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Buhari’s legacy will live on through Tinubu – Governor Yahaya; FG to announce pay raise for civil servants | 5 Things That Should Matter Today
Buhari's legacy will live on through Tinubu - Governor YahayaFG to announce pay raise for civil servantsASUU's latest strike may cost them eight months of pension - NgigePeter Obi picks…
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The Late 5: U.S. government replies FG on alleged plans to endorse Atiku; Henceforth, No work, no pay – FG tells ASUU | Other top stories
These are the stories that drove the conversation today: The Federal Government has ordered that no payment of any form of salaries and allowances should be made to members of…
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Akin Osuntokun: As politics goes, so does the economy
If I were addressing myself to the exclusive audience of a social science class seminar, the topic above would be more appropriately entitled the political economy of Nigeria-under which specialisation,…
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Akin Osuntokun: Obasanjo, Buhari and nation building
Of all those who have had the privilege to govern this country, only two have met, to a large extent, the threshold of being deliberately elected by a plurality of…
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Akin Osuntokun: What is true Federalism?
“Initiate action to amend our Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to states and local governments in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit”-…
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Akin Osuntokun: Let’s talk about the unity of Nigeria
Beyond polemics, the fact is that the unity of Nigeria started being negotiated and renegotiated right from its amalgamation in 1914, and it has to be so, since the inhabitants…
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Akin Osuntokun: My reaction towards Nigeria’s bankrupcy
by Akin Osuntokun If these states require a bailout to pay backlogs of salaries, the central question remains how then do they respond to the same challenge going forward? One…
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Akin Osuntokun: Why Politics should be a vocation, not a job
by Akin Osuntokun Following upon the legacy of its predecessors, the recently inaugurated Nigeria National Assembly session has remained top headlines news for the wrong citation. In terms of theoretical…
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Akin Osuntokun: The day of reckoning has arrived for Buruji Kashamu and other frenemies of Jonathan
by Akin Osuntokun At a slightly refined level, the one and only Allison-Maduekwe, who bestrode the petroleum resources like a colossus (to borrow the Nigerian parlance) conclusively proved herself a…
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Akin Osuntokun: My decision to support Jonathan has been vindicated
by Akin Osuntokun Like Jesus at Golgotha (the site of his foreordained crucification), Nigeria might as well echo the agonising request — let this cup pass over me —…
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Akin Osuntokun: Buhari’s integrity should be called into question
by Akin Osuntokun In my evaluation, Buhari has not responded the way a man of integrity should respond when his integrity is called to question. “When you were going to…
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This is the Wole Soyinka article everyone’s talking about (READ)
by Wole Soyinka I had fully attuned myself to the fact that our Owu retiree soldier and prolific author is an infliction that those of us who share the…
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Akin Osuntokun: Buhari is an Islamic Fundamentalist!
by Akin Osuntokun Calls for ‘Total’ Sharia in Nigeria 2001-08-27 21:32 Lagos - A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of ‘total’ Islamic law…
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Akin Osuntokun: Between Goodluck Jonathan and Christopher Kolade
by Akin Osuntokun A while ago, President Goodluck Jonathan inferred that there is an undeclared contest (among all who have served as President of this country) on who is the winner…
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Akin Osuntokun: Poverty of Nigeria’s history
by Akin Osuntokun Following upon the publication of the column penultimate week titled ‘Unfounded Fears of Revanchist Igbo’ I have been inundated with requests to write a companion piece on…
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Akin Osuntokun: Are people right to be afraid of an Igbo revanchism?
by Akin Osuntokun The first prescribed order of business for this column today is to get readers familiarised with the meaning and usage of the word revanchist. According to the…
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Akin Osuntokun: #2015- The scramble for the South-West votes
by Akin Osuntokun As the reporting of modern electoral politics goes, the South West zone can be appropriately designated the battleground zone of the forthcoming Nigeria Presidential election in 2015.…
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Akin Osuntokun: Nigeria- Divided we stand
by Akin Osuntokun M y sympathy goes to the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairman, Mr Audu Ogbeh, an otherwise sober and reflective top Nigerian politician. He is normally a…
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Akin Osuntokun: Elections before elections
by Akin Osuntokun There is something palpably teleological about presidential elections in Nigeria. Over time there has evolved a successive pattern of political conditioning that orientates the Nigerian public to…
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Akin Osuntokun on #Scotland2014 : The ghost of Biafra is back!
by Akin Osuntokun Apparently the ghost of Biafra has not been laid to rest. I should know. I got so carried away about the late Benjamin Adekunle and Alabi Isama’s…
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Akin Osuntokun: Both Obasanjo and Adekunle prove that Yoruba are not cowards
by Akin Osuntokun Out of the blues I was summoned about ten days ago to write on retired Brigadier Benjamin Adekunle aka Black Scorpion. It was a rather strange request…
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Akin Osuntokun: Most newspaper columnists are closet APC publicists
by Akin Osuntokun The conversation continues today from where we stopped penultimate Friday, which concluding paragraph invited this title as a subject matter on its own right. Before we proceed,…
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Akin Osuntokun: The Olubadan Asanike doctrine
by Akin Osuntokun I crave the indulgence of Ibadan indigenes. The reason is that I am about to press to service jocular anecdotes about the office and person of one…
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Akin Osuntokun responds to the APC | “Dark souls who branzenly conjure quotes from the pit of hell”
by Akin Osuntokun Now what do we make of this? Am I being condemned because PDP was defeated by the APC in the Osun State election and the result was…
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Akin Osuntokun: Omisore paid for his exaggerated sense of self-importance
by Akin Osuntokun In the present political configuration of this country, I’m a committed member and partisan of the PDP. Does this commitment stop short of regretting Omisore’s defeat? Since…
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Akin Osuntokun: Why APC can no longer win as the ‘Yoruba party’
by Akin Osuntokun With a whiff of imperial hauteur, the Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, publicly belittled his Ondo State counterpart, Mimiko, and charged ‘he (Mimiko) knows I’m committed…
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Akin Osuntokun: Buhari is more useful to Jonathan alive than dead
by Akin Osuntokun Even if Jonathan were to be incredibly naïve politically, he would at least know that Buhari is more useful to him alive than dead. I join President Goodluck…
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Akin Osuntokun responds to Fashola: I, and Ekiti citizens, had very good reasons to reject Fayemi
by Akin Osuntokun I have written specifically twice on the Ekiti governorship elections and on each occasion it was provoked by the outrageous tendency of insinuating and citing Ekiti as…
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Akin Osuntokun: How the PDP took over the South-west in 2003
by Akin Osuntokun It is said that when a lie is sufficiently repeated it begins to attain the status of truth. Egged on by a thoroughly brainwashed media, the APC…
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Akin Osuntokun: The South-west Vs The core North
by Akin Osuntokun To the extent that the South-east was degraded and the South-west left relatively unscathed by the civil war, it is logical to infer that the latter remained…
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YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy
YMonitor
- Beyond the Power Struggle: Why a Strong Opposition Party is Crucial for Nigeria’s Democracy
- The Importance of Impartial Reporting in Nigeria’s Democracy
- Understanding the Role of Election Tribunals in Nigeria’s Electoral Process
- The Importance of Active Citizenship Beyond the Voting Booth
- How Ethnic Baiting is Undermining Nigeria’s National Security and Democracy