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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, First Ladies, NNP Columnists, Patience Jonathan
Sunday, July 21st, 2013
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | July 21, 2013 – I was about to write another article dealing with Africans’ penchant for power, abuse and perpetuation in power, and then our First Lady’s excesses caught my imagination instead, and in a way, what I was going to write was apt to the First […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Columnists, Headlines, Press Releases
Sunday, May 26th, 2013
The Champions for Nigeria Organisation wish to express its condemnation of the barbaric and primitive attack and death of Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, Woolwich, London. The manner of his death is difficult to comprehend let alone experience. It was crude, evil, and gruesome. We in the (CFN) join […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, May 20th, 2013
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo/ Ibadan, Nigeria / May 20, 2013 – Between Inordinate Ambition and Good Governance Akintokunbo A Adejumo [email protected] Adjective 1. not within proper or reasonable limits; immoderate; excessive: He drank an inordinate amount of wine. 2. unrestrained in conduct, feelings, etc.: an inordinate admirer of beauty. 3. disorderly; uncontrolled. 4. not regulated; […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, April 15th, 2013
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo / Ibadan, Nigeria / April, 15, 2012 –The Apotheos-ification of Nigerian Leaders and Political Elites Akintokunbo A Adejumo [email protected] Apotheosis (from Greek, apotheoun “to deify”; in Latin deificatio “making divine”; also called divinization and deification) is the glorification of a subject to divine level. The term has meanings in theology, where […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, March 15th, 2013
By Akintokunbo Adejumo / Ibadan, Nigeria / Mach, 15, 2013 – Many Nigerians were naturally shocked, concerned and apprehensive at the news on 07 March 2013 that the (notorious, inept and ineffective) Nigerian House of Representatives is planning to include immunity for federal legislators in the on-going amendment of the 1999 constitution, with the bills […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Saturday, February 16th, 2013
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Africa & World Politics, Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Friday, December 14th, 2012
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Dec. 14, 2012 – I have been reading the story of President Jose Mujica — the leader of Uruguay (please note the word “LEADER”) and I find it to be a singular example of humility, sacrifice and an uncommon disdain for all worldly material and other acquisition. […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Sunday, November 4th, 2012
By Akintokunbo A. Adejumo | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 4, 2012 | “Regard your good name as the richest jewel you can possibly be possessed of – for credit is like fire; when once you have kindled it you may easily preserve it, but if you once extinguish it, you will find it an arduous […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, NNP News, Oyo, State News
Tuesday, July 31st, 2012
By New Nigerian Politics New Nigerian Politics categorically and unreservedly condemns the unprovoked brutalization of one of its columnists, Mr. Akintokunbo Adejumo, on July 22, 2012 in Ibadan, Oyo State by six miscreants of the Nigerian army attached to the PHCN building on Ring Road. This uncivilized, cowardly and sordid act visited on an innocent […]
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Akintokunbo A. Adejumo, Armed Forces, Columnists, Headlines, Oyo, State News
Sunday, July 29th, 2012
What looked like a normal day in Ibadan, Oyo State, turned out to be a nightmare in the early hours of 22nd of July 2012 at around 2.30am when about six soldiers of the Nigeria Army in uniform attached to the PHCN Capital Building at Ring Road Ibadan went berserk on an unprovoked savage […]