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@Deboadejugbe: It is time to test Buharism; whatever that is (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Back in 2010, I was one of the many Buhari “believers” who consistently argued in favour of the former military Head-of-state. My reasons then were clear enough:…

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@deboadejugbe: More thoughts on stomach infrastructure and 2015 (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe My mother, a woman who has toiled for the better part of 35 years in the civil service, will be retiring for good in few months. She…

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@deboAdejugbe: This is how they have tried to frustrate Fayose to date (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe The fallout from the Ekiti elections is fast becoming one that we will have to live with for a long time; it could even turn out to…

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@DeboAdejugbe : The harvest of deaths at the Synagogue (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe We live in a hugely euphemistic society. One that deftly explains calamities away; with people accepting avoidable and catastrophic human errors as ‘acts of God’ which is…

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Debo Adejugbe: A season of own goals at the Presidency (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe There are so many inexplicable anomalies and absurdities that we witness around the world on a daily basis; some are so crazy that they question all the…

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Debo Adejugbe: The trials of Nuhu Ribadu (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe The major drawback of a bi-monthly column is that so many events you intend on trashing out would have passed by while you write, rewrite – when…

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Debo Adejugbe: The need for a clearer 2015 narrative (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe As a people, we have been contented to sit idle for so long while the resources of the state are being mismanaged/squandered by a few and due…

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Debo Adejugbe: This is a broken generation (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe If the President could put politics aside and commiserate with the ElRufai family on their painful loss, but as an unknown foot-soldier you make fun of someone who just…

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Debo Adejugbe: The legend of the RICE (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Finally, His Excellency, the Governor of Lagos State should take a good look at his party and apportion the blames for losing Ekiti where it rightly belongs.…

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Debo Adejugbe: Governors’ pension bills – The new faces of progressive looting (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe The Lagos Pension Bill wriggled its way into the official gazette on 18th May, 2007; a mere 11 days before Bola Tinubu handed over the affairs of…

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Debo Adejugbe: Thoughts on the phantom Made in Nigeria cars (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejuygbe I’m sure many consumers have noticed that the Toyotas, Hondas, Hyundais, Kias etc that are sold brand new in Nigeria are inferior to those bought from the…

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Debo Adejugbe: Nigeria’s politics of oil benchmarks and budget spats (Y! Politico)

by Oge Okonkwo On October 10, 2012, when President Goodluck Jonathan presented the 2013 budget to the National Assembly, everyone was happy that the fiscal year was going to start…

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Debo Adejugbe: The curious case of Adeyemi Ikuforiji (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe  Some of the revelations that the case has thrown up involves Ikuforiji giving cash payments to Atoyebi for onward remittance to his (Speaker) account, disbursal of several jamboree…

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Debo Adejugbe: On the phantom elections in Anambra (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe The case of disenfranchisement of voters was brought to the fore by the PDP candidate’s failure to cast his vote because his name was not found in the voters register,…

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Debo Adejugbe: Of pilgrimages, waste of public funds & Jesus’ tomb (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe The Executive Secretary of the NCPC confirmed recently that over 30,000 Christians would embark on holy pilgrimage to Israel and Rome in 2013. While the numbers are swelling…

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Debo Adejugbe: Nigeria and the exclusivity to ‘Acts of God’ (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Planes upon planes are falling from our skies and yet, the question of who to blame arises each time it happens. Does it mean that we can’t…

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Debo Adejugbe: Newton’s advice to Jonathan and his corrupt country (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Let me quickly use Newton’s Laws of motion to explain to Jonathan why it is important for him to not just be seen as campaigning for the white hat, but…

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Debo Adejugbe: A walkout and its politics of self-preservation (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Nigerians are actually tired of the highly corrupt ‘biggest party in Africa’ but lack a coherent plan on how to flush them out. They seem to have developed…

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Debo Adejugbe: Oby Ezekwesili, National Assembly and the corruption bear hug (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Even though the report had failed to mention the several mushroom allowances written into their pay packets, they failed to dispute it with facts but gunned for…

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Debo Adejugbe: Much ado about constitution amendment (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Rather than wasting our collective time on a process that the next regime will seek to amend, just like the regimes before it, we should embark on…

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Debo Adejugbe: Nigeria – A presidency proudly made in China (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe It is actually obvious that the blokes at the Presidency are very slow. In its editorial titled “Jonathan and the Chinese bear hug” on July 25, 2013,…

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Debo Adejugbe: Election petitions – Contradictions worth revisiting (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe  To say the conduct of elections in Nigeria is nothing near the ideal case is stating the obvious (including the phantomly rigged 2011 election); but the handling of election petitions…

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Debo Adejugbe: The politics and promises of the National Health Bill (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe The speed and conviction with which they passed the anti-gay law could have fooled anyone into believing that the National Assembly is proactive... but such vigour is channeled into…

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Debo Adejugbe: Festus Okotie-Eboh and Nigeria’s ‘rumoured’ corruption problem (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe  People like Alamieyesegha and Bulama –managed to be convicted- are getting pardons from the presidency while the president announced, in his majesty, that “corruption is not Nigeria’s problem”.…

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Debo Adejugbe: Pension reform act and the politics of an amendment (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe  I’m just a lowly engineer, but with all that I have read on this issue, it portends grave dangers to the administration of the funds as these…

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Debo Adejugbe: Why do we need Local Councils in Nigeria? (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe This is the era where there is total dependency on the revenue coming from the FG, where the LGAs are now uber-lazy, lacking in creativity to generate…

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Debo Adejugbe: Nigeria’s politics of revenue sharing (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe How is the present revenue accrued to the various federating units deployed? Has it, in all honesty, led to a better standard of living for the populace?…

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Debo Adejugbe: There will be a country – Achebe’s last prophecy (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Corruption is now a staple in our homes. Tribalism -acknowledged or not- is now a seam in our national fabric. I finally read Chinua Achebe’s “There Was…

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Debo Adejugbe: The beginning of power might not augur well for Nigeria (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe One of the poster boys of that era is our present President who has gone on to break records in corrupt endeavors and in the process, templated…

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Debo Adejugbe: Social media votes and the pitfalls of ignorance (Y! Politico)

by Debo Adejugbe Personally, I would have loved if "Social Media Votes" translated to actual votes... Sadly, it doesn't! It means that all our hue and cry will amount to…

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