Our country is in such a dire strait at this time. It is not unconnected to the policies that our amiable President marshaled when he was inaugurated to tame the monsters of economic quagmires in the country found itself. To all keen watchers of events in the country, all the policies are capable of transforming our country from the economic doldrums we presently are into that Nigeria of our dream where citizens can heave a sigh of relief from abject poverty, joblessness, insecurity, and other knotty issues which have retarded…
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Saint Kperogi’s Verses By Dele Afelumo
SOCRATES and Eleanor Roosevelt at different times said, “Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people”. It is on that premise that I categorise the many treatises of Professor Farook Kperogi on many issues bedevilling our country. I also have to borrow the Iranian author’s book’s title: The Satanic Verses—as my title for this critique. One wonders what Kperogi’s preoccupations always are with character assassination and deployment of incendiary adjectives on people. He plays hubristic tunes always as if he remains the only de facto repository…