Pius Adesanmi

Pius Adesanmi: By the way, what is Sanusi doing about Reno Omokri?

by Pius Adesanmi Like his boss, Mr. Omokri’s crisis strategy has been to quietly retire Pastor Wendell Simlin from active public service and wait out the public outcry. Mr. Omokri knows his people. I am not done with Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s post-suspension politics yet. I stated last week that he is poorly served by the... Read More

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February 24, 2014

Pius Adesanmi: The struggle for meaning – Ukraine, Iyaloja and all that jazz

by Pius Adesanmi If you cannot even come together against the local terrorism of an Iyaloja in Lagos, how do you hope to ever rise against the might of the corrupt Nigerian state in Abuja? Three years ago or so, one theme ran through my public lectures. From one podium to another in Canada, in... Read More

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February 22, 2014

Pius Adesanmi: Dear Sanusi, here are your sins against Nigerians

by Pius Adesanmi 1) You sinned against us during Occupy Nigeria. Such was the level of your vomit-inducing elitism that you didn’t even know that most Nigerians do not power their I-better-pass-my-neighbour with diesel; 2)I did not like your dabbling into Islamic banking in a volatile religious context like Nigeria; [Reader, the piece below was... Read More

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February 1, 2014

Pius Adesanmi: Dear Chief Anenih, to everything there is a season

by Pius Adesanmi In his advanced age, for instance, Tony Anenih is still doing joro jara joro in the dead of night between Benin and Abuja. This is the terrible fate of the door. And a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to spit on June 12 and a time to... Read More

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January 26, 2014

Pius Adesanmi: Why you’re no different from churchgoers eating grass in South Africa

by Pius Adesanmi So, I ask myself, why should I continue to swallow Panadol on account of the headache that these folks claim they don’t have? In my Facebook inbox, in my gmail inbox, you have been relentless in your messages. Some of you have asked me: Prof, what’s going on? Why have your columns... Read More

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December 11, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: On the (purported) slight of Nigeria at Mandela’s funeral

by Pius Adesanmi Perhaps in 2015, you should vote in folks with enough brain power to understand that you cannot buy love and respect with petrobillions? Perhaps you should vote for those who understand that if your citizens are healthy and well fed and gainfully employed, if your infrastructure is world class, if your Universities... Read More

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November 14, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: In memory of Festus Iyayi – Convoys are “Nigeria’s worst postcolonial tragedy”

by Pius Adesanmi President Obama’s convoy comprises his limo, a decoy limo, one or two media buses and a few police outriders on motorcycles. That is the length of the convoy of a self-respecting Local Government Chairman in Nigeria. “There is Elizabeth Udoudo, a mother of two children aged five and three years respectively. Sometime... Read More

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November 11, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: The sacking of that Ghanaian minister – Implications for Jonathan in one long paragraph

by Pius Adesanmi How does our corruption-tolerating, indecisive, prevaricating, and equivocating friend in Aso Rock sack his pen-robbing Minister of Aviation without appearing to have taken a cue from his Ghanaian counterpart? John Dramani Mahama, President of the Republic of Ghana, the location where my bread is currently buttered, sorry, where my kenkey is currently... Read More

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November 2, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: Wish me what you live abroad or get thee behind me, buddy!

by Pius Adesanmi It is this lack of a lived experience of the real thing, of the real deal, that sometimes transforms the Nigerian regular Joe into the most vociferous defender of his own oppression. If you know better and you hit the airwaves and the public sphere with tales of alternatives, the wrongly... Read More

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October 17, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: Boda Nigeria, Bros Naija, and soul things

by Pius Adesanmi Whereas other countries define themselves nationally around a set of transcendental ideas and ideals, we insist on coming together only to carve out our respective portions of the national cake. Well, as far as nations go, you cannot eat your cake and have a soul o. And we don’t even have table... Read More

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September 29, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: Letter to Nuhu Ribadu

by Pius Adesanmi This is why I must ask you a question I want you to think about very seriously: if things happened the Nigerian way and Okiro and Ibori (from prison) suddenly became very serious players in the 2015 and 2019 chess game, would you stand your ground and maintain everything you have said... Read More

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September 22, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Adesanmi’s parable of the head shower

by Tunde Fagbenle It is a culture where mediocrity is being passed off as acceptable; and the mediocre jumps up to occupy leadership positions the challenges of which he has neither ability nor knowledge of how to meet. And they are the ones that get appointed or elected – sadly, perpetuating and nourishing the cycle.... Read More

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September 13, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: The parable of the shower head

by Pius Adesanmi Reno Omokri, the silly fellow in charge of Facebook and Twitter in Aso Rock, would even jump up and tweet silly photos of one or two roads tarred and exhort the people to gratitude. I never come again. I still dey faraway. Make you wait till I reach where I dey goooo…... Read More

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September 5, 2013

Olusegun Adeniyi: Suntai and the ‘Amunibuni’ syndrome

by Olusegun Adeniyi Crudely interpreted, it means if a goat is blind on the left eye and its owner is blind on the right eye, any discussion of the goat as one-eyed would always bring into focus the condition of the owner. “Amunibuni ewure ibiye. Ibiye f’oju otun, ewure re fo t’osi”—Yoruba idiom Ever since... Read More

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August 10, 2013

Pius Adesanmi: Do not disturb – Intelligent Nigerians in conversation

by Pius Adesanmi “My brother, you are spot on. We must not allow tribalists to condemn our own. We must not let them obscure his sense of fairness. We must continue to scream it out to the whole world that our husband has gone mad again rapes girls equally from every part of Nigeria….” (to... Read More

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Pius Adesanmi: APC – Memo to a new party

by Pius Adesanmi Why is Tom Ikimi, a former Chairman of the National Republican Convention who subsequently helped General Sani Abacha to rape the potential of Nigeria, so ideologically comfortable in the APC? Buddy, you were born today a product of the protracted pregnancy of multiple mothers. Happy birthday. I do not come to rob... Read More

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Salihu Tanko Yakasai: Nigeria – The death of objectivity and the rise of sentiments (Y! Politico)

by Salihu Tanko Yakasai Why can’t one have his views without those that are opposed to it lambasting him with derogatory insults? Why can’t we agree to disagree amicably? Why must you impose your devil on me, and make him my saint? Last Saturday, I was in Lagos for a meeting. And upon arriving at... Read More

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Pius Adesanmi: Tinubu, Buhari, and their social media supporters

by Pius Adesanmi If Buhari’s or Tinubu’s loyalists insult you for asking questions, shrug your shoulders and tell them that insults do not grow on the forehead of the insulted or, as the Yoruba would put it, “eebu o so”. It’s been ‘eebu tins’ (insult extravaganza) in the arena of political discourse and public commentary... Read More

Tunde Fagbenle: For the sake of our children

by Tunde Fagbenle One thing remains clear: nothing will change if the country and her peoples do not do things differently. A couple of columns back I hinted that some group was in the offing the group is made up of patriotic Nigerians both in the Diaspora and within Nigeria, we are concerned about the... Read More

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