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Akintokunbo A Adejumo

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.

  • A Happy New Year to Nigerians? Not For Me!

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo December 29, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    The year 2009 is about to come to a permanent close, never to be seen again. Human beings have been in this world since only God knows. Nigeria has been …

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  • The President’s Health and Nigeria – the Truth of the Matter or the Matter of Truth

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo December 8, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Let us now consider the phrase “Being economical with the truth”: The meaning is “Conveying an untrue version of events by leaving out the important facts. It is a euphemism …

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  • Of Death, Rumours, Curses and Superstitions

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo November 27, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    In Nigeria, we have had quite a few high -profile cases of false death rumours: Nnamdi Azikiwe, the First President of Nigeria was declared dead by Nigerian newspapers years before …

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  • Corruption and the Death Penalty

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo November 19, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    There are punishments better than death. Death takes only a few seconds to initiate. Long prison sentences, naming and shaming and hard labour in prison will always be effective deterrent …

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  • Kidnapping as a Business

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo November 13, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I have several choices: I could be a drug-smuggler; I could be a political thug or I could be a politician or finally, I could choose to be a kidnapper. …

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  • Crime, Justice and Punishment: Bode George as a Case Study

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo October 29, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Truth be told, many of us would like to see the likes of Bode George, Peter Odili, many Northern ex – and present Governors, some former Heads of State and …

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  • HISTORY LESSON: Boom For The Bleeding Giant by Cameron Duodo

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo October 17, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    According to the last contentious Census, still a majority of Nigeria’s citizens are older than the country itself, and probably wiser. So what else is new? Every year our leaders …

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  • HISTORY LESSON: Boom For The Bleeding Giant by Cameron Duodo

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo October 17, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    According to the last contentious Census, still a majority of Nigeria’s citizens are older than the country itself, and probably wiser. So what else is new? Every year our leaders …

    Read more
  • HISTORY LESSON: Boom For The Bleeding Giant by Cameron Duodo

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo October 17, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    According to the last contentious Census, still a majority of Nigeria’s citizens are older than the country itself, and probably wiser. So what else is new? Every year our leaders …

    Read more
  • Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo September 8, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a …

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  • Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961 (2)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo September 8, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a …

    Read more
  • Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961 (3)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo September 8, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a …

    Read more
  • Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961 (4)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo September 8, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    It is important to reproduce here that the great historian, Prof J F Ade Ajayi, debunked the theory and the belief that the British bombarded Lagos because it was a …

    Read more
  • The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (1)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo August 22, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up …

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  • The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (3)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo August 22, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up …

    Read more
  • The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (2)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo August 22, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up …

    Read more
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