Tag: simon kolawole

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Op-ed EditorApril 2, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Fiddling while Rome burns

by Simon Kolawole My wife lost her cousin last week. She suddenly started gasping for breath, so it was a ...

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Op-ed EditorMarch 26, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Memories of midnight

by Simon Kolawole It was midnight, not so long ago, when I woke up, used the toilet and returned to ...

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Op-ed EditorMarch 12, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Long road to recovery

by Simkn Kolawole President Muhammadu Buhari is back. Thank God. But seeing his pictures after his arrival on Friday morning ...

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Op-ed EditorFebruary 26, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Can’t fight xenophobia with xenophobia

Something unNigerian happened in Abuja on Thursday: protesters vandalised an MTN office in an apparent reprisal mission over the perennial ...

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Op-ed EditorFebruary 19, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Is fake news the new normal?

by Simon Kolawole Heard the latest? The Central Bank of Nigeria has been selling the elusive dollar to some end ...

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Op-ed EditorFebruary 12, 2017

Simon Kolawole: The Drama Republic of Nigeria

by Simon Kolawole You can conveniently call Nigeria the Federal Republic of Drama. Or the Drama Republic of Nigeria. It ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 29, 2017

Simon Kolawole: On the bloodbath in Southern Kaduna

by Simon Kolawole Sigh. Usually, the most tricky topic for me to discuss regarding Nigeria’s nationhood is religion and ethnicity. ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 22, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Before the power sector collapses

by Simon Kolawole There is a prank I usually play on my security guy. Anytime I am out of town, ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 15, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Tell-tale signs of underdevelopment

by Simon Kolawole We were stuck in traffic along Lagos-Ibadan road. Then we started hearing a familiar wailing — a ...

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Op-ed EditorJanuary 9, 2017

Simon Kolawole: Buhari’s battle with poetry and prose

by Simon Kolawole Mario Matthew Cuomo, former three-time governor of the American state of New York, was known for his ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 18, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Bob Marley and the wailing wailers

by Simon Kolawole There are many reasons you will never find me in politics — either by election or appointment. ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 12, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Rethinking the definition of waste

by Simon Kolawole The middle-aged man sprinted in my direction, seized my suitcase and began towing me to his cab. ...

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Op-ed EditorDecember 4, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Build, operate and transfer Nigeria

by Simon Kolawole Dearly beloved Nigerians, I have a number of proposals today that may interest you. Or upset you. ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 27, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Nigeria | A community of contradictions

by Simon Kolawole This must be a joke. An armed robber, on realising that his gang’s victim was a born-again ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 13, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Trumpism as tonic for “Africa rising”

by Simon Kolawole And so, the world’s most powerful country will have President Donald Trump at the helm from January ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 6, 2016

Simon Kolawale: Blame the leaders — or the followers?

by Simon Kolawole At my brother-in-law’s traditional wedding in Lagos last month, I was waylaid by a band of praise-singing ...

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Op-ed EditorOctober 30, 2016

Simon Kolawole: The conspiracy to destroy Nigeria

by Simon Kolawole Sometime ago — I don’t know the exact date and time — the Nigerian political elite (some ...

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Isime EseneOctober 23, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Is ‘Project Buhari’ falling off?

by Simon Kolawole There is a confession I’ve been longing to make: I never expected Candidate Muhammadu Buhari to win the ...

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Isime EseneOctober 16, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Like a thief in the night

by Simon Kolawole Unprecedented. Dictatorial. Needful. Nigerians have deployed different adjectives to describe the overnight search of the homes of “corrupt” ...

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Isime EseneOctober 9, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Unleash $200billion to grow the Naira

With due respect, I would say Nigerian lawmakers are “fantastically” failing to earn their stripes. They love to be called ...

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Isime EseneOctober 2, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Left with a broken heart

Sadness overwhelmed me — that’s if sadness is not a criminal understatement. Sometime in May 2005, I had taken my ...

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Isime EseneSeptember 25, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Whose interest is it anyway?

Baffling. That’s the word. When Mrs Kemi Adeosun, the minister of finance, publicly canvassed that the Central Bank of Nigeria ...

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Isime EseneSeptember 18, 2016

Simon Kolawole: What my grandmother taught me

Yesterday, as her casket was lowered into the grave and I performed the ashes-for-ashes ritual, my emotions ran riot. You ...

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Isime EseneSeptember 11, 2016

Simon Kolawole: If symptoms persist after one year…

Time changes everything. My barber voted for change last year. Which means he voted for Candidate Muhammadu Buhari. After Buhari’s ...

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Isime EseneSeptember 4, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Recession, recovery and our relapsing fever

Confirmed. The Nigerian economy is in recession, the first in decades. The official report by the National Bureau of Statistics ...

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Isime EseneAugust 28, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Restructuring the debate on Nigeria

Why is Nigeria like this — I mean grossly underdeveloped? I’ve been asking this question all my life. And until ...

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Isime EseneAugust 14, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Elections, petitions and distractions

Roughly 20 months after Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu was nominated as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in ...

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Isime EseneAugust 7, 2016

Simon Kolawole: All said and done, Nigeria first

In November 2014, I penned an article, “My Grouse with President Jonathan”. I highlighted his major achievements in agriculture, infrastructure, ...

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Isime EseneJuly 31, 2016

Simon Kolawole: We need an economic war room

The worst kept secret before the 2015 elections was that Nigeria’s economy was heading for a rough weather. Following a ...

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Isime EseneJuly 24, 2016

Simon Kolawole: Where do we go from here?

If you were a lover of reggae music in the 1970s, you would certainly know “Time Hard”, a hit song ...

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