Message for Gov. Ajimobi - Emerging Talent You Must Support!

Rio 2016 – Why We Really Failed

Just a few days after the just concluded Rio Olympics, Mariam Usman, a Commonwealth medallist, said she has lost the urge to represent Nigeria at international events. She was the only weightlifter that represented Nigeria in Rio, where she competed in the +75 category and amassed 265 kg.

The 2016 Rio Olympics and the Perpetual Failure of a Nation

As we ecstatically inch towards the finale of the greatest sports fiesta in the world, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil, it is becoming increasingly apparent to many Nigerians that this time, Nigeria is going to end up without a single medal of any colour in any of the sports event.

(I started writing this article in March 2014, but for some unknown, warped reason, never completed it. I have now decided to finish it)

"Nigerian leaders on Friday (28 February 2014) called on Nigerians to work harder towards ensuring the country’s unity", with ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo averring that Nigeria will not break up. They made the call in separate interviews with State House correspondents shortly after they were honoured with the nation’s centenary awards at the Presidential Villa, Abuja”.

Our Politicians, the NURTW and Us

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, “The National Union of Road Transport Workers is a Nigerian organisation which functions as a mixture of a public transport company, street gang, and a transport worker's union. The organisation raises fund through several methods, but the largest of these is charging fees - of approximately 20 Nigerian Naira at illegal checkpoints, and from local shop owners. A large number of the NURTW have been arrested in recent months after a government crackdown on these unregulated fees, after the government embarked on a plan to stop people from collecting dues outside motor parks. These people are known as “agberos”.

Education Ain’t Cheap!

The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities have to provide, have led to steady increases in student and parents outlays over the last two or three decades. There are no indications that costs will go down, neither are there signals that one day university education will be free – as called for by many segments of the society.

There is an Evil in our Land

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“There's an evil in our land, And a foe we must withstand, Let us be strong to fight the wrong………..”   Jennie Evelyn Hussey.

Nigeria has been given over to an evil debased mind and culture.  Evil now rules us and the wickedness that has been sown is reaping a whirlwind of horrifying judgment that is shocking and debilitating the nation.

Doing Things the Wrong Ways and Expecting Different Results

The Greater London Authority Elections – where Londoners will vote for a new Mayor of London and Members of the London Assembly – is on 5^th May 2016.

Yet, I, members of my family and many Londoners (including anybody who belongs to the British Commonwealth) voted today, 21^st April, 2016, about 2 weeks away.

In Our or Nigeria’s Interest or Their Best Interest?

The principle of autonomy and/or self-determination is viewed as foundational in any true democracy. It is however worrying when democracy becomes a millstone around the neck of those who are supposed to benefit from it. Such has been the case in Nigeria for close to seventeen years of supposed democratic rule. Democracy has been turned on its head and self-determination or autonomy do not exist, or at best, are infinitesimal.

Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of SAYLC-UK: A Noble Cause.

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Akintokunbo A Adejumo & Adelagun Abudu

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Let’s pass it on to our children. “The great and most powerful gift a parent can give their children is to pass to them their language and their culture …”

Back to the Land: What we should have done decades ago with our oil money!

“With the downturn in the global prices of oil, we now have to prospect our solid minerals. We have to return to agriculture. Mining and agriculture are our hopes now. We will welcome investments in these areas. We will appreciate an in-flow of   more resources and expertise to help us achieve our objective of economic diversification.” President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria speaking to Council of Saudi Arabia’s Chambers of Commerce and Industry in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Requiem for a Hero

“I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I did not want Nigeria to slide into a theatre of war, with his  fellow county men and woman dying, and many more pouring  into other nations in Africa and beyond, as refugees.

Of Buharists, Jonathanians and a Simple Analysis of Political Immaturity

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is appalling to know that Nigerians are now polarised into two main caucuses, which is not even anywhere near political, but rather individualism, and most times bordering on ethnic lines and religious affiliation - the Buharists and the Jonathanians - as if these are the most important situation and life-changing experience we need now.

Concussion (2015 film) is a Nigerian

Poser: How many Hollywood movies have been made about the lives and achievements of Nigerians who have made one impact or the other on the world stage, with big name actors like Will Smith taking the role of the Nigerian achiever, and Alec Baldwin in a supporting role?

Random Thoughts: Fighting Corruption with Corruption

I have been musing over the conundrum above for a very long time, even before this new dispensation of the sincere and stern President Buhari, and I can’t get it off my mind,  the possibility, that is.

The Corruption and Evil of Employment Scams in Nigeria

This article has been written in sad response to two recent “employment advertisement” scandals that have involved (or, rather, been repudiated) by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment and the Guaranty Trust Bank respectively.