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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Saturday, July 19th, 2014
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | July 19, 2014 – When the Federal Government recently announced it was dropping the N446.3bn corruption charge it instituted against Muhammad Abacha, son of former Head of State, the late Gen. Sanni Abacha, a lot of tongues began to wag. The fact that millions of Nigerians were not […]
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Anambra, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News
Sunday, March 9th, 2014
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | March 09, 2014 – As an independent writer, one which spans almost a decade, my writings have always tilted towards political issues, especially as it affects the mass of the poor both locally and on the global stage. I was however, surprised when I was challenged by a […]
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Sunday, February 23rd, 2014
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2014 – The controversy surrounding the anti-gay bill recently signed into law as announced by Reuben Abati, the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity few weeks back has continued unabated, further generating much buzz. It even gets more exciting seeing several foreign […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Sunday, January 5th, 2014
South Sudan President, Salva Kiir By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Jan. 5, 2014 – The month of July, 2011 marked a turning point in the history of South Sudan. Not only did it eventually come out of over two and half decades of a bloody civil war in Sudan after intense struggle with […]
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Tuesday, December 24th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunmniyi / Ibadan / Dec. 24, 2013 -DO WE NEED A NATIONAL CONFERENCE? NO, WE DO! …it is imperative that we arm ourselves and our people with a genuine revolutionary culture and a discipline and invincible revolutionary organisation, unshakeably committed to the principles of social justice and equity, to the liberations of our […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Monday, December 9th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Dec. 9, 2013 –Not too long ago, while glancing through one of the social media platforms for further details and information on the gloomy election recently held in Anambra state, this writer came across a bold comment from someone who warned harsh critics of everything that has […]
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Articles, Columnists, Headlines, Lagos, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, State News, Top Stories
Saturday, November 23rd, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 22, 2013 – When the quintessential Lagos state governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola revealed few days ago that more than N36 billion is spent by Lagosians annually to organise parties, he was merely stating a long known and obvious social malady among the vast majority of Nigerians. What […]
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Monday, November 18th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | Nov. 18, 2013 – The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. –- Francis Bacon When […]
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American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi, Uncategorized
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | October 21, 2013 – Until recently when the Nobel Committee swiftly presented the 2009 award to President Barack Obama who had just occupied the Oval Office, promising to effect a change in the hawkish, hegemonic and aggressive nature of American foreign policy which the George Bush years exemplified, […]
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Africa & World Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Raheem Oluwafunminiyi
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
By Raheem Oluwafunminiyi | Ibadan, Nigeria | July 7, 2013 – The name Charles Thurstan Shaw may not strike a resemblance of an important personality to the current generation of Nigerians, but in the world of archaeology, the name is highly venerated. This assertion stems from the fact that Prof. Shaw from the 50s single […]