Tag: awolowo

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Uroupa KiakubuNovember 24, 2020

“The Labour of our Heroes Past:” But who truly are these heroes?

The aftermath of the #EndSARS protest has revealed some shocking news Nigerians are finding difficult to wrap their heads around. ...

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EzinneSeptember 2, 2017

The Thread: Can we stop invoking the name of Awo in vain?

Education in Nigeria has pretty much gone down the drain, the latest evidence of this being JAMB’s decision to lower ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 18, 2016

Opinion: Adamu Adamu and the call of history

by Philip Afaha One day, Nigerian History will join English language and Mathematics as compulsory subjects in our schools; the ...

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Op-ed EditorNovember 2, 2016

Opinion: Mimiko | caught off guard

by Anthony Ademiluyi In 2003, the wily former President Olusegun Obasanjo was tired of being reminded by the hawks in ...

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Adebayo EmuleomoJuly 21, 2016

If you visit Alade Market in Ikeja often, you should see this (PHOTOS)

Pictures really do speak a thousand words. The popular Alade Market in Allen, Ikeja is relocating and YNaija got it in ...

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Op-Ed EditorJune 18, 2016

Opinion: Why Nigerians must agree to disagree on the ‘Nigerian question’

By Ayodele Adio Just recently, former vice president Atiku Abubakar made bold proclamations on restructuring the Nigeria’s socio-political land scape. This ...

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Op-Ed EditorApril 11, 2016

Najeem Salaam: Who is standing against Nigeria’s oppressors?

I am bothered just as you are about the state of our nation. Fuel scarcity has shut down our nation, ...

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Janeth JNovember 25, 2015

Nigeria’s political elite attend HID Awolowo’s burial (See Photos)

Wife of late Obafemi Awolowo, Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo is presently being buried at her hometown of Ikenne, Ogun state. Former ...

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Janeth JAugust 13, 2015

This activist says Yoruba politicians lack the vision Awolowo had

The President, Rights Monitoring Group, Olufemi Aduwo, has supported a claim that the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, was the Yoruba ...

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June 2, 2014

Opinion: Fashola, APC and LASU school fees hikes

by Sodiq Adewunmi Sanni This  LASU fee hike is a daylight robbery on all Lagosian, it is a deliberate attempt ...

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March 4, 2014

Femi Aribisala: Nigeria cannot survive without the Igbos

by Femi Aribisala Even the bitterest adversaries of the Igbo cannot but admit that, as a people, they are very ...

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January 12, 2014

Opinion: Obafemi Awolowo, please we need you back

by Olusina Akeredolu It is an irony of time therefore that the same Tinubu was one of the APC leaders ...

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January 2, 2014

Awolowo was greater than Mandela – Odia Ofeimun

by Hauwa Gambo The verdict is in. According to author and former private secretary to late politician, Obafemi Awolowo, the ...

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December 27, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: It’s time to move away from the Awo-Akintola political hangover

by Akin Osuntokun Equating Yoruba interest with membership of APC is self-serving and abusive. As far as Yoruba identity politics ...

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November 8, 2013

Ochereome Nnanna: If APC wins, Tinubu will lose

by Ochereome Nnanna Tinubu will supply the Vice President, and his platform will begin to play the second fiddle. With ...

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October 25, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Nigeria’s shift from Awo to federalism

by Akin Osuntokun The lesson to learn from the return of Al Mustapha is that Nigerians are spiteful of one ...

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October 19, 2013

Opinion: Is religion dividing the South west?

by Muyiwa Adetiba I also hear certain moves are going on to make sure ‘Christians are no longer swept aside ...

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October 18, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Where does the South west go from Awo?

by Akin Osuntokun Lagos State has the appearance an impregnable fortress for the APC but a lot is hanging on ...

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October 17, 2013

Demola Rewaju: This distraction called ‘National Conference’ again

by Demola Rewaju Opposing something you believe in simply because it is coming from someone you don’t like shows an ...

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September 29, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Nigeria is changing, but we know not

by Simon Kolawole But I still meet many Yoruba nationalists who continue to glory and gloat over “our advantage in ...

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September 27, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: Nuhu Ribadu’s choice as candidate from the ‘North’

by Akin Osuntokun To make myself clear I wholly subscribe to Chief Awolowo’s prescription of decentralised federalism as the optimal ...

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September 20, 2013

Akin Osuntokun: The rebellion of the godsons

by Akin Osuntokun We have saved the big masquerade for the last encore. And in so doing I hope I’m ...

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April 20, 2013

Opinion: How will Spike Lee tell his Awolowo story?

by Eniola Fawehinmi It was reported this week that the Academy Award nominated filmmaker, Spike Lee (Malcolm X, Do The ...

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April 1, 2013

Chukwuma Soludo: Is APC really the game changer it claims to be?

by Chukwuma Soludo Unfortunately, the quality of political discourse has deteriorated greatly since the first and second republics.  I can ...

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March 9, 2013

Opinion: Lessons on women from Awolowo

by Omozuwa Gabriel Osamwonyi Chief Awolowo was dedicated, disciplined and serene. In the single-mindedness of his devotion to the business ...

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October 21, 2012

Tunde Fagbenle: Achebe may be correct, but he defied logic

by Tunde Fagbenle It is doubtful if the great novelist of our time, Prof. Chinua Achebe, expected his latest book, ...

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October 11, 2012

Akintunde Oyebode: This might never be a country (YNaija Frontpage)

This is the power of folklore, especially on young and developing minds; and the difference between the truth and a ...

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October 11, 2012

Open Letter to Awoists: It is time to apologise to Ndigbo for that starvation policy

by Adewale Francis But when I went what did I see? I saw the kwashiorkor victims. If you see a ...

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October 10, 2012

TICKER: Achebe hates Awo … and the Yoruba race – Adebanjo

A leader of the Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, has faulted extracts from Prof. Chinua Achebe’s latest memoirs ...

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October 3, 2012

Achebe hits hard: “The genocidal Biafran war still haunts Nigeria”

by Chinua Achebe The persecution of the Igbos didn’t end with the Biafran conflict. Until the nation faces up to ...

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