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Pius Adesanmi: Can Nigeria overcome corruption? Will Nigeria survive corruption?
By Pius Adesanmi The optimistic, overconfident Nigerian who offered me a “no shaking yes” to both questions was only able to do so because he successfully outed me as I…
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Pius Adesanmi: A note on the Nigerian Army
by Pius Adesanmi. The Nigerian Army is threatening to sue Premium Times for publications they claim are hostile to them. My friends, Musikilu Mojeed and Ololade Bamidele, must be sweating…
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Pius Adesanmi: Twisted values
by Pius Adesanmi Yesterday, President Obama gave one of the most significant speeches of his life - his farewell speech. Sasha Obama, his youngest daughter, was missing in action. Naturally,…
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Pius Adesanmi: What do we do about young folks preoccupied with defending their political gods?
He comes inbox to call me an idiot. Of every 100 compatriots who insult me gratuitously, I ignore 99 on the ground that it is the price to pay for…
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Pius Adesanmi: A note to Garba Shehu
by Pius Adesanmi So, Garba Shehu was tweet-gloating that Zahra Buhari's entrance into the Indimi family via marriage, starting yesterday, "is a celebrity event." I am sorry for him.…
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Pius Adesanmi: The road from fast food to Twitter
By Pius Adesanmi When I was leaving Paris for Canada to begin my PhD in 1998, my French friends almost considered it a slap on the face of their culture…
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Opinion: Nigerian leaders always think Nigerians are only fit for Western scrap
by Pius Adesanmi. Ibikan Sha La Ma Ti Bere Canada admits to a "capability gap" in her Air Force because 18 of her fighter jets are too old and…
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Pius Adesanmi: Government thieves have an alibi in Nigerians
by Pius Adesanmi Epe ko, Won O Le La The Americans have been treating Donald Trump's billions like a curse, a headache. Where will he put his wealth? How will…
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Pius Adesanmi: Why Nigeria does not deserve good things
by Pius Adesanmi About 15 years ago or so, a very senior colleague was getting closer and closer to the retirement thingy. Rumours began to fly ahead of his retirement…
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Pius Adesanmi: Nigerian Pentecostals have delusions of Christian oneness with Mike Pence
by Pius Adesanmi Two things annoyed me this morning. 1) I noticed that my comrade in the ideological struggle, Mwalimu Wandia Njoya, expressed frustration over her inability to persuade…
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Olusegun Adeniyi: The message from Donald Trump
by Olusegun Adeniyi It is sad, if not tragic, both for President Barack Obama and the United States, that what ordinarily should be the most enduring legacy of the last eight…
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Pius Adesanmi: Unthinkable | Becoming Canadian, dumping America
by Pius Adesanmi (People think it is easy for Wole Soyinka to return Uncle Sam's green card to him. Think again. Uncle Sam does not believe that any Third World…
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Pius Adesanmi: The dignity of an honest job
by Pius Adesanmi. (excerpt from my Canada memoir in progress. Hint: Ayesha Pande) After completing my doctoral comprehensives and having my dissertation proposal accepted and approved by my committee in…
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Pius Adesanmi: So something positive and sensible can come out of Nigeria’s National Assembly?
by Pius Adesanmi. I just heard with one ear that Senate has rejected President Buhari's request for permission to borrow $30 billion. Eda o l'aropin o. So something positive and…
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Pius Adesanmi: Oga it is good like this now
by Pius Adesanmi The vocational and artisanal sphere is usually a good measure of a people’s level of civilization for it is in the said sphere that the bulk of…
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Pius Adesanmi: Oladimeji Olaleye is a portrait of a Nigerian undergraduate as a role model
by Pius Adesanmi Nigeria is all the names you call her because of the terrible things she has done to your lives, promise, and potential as a generation. However, you…
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Pius Adesanmi: Do you know how to say Opportunity Cost in your language?
Patience Jonathan's USD 31.4 million is of no use to anybody in a frozen account. Take that money and use it to pay the salaries of primary school teachers in…
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Pius Adesanmi: How to spend recovered looted funds
by Pius Adesanmi Well, we finally got a partial list and a partially fulfilled promise from the Buhari administration after the President's compulsory rite of passage in his dealings with…
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Pius Adesanmi: The tasks ahead for President Buhari
On May 29, 2016, I found it expedient to buy a VIP ticket and watch two unfortunate extremities struggle to overreach, over-exert, and out-shout each other to exhaustion. On the…
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Pius Adesanmi: Dear Jonathanians, you have no moral right to criticize anyone
by Pius Adesanmi You sacrificed your right to such a critique the moment you decided to invest in the most perverse politics of perfection ever known to the African continent…
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Pius Adesanmi: Why Jonathan cannot sue Punch Newspaper
by Pius Adesanmi President Jonathan and his team stole so much public funds for their campaign that no area of our national life enjoyed immunity from looting. In the history…
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Opinion: Dear diaspora Nigerian, wish your country what you live abroad
by Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú You must help promote enduring development through innovation using your broad based networks, and tried and true outreach to your people in Nigeria. Take your love for…
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Pius Adesanmi: Why @DoyinOkupe is a bastard
by Pius Adesanmi What’s in a name? Nothing, says Western culture, for a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet. Everything, say the cultures of Africa, for…
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@PiusAdesanmi to @APCNigeria: 27 million naira for forms is madness!
by Pius Adesanmi If you are in your thirties and above and anybody is deceiving you that the just and fair Nigeria we are struggling for will happen in your…
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Opinion: Fund-raising activities must be regulated in Nigeria
by Amir Abdulazeez While I acknowledge that, some exceptional cases of emergencies may not be effectively handled by the government without the intervention of private individuals, I strongly advocate that, governments…
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Pius Adesanmi: Taming the rude Kano prince
by Pius Adesanmi “He will, Mr. President. This is Nigeria. Nigerians are expendable. Our class interests across tribe and tongue are the only permanent things in this country. He understands…
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Pius Adesanmi: How to mark time as a Northern elder while waiting for the Presidency
by Pius Adesanmi The "we" of El-Rufai and my new friend from Zamfara have an understanding of justice and fairness that must see power return to their own corner in…
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Pius Adesanmi: These so-called northern elders need to shut up
by Pius Adesanmi It is obvious that they are unaware of – or grossly underestimate – the degree of national antipathy towards them. The surest way to get Goodluck Jonathan…
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Pius Adesanmi: Kiss-ing Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
by Pius Adesanmi Until Sefiu, the vulcanizer at Ajegunle, can turn on his water tap without relying on borehole…any talk of Nigeria being the largest economy cannot be worth more…
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Opinion: Nigeria’s critics in the diaspora are a pretentious horde
by Frederick Nwabufor Some of the Nigerians abroad in this abashing category are Okey Ndibe, Pius Adesanmi, Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo and Peregrimo Brimah. These Nigerians sit in their luxurious cubicles…
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