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Akintokunbo A ADEJUMO

  • Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    The pros and cons of Political Debates in Nigeria

    This write-up is actually composed of the opinions, views, and expressions on the WhatsApp platform of the Champions For Nigeria, to which I also belong, on the ongoing arguments surrounding the stand of some of our political contenders for high Read more

  • Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu

    (Photo - Chatham House via Wikimedia Commons)

    Nigeria and its warped politics and political perverts

    That crazy (and actually dangerous, if we don’t mind the banditry, kidnapping, and terrorism) season is here in Nigeria again, where all governance ceases, the poor, ignorant, unknowingly disenfranchised populace fall prey to the wicked and Read more

  • Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    USA’s largest Consulate to be built in Lagos

    For the US to be building its largest yet Consulate in Nigeria, and in Lagos, what does that tell Nigerians and the world? Forget about them making money from visa applications and other consular and non-consular matters. Read more

  • Mohammed Buba Marwa

    Marwa will do a great job at NDLEA

    The post came 24 hours after the newly appointed Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa took over at the anti-drug law enforcement agency - when he read the riot act to drug barons and traffickers that with him in the saddle, they will have Read more

  • Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    We always mean well for the country, but NOT for the people!

    Please, let’s get something right. There’s no leader who has ever ruled Nigeria that has ever meant bad or evil for Nigeria. None!!! They have always meant well for the country. But for the people? That is a subject for thought and deep consideration Read more

  • Social welfare in Nigeria

    Taxes and Social Welfare in Nigeria in face of Covid-19

    During the current COVID-19 lockdown, Nigerians who have never paid tax in their lives are mouthing off on social media left, right and centre that government should feed them, yet they haven't contributed a penny to the commonwealth in decades for Read more

  • Sanusi Lamido Sanusi II

    An aberrant democracy

    There are several guiding principles that act as the foundation of a democracy, such as rule of law, protected rights and freedoms, free and fair elections, and accountability and transparency of government officials. Citizens have a responsibility Read more

  • Fight Corruption

    The development of a society is not for charlatans

    For a society to develop (in all aspects and areas of human endeavour – technology, agriculture, governance, industrial, infrastructure, communication, transportation, sports, youth development, labour and employment, human and natural resources Read more

  • Okada ban in Lagos

    Okada ban in Lagos discussed

    Raise your hand if you want your child to be keke rider!’ - Seun Kuti tackles Nigerians over okada ban - TheCable Read more

  • Fight Corruption

    A collage of discussions on corruption in Nigeria

    This is a collage of comments made by members of Champions For Nigeria, an organisation of which I am a proud member. The discussion mainly bordered on corruption and how it has seriously and seemingly irreversibly stunted growth, human capital, prod Read more

  • Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Struggling to understand democracy

    Our leadership are still struggling to understand democracy as a collective approach in meeting collective needs, such as quality education, jobs, housing, mass transportation system, quality health care services, pensions, etc. Read more

  • Stop corruption

    Bigmanism, Impunity and Corruption in Nigeria

    Every day, I see our people, both the so-called elites and the commoners, flouting simple instructions and rules, disregarding law and order and showing BIGMANISM in their own little corner of Nigeria. The main reason this country is ungovernable is Read more

  • Nigerian Driving Licence

    Applying for a Nigeria Driver’s Licence – A study in wasteful bureaucracy

    I went to the Federal Road Safety Commission’s office. The FRSC are supposed to be the issuing authority of Drivers Licences. Being a Special Marshal of the same FRSC, I thought I will be able to cut through the red tape and go it smoothly; I’m not Read more

  • Kill corruption

    The world will not wait for Nigeria!

    How can a nation move when all aspects of her life are corrupted: The economy is corrupted, governance is corrupted, judiciary is corrupted, education is corrupted, health is corrupted, infrastructural development is corrupted, social values are Read more

  • Fight Corruption

    Corruption À la carte

    Anyway it is still NIGERIA where police do just about anything they feel like doing, judges give judgement without justice, lecturers demand sex for marks, so-called Men of God do human rituals to gather congregations, vacancies occur for just the Read more

  • Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Do we just “siddon” and look?

    Do we just sit down and look (siddon look) on: While massive and unfettered corruption ravages the land, afflicting even our unborn generations? While selfish, greedy and insensitive politicians rule the roost and roam the land with Read more

  • A cross-section of Nigerian Senators during a Plenary

    Our Politicians’ main income is Corruption

    The present atmosphere we now find ourselves today seems to come down to the attitude of the people versus government. This is not something any citizen of Nigeria, or any country for that matter, wants to have occur. Government does have a place in Read more

  • Respect - give it to get it

    Respect and Abuse!

    In today's Nigerian (and most African) society with everything going, from politics to terrorism to religious and ethnic intolerance and corruption of epidemic proportions, it is very helpful if we as a people learn to start respecting other people's Read more

  • Atiku Abubakar

    The Atiku conundrum

    That Mr Atiku Abubakar resigned from the APC a few days ago certainly did not come as a surprise to me and many other Nigerians; it has always been a matter of when he will leave the APC and not if he will dump the APC. I suppose every Nigerian who Read more

  • Robert Mugabe - Tired, but not going anywhere.

    Resignation as an African Abomination

    In Mugabe’s case, as a friend from Kenya wrote to me, the Zimbabwean Defence Forces are merely exercising “soft power” – getting others to want the outcomes you want – and co-opting people rather than coercing them. This can be contrasted with “hard Read more

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