In this week's Saturday Tribune column, I call attention to the frightening case of a teenage girl who's being crushed with all the might of the state by Sokoto Gov. Ahmad Aliyu. Her offense? A critical TikTok video about endemic insecurity in the state: farooqkperogi.com/2025/05/hamdiy…

"Wok, Wak, Wek!"—The African English Accent Showdown farooqkperogi.com/2025/05/wok-wa…

Why There’s No Such Thing as “Correct” or “Incorrect” Pronunciation farooqkperogi.com/2025/05/why-th…

My column in today's Saturday Tribune: Why the Anti-Tinubu Coalition Isn’t Coalescing farooqkperogi.com/2025/05/why-an…

In this week's Saturday Tribune column, I talk about the decisions taken by Malawian and Ghanaian authorities' fight against honorary doctorate holders prefixing "Dr." to their names. Ghana will, in fact, start suing people who do that! farooqkperogi.com/2025/06/fight-…

I returned from a three-week visit to Nigeria three days ago. Here's my reflection on the visit in today's Saturday Tribune from the lenses of my 8-year-old daughter who had never been to Nigeria. farooqkperogi.com/2025/06/seeing…

Nigeria is Closer from a Distance farooqkperogi.com/2025/06/nigeri…

In today's Saturday Tribune column, I examine the perils and pleasure of AI and share recent anecdotes about AI-generated news reports and scholarly articles that have cited me for things I never said and for works I never authored. farooqkperogi.com/2025/06/ais-th…

Join me to celebrate northern Nigeria's first female professor of clinical pharmacy who earned her BSc from ABU, her MSc from the University of Ibadan, and her PhD from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and who is an inspiration to young women: farooqkperogi.com/2025/06/northe…

Nlewedim: You Can Have an Igbo English Accent Without Speaking Igbo farooqkperogi.com/2025/07/nlewed…

Today's Tribune column, which should technically be "Notes from Tokyo" b/c I wrote it in Japan, requests that we not be so seduced by d desire for different faces in govt that we neglect to ask how ADC is different from APC on d issues that really matter: farooqkperogi.com/2025/07/adc-co…

I always knew I was ahead of my time, but this is next-level stuff! A paper cited my 2020 book to support a study conducted in 2024. Fake AI-Generated Article Cited My Book from the Future! farooqkperogi.com/2025/07/fake-a…

Today's Saturday Tribune column talks about the pitiful pittance professors are paid and the implications of that for Nigeria's future. I drew parallels with Japan from where I wrote the column. Problem of Paying Peanuts to Professors farooqkperogi.com/2025/07/proble…

In this week's Saturday Tribune column, I express views about the propriety of celebrating Buhari's death--and the plea to forgive his sins against Nigeria--that depart from conventional views: Celebrating Buhari’s Death Vs Forgiving Him farooqkperogi.com/2025/07/celebr…

This week's Saturday Tribune column is a travelogue on my recent trip to Japan: Ten Days in Japan farooqkperogi.com/2025/07/ten-da…

In today's Saturday Tribune column, I give four reasons why habitually renaming well-established universities after dead or living politicians (a tradition that seems uniquely Nigerian), represents unacceptable symbolic violence: farooqkperogi.com/2025/08/why-we…

Subsidy removal is a mere fancy term for taking money from the previous oil cabal and giving it to governors and the president who're frittering it away on frivolities while the people suffer. Today's Tribune talks about this via Falana's advice to Tinubu farooqkperogi.com/2025/08/tinubu…

Here's my Saturday Tribune column on the likely effect of Goodluck Jonathan's entry into the 2027 presidential race: Jonathan’s Entry Would Radically Shake the 2027 Election farooqkperogi.com/2025/08/jonath…