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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.

  • Giving Militancy a Bad Name

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo August 13, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Let us call a spade a spade and hit the nail on the head: Islam or Sharia is not the cause of this militancy in the north, or for that …

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  • Dealing with Corrupt and Oppressive Governments

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo August 4, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    A corrupt government is one that extends unlawful jurisdiction over the people it is supposed to protect. A corrupt government is one that legislates beyond its rightful power by erecting …

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  • All We Ever Ask For

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo July 20, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I expend my energy in the hope that Nigerian leaders, political and military elite and power-holders will read some of these writings and hopefully examine their conscience, change their ways …

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  • Of Looters, Leaders and The EFCC List

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo July 10, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    It was written in very bold headlines in the Nigerian Tribune that the “Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has released the names of 56 Nigerians it alleged collectively removed over …

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  • Reminiscences of Nigeria

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo June 11, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I cry for the current generation of Nigerian students. They are studying under very hard conditions. So it is disheartening to hear that Nigerians are now sending their children to …

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  • We Must Be Really Scared Now!

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo June 5, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Please don’t get me wrong, I am not going to let Nigeria kill me. I am just sad and scared because idiots are getting away with murder, literarily. I am …

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  • The Niger Delta Crisis: Nigeria Is Sitting On a Keg of Gunpowder

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo May 27, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    I would like to say that like many other Nigerians, I strongly condemn this tactics of the Nigerian Government. Niger Deltans, militant or civilians, at the last count, are Nigerian …

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  • The British MPs Expenses Scandal and the Nigerian Experience

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo May 23, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    What has made Western countries to be less prone to the negative and debilitating effects of corruption is their ability to manage corruption to a level which does not affect …

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  • Nigeria’s Theater of the Absurd

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo May 11, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    For the past 49 years, it has been a vicious cycle of absurdities for Nigerians, held ransom by greedy, inconsiderate and corrupt leaders and their acolytes and sycophants, so much …

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  • Nigerian e-Passport Costs and Nigerians Abroad: A Classic Rip-off?

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo April 27, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Not content with the daily looting of treasuries, bribes and all other forms of corruption perpetrated on the Nigerian people, home and abroad, it seems officials of the Nigerian Government, …

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  • Omoseye Bolaji, A Nigerian Author’s Exploits In South Africa

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo April 10, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Omoseye Bolaji, is an award winning black African writer who over the years has contributed phenomenally to the growth of Black Literature at grassroots level in South Africa, especially in …

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  • An Abject Abdication of Responsibility (2)

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo March 29, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    My issue with Obasanjo is his abject abdication of responsibility and refusal to take the blame, as a good and great leader should do. He practically admitted that people in …

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  • Do Our Politicians Know The Constitution?

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo March 29, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    People always think politics is a game, but I always beg to differ. It is no longer a game when politicians make political decisions which affect the lives of millions …

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  • Chasing Shadows In The Anti-Corruption War

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo March 25, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    Our Minister for Justice and Attorney General has always been a barrier and stumbling block to progress in the anti-corruption fight. I really cannot comprehend how Nigeria came to have …

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  • The Trials and Tribulations of a Leader

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo March 22, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    At the risk of sounding sanctimonious and being accused of being in support of Obasanjo, I have always been of the conviction that on the balance of probability, Obasanjo might …

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  • High Cost of Governance, Bad Governance: The Relationship

    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo March 17, 2009
    by Akintokunbo A Adejumo

    What is going on in all the three tiers of government is tantamount to, if not worse than, bold-faced, daylight armed robbery of the people of Nigeria. It is calculated …

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