Olusegun Adeniyi

September 18, 2020

ALAT debuts Mobile App Upgrade with exciting features

Africa’s First fully digital bank ALAT by Wema bank, has fulfilled its promise to creating easy, reliable and convenient banking service to her customers by updating the app with exciting new features and enhancing its user experience. The app upgrade adds to the many feats recently celebrated by the bank at the just concluded KPMG... Read More

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Africa Fintech Foundry to hold second edition of Disrupt Conference

Africa Fintech Foundry is set to hold the 2nd edition of Disrupt Africa Conference on Thursday, 16 May, 2019 at the Landmark Event Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos. This announcement was made during a press conference recently held at the Access Bank Headquarters. Themed ‘Digital Goldrush: Building a Sustainable Tech Economy,’ the event is organized to connect... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

November 2, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: Buhari, 2019 and the talking drum

by Olusegun Adeniyi One of the most astounding works of Art from Africa is the Yoruba talking drum. It is an hourglass-shaped wood with an inner cavity, covered on both ends by goat skin, and beaten by a curved stick called ‘gongo’. The fact that its pitch can be regulated makes it exceptional as messages... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

October 26, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: The Harvey Weinsteins of Nigeria

While “The Godfather” remains the most successful novel of Mario Puzo, his second mafia epic, published almost three decades later, “The Last Don”, is equally engrossing as he takes the reader into the inner recesses of Hollywood where licentiousness seems to be the order of the day. Even when a lot of things may have... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

October 19, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: Oh Lord, release my visa- A horror story [Pt II]

by Olusegun Adeniyi If We Stay Here We Die! According to Mark Twain, there are two types of speakers: those who get nervous and those who are liars. So let me begin with a confession. Despite this being my fourth time on Platform, I feel rather nervous to be on this podium today! I don’t... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

October 12, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: The 25 billion dollar palaver

by Olusegun Adeniyi …I recall a particular episode when we were going to Saudi Arabia for the Third OPEC Summit, in November 2007. Before we left for the airport, someone had given me copy of a publication by a foreign website dedicated to oil and gas reporting. The publication detailed how oil lifting licences... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

October 5, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: Nnamdi Kanu, Ndigbo and Nigeria

by Olusegun Adeniyi The young Yoruba man was leaving office early to go and receive his visiting Igbo wife undergoing her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) primary assignment in a neighbouring town when he encountered a co-worker who planted in him the seed of doubts that eventually destroyed a beautiful union and set his own... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

October 2, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: What exactly do we mean by Nigeria?

by Olusegun Adeniyi Let me begin by sharing this story of a teacher who got lost in a rural area, and please don’t ask me in which country because I don’t know. While still wandering, the teacher saw a farm and went there, hoping he would find someone from whom he could seek direction. Fortunately,... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

September 28, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: President Buhari has proven his critics right

by Olusegun Adeniyi When on 19th April this year President Muhammadu Buhari ordered the suspension of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr David Babachir Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke, he instituted a three-man committee headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to investigate... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

September 21, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: The Chinese Prince and the starving Tigers

by Olusegun Adeniyi As one would expect from such IT persons, the duo of Mr Ye Zhenzhen, the CEO of People’s Daily Innovation and Mr David Chen, Vice President of Microsoft, dazzled their audience with the coming world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the implications for the new media age. This was at a discussion... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

September 14, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: 2019 and the Abuja Python Dance

by Olusegun Adeniyi It was not enough for the Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Aisha Alhassan, to say that she has pitched her political tent with former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in the 2019 presidential election race that has, for all practical purposes, been declared open; she also had to rub it in that... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

August 31, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: Hate in the age of charlatans

by Olusegun Adeniyi That most Nigerians are ever so judgmental when it comes to discussing the ‘other’ person is reflected in the fact that there is hardly any compassion or restraint in the interventions they provide, particularly in the public space. You need only to see the way Nigerians tear one another to shreds on... Read More

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August 30, 2017

What Aondoakaa vs Ribadu can teach us about Malami vs Magu

by Alexander O. Onukwe In Power, Politics and Death, written by Olusegun Adeniyi, the spokesman of President Umaru Musa Yar’adua, there is an account of the relationship between then Attorney General of the Federation, Mike Aondoakaa and the EFCC Chairman, Nuhu Ribadu. According to Adeniyi, “the whole saga began one week after Aonodoakaa assumed office... Read More

Story of the day

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

August 24, 2017

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 that brought him to power despite the glaring failings of his administration. But his address to the nation on Monday fell far short of expectations.... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

