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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, COVID-19, Health, NNP Columnists
Saturday, June 6th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | June 6, 2020 | Experts have predicted that COVID-19 may remain a crisis much longer than 2022, with “up to 70% of world’s population” becoming infected. Amid this mess, elections are billed to hold in Nigeria in 2023, in line with constitutional provisions. If, in the worst-case scenario, COVID-19 subsists beyond 2022, what then does the future hold for dear country? The more reason Nigeria’s politicians, as at […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Columnists, COVID-19, Health, NNP Columnists
Saturday, May 16th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun, Nigeria | May 16, 2020 – Nigeria’s decision to ‘unwind’ the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) lockdown in the capital, Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States refers. As we strive to “balance the need to protect health while also preserving livelihoods”, can we safely say that the worst of the pandemic that has unleashed […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Boko Haram, Columnists, Headlines, NNP Columnists
Wednesday, May 13th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun, Nigeria | May 13, 2020 – Thursday, May 14, 2020, will mark Leah Sharibu’s 17th year of existence on earth. By that day, she will also have gone deeper into her 3rd year as a captive in Boko Haram’s custody, ministering to the needs of the terrorists in an unfamiliar desert terrain. Lest we forget, Leah was abducted, alongside 109 other female […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, COVID-19, Health, NNP Columnists
Saturday, May 9th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | May 9, 2020 – “Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on a hand-to-mouth basis, and for the networks of their dependents. If people cannot eat, they will not obey a lockdown, nor is there any reason, practical or moral, for them to do so.” – Alex […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | March 22, 2020 – “We must make sure about two things, namely: that our principles are just and that are methods are practical; for nothing destroys her own ends as unjust principles and impractical methods and approach.” – Obafemi Awolowo. Twenty three years ago, yours sincerely authored an article on […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, All Peoples' Congress (APC), Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, March 7th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State | Nigeria | March 7, 2020 | Rumours are rumours! But, if, indeed, there is any substance or element of truth in the rumoured presidential ambition of Bola Ahmed Tinubu, then, he will have to take some serious steps for it to become a reality. Charity, they say, begins at home! For him […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Columnists, NNP Columnists, South-West
Sunday, February 9th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | February 9, 2020 – I hope it would not amount to ‘Hate Speech’ to make some confessions, especially, with a particular reference to Nigeria’s sociopolitical landscape. First and foremost, let’s not deceive ourselves: Muhammadu Buhari has seen it all as one of Nigeria’s luckiest few, favoured by God. So, […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, January 4th, 2020
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun, Nigeria | January 4, 2020 | The 14th Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II recently told a moving story of how a mother watched her sick child die while waiting to ask the Emir for financial assistance, because she could not afford to buy prescribed drugs of N3000.00, which, in context, […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Thursday, November 21st, 2019
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun State, Nigeria | November 21, 2019 – I have written a few weeks back about the lamentation of the 14th Emir of Kano, Alhaji Lamido Sanusi II. However, the critical mass of Nigerians still seems to be going about their daily social activities as if nothing frightening is in the offing. […]
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Abiodun Komolafe, Articles, Columnists, Governors, NNP Columnists, Osun, State News
Saturday, October 12th, 2019
By Abiodun Komolafe | Osun, Nigeria | October 12, 2019 – Let me start by confessing that recent events in Nigeria have not only shamed my trust, they have also shown how complicated we are as a people. In 2015, Muhammadu Buhari swore to “serve as president to all Nigerians” and uphold the Rule […]
