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Suraj Oyewale: Bad Muslims and the rest of us (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale I do read the statements of Boko Haram leaders as published in newspaper reports and what I find most worrying is that these people appear convinced that their activities are act of piety and they are doing their religion service by those acts. Like any other adjective that borders on morality, the... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Boko Haram will be Buhari’s biggest problem (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale My biggest fear for Buhari presidency, I must confess, is the Boko Haram menace. After four attempts, former military leader, Muhammadu Buhari, will finally be getting the opportunity to rule Nigeria under civilian dispensation as the Independent National Electoral Commission of Nigeria (INEC) declared him the winner of the 2015 presidential poll.... Read More

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September 30, 2014

@Mcjarus : Why I may go into politics soon (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale In the last one year I have strongly considered joining the murky waters of politics, specifically in my home state of Kwara. Although my family back home are known more for business and, in my generation, production of professionals (accountants, doctors, engineers etc), rather than politics, our patriarch, 100-year-old Alhaji Salawu Oyewale,... Read More

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September 23, 2014

@Mcjarus: What if a Muslim owned that jet? | And other issues (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Yes, I’m aware that the military is one institution where sentiments and public opinions do not count. But the Nigerian Military should please do this for us: don’t send those soldiers to their graves. The news goes that the soldiers, who were irked by the manner their colleagues were butchered by Boko... Read More

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September 16, 2014

@mcjarus: My encounter with a GEJ2015 group (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Finally, the “BRING BACK GEJ IN 2015” wind blew to my side. I opened my email Tuesday last week to see an invitation by the Founder of one of the over 8000 groups seeking the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015, pleading with me to join the transformation train. How he... Read More

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September 2, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: How to win Boko Haram in one year (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale This week, for the first time since I was handed this column about four months ago, I will be conceding the space to someone else. My childhood friend, Dr. Michael Oluwafemi Taiwo, recently did a piece for my career and management portal, JarusHub, titled “How to End Boko Haram in Six Months... Read More

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August 26, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: How overzealous policemen killed citizen Elijah (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale When Lagos State government announced the restriction of commercial motorcycle operators (popularly known as okada) on major highways in Lagos state, I was one of the few people that endorsed the policy. I have seen and read many cases of deaths caused by motorcycle accidents on major highways that I believed it... Read More

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August 19, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: What if Ebola came though Seme border?

by Suraj Oyewale About two years ago, in a local football field in my estate, I had engaged a young man that came to play football on a Saturday evening. I have this tendency to ask multiple questions from new persons I meet, I wonder how I didn’t end up being a journalist. Ansu told... Read More

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August 12, 2014

Suraj Oyewale: Eghes Eyieyen’s piece- The familiar ranting of a rabid rabble rouser (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale You see, the issue with the likes of Eghes is that they hate seeing anyone openly associates with Islam. Over the weekend, in my regular internet surfing, I came across an article written by a former Attorney General of Lagos State, Professor Yemi Osibajo (SAN). It was a well written rejoinder to one... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: The limits of salaried-job bashing (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale I have seen some young graduates and prospective graduates vowing they can never work for anyone and they will go straight into entrepreneurship. Good one, if you have the idea. But managing businesses most times goes beyond the theories we read in those materials and the smooth talk of the self-employment advocates. ... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Who is Nigeria’s greatest columnist, living or dead?- Part 2 (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Tolu is, to me, the greatest under-35 newspaper columnist in Nigeria at the moment. In the first part of this edition [READ HERE], I reckoned that based on the limited information available to me, it appears that the late Alade “Allah De” Odunewu of the defunct Daily Times (called “Dele Tans” by... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Messi – The nays had it (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale They naysayers easily point to this fact, brandishing Pele, Diego Maradona, and Zinedine Zidane as examples; that until Messi wins the world cup, they don’t regard him as in this exclusive class yet. I expected it, but still did not want it to happen. I wished the opposite happened. I rooted for... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Memoirs of a newspaper boy (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Then, I could discuss pre-independence and first republic politics with precision, from the London conference to the Operation Wetie crisis. I savoured those moments. I started reading newspapers at a very tender age, probably before hitting 10. And I’m not talking about looking at cartoons or joining those crossword puzzles. Trekking, sometimes... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Dora Akunyili’s refund and lessons in honesty (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale No one retires government money. Even if retirement is an obligation, it is a matter of claiming that the surgery actually took place. But not Akunyili. She voluntarily refunded the surgery money. While admonishing participants at a mentoring conference my platform, JarusHub Career and Management Portal, organized for a select team of... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Fashola, it’s time to blink | Sanusi – All hail the new Emir (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Of all the examples critics wield in support of their anti-Fashola elitism argument, the hike in fees of students of the state’s university is the hardest to defend. I have written many adulatory articles on the governor of Lagos state, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola and I stand by the accolades. To... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – The morning after (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale How high did he rank on personal integrity and morality? Well, I learnt not to put my money on anybody on this subject. Maybe, I’m a bit disappointed here. That I am a big fan of the erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, is very... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: As OAU prepares to dance on Awolowo’s grave (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale Ife is a school for the brilliant poor. If some universities have turned education into a commercial venture, Ife must not be tempted to join the train I finished from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, almost eight years ago, but like many other alumni of the school, I have the interest of... Read More

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Suraj Oyewale: PIB, deregulation and Nigeria’s non-reading activists (Y! FrontPage)

by Suraj Oyewale So when the PIB finally becomes an Act and, in implementing the provisions, fuel subsidy is totally removed, I hope some people will not just wake up from their slumber and begin another round of street protests, when during the public hearings on the Bill, nobody deemed it fit to bring... Read More

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