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Tunde Leye: Lazy Nigerian intellectuals (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye Many will complain about funding and lack of government backing. There is some truth in this. But I know of many professors who receive research grants and…
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Tunde Leye: Executive President sir, could you please execute?
by Tunde Leye The President failed to be executive when it took 18 days to react to the kidnapping. He failed to be executive when the Chibok parents had to…
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Tunde Leye: Make no mistake, it’s this generation’s task to build Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye Everyday, all around me, I see a Nigeria that the older generation has bequeathed to us. It is a nation where nothing works, whose citizens are harassed…
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Tunde Leye: Winning elections in Nigeria – My Yobe experience
by Tunde Leye Whilst the scale and the stakes were significantly lower than running for public office in Nigeria (I for example couldn’t lose my life), the principles in my…
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Tunde Leye: Reporting Nigeria – What is good for the goose (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye Why then does the media find it so convenient to report events about Nigeria in prisms and narratives of Muslim North against Christian South, or Oil Rich…
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Tunde Leye: A politician’s welcome in the Nigerian part of hell
by Tunde Leye The two veterans pull up a tab and log on to twitter. New arrival keeps looking on in amazement. He joins them to peer into the screen.…
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Tunde Leye: The Champagne class and the rest of us in 2015 (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye On both sides of the divide, we have teams of people that remind me of Squealer from Animal Farm. Where their party is concerned, they justify the…
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Tunde Leye: What happens when Nigeria’s oil finishes?
by Tunde Leye And as a result, we have organized ourselves as merely a collection of people bound together by how we share oil resources and access to oil. But…
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Tunde Leye: Senator ex-Governor and his pension
by Tunde Leye When the pension bill for a governor is within the range of 1.5 to 2 billion annually and that of the deputies are also in Lagos and…
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Tunde Leye: The indigene hypocrisy (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye I cannot be nominated a minister from Lagos State. And to think of becoming the governor of Lagos State? I will be asked what exactly I am…
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Tunde Leye: Lord of the Tweets – The legend of the Hashtag (Part 1)
by Tunde Leye The overlords recruited former Ranters to become Voltrons. Former subbers became fighters. The Troll Cabal evolved, led by three Tweeps, the Rockman, The Featherman and The…
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Tunde Leye: Mr. President, lead and inspire us! (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye Mr. President sir, lead and inspire us. This cannot be too much to ask, considering the financial burden our nation carries for your office. Our President and…
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Tunde Leye: Why Nigeria does not need a revolution
by Tunde Leye It is for this reason I think a revolution is not the way to go in Nigeria. The first coup of January 1966 was revolutionary in rhetoric.…
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Tunde Leye: Life goes beyond Twitter (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye The belly of the internet is deep and it never forgets. Once you put it out there, it is documented and you really never can tell when…
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Tunde Leye: We must take the mutineers’ complaints more seriously
by Tunde Leye One only has to look at the sequence of causes in Mali and see the dangerous parallels with the current handling of the grumblings and growling of…
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Tunde Leye: Mr. President, the only acceptable response to failure is success (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye In Nigeria, we need citizen efforts in our little corners to build this nation. I was in a gathering to discuss Chude Jideonwo’s upcoming book last Saturday…
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Tunde Leye: Don’t tell us what it means to be patriotic
by Tunde Leye So don’t get it twisted. We know what it means to be patriotic and it is not what you say it is. It was Theodore Roosevelt…
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Tunde Leye: A tale of two Caliphates (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye It must be seen that apart from the issues of governance, poverty and politics in the region, there is an underlying clash of two caliphates –…
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Tunde Leye: Dear Mr. Buhari, your influence is critically needed
by Tunde Leye General Buhari is acclaimed to be very influential in the North and this has been proven by how he won 12million largely northern votes using a…
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Tunde Leye: We have failed in humanizing our tragedy victims (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye There were military men guarding Chibok school who were outgunned and murdered by the Boko Haram fighters. Who is telling their story, making them into heroes for…
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Tunde Leye: Here is your authentic Nigerian activist checklist (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye Does your activist have a means of making money outside of the activism and all the things related to it? You see, a living must be made.…
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Tunde Leye: The cost of corruption in Nigeria is too high
by Tunde Leye Corruption costs us lives. The hospital without drugs where someone died simply because someone “ate” the money allotted for the drugs. The accidents on roads that are…
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Tunde Leye: Tin billionaires – Why Dangote and his ilk won’t thrive outside Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye In Nigeria, we have billionaires who are worth more than the companies from which they are supposed to derive their wealth. We have people making billions from…
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Tunde Leye: Resolving the perennial Fulani herdsmen/farmers clashes
by Tunde Leye It is also important for government to ensure that violence carried out by and against the Fulani herders is punished. Any herder within the borders of Nigeria…
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Tunde Leye: Nigerians must be careful what they wish for (Y! FrontPage)
by Tunde Leye The most disturbing reactions however were from those who believed there might have been a coup and were practically rejoicing about the prospects. We must be careful…
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Tunde Leye: How your magic bills are calculated by PHCN
by Tunde Leye In my area where the power has been virtually non-existent since January, my electricity bill has remained the same, when compare with previous months. It seems there…
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Tunde Leye: Mortgaging our future to a bunch of Amala-joint owners
by Tunde Leye It is these Amala-joint owners who make up the majority of those who are gathered in Abuja for the National Conference. People who have eaten the future…
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Tunde Leye: When will Africa stop being the world’s cry baby?
by Tunde Leye When will Africa stop being the baby of the world? Why are we the ones who still find it so easy to descend to the lowest levels…
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Tunde Leye: Nigeria and the ‘lapalapa’ killing syndrome
by Tunde Leye I am not saying killing the lapalapa type of issues is wrong, but when one leaves the ete-type fundamental issues when the solutions are so glaring that…
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Demola Rewaju: Boko Haram and the security expert in us all
by Demola Rewaju It is easy for us to look at the situation from outside and conclude that we know better than the generals of warfare who are in command…
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