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Op-Ed Editor 9 years

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…

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Op-Ed Editor 9 years

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…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

@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…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

@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:…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

@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…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

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…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

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…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

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.…

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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

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,…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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