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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.

  • Ondo State Election and the Politics of Vote Buying

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo December 3, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    “Politics cannot be effectively played or carried out without money. Even in those ancient days when politics started, some form of money was involved. At least, money or forms of …

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  • Message for Gov. Ajimobi – Emerging Talent You Must Support!

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo September 28, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    The guy in the middle you are looking at is Abiodun Adegoke. He is 7 feet and 2 inches tall, ((in England, they lovingly call such tall people, Beanpoles) almost …

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  • Rio 2016 – Why We Really Failed

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo August 31, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    Just a few days after the just concluded Rio Olympics, Mariam Usman, a Commonwealth medallist, said she has lost the urge to represent Nigeria at international events. She was the …

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  • The 2016 Rio Olympics and the Perpetual Failure of a Nation

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo August 17, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    As we ecstatically inch towards the finale of the greatest sports fiesta in the world, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil, it is becoming increasingly apparent to many …

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  • Nigerian Animal Farm: Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop!

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo August 11, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    (I started writing this article in March 2014, but for some unknown, warped reason, never completed it. I have now decided to finish it) “Nigerian leaders on Friday (28 February …

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  • Our Politicians, the NURTW and Us

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo July 29, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, “The National Union of Road Transport Workers is a Nigerian organisation which functions as a mixture of a public transport company, street gang, and a …

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  • Education Ain’t Cheap!

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo May 2, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the different services and products that universities …

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  • There is an Evil in our Land

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo April 23, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    “There’s an evil in our land, And a foe we must withstand, Let us be strong to fight the wrong…” Jennie Evelyn Hussey. Nigeria has been given over to an …

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  • Doing Things the Wrong Ways and Expecting Different Results

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo April 21, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    The Greater London Authority Elections – where Londoners will vote for a new Mayor of London and Members of the London Assembly – is on 5th May 2016. Yet, I, …

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  • In Our or Nigeria’s Interest or Their Best Interest?

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo April 12, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    The principle of autonomy and/or self-determination is viewed as foundational in any true democracy. It is however worrying when democracy becomes a millstone around the neck of those who are …

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  • Back to the Land: What we should have done decades ago with our oil money!

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo March 2, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    “With the downturn in the global prices of oil, we now have to prospect our solid minerals. We have to return to agriculture. Mining and agriculture are our hopes now. …

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  • Of Buharists, Jonathanians and a Simple Analysis of Political Immaturity

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo February 14, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is appalling to know that Nigerians are now polarised into …

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  • Requiem for a Hero

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo February 8, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    “I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I did not want Nigeria to slide into a theatre of war, with his  fellow county men and woman dying, …

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  • Concussion (2015 film) is a Nigerian

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo February 3, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    Poser: How many Hollywood movies have been made about the lives and achievements of Nigerians who have made one impact or the other on the world stage, with big name …

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  • Random Thoughts: Fighting Corruption with Corruption

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo January 15, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    I have been musing over the conundrum above for a very long time, even before this new dispensation of the sincere and stern President Buhari, and I can’t get it …

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  • The Corruption and Evil of Employment Scams in Nigeria

    by Akintokunbo Adejumo January 7, 2016
    by Akintokunbo Adejumo

    This article has been written in sad response to two recent “employment advertisement” scandals that have involved (or, rather, been repudiated) by the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment and …

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