August 17, 2017

Olusegun Adeniyi: A season of photographs

All over the world, smart politicians play to the gallery. And they do so with their cameramen in tow in an elaborate scheme that is now part of the game. Politicians carry babies in the market place. They pump fists with plumbers. They pose with books even when they are not reading. And they do... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: An epidemic of rape

by Olusegun Adeniyi There is hardly any member of my generation who did not watch the controversial rape revenge movie of the eighties titled, ‘I Spit on Your Grave’. The first time I watched the movie, which in 2010 made TIME magazine’s list of ten ‘most ridiculously violent’ movies of all times, I shed tears.... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: A nation of many actors

by Olusegun Adeniyi Acting, according to Wikipedia, which is what most Nigerians rely on these days, “is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character” while an “actor (often actress for female) is a person who portrays a character in a... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: What are we restructuring?

by Olusegun Adeniyi Nobody needed any telling that he was angry as he made his presentation. “Nigeria is a failed state”, Dr Abubakar Othman, who teaches African Poetry and Creative Writing at the University of Maiduguri, repeatedly declared before launching into a song, or more appropriately, a chant, rendered in a “strange” language. Even when... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: Of Lion kings, Hyenas and Jackals

by Olusegun Adeniyi There is no better reflection of the state of our nation today than the Facebook exchange between the wife of the President, Mrs Aisha Buhari and the Senator of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani. It speaks to several issues: Nigeria is no better than a jungle... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: Nigeria and the ghosts of 1966

by Olusegun Adeniyi For a long time, I had held the notion that principal actors in the events that led to the collapse of the First Republic and its aftermath should document their accounts so that our generation and those after us can learn useful lessons. After reading “The First Regular Combatant: Brigadier General Zakariya... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: The looming demographic disaster

by Olusegun Adeniyi A United Nations (UN) population estimate released last week reaffirmed earlier projection that Nigeria is set to overtake the United States in population by 2050. Titled, “2017 Revision of World Population Prospects”, the UN report added rather ominously that the concentration of population growth in the poorest countries will pose a challenge... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: The Lord is my shepherd

by Olusegun Adeniyi What else shall we write? That was the title of a column written by Prof Olatunji Dare in the nineties. It attests to the fact that for every columnist, a moment comes when you look at practically all the issues dominating the news and you wonder what new things you have to... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Buhari and the 2019 debate

Thanks to Speaker Yakubu Dogara, I was on the floor of the House of Representatives last Friday as guest speaker at a special session to mark the mid-term of the 18th National Assembly. I was invited to speak on “Image Perception of the Legislature: Causes and Possible Solutions” . While, as I explained, individual lawmakers... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Issues in Pencom appointments

by Olusegun Adeniyi A few weeks ago, the federal government announced the removal of the Director General of the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Mrs Chinelo Anohu-Amazu, who was immediately replaced by Alhaji Aliyu Abdulrahman Dikko. In reconstituting the board, Mr Funso Doherty was also announced as the new chairman to replace former PDP National Chairman,... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: Biafra and Lagos – 50 years after

by Olusegun Adeniyi Come Saturday (27th May), it will be exactly 50 years that Lagos State was created (along with others) by the military administration of General Yakubu Gowon to give Nigeria a 12-states structure. Instructively, four days after that historic event, on 30th May 1967 to be specific, the late Colonel Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu announced... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi YNaija

Olusegun Adeniyi: Nigeria and the story tellers

by Olusegun Adeniyi Save for posting my column and the occasional Tweets, mostly football-related, I am not much on the social media. But because I am on several listserv and get hundreds of mails and WhatsApp messages every day, I don’t believe I am missing much. I especially enjoy the WhatsApp stories because many of... Read More

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Of Chibok girls and Falomo boys

by Olusegun Adeniyi In April 2014, Nigerians were confronted with a monumental tragedy when 276 female students were abducted from the premises of Government Secondary School, Chibok by Boko Haram insurgents. While more than 150 of them have, at different times, regained their freedom—many of them with physical and psychological scars that they will carry... Read More

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Garba Shehu and Femi Adesina, say Buhari hasn't assigned portfolios to ministers | YNaija.com

5 lessons for Femi Adesina & co from the way Yar’adua’s sickness was handled

by Soma Oj. There’s a story that has made the rounds in the media space about how Olusegun Adeniyi, the media assistant to the late President Umaru Musa Yar’adua used to turn off his phone and rest his head on his table when the seat got really hot – to hide from all those who... Read More

Thinking Through

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Opinion: Piracy of “Against the Run of Play” – Examining the issues and proffering solutions

by Lawrence .C. Nnoli Ever since Olusegun Adeniyi, a former presidential spokesman for the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua launched his book titled “Against the Run of Play”, there has been a lot of concerns voiced out by many regarding the piracy of the book barely three days after its launch. The internet has been... Read More

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