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March 1, 2013, 4:40 am Essays read by viewers for 30 days ending 2013-03-01 (Summarized) 2013-01-30 to Today Title Yoruba engagement aso oke, etcetera Tola Adenle Why do immigrant kids perform so well in America (2): The Nigerian example Tola Adenle O le ku ["Oleku"],Yoruba Modern Wears: The more things change, the more they remain the same Tola Adenle Osun State’s mega schools – P. Tade Adekunle in Osun Defender Yoruba Aso Oke, classic & modern: for every age, in every age! (2) Tola Adenle The Story of Emotan Tola Adenle Education Sector in Crisis: Evidence, Causes and Possible Remedies Ladipo Adamolekun The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to resign on February 28: a personal perspective Tola Adenle Yoruba Classic Aso Oke (3 of 3, contd): Alaari [Ondo Variation] Tola Adenle Jerry Gana extols President Jonathan’s reversal of himself on Unilag’s name change Yoruba Classic Aso Oke [3 of 3]: Alaari Tola Adenle Treat Greed in Africa as a War Crime Kamari Maxine Clarke Betraying the people’s trust remains Jakande’s albatross & Aregbesola’s “mega schools” could become his burden of trust despite people’s warm embrace in 2010 Mimiko calls for true federalism & assures sister states on regional integration at 2nd inauguration In Nigeria, high blood pressure IS a terminal disease for the poor Tola Adenle South-West integration can take place under multi-party arrangement —Ekiti’s Fayemi ‘Branding’ Nigeria, drug courier, etcetera – Tola Adenle $67bn Controversy: We Won’t Debate With Ezekwesili – [Nigeria's] Presidency Yoruba Aso Oke: 2013 Oje-Ibadan & Oje-Ede Market Days Tola Adenle Nigeria’s pseudo “federalism” gets worse under Jonathan! Did President Jonathan, as Bayelsa’s governor, sponsor Beyonce for This Day’s music “festival”? SOUTHWEST INTEGRATION (2): Revisionism? Awo’s legacy is imperishable – Tola Adenle “Islam must undergo painful theological scholarship” – Abdulsalam Ajetunmobi Terminological Inexactitudes & Language Unbecoming Tola Adenle I have no house in Abuja, none in Lagos, none in Kaduna Maitama Sule in a Sun interview Mommy, daddy, ab’ole l’e d’ibo fun? – Tola Adenle Pastor Tunde Bakare’s State of the Country after Ezekwesili’s challenge to Nigerian govt to come clean on squandermania! Ghanaian Yalies, Heroes of Thursday, February 9th & beyond! by Metty Markwei

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March 1, 2013, 4:40 am

Essays read by viewers for 30 days ending 2013-03-01 (Summarized)

2013-01-30 to Today

Title

Yoruba engagement aso oke, etcetera – Tola Adenle

Why do immigrant kids perform so well in America (2): The Nigerian example – Tola Adenle

O le ku ["Oleku"],Yoruba Modern Wears: The more things change, the more they remain the

same – Tola Adenle

Osun State’s mega schools – P. Tade Adekunle in Osun Defender

Yoruba Aso Oke, classic & modern: for every age, in every age! (2) – Tola Adenle

The Story of Emotan – Tola Adenle

Education Sector in Crisis: Evidence, Causes and Possible Remedies – Ladipo Adamolekun

The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, to resign on February 28: a personal perspective –

Tola Adenle

Yoruba Classic Aso Oke (3 of 3, contd): Alaari [Ondo Variation] – Tola Adenle

Jerry Gana extols President Jonathan’s reversal of himself on Unilag’s name change

Yoruba Classic Aso Oke [3 of 3]: Alaari – Tola Adenle

Treat Greed in Africa as a War Crime – Kamari Maxine Clarke

Betraying the people’s trust remains Jakande’s albatross & Aregbesola’s “mega schools” could

become his burden of trust despite people’s warm embrace in 2010

Mimiko calls for true federalism & assures sister states on regional integration at

2nd inauguration

In Nigeria, high blood pressure IS a terminal disease for the poor – Tola Adenle

South-West integration can take place under multi-party arrangement —Ekiti’s Fayemi

‘Branding’ Nigeria, drug courier, etcetera – Tola Adenle

$67bn Controversy: We Won’t Debate With Ezekwesili – [Nigeria's] Presidency

Yoruba Aso Oke: 2013 Oje-Ibadan & Oje-Ede Market Days – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s pseudo “federalism” gets worse under Jonathan!

