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.
Nigeria Matters

Ground-breaking and Commissioning– A Wasteful Phenomenon and Culture

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“Ground-breaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the...
Nigeria Matters

Ondo State Election and the Politics of Vote Buying

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

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

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The guy in the middle you are looking at is Abiodun Adegoke. He is 7 feet and 2 inches tall, ((in England, they lovingly...
Sports

Rio 2016 – Why We Really Failed

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Just a few days after the just concluded Rio Olympics, Mariam Usman, a Commonwealth medallist, said she has lost the urge to represent Nigeria...
Sports

The 2016 Rio Olympics and the Perpetual Failure of a Nation

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As we ecstatically inch towards the finale of the greatest sports fiesta in the world, the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics in Brazil, it...
Nigeria Matters

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

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(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...
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Our Politicians, the NURTW and Us

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia, “The National Union of Road Transport Workers is a Nigerian organisation which functions as a mixture of a public...
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Education Ain’t Cheap!

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The decline in government funding of higher education, the economic downturn, the long decades of unforgivable neglect, along with rapidly rising costs of the...
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