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March 24, 2013

Simon Kolawole: There was a legendary Iroko

by Simon Kolawole In his civil war memoir, There Was a Country, which turned out to be his last work, ...

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March 17, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Mr. President, what’s going on here?

by Simon Kolawole Another message you have sent out, Your Excellency, is that the anti-graft agencies are wasting their time. ...

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March 3, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Repent… for the end is nigh!

by Simon Kolawole The end of oil boom seems nigh, expect things change rapidly. We are faced with the prospects ...

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January 20, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Opposition and the Nigerian project

by Simon Kolawole   Many Nigerians are disdainful of the PDP – but the question is: what is the opposition ...

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January 13, 2013

Simon Kolawole: Industry and the Nigerian Project

by Simon Kolawole Maybe there is something about the Nigerian market that we don’t understand. This is a country plagued ...

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January 6, 2013

Simon Kolawole: This troubled Nigerian project

by Simon Kolawole …the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), the party in power since 1999, does not seem to have an ...

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December 30, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Love in the season of cholera

by Simon Kolawole I have argued on this page a million times that our problem is not so much our ...

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December 23, 2012

Simon Kolawole: One burial and six funerals

Beware of Boko Haram this season! It is very predictable that the militants will try to carry out attacks during ...

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December 16, 2012

Simon Kolawole Live!: Such a hard road to travel

        But despite all the work being done over the years by FRSC, we are still battling ...

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November 18, 2012

Simon Kolawole: God loves a cheerful giver…

I know many Nigerian billionaires who cannot be bothered with putting a kobo into charity, yet they keep benefitting from ...

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November 11, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Obama is an inspiration, any day

Nigeria is like this today because the enemies of progress have been calling the shots in critical positions. No, no, ...

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November 4, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Indeed, there was a starved country

Gowon and Awolowo could have done much more to help the dying and diseased civilians. And, clearly, Ojukwu fatally erred ...

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September 4, 2012

Simon Kolawole: Critics, cynics and the president

This is the trick: Jonathan should not fall into the mistake of grouping all his critics together. He will be ...

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July 24, 2012

Simon Kolawole: A society of hardliners and bigots

Fellow Nigerians, why are we maiming and killing in the name of religion and ethnicity? We are never going to ...

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June 10, 2012

Simon Kolawole resigns from Thisday in protest – ‘He is free to go,’ says Obaigbena

by Hauwa Gambo We reported this morning that the editor of Thisday, Simon Kolawole had been moved – in what appeared to ...

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