Did President Jonathan, as Bayelsa’s governor, sponsor Beyonce for This Day’s

music “festival”?

SOUTHWEST INTEGRATION (2): Revisionism? Awo’s legacy is imperishable – Tola Adenle

“Islam must undergo painful theological scholarship” – Abdulsalam Ajetunmobi

Terminological Inexactitudes & Language Unbecoming – Tola Adenle

I have no house in Abuja, none in Lagos, none in Kaduna – Maitama Sule in a Sun interview

Mommy, daddy, ab’ole l’e d’ibo fun? – Tola Adenle

Pastor Tunde Bakare’s State of the Country after Ezekwesili’s challenge to Nigerian govt to

come clean on squandermania!

Ghanaian Yalies, Heroes of Thursday, February 9th & beyond! by Metty Markwei

The Osun Mega School imbroglio: Open Letter to Dr. Isiaka Owoade, A Special Adviser to

Osun’s Governor Aregbesola

Draft criminal charges detail how Governor Odili plundered Rivers State – Sahara Reporters

Yoruba Classic Aso oke (2 of 3): Etu – Tola Adenle

It’s Richard Dowden, this time: “In Nigeria, they have all but given up on government”!

Broad Street, Lagos of the 1950s [etcetera] & the creativity of our African ancestors that should

continue to shame us – Tola Adenle

Abuja orphanage brouhaha or FCT Minister’s “rescue mission” – Tola Adenle

“Veni, Vidi, Credi, [I came, I saw and I believed]” – Bolaji Akinyemi at Mimiko’s

Inauguration Lecture

Terminological Inexactitudes, another visit – Tola Adenle

SOUTHWEST INTEGRATION (1): Ko s’ogun mo, ko s’ote mo … – Tola Adenle

The Police Pension Fund Scandal; The SEC scam, etcetera

“The Lost Boys of Soccer” – Kenya’s Gallant Academy speaks out

Yoruba Classic Aso Oke (1 of 3) – Sanyan – Tola Adenle

Full Text of Oby Ezekwesili’s address at the 42nd Convocation Lecture at her alma mater,

UNN, Nsukka

Yoruba Aso Oke (1): for every age, in every age – Tola Adenle

President Jonathan and a 200-strong Nigerian delegation to AU summit included people with no

government positions – Premium Times

“Unprecedented lead poisoning” killing children in [Nigeria’s] Zamfara’s gold rush

Nigerian journalism & newspaper publishing industry: 1 of 2

Oshiomole rejects multi-million Naira backing to “Good Governance Tour” group out “to

showcase govt achievements”: it’s a “scam”! says Soyinka

The fight to regain Ataoja of Osogbo throne continues

Achebe left “a moral vacuum for the Igbo writer to emerge and the conscientious writer to go

under” – Damola Awoyokun

Judge in $145m loot of Police Pension Fund erred in accepting defence’s plea bargain that

excluded prosecution lawyer’s input – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

Yoruba wedding aso oke, etcetera, continued from yesterday – Tola Adenle

A Letter to my niece: the writing life & saying ‘goodbye’ – Tola Adenle

A bit of [Yoruba] history: Bashoorun Gaa (The Wicked Prime Minister of the Old

Oyo Kingdom)

“Sowing seed offerings” for entrepreneurs masquerading as “men of God” – Tola Adenle

A remembrance at Iju, Akure North of Ondo State – Tola Adenle

Many Nigerian judicial pronouncements made to kowtow to political imperatives –

D.A. Habeeb

When Her Imperial Majesty, the Honorable Christine Lagarde,IMF M.D. came to town

“Fanciful reality [and] colourful fiction”: the Yoruba Wedding Engagement Ceremonies

revisited – Tola Adenle

Gov Ajimobi tackles Ibadan’s endless love affair with chaotic street-trading – Tola Adenle

Is Islamic Banking relevant in Nigeria? [Conclusion] – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

St. Andrews, Oyo: 1903 – 2003, A Century of Andrian Legacy – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s oil minister, Madueke who often flies on private jets abroad, hospitalized in England

A heart-warming story of an amala-loving Dutch from YNaija!

