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July 7, 2014

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 ...

July 5, 2014

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 ...

June 30, 2014

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 ...

June 27, 2014

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 ...

June 23, 2014

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 ...

June 20, 2014

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 ...

June 16, 2014

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 ...

June 13, 2014

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 ...

June 6, 2014

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 ...

June 2, 2014

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 ...

May 30, 2014

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, ...

May 27, 2014

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 ...

May 23, 2014

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. ...

May 19, 2014

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, ...

May 16, 2014

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 ...

May 12, 2014

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 ...

May 9, 2014

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 ...

May 5, 2014

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 ...

May 2, 2014

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 ...

April 28, 2014

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. ...

April 21, 2014

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 ...

April 18, 2014

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 ...

April 7, 2014

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 ...

April 4, 2014

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 ...

March 31, 2014

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 ...

March 28, 2014

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 ...

March 21, 2014

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 ...

March 7, 2014

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 ...

February 28, 2014

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 ...