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February 16, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: Segun Odegbami’s close shave with death

by Tunde Fagbenle “These are bullet holes from an AK-47,” said the police when they saw Segun’s SUV. “Go get yourself drunk, or bury yourself in a church,” they told him. “It’s a miracle you are alive.” An anti-robbery squad officer said that corridor of the road – around the Obasanjo Farm, Akinale, Osuposi villages... Read More

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February 9, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: Let us kill religion before it kills us

by Tunde Fagbenle I am sick and fed up with all the problems religionists of different faiths are bringing on us and into our lives. The tussle and competition for relevance and superiority are preposterous and nonsensical. God too is sick and tired of it all. It was a peculiar mess (apologies to the late... Read More

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February 2, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: Praises for the guru, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola

by Tunde Fagbenle Having worsted all political adversaries along the way to becoming the state’s governor, Ogbeni has thrown himself at the job with so much zeal, passion, and vision such as the state has never before seen. Because of his ascetic lifestyle, he seems to embody those lines of Awo’s self-assessment of leadership quoted... Read More

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January 19, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: 12 Years A Slave and MKO Abiola’s fight for reparation

by Tunde Fagbenle It was my opinion on the current hit movie, 12 Years A Slave, the latest reminder of the gory years of slave trade, the sad lot of the Blackman, and the historic injustices the “White” world had meted out to Africa and her peoples. I posted something on my Facebook (FB) status... Read More

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January 5, 2014

Tunde Fagbenle: Why Jonathan will not run in 2015

by Tunde Fagbenle I project that both Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Dr. Kayode Fayemi would be re-elected for their second term in office as governors of their states of Osun and Ekiti respectively in the governorship elections taking place this year. And the projection is not based on some “pulpit vision” but on evidence of... Read More

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December 29, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: My open letter to Iyabo Obasanjo

by Tunde Fagbenle “ Good for you, Iyabo, your father has indulged you, as he should. But I have bad news for you. Those others who have tried to contradict your dad in argument, staff who have attempted to give him “constructive criticism” have had different stories to tell. They leave his presence literally with... Read More

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December 22, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Nigeria, what a total mess

by Tunde Fagbenle The helpless and hapless President withdraws into his own world of succour in liquor, waiting and hoping for things to ride. It ‘s getting messier and messier as we wake up each day into the news of something, somewhere by someone in someplace, done to add to the catalogue of woes and... Read More

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December 15, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Bamidele’s war of attritions

by Tunde Fagbenle So where could the wahala be coming from? Who are those that could be prodding Bamidele on, and to what end? What could Fayemi have done wrong and so soon that “the powers that be” could not settle in the larger and overall interest of the people of Ekiti and the Yoruba... Read More

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December 8, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: #GoAndDie – Has Oshiomhole finally blown it?

by Tunde Fagbenle But has the unfortunate incident done permanent damage to Adams’ stature in national politics, or can the stormy petrel bounce back to the hearts of his teeming admirers, of which this writer numbers one? For how long would this sordid event haunt him? Would this clip his wings and castrate his balls... Read More

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December 1, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Anyone above age 30 doesn’t qualify to be called a youth

by Tunde Fagbenle Any unit, from the family to the village to the ethnic to the nation and to the race, has an obligation to devote all its energies and resources to the nurturing of its youths if the continued existence of such unit or society were to be assured. What sticks in my mind... Read More

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November 24, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: This Lagos Countdown is such a good idea

by Tunde Fagbenle This year’s Countdown, expected to attract about a million people over the three-week period, is starting on December 7 when governor Fashola officially “switches on” the Lagos Festival of Lights, and runs all the way to 1st January 2014, climaxing in a magical display of fireworks and laser beam. That’s three weeks... Read More

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November 10, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Oduahgate and the killing of Nigeria

by Tunde Fagbenle For these Oduah’s supporters, she is being “persecuted” “because she is Igbo,” “because she is a woman,” and to add more weight, if those were not enough, because she is a staunch (financial) backer of Goodluck Jonathan’s yet unannounced but written all over him second term bid. The stench of Oduahgate, the... Read More

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November 3, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Nigeria – A time to negotiate our co-existence

by Tunde Fagbenle We need to talk and negotiate our relationship. If some bloc would like to go their way, and it is agreed to by referendum, then I see why not. That does not mean the country needs to splinter into a thousand countries – though I find nothing wrong with even that. A... Read More

