Tag: Ife Adebayo

Betta Edu, Ife Adebayo, Bell Ihua… See the #YNaijaPowerList2017 for Policy

In 2017, YNaija committed a big part of its time and resources towards carefully documenting the big stories happening in the country and on the continent and highlighting the efforts…

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The Thread: “The death of Lieutenant Colonel Abu Ali is really outrageous”

The death of Lieutenant Colonel Muhammad Abu Ali has raised quite some questions on social media. He died on Friday, the 4th of November 2016. "The Defence Minister Mansur Muhammad Dan-Ali…

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Ife Adebayo: Why the military are now taking the fight to Boko Haram (Rejoinder)

by Ife Adebayo I am compelled to write this article in response to Nnamdi Anekwe-Chive’s article on YNaija which seeks to find excuses for the Federal Government and absolve them of…

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Ife Adebayo: Remembering the gallant men of the Nigerian Armed Forces

by Ife Adebayo File photo Oga Eskay’s last BlackBerry Messenger update a night before he was killed by Boko Haram was “selfless service”; truly he continued to serve until he…

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@Ifeadebayo: Dear GEJ, these are questions for you on #BokoHaram (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo The government should find answers to the following questions so that we can have a clearer idea of where we are, what we are facing and where…

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@IfeAdebayo: Only @ApcNigeria can take Nigeria to the promised land (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo I believe for every leader that hopes to run for a second term in office your second term campaign starts from the day you are sworn in…

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Ife Adebayo: Why we should support the #30PercentOrNothing campaign (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo In October 2010 at the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Congress of International Chapters held in London I gave a speech titled “Youth Involvement in African Politics”,…

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Ife Adebayo: #RipKunleOlaifa- Dear Nigeria, how many more will you kill? (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo I got a chat message from a friend yesterday saying “we lost Kunle Olaifa to an accident”. The only reply I could give was “WHAT???”. I met…

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Ife Adebayo: What is Nigeria’s biggest problem? (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo We need many more champions of good governance; we need many more Nigerians that can move this nation forward, people that will pick up a cause and…

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Ife Adebayo: #ChibokGirls100Days- Mr. President, you could have done better! (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo I believe the President and Commander in Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces could have done much better in the immediate aftermath of the kidnap. 100 days…

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Ife Adebayo: This APC is broken (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo However… this APC… this Armored Personnel Carrier meant to provide some safety, some comfort, some hope, and light at the end of the tunnel to Nigeria is…

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Ife Adebayo: Insecurity in Nigeria is failure of government at all levels (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo I believe the problem of insecurity we are seeing is just a case of the chickens coming home to roost, the government at all levels have failed…

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Ife Adebayo: Nigeria – Corruption in the absence of conscience (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo These are important questions to ponder on. What fuels your fight against corruption, what fuels your acts of corruption? Is the Nigerian conscience present? Or is the…

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It’s finally here! The Future Awards Africa unveils list of finalists, announces week-long celebration

by Isi Esene With excitement building up to The Future Awards Africa 2013, the Central Working Committee (CWC) has unveiled the shortlist of three nominees per category for the Awards…

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Ife Adebayo: Issues to ponder as Nigeria celebrates another Independence anniversary (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo The minister of finance says we should only be worried when our debt to GDP ratio hits 60%, by that time this country will be no more, if…

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Ife Adebayo: Security in Nigeria – Of powerless guns and gated communities (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo In spite of the increase in guns, gated communities... insecurity continues to increase. This is because the solution to insecurity is not guns, nor is it gated…

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Ife Adebayo: Secondary education – Another important need for Nigerians (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Oil will not make Nigeria great, agriculture will not make Nigeria great, tourism will not make Nigeria great – Nigeria will only become great when we harness…

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Ife Adebayo: Primary education – Another basic need for Nigerians (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo We need to get our children into school, EVERY ONE OF THEM. And the time to do that is TODAY. We are already many years late. Today…

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Ife Adebayo: Nigeria’s untapped wealth (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo   If a good number of Nigerians are trained in a particular sector they can become an army and make good gains for the sector. Nigeria is a wealthy…

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Ife Adebayo: Quality and affordable healthcare – Another basic need for Nigerians (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo We need to move from the era of doctors treating patients like beggars to an era where healthcare is an industry that caters to the needs of…

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Ife Adebayo: Food is what Nigerians really need (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo What we need is not a waste of tax payers’ money by buying mobile phones for farmers to get fertilizer at subsidized prices at this current government…

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Ife Adebayo: The hunger for change is the power of the APC (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo What we have now is a national shift in political advisers; Nigerians are tired of listening to their empty stomach for political advice and are instead hungry…

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“I just knew I had to come back to Nigeria” – Ife Adebayo speaks on ‘Conversations with Mercy Abang’

What comes to mind when you visit a primary school in Nigeria with hundreds of students confined in a classroom with leaking roofs and sandy floors?  Do you just criticize…

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Ife Adebayo: Fixing Nigeria from the bottom-up (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo The politics of serving our elected officials instead the officials serving us is not only happening at the state and federal levels but also in the local…

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Ife Adebayo: Nigeria – 2015 and youth participation (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber - Plato I’ll start today’s article with two…

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Ife Adebayo: PDP and the cankerworm called corruption (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Professor Achebe’s rejection of the recent national honour by the PDP led government of President Goodluck Jonathan is a testament to the fact that he died without…

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Ife Adebayo: Nigeria – The urgent need for fiscal federalism (Y! Politico)

Ife Adebayo State Governors can sit, fold their arms and wait for the next bottle of milk from the federal government to pay salaries and fix roads. If these states…

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Ife Adebayo: The APC is surely the light at the end of the tunnel (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo The three major parties involved in this merger are parties that have shown over time that they campaign on issues; parties that have not shied away from…

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Ife Adebayo: Economic development: Access to Free Basic Education is non-negotiable (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo Come 2015, we must vote in a government that is serious about education, a government with laid down plans and procedures for implementing workable policies in the…

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Ife Adebayo: Squandered 13 years of the PDP, Nigerians want a change now! (Y! Politico)

by Ife Adebayo As we approach 2015, I encourage all Nigerians young and old, big and small to come and work with the Action Congress of Nigeria towards creating the…

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