Post

More from @farooqkperogi

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

Feb 6, 2023

Lawan and Supreme Court of Shameless Judicial Bandits
I was awoken on this side of the world by news of the reversal by the Nigerian Supreme Court of Senate Pres. Ahmed Lawan's primary election loss. I was already mentally prepared for it after the same Supreme Court affirmed

Godwin Akpabio's fraudulent primary win a few days ago. It's a well-planned judicial choreography. The Nigerian Supreme Court is straight-up the most hopeless Supreme Court in the history of the world's supreme courts. The same Court violated common sense and the will of voters

and gave us a "Supreme Court governor" in Imo State who never even pretended to have won an election. Now it has given Yobe and Akwa Ibom states "Supreme Court senate candidates" in Lawan and Akpabio. Lawan was too busy trying to be APC's presidential candidate to even

Read 6 tweets

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

Oct 21, 2022

Obidients are the new Buharists

“Obi-dients” are the new Buharists. Better get ready for their rank stupidity and pigheadedness should Peter Obi become president. They’re perpetually angry. They're narrowminded, verbally primitive, ignorant, tunnel-visioned automatons who think

their illiterate trolling can stop people from expressing views that're contrary to theirs. They constitute a risible horde of unthinking troll brigade on the Internet & are incapable of the most basic level of cognitive complexity. If you’re not one of them, you're against them.

If you don’t sacrifice your critical faculty on the altar of Peter Obi political idolatry, you’re against their idol. If you write any favorable article about Obi, you’re an unflinching patriot, but if you do the same for Obi’s opponents, you’re a paid supporter of their idol's

Read 6 tweets

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

Oct 20, 2022

A Plea for the FG to Pay Lecturers
Although ASUU strike has been called off and schools are scheduled to resume academic activities from next week, all is not well in most universities. I'm hearing heartbreaking stories of university lecturers who can't feed their families, who

can't buy the medications they need to survive life-threatening illnesses, who can't pay their children's school fees, and who can't even afford the cost of transportation to their schools because they haven’t been paid salaries for the 8 months that they were on strike. It looks

like the federal government is determined to keep its word that it won't pay the lecturers for the period they were on strike. Yes, I'd argued in the past that the government’s insistence on implementing the no-work-no-pay policy was justified in law, but when you know people

Read 7 tweets

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

Oct 18, 2022

Tinubu’s Church Rat Reference to Climate Change Isn't Wrong

I frankly don’t get what people are mocking in Bola Tinubu’s characterization of climate-change policies for poor countries as “a question of how do you prevent a church rat from eating poisoned Holy Communion.” Tinubu

mere deployed familiar ecclesiastical metaphors to capture the dilemma that developing countries face over the dire existential adjustments that climate change policies require of them. He used “church rat” to symbolize a poor nation (Nigerian English speakers often say “as poor

as a church rat” where native English speakers say “as poor as a church mouse” to indicate extreme poverty) and “Holy Communion” to acknowledge the desirability of climate-change policies. But he qualified the “Holy Communion” as “poisoned” to suggest that it’s a bitter pill to

Read 8 tweets

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

Oct 13, 2022

Obi’s Campaign Council Shows He Isn’t Different from APC and PDP

Peter Obi's initial presidential campaign council proves the point I've always made in private to his fervid fans: after all is said and done, Obi is just another Establishment Nigerian politician who has neither

the willingness nor the capacity to be the different and transformational leader that his supporters think he will be. He's merely riding on the crest of the wave of mass discontent with the status quo. The list isn't just inexcusably insular (Igbo men are even state coordinators

for Sokoto and Lagos!), it is also riddled with the type of embarrassing clerical errors and oversights that we've become accustomed to from Nigerian governments. If I were a man that idealistic young men and women have elevated to near sainthood as Obi has been, I would look

Read 9 tweets

Farooq Kperogi

@farooqkperogi

Oct 10, 2022

Aisha Buhari’s PTSD Diagnosis of Buhari

Aisha Buhari said she "suffered the consequences" of Buhari's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which she said was triggered by the Civil War, his 1985 overthrow, and his serial electoral losses until 2015.

She claimed that she

"became a physiotherapist" to nurse him to sanity. Well, we know her highest legitimate academic qualification is a diploma in beauty therapy and cosmetology.But even if she truly became a physiotherapist (which Americans call a physical therapist), the fact is, physiotherapists

don't threat mental and emotional illnesses. They only threat physical injuries through physical activity, massage, etc. The specialists who treat mental and emotional illnesses are called psychotherapists.
No wonder that Buhari’s PTSD hasn’t been cured. He was treated by a

Read 5 tweets

Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

Farooq Kperogi

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

More from @farooqkperogi

Farooq Kperogi

Farooq Kperogi

Farooq Kperogi

Farooq Kperogi

Farooq Kperogi

Farooq Kperogi

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Send Email!