at ease. The killings are en-mass and now at their peak. Traveling beyond one’s state has become…
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Abba Kyari’s Murky Route To Self-Destruction
( Busy Brain Writes In From Adamawa State on Friday 6th August 2021 ) The event of Hushpuppi and Abba Kyari has been the talk of the nation since last week. Initially, it was like a mild drama but eventually transmogrified to a very serious national cum international discourse. Like our usual tradition in Nigeria,…
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Five Final Thoughts On Hushpuppi and Abba Kyari, by Farooq Kperogi
As with everything Nigerian, the Abba Kyari/Hushpuppi fraud case has taken on a predictably ethnoreligious hue. I’ve read some people claim that Kyari is being targeted by America because he is a Muslim. Ha! Well, Hushpuppi is also a Muslim. His full name is Ramon Olorunwa Abbas. Most Muslims will recognize Abbas as a Muslim…
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Opinion: How did Cape Verde become the new Guantanamo? By Mikael Lars
I was in Cape Verde this week checking out the torture and police mistreatment that has been denounced to the world since the kidnapping of ambassador Alex Saab, Venezuela’s special envoy, 400 days ago. Upon arrival at the airport, unlike other tourist countries, I was asked exaggeratedly what I was coming to the island for…
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What Kanu’s and Igboho’s attacks show. plus, who owns Daily Trust? | Farooq Kperogi
TWO concessions are necessary before I make my points. One, while advocacy for self-determination is not criminal and is protected by international laws to which Nigeria is a signatory, calls for violence, instigation of violence against security officers, or machinating a plot to violently dissolve sovereign polities are criminal and have no legal protection anywhere…
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Opinion: Cape Verde, A Mouse that Sounds Like an Eagle
The micro-state of Cape Verde, which has for years tuned up its nose at both ECOWAS and the African Union and claimed to be “not African” which for decades has grabbed with both hands all that ECOWAS had to offer but never given back, is now lobbying to be installed as the ECOWAS Presidency in…
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Opinion: Fonseca Off on Another Jaunt Whilst His Country’s Reputation Lies in Tatters
President Jose Fonseca of Cape Verde has embarked upon another foreign trip which, if he were an aging rock star instead of a lame duck president, would be part of “The Legacy Tour”. He is fortunate that unlike many of his African counterparts he is leaving office later this year on his own terms and…
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WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY 2021: JOIN THE RESTORATION by Ananwureyi Joy Ohine
It’s World Environment Day! Just take a look at the world around you, should we not do better in protecting it? From the first world environment day celebrated in 1974 with the slogan; ‘Only One Earth’; we are here in 2021 celebrating with ‘Reimagine, Recreate, Restore’. What’s more? This year’s world environment day is ushering…
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Opinion: Rendition by Proxy
In using the micro-state of Cape Verde as a front in its ideological war against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, the United States has taken its politically motivated judicial overreach to a new level. The entire playbook from the start has all the hallmarks of moves to which the world has become accustomed in the…