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October 20, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: The debate continues on the need for a National Conference

by Tunde Fagbenle “A collection of independent native states, separated from one another by great distances, differences of history and traditions, and by ethnological, racial, tribal, social and religious barriers.’’ This column of 6th October titled, Engaging dialectics on Nigeria, dwelt on the debate on the need, or not, for (Sovereign) National Conference as panacea... Read More

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October 13, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Bisi Fayemi at 50 – First lady, one of a kind

by Tunde Fagbenle Just because she is the wife of the governor Bisi is not ready to confine herself, as she puts it, ‘to make his bed, wash his clothes, take care of the children, cook his food and rub his feet when he comes home’! Erelu Bisi Fayemi turned 50 back in June 2013.... Read More

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October 6, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Engaging dialectics in Nigeria

by Tunde Fagbenle Will another dialogue put an end to the security challenge that is fast turning the north-eastern part of the country into a war zone? Will talks resolve the crisis of our education in which our universities are perpetually on strike? Will it address the problems of poor governance and impunity at virtually... Read More

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September 29, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Eyeball to eyeball please, Mr. President

by Tunde Fagbenle But it wasn’t a flattering photograph at all. There was President Jonathan obviously avoiding eye contact with Barak Obama who was looking directly into the eyes of Jonathan. I didn’t like it at all. The message, the body language, was unwholesome. In the American culture, it says of only one thing: you... 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 15, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Saleh Sambo – An enigma departs

by Tunde Fagbenle Times had drawn us apart and I did not reconnect with Mallam Saleh Jambo in the intervening years before his death. Yet, there was a true Nigerian whose friendship and interest cut across ethnic or religious lines; my benefactor; an urbane gentleman; and a generous heart. May his soul rest in peace.... Read More

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September 8, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: The moral example of Offa’s Afolabi Jimoh

by Tunde Fagbenle “As a native of this town, I don’t wish my town a bad thing. If something like this continues to happen and we decide to cover it up for one reason or the other, if not now, in the future we will account for everything.” The first inkling I had of the... Read More

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September 1, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: The sad cankerworm of ethnicity

by Tunde Fagbenle The country is bogged down by this ethnic madness that now appears even worse than corruption in virulence and effect on national development. In a sense they go hand-in-hand, corruption itself being a child of ethnicity. It is now an understatement that our country Nigeria is being torn apart by the virus... Read More

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August 25, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: APC manifesto – The hangman’s noose

by Tunde Fagbenle But going through what has been published of the APC manifesto one gets the idea of some people merely putting together a long list of the myriad of what ails Nigeria and promising, sorry, saying their ‘intent’ (in the manner the itinerant medicine man peddles the good old APC medicine of yore)to... Read More

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August 18, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: My memories of childhood

by Tunde Fagbenle We used to sleep over at each other’s house interchangeably. And our families were so close. We didn’t see one as Igbo and the other as Yoruba. We slept and ate at each other’s house and our fathers didn’t frown on it. Dear Afam, I don’t know where you are, Afam, I... Read More

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August 11, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: Sobering thoughts on the mystery of reincarnation

by Tunde Fagbenle More frightening, with Nigeria in its perpetual state of stagnation, if not regression, could we be having the wrong kind of mad leaders reincarnating in our midst whilst the good ones are finding saner climes for themselves? Random musings they are, playing around my mind today for no particular reason. How many... Read More

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Tunde Fagbenle: The tacky business of domestic deportation

by Tunde Fagbenle …what is called for is the necessity for other states to hold their governors responsible for the development of their states and the creation of an environment to reduce the urge to migrate to places whose governors are striving to make life more abundant for her citizenry. It is news that has... Read More

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Tunde Fagbenle: The crude elements of underdevelopment

by Tunde Fagbenle No president in the history of Nigeria made greater mockery of the seat and personalised the presidency more than Chief Olusegun Obasanjo of whom I should say no more. Nigeria is a peculiar country. Peculiar and sad. The more one looks at the country, her political structure and her leadership, the more... Read More

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Tunde Fagbenle: Boko Haram – How to catch a monkey

by Tunde Fagbenle Still no matter how much or how often I say to myself that I would no longer dignify death by shedding any tear upon anyone’s death, I find myself every now and then with watery eyes and numbed body being mocked by death. Have you heard the good news, ol’ boy? President... Read More

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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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February 24, 2013

Tunde Fagbenle: We’ve got a long way to go!

by Tunde Fagbenle All over the place, both in public and private offices, the attitude to work is so sickeningly casual and lackadaisical. We have lost it. I had an experience last weekend that troubled my mind and got me really thinking about the enormity of the challenges facing us as a nation and as... Read More

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