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Pius Adesanmi: Don Williams – Fragments of memory

by Pius Adesanmi America invaded my formative years in Nigeria through culture, mainly books and music. Indian (Amitabh Bachchan!) and Chinese (Bruce Lee!) films relegated American (John Wayne) films to…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: The Nigerian Military’s invasion of Nnamdi Kanu’s house is foolish

by Pius Adesanmi Umuahia. They said. We said. Who is right? Who is wrong? That has never been and will never be the issue for me. The issue for me…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Warning to Nigerian Parents

by Pius Adesanmi There is a certain Nigerian demographic that is being raised by my generation. All of a sudden, the kids of many of my course mates in the…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Saraki, Sowore & Nigeria’s Barabbas moment

by Pius Adesanmi There are two problems bordering on abomination in my title. First problem: the names, Saraki and Sowore, are appearing in the same sentence. Second problem: Saraki’s name…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Olusegun Adeniyi: President Buhari’s message

After more than 100 days away from the country, President Muhammadu Buhari returned last Saturday to a tumultuous welcome. It was an indication that he still commands the popular appeal…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Kogi as Nigeria’s health metaphor

by Pius Adesanmi The scenarios 1) A public health disaster in Kogi state this past week claimed scores of lives. My own Yagba land was seriously affected. The illness even…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: A trip to Isanlu, my homeland (Pt 2 )

by Pius Adesanmi Welcome home, son of Isanlu. That was not the voice of one person. That was not the greeting of one voice. That was the voice of hundreds…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: A trip to Isanlu, my homeland (Pt 1)

by Pius Adesanmi Tayo and I set forth on a trip to our source. We set forth on roads unworthy of the animal dignity of pigs. Successive generations of Nigeria's…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Nigeria’s solution to the problem of electric cars

by Pius Adesanmi Scandinavia, Britain, France, Netherlands, India, China, the US - everyone is in a scramble to announce the end of fuel-powered cars by 2040 and so on. Everyone…

Ezinne 7 years

Today’s Noisemakers: Saraki, Eyo Ekpo, Pius Adesanmi and others

Every day on the Nigerian internet, there are people who keep our eyes glued to our phone screens as we read their rants, opinions, perspectives on political and social matters,…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: APC’s obstinate journey to shame via London

by Pius Adesanmi Those interested in the dustbin of Nigeria's history will one day find APC inside the rubble, among the putrefaction, just beside PDP, and bring out her carcas…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Women versus woman palaver

by Pius Adesanmi I should have known that there is no such thing as a sobolation-free, drama-free trip for me. Shuttle from the hotel to the airport in Istanbul was…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Orijin will see me through

by Pius Adesanmi When a culture that defines economic opportunity as the massive manufacture of inferior material quick fixes for Africa (China) meets, falls in love with, and marries a…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: An unimportant encounter with racism

by Pius Adesanmi Montreal. Eshiemokhai Michael has the secret to stores offering 70% off and more percentage off the 70% off. If that Banana Republic or Tommy Hilfiger wear is…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Prayer is a Nigerian political gimmick

by Pius Adesanmi. That is how you will maintain your lane jejely and they will make you begin to yarn opata about God and prayer. There is no way to…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: This is why Aisha Buhari can call Nigerians “Hyenas and jackals”

by Pius Adesanmi Oyinbo and wahala sha. I passed by this same overhead bridge connecting two campus buildings yesterday. Nothing dey happun dat time yesterday o. Then I pass by…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Lekki floods- the consequence of an elite with more money than culture?

On Lekki By Pius Adesanmi I have only just noticed some Lekki versus the rest of Lagos and Nigeria dimension to ongoing interventions in the flood matter. Maybe I've been…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Isanlu, the only place Nigeria has not corrupted

I wake up everyday praying that Nigeria will not happen to Isanlu. Isanlu, like the rest of Okun land, is heavily Christian with a sprinkling of Muslims here and there.…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Flashback to when Chief Kayode Odunaro demonstrated true understanding of a Media Aide

On Chief Kayode Odunaro Pius Adesanmi. After reading a "public directive" issued recently by my friend, Ogbuefi Lere Olayinka , in the voice, tone, and mien of his boss in…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: There is no difference between Nigeria and South Africa

by Pius Adesanmi These two countries sha! Nigeria and South Africa... Always at each other's throats, always pretending to dislike each other, yet they avail the world of eerily similar…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: My advice to the Igbo race

by Pius Adesanmi Not everyone should be writing for the public. Sadly, the democracy of social media and the internet is such that we must endure the co-presence of all…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: This is bad optics, Prof. Osinbajo

by Pius Adesanmi Happy Presidential Name Mentioning Day in Arrears I'd be remiss to let this slide without acknowledging such an important day in the life of the country. That…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Nigerian gangs and keeping crime in the tribal family

by Pius Adesanmi I've been paying attention to the ethnic composition of Nigerian criminal gangs with the corner of one eye. My non-scientific finding: our small criminal gangs are a…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: The Nigerian Big man and the fear of ordinariness

by Pius Adesanmi He waltzes into the lounge in Amsterdam carrying all of the six capital letters with which Nigeria spells BIG MAN on his head. He stops at the…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: 9 Big takeaways from the Kaduna declaration

by Pius Adesanmi. 1. A lot of emotion is clouding interventions in what ought to be a rather straightforward matter so let me cut through the emotional carapace without having…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Has the Muslim-Christian scuffle unleashed the revenge of the gods?

by Pius Adesanmi Ogun, Soponna, Amadioha and co have gone soft. Only their beneficent side remains, helping Nigerians daily, quietly, in the shadows, never to be thanked, never to be…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: President Buhari and personality cultists

by Pius Adesanmi That is how they will not let you enjoy TGIF even when you have decided to stay on your own lane jejely. He comes inbox to disagree…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: The tyranny of consensus

by Pius Adesanmi I congratulate the President, the President's supporters, and the Presidency. They have achieved a feat that President Trump and his handlers can only dream of: a consensus…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: The Coconut on the head of Nigerian Christianity

by Pius Adesanmi. Ambode versus Chaplain... I haven't seen Ambode's denial or clarification. I haven't heard his own side of the story. We also haven't heard from Mrs. Ambode. If…

Op-ed Editor 7 years

Pius Adesanmi: Condemning Yari from OBJ’s glass house

by Pius Adesanmi If you are a Nigerian and you can be on social media, you have two immediate attributes: 1) You own at least one device 2) You are…

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