The Letters to My Aunt/Letters to My Niece Series: Introduction – Tola Adenle

An Ibadan-based [Nigeria] orphanage cries out for assistance –

Thanksgiving

The Nigerian Police FARCE – D.H. Habeeb

Fads, Fashions & Classics – Tola Adenle

Hijab war in Nigeria’s Osun State: offshoot of growing religious problems in Nigeria –

Tola Adenle

A list of those who have continued to profit from Nigerians’ collective misery thru the “Oil

Subsidy” lie – Tola Adenle

Nigeria jails homosexual in the country’s capital while looters roam free!

ABOUT – Tola Adenle

2013 Oje (Ibadan) & Oje (Ede) Market Days – Tola Adenle

Iwa Rere L’Oso Enia: Poetry Review – Tola Adenle

Should we worry about the new mega schools? – A revisit to July 2012 essay, “Impending

disaster awaiting education in Osun State”

Of Nigeria’s “federal” capital’s 2013 budget, “African First Ladies Peace Mission” Bldg gets

about 2%! – Abuja Daily Trust

Iju Public Affairs Forum (3 of 3): Images from Professor Adamolekun’s 70th Birthday Edition

Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo (3 of 3): Images from 2nd Memorial Lecture – Tola Adenle

“The legacy of … a great Nigerian, a General in the Lord’s Army… ” & Yeye Jadesimi – A

Book Review – Tola Adenle

Cloth only wears to shreds: Yoruba textiles photographs from the Beier collection [2] –

Tola Adenle

Nigeria, still crawling at 51: a heartfelt plea in prose, and then in poetry!

Yoruba Modern Aso Oke – TOLA ADENLE

Sipping Moet & Chandon champagne or Hennessy brandy amidst the ruins in Nigeria

Why do immigrants perform well in America: the Nigerian example, continued – Tola Adenle

Fola Akintunde-Ighodalo: (2 of 3) – “Education, women empowerment and public service” re-

echoes in Adamolekun’s keynote 2nd Annual Keynote address

Time to end Nigeria’s pseudo “federalism” – Tola Adenle

Ulli Beier, teacher, patron of the arts, passes away far from “home” – Tola Adenle

Oje – Ibadan & Ede – Market Days 2012 – Tola Adenle

Dr. Jonathan, check out this no one should be spared corruption allegation (7): A pension fund

thief stole $145m and got a wink-wink by a Nigerian judge; go-and-sin-no-more (almost)!

The Beatrice Olajide Ajayi Foundation (BOAF)

Dolapo Ogutuga starts Nigeria’s First Winery – Anu Adams

Fola Akintunde-Ighodalo (1 of 3): A tribute as a FINAL “letter to my aunt” – Tola Adenle

7-7 dead at 67!

Impending disaster awaiting education in Osun State

NEPA/PHCN corruption alone sufficient to confirm “crime syndicate …” status for Nigeria

The “letters to my niece” series – Tola Adenle

Malabu Oil Scam: How $1.1 bn was shared – Daily Trust, 25 May 2012

Thomas Jefferson’s not-me-with-a-slave-girl-mythical life shattered when Chase-Riboud

“walked Sally Hemings through the front door of history” – Tola Adenle

“GIVE YOUR HUSBAND MY REGARDS, AND TELL HIM I WISH I ALWAYS AGREED

WITH HIM”!

