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Olusegun Adeniyi: How do we get out of Chibok?

by Olusegun Adeniyi However, at the end of the day, the ultimate lesson of this tragedy is that we should not have gotten to Chibok in the first place. But we…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: World Economic Forum on Africa in the shadow of Chibok

by Olusegun Adeniyi How do you tackle national insecurity under such a cynical (some would say, comical) atmosphere and how do you reposition the economy when a great majority of…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Aliko Dangote and workers’ day

by Olusegun Adeniyi However, the more grave challenge in the rise of Dangote as Africa's richest man is in the very nature of his local roots. He hails from Kano…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Who is Gov. Nyako speaking for?

by Olusegun Adeniyi Yet such a divisive sentiment is fatally flawed. His “your son” message to the people of “Eastern Nigeria” is even more gratuitous. Given Nigeria’s demographics, more…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Four and a half explanations on the Boko Haram scourge

by Olusegun Adeniyi However, the bigger tragedy is that at a time the body bags were still being counted on Monday, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) decided to play politics…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Rising violence in a rebased economy

by Olusegun Adeniyi While the debate can go on, I feel rather uncomfortable with Nigerians who are ever quick to dismiss any positive news about our country while those who…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: A message to the National Conference

by Olusegun Adeniyi At a time like this therefore, when ordinarily we should begin to fashion out the requisite strategies necessary to overcome the human and institutional barriers that for…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: One Central Bank, four governors

by Olusegun Adeniyi I am not one of those people who subscribe to the conspiracy theory that Sanusi was suspended because of his allegation that the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: This is a society governed by rustlers

by Olusegun Adeniyi At his 90th birthday recently, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe asked his officials: “Are we now like Nigeria where you have to reach your pocket to get…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Nigeria and the next 100 years

by Olusegun Adeniyi Are we going to continue repeating the mistakes of the past or are we ready to seize the future? How we respond to that question will determine…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: A season of blood and tears in Nigeria

by Olusegun Adeniyi I could not but remember that anecdote last week following the gruesome murder of no fewer than 43 innocent school children at the Federal Government College, Buni…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Sanusi’s allegations of corruption and its merit

by Olusegun Adeniyi However, I am also of the view that there are two critical charges against Sanusi that I find indefensible: one, refusal by the CBN to comply with…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Boko Haram and the nation at war

by Olusegun Adeniyi Whatever may be the beef of the presidency about Governor Shettima’s statement, nobody can deny that he has a better understanding of the capacity of our armed…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Yar’adua, Kerosene and the subsidy fraud

by Olusegun Adeniyi However, it is interesting that the same CBN Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, whom NNPC now accuses of ignorance and “playing politics”, was the administration’s posterboy in…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Nigeria’s imperfect constitution and the National Conference

by Olusegun Adeniyi But to us in Nigeria, having failed to forge a nation out of our diversity, and with a penchant for mismanaging our scarce resources, our leaders have…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: The call by the APC to shut down the government makes no sense

by Olusegun Adeniyi No matter the gloss anybody would want to put on that directive--and I have read some ignorant allusions to “government shutdown” in the United States—the APC position…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Gays, lesbians and the rest of us

by Olusegun Adeniyi Notwithstanding my misgivings, if it comes to taking a stand, I am not a supporter of LGBT rights; because I pray that the day never comes when…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Why Nigerians should thank Sanusi for the NNPC letter

by Olusegun Adeniyi One, if indeed Sanusi authored the letter, it could mean that his relationship with the president had broken down to such an extent that he no longer…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: 2014 and the Lazarus at our gate

by Olusegun Adeniyi The moral here is that we should stop pretending that the need of one so near to us is not our concern. To embark on an authentic…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Jonathan should also reply OBJ’s letter and leak it out

by Olusegun Adeniyi Therefore, whether or not he responds to Obasanjo’s ill-tempered letter is no longer of any relevance. What I believe is important now is for him to begin…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: The Police and the danger ahead

by Olusegun Adeniyi Whatever anybody may feel about the G-7 governors and their politics, nothing can justify a situation in which policemen would behave almost like licenced thugs by storming…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: The present ministerial ‘tani o mu mi’ should deeply worry us

by Olusegun Adeniyi Besides, on the balance of available evidence, I am of the opinion that it is the NCAA that should actually be held accountable for this sordid drama.…

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Tunde Fagbenle: Engaging dialectics in Nigeria

by Tunde Fagbenle Will another dialogue put an end to the security challenge that is fast turning the north-eastern part of the country into a war zone? Will talks resolve…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: The Olu of Warri and his God

by Olusegun Adeniyi But I remain unconvinced that salvation is also a function of cultural suicide. For me, there is nothing that should preclude a traditional ruler from being a…

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Opinion: PDP Crisis is not an overnight development

by Olusegun Adeniyi What the foregoing says very clearly is that nobody should be under any illusion that the current crisis within the PDP is a battle over principles or…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Globacom at 10 – A remarkable success story

by Olusegun Adeniyi From crashing the cost of acquiring a GSM line from such prohibitive cost as N40,000 to as low as N200 or helping to bring down the cost…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Yoruba, Igbo and the media warriors

by Olusegun Adeniyi I am an admirer of Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola but I believe that his approach to dealing with vulnerable people in Lagos State is wrong-headed; and as…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: PIB, Malabu and the $1 billion bazaar

by Olusegun Adeniyi While the Malabu controversy remains a business deal gone sour in a sector that is lacking in transparency, the circumstances surrounding a tri-partite transaction involving the Federal…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Just send them away

by Olusegun Adeniyi It is rather unfortunate that many otherwise respected people would always see ethnicity in every problem and that is why I hesitate to comment on this issue…

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Olusegun Adeniyi: Oil theft and criminal cartels

by Olusegun Adeniyi And in another country where leaders are actually accountable to the people, several public officials would have lost their jobs by now, assuming they are not already…

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