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Op-Ed Editor April 9, 2015

Dele Agekameh: Dear youth, you can learn from Orubebe

by Dele Agekameh But is there really anything the young ones can learn from him? The fact remains that he has secured a place in the nation’s Hall of Infamy,…

Op-Ed Editor August 14, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Ebola is a disease of POVERTY!

by Dele Agekameh As Piot rightly observed and I agree with him, “this is a disease of poverty, of dysfunctional health systems and of distrust”. The current Ebola’s spread…

July 10, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Wild wild Nigerian soldiers

by Dele Agekameh Moreover, in the history of such incidents in this country, soldiers are known for their penchant and proclivity for violence. So it is easy to conclude that…

July 3, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Boko Haram – Our leaders must stop playing the ostrich

by Dele Agekameh We must try to find out why a group would suddenly decide to bear arms against the country. From my own findings, it is almost clear that…

June 18, 2014

Dele Agekameh: The forgotten girls of Chibok

by Dele Agekameh Unfortunately, days have turned into weeks and months, and nothing tangible or cheering has been on the horizon about the girls’ return to reunite with their loved…

June 11, 2014

Dele Agekameh: A military in tatters and the shameless onslaught against the media

by Dele Agekameh Basically, the press exists to serve the people, not the government or any of its agents. That is why when government buries its rickety skeletons, it is…

June 5, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Nigeria and the cyber frontier in crime

by Dele Agekameh Nigerians who have picked up expertise and show promise in cyber security are picked up easily by foreign countries or have joined the criminals that have ensured…

May 22, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Boko Haram and Nigeria’s flawed security policy

by Dele Agekameh Military operations have cleared and physically dominated the major cities in the Northeast, thereby pushing the terrorists to the fringes – the border areas. That, in itself,…

April 23, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Boko Haram insurgency – The intelligence agencies have failed

by Dele Agekameh Some years ago, the Chief of Defence Staff of Niger Republic had intimated the Defence Headquarters in Nigeria that they arrested about 600 Nigerians who were in…

April 10, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Unemployment and government’s ‘soup kitchen’ alternatives

by Dele Agekameh Sometimes, when the various governments – federal, states or local governments – talk about creating jobs, I wonder about the magic wand they intend to employ to…

March 27, 2014

Dele Agekameh: My niece was involved in the Immigration recruitment tragedy

by Dele Agekameh In the wake of the hullabaloo that greeted the unfortunate death of more than 19 applicants at the charade recently organised by the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS,…

March 21, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Boko Haram – Our people perish for lack of Defence structure

by Dele Agekameh The temerity of the terrorists may have been halted for now, but the recent embarrassment suffered by Gusau so soon after assuming duty as well as the…

March 12, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Bolaji Abdullahi and the price of loyalty

by Dele Agekameh Now that the Senator has pitted his political camp with the APC, an opposition party that is pulling all the stunts to seize power from the ruling…

March 6, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Wanted – A war cabinet

by Dele Agekameh The war cabinet, as envisaged, will consist of seasoned Generals, both serving and retired, as well as some respectable and responsible civilians, whose duty will be to…

February 26, 2014

Dele Agekameh: How to rescue Borno from Boko Haram

by Dele Agekameh That has been the nature of the francophone countries in Africa, especially in the West-African sub-region. If that is the case, we should not hesitate to close…

February 13, 2014

Opinion: Lagos and the threat of Boko Haram

by Dele Agekameh Before the latest threat, security agents had uncovered and dismantled the plot by the alleged terrorists to plant cells in the western part of the country with…

January 23, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Tukur as the PDP sacrificial lamb

by Dele Agekameh Perhaps, only the President, for whom he was a cheerleader, will, most certainly, miss him. In the last few months, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has been…

January 16, 2014

Dele Agekameh: On the sorry state of Nigerian roads

by Dele Agekameh Besides causing avoidable deaths to road users, the drivers of articulated vehicles also constitute some nuisance to other road users as they often block the highways at…

January 10, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Nigerian pastors compete with rapists, armed robbers and oil thieves

by Dele Agekameh The situation has degenerated so badly that our supposed men of God now compete favourably with armed robbers, kidnappers, oil thieves, rapists, fraudsters and those engaged in…

January 2, 2014

Dele Agekameh: Nigeria – Many are tenants in the mortuary and landlords in the cemetery

by Dele Agekameh There are so many things to talk about, but we should bear it in mind that the economy of the country is like blood that flows in…

December 26, 2013

Dele Agekameh: Kabiru Sokoto, Madalla bombings and the unanswered questions

by Dele Agekameh The case of Umar, who was arrested right inside a Governor’s Lodge in the company of a serving military officer, underscores the collaboration of some unscrupulous security agents with those who are…

December 19, 2013

Opinion: Snitches in the military

by Dele Agekameh Take the attack on the Air Force Base for example. Without insiders’ involvement, it would not have been easy for the terrorists to overrun the base and…

December 12, 2013

Dele Agekameh: Mandela, the litmus test of greatness

by Dele Agekameh Mandela said that he had learned that when you had the moral high ground, it was better to sit down, talk to people and persuade them of…

November 22, 2013

Dele Agekameh: Bamanga Tukur is a willing puppet used to perpetrate illegality in the PDP

by Dele Agekameh The climax of this regime of terror unleashed on the group was the recent disruption of the governors’ meeting at the Kano State Governor’s Lodge in Abuja.…

November 13, 2013

Dele Agekameh: Gov. Chime is being economical with the truth about his wife

by Dele Agekameh She claimed that even President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, have intervened in the matter without convincing her husband to make life easier for her Wonders…

November 7, 2013

Dele Agekameh: The new power regime and electricity tariff increase

by Dele Agekameh All the same, we are all eagerly awaiting a new era in power supply in the country. With the transfer now perfected, I believe the investors should…

October 31, 2013

Dele Agekameh: The Boko Haram onslaught on Yobe

by Dele Agekameh The Boko Haram terrorists may have shifted their operations from Maiduguri, capital of Borno State, and now concentrate on Yobe State. The sect appears to have been…

October 16, 2013

Opinion: Libya’s boiling cauldron

by Dele Agekameh The problem is that Gaddafi was taken out, like Saddam Hussein of Iraq, with no thought given to what would come next. The truth is that Libya…

October 10, 2013

Opinion: On plane crashes and robbing the dead

by Dele Agekameh If all people think about anywhere they are is how to make money by all possible means, whether fair or foul, to the extent of even robbing…

July 17, 2013

Dele Agekameh: Security – Zamfara as scapegoat

by Dele Agekameh But beyond throwing tight security cordons everywhere, we must urgently find a way to put able-bodied men and women back to work as well as put food…

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