Adewale Ajani

Trained as a Civil Engineer both at home and abroad, 'Wale has great interest in casual writing. He is also a public affairs commentator. His BLOG.

Urban Legends: Fooling the Rest of Us

In recent times, our mail boxes are inundated one time or the other with tons of urban legend messages that heed us to watch out for rat faeces-infested coke cans, poisonous spiders in airport conveniences or HIV-infected pins at cinema hall seats...

Nigerian Banks, ATMs and Customers: Matters Unending

While it is well understood that banks are not non-profit making outfits, banking should albeit be practised in a very professional and idealistic manner. Nigerian banks should desist from continuously devising means of ripping their unsuspecting customers of their deposits in trickles...

Fire on the Mountain – A Mind of Your Own

It will be dim-witted not to appreciate the works of Asa who landed on the Nigeria music shores a couple of years ago. Listening to the France-based Nigerian performer sing can’t but captivate an individual...

The Death of Human Capital

A candidate during the last presidential elections once campaigned for teachers to be the most highly-paid workers in the country. This might seem like a big joke for any dimwit that is ignorant of the indispensability of teachers...

A Day in Life

I dash to the kitchen. Too late, the soup’s turned into a thick dark paste. That will be the second in three weeks! So much waste in one day...

The Nigeria of Our Making

Ours is not an irredeemable destiny. Nigeria, the sleeping giant, is the key not only to its renascent but also, that of the black man...

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Forwarded. Screenshot. Jailed

At a distinguished public lecture at the Federal University,...