Bayo Olupohunda

Bayo Olupohunda is an educator, writer and independent journalist whose writing interests span the arts, culture, education, social issues and development politics. He is a contributing writer for the influential Nigerian newspaper, The Guardian. He was also recently a Columnist for 234Next Newspaper in Nigeria.   His articles have been published in Major Nigerian and foreign media. Bayo has also worked in education advocacy as the Project Coordinator in Education for Goethe Institut Lagos. He currently runs an education advocacy organization and teaches Literature and Creative Writing in an international school. 

Toyin Akinosho @ 50: A Personal Reflection

He will saunter into his own event as if he was only invited like many others in the audience. Always clutching a novel, you get the impression that he is always reading one book or the other...

Street Tales of a President’s Death

The President was truly dead. I didn’t know what to feel. Relief or Regret? I rushed out only to be confronted by a group of acquaintances who were passionately arguing about the implication of the President’s demise...

IBB: Letter from a Nigerian Youth

With due respect sir, you do not have to be in Aso Rock to make a difference that you failed to make after eight solid years in power. If anything, your conformation of interest to rule the country again is heating up the polity...

Jos: A Repeat of Rwanda?

The United Nations, international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) must know that Nigeria is in the midst of genocide in the proportions of Rwanda in 1994...

Is the Mega Party of Nigeria Dead-on-Arrival?

The proposed political behemoth aptly named Mega Party of Nigeria; an attempt by political strange bed fellows to wrestle power from the vice-like grip of the People's Democratic Party, can be likened to a sick patient being rushed to the emergency ward of a hospital but pronounced Dead-on-Arrival...

Worst Fashion Mistakes Of 2009

A lot of overweight women in their attempt to be sexy end up squeezing themselves into clothes that are ill fitting. This was a common sight in 2009. If you are in doubt, check the fashion pages of magazines published this year...

Goodluck Jonathan: A Personal Encounter

From the obscure position of a powerless Deputy Governor in the oil-rich Bayelsa State where he was at the shadow and mercy of the crumbs falling from the table of the self-acclaimed Governor-General of the Ijaw Nation Diepriye Alamiesigha to the Acting President of the most populous black nation on earth, no similar story told in recent times could have had a happier ending...

Terror List: Tales of Humiliation at Foreign Airports

In a particular reported incident, a young Nigerian student heading to school in Ukraine was repeatedly questioned till he broke down in tears. Why? His first two names were Umar Farouk but the surname was different from the Detroit underwear bomber...

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