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.
Africa

The British MPs Expenses Scandal and the Nigerian Experience

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 their ability to perform their functions as democratic and good governments...
Nigeria Matters

Nigeria’s Theater of the Absurd

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 so that any glimmer of hope that sometimes flicker at us is soon extinguished...
Nigeria Matters

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

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, through the Nigeria Immigration Service, has devised a very innovative way of ripping off Nigerians who live abroad.
Arts & Books

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

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 the Free State…
Nigeria Matters

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility (2)

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 his government were corrupt, but tried desperately to absolve himself of any blame. This in itself was corruption...
Nigeria Matters

Do Our Politicians Know The Constitution?

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 of people, which determines their standard of living, their daily livelihood, their health and wellbeing, their security and in fact the very essence of their being alive...
Nigeria Matters

Chasing Shadows In The Anti-Corruption War

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 such people as Aondoakaa and others of his ilk in government...
Nigeria Matters

The Trials and Tribulations of a Leader

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 not have been personally corrupt...
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