Akintokunbo A Adejumo

Akintokunbo Adejumo, a social and political commentator on Nigerian issues, lives and works in London, UK. He is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1979) and University of Manitoba, Canada (1985). He also writes on topical issues for iNigerian.com and other newspapers and internet media including Nigeriaworld, Nigeria Today Online, Washington Nigerian Times, Wise News Today, etc.
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To Probe or Not To Probe, This Is the Answer

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“Just as it is impossible not to taste the honey or the poison that finds itself at the tip of the tongue, so it...
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Our Own Worst Enemy: The Iniquities of a People

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To be your own worst enemy: to cause most of your problems or most of the bad things that happen to you yourself, because...
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I Love (virtually) “Empty Treasuries”…but Only if…

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If my leaders tell me the "treasury is (virtually) empty" and I look around me and across the country, and I see progress and...
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Change is never a Creation or Monopoly of any Party!

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Or (Why The Noise? Buhari is not the Best in Nigeria) “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change...
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How Complicit are the Accountant and Auditor Generals in the Looting of Our Treasury?

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One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives...
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Looking for a Quick Fix? We must be kidding!

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As we move closer to handover day to a brand new Federal Government of Nigeria on 29 May 2015, with a mixture of optimism...
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Living Dangerously and Looking at the Bigger Picture

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Ever since Nigeria’s Independence in 1960 and becoming a Republic in 1963, the country seems to have been living on the edge; living dangerously,...
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10 Reasons Why the APC Will Win Oyo Gubernatorial Race

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I was a proud witness and participant in the historic election victory that has now ushered the All People's Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Gen...
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