Segun Akinyode

Segun, a three-pronged oscillator, moves from his bedsitter to the office, then a cool spot. He lives near Mr Obasanjo's Abeokuta home. He is currently a teacher in the General Studies Department, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic.

The Next Step

Whatever the outcome of Nigerian Labour Movement’s “appropriate response” to the current hike in the pump price of fuel in Nigeria is, it is certain that nobody in Nigeria will buy fuel at the old rate again...

Dicey Loops

As the world was celebrating the 'downfall' of the 'monster' of Baghdad, the news came that the invasion was a superfluous venture...like killing a fly with a sledgehammer...

Possible Impossibilities

Can we conveniently conclude that God is capable of all we have attributed to Him? Are we not endowing him with more than He merits? Indeed, are the proof of his potentials incontrovertible? I think those of us in the habit of calling God to witness where and when He is not needed are a bunch of blackmailers...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (1)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (2)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

Lobby: Between Nigeria and Britain

The word lobby is a notion commonly used among politicians or in political discourses. The process of actualizing lobby is conditioned by various local peculiarities in such a way that those of us who are not members of the legislative or the executive arm of government, are oftentimes confounded...

Can You Imagine?

The dimwit, the mentally deranged or retarded, the idiot or stupid ones may not be in position to appreciate "imagination" as a divine endowment of Man, even though they possess one of its basic components...the heart...

Path To The Mortuary

We fought for the masses by increasing the pump price of petroleum and decreasing that of kerosene. But somehow, some rascals in the ministry forged my signature. Now, I think kerosene is costlier than fuel. Allah, wallahi, I swear, I will see to it that the pricing in reversed very soon...

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