World-class university & golf course put sleepy Ondo-State’s Ilara-Mokin on world map! –

Tola Adenle

The First Ladies (3): Mrs. Patience Jonathan’s troubling “first ladyism” – Tola Adenle

Letter to Nigeria’s Senate President, retired Col. David Mark – Tola Adenle

OLOWO Sir Olateru Olagbegi at Igogo Festival 1960s

Obama signs bill to grant Nigerian student U.S. permanent residency – Faith Karimi (CNN)

“Did Awolowo not go to jail?” – Okupe justifies Jonathan’s closeness to convicted

corrupt officials

Pardon the worse-than-dust around here! – Tola Adenle

Pastor Adeboye and the miraculous petrol – Tola Adenle

“Age shall not wither her …” – Wole Soyinka [WS] quotes WS at Lady SAN’s 75th –

Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s “first ladyism” (10): Gbenga Daniel’s wife “held herself out as a Public Officer” while

Ogun’s first lady – Ogun State’s “Truth Commission”

Yoruba and Other Disappearing Languages, A Revisit – Tola Adenle

Men to Boys: A new low in sycophancy Tola Adenle

UCH at 55: A tale of challenges and breakthroughs

Yoruba Textiles –a short note FYI – Tola Adenle

Nigerian Government in search of “partner” for a project that costs under half a million dollars!

“Uncle T, no more emails”: Taiwo Obe’s tribute to GT Bank’s Tayo Aderinokun

A reader’s comments on Emotan, The Woman, brings additional information

Yewande Akinola wins Young Woman Engineer of the Year!

A Nigerian NOT on the list of “oil subsidy” receivers of Billions of Naira offers Jonathan’s

government advice

Nigeria’s new ministerial list portends a future that is Nigeria’s immediate past – Tola Adenle

Blogs from elsewhere: Broad Street Lagos of the 1950s, courtesy rested & much-missed

234NEXT – Tola Adenle

“Itiju Afrika po”: [Africa’s shames are myriad] – Tola Adenle

The manuscript that got “lost”: Remembering the Rev. Samuel Johnson, (Ayinla Ogun) –

Tola Adenle

FINAL O le ku The 70s 2

Before you throw those glasses away …

Yoruba betrothal and accompanying bizarre bazaar – Tola Adenle

What are the sources of Nigerians’ public officers’ wealth? Retd. General Azazi’s stupendous

reported homes

Nigeria scores perhaps another world’s first: a land where properties NOT for sale are

advertised! – Tola Adenle

FINAL O le ku The 70s 1

‘True federalism is the way forward’ – Alani Akinrinade at Yoruba Assembly

Igbo-ora Land and other modern Yoruba “kingdoms”

LinkedIn or not, would media-savvy new IG, Mohammed D. Yussuf, be a better Nigerian

Chief Cop?

“Nigerian Women’s Empowerment – The Voice of Folayegbe Akintunde -Ighodalo”

Eminent citizens to Jonathan: disband your cabinet now – Professor Nwabueze-led Eminent

Nigerians to Jonathan

Mr. Segun Adeniyi, p-l-e-a-s-e, spare us the agony of your sanctimonious posturing –

Tola Adenle

“Support Jonathan’s administration … only God can solve Nigeria’s problems”! – Osogbo

Anglican cleric

Pastor Adeboye & the miraculous petrol – A readers’ forum

BUKOYE

A Duo’s Great Chemistry: NIH Celebrates Couple’s Careers

“36 million Nigerians are in need of full-time work” – National Bureau of Statistics

Ondo-State born Nigerian-American becomes Provost/Vice-Chancellor at Illinois/Urbana-

Champagn

Surftown Marathon – Fundraising for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center – Tola Adenle

The Nigerian Situation brought ["Face to Face"] Muyiwa Adetiba face to face with humiliation

at the American Embassy

Yoruba, as we know it, is an endangered language

Another plea for more signatures for Tolu Akinrosotu’s clemency – Clyde Mansfield

Meet Folake Ayoola: smart, passionate about the motherland, socially-aware and U.S. attorney

of repute

Speak Yoruba App – Service to readers in Diaspora, not a paid advertisement

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: “Ghana, The Begging Millionaire – Africa, The Begging Trillionaire”

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi speaks to PM NEWS

Snub, racism and official cheating against Venus & Serena: remember when “Umpire’s

Unforced Errors Lift Capriati” over Serena? – Tola Adenle

Here’s a case that merits Shakespeare’s “The quality of mercy is not strained …”

“It’s a mad, mad world”

Nigeria’s depth & impact of corruption and a president who does not get IT

Nigerians in the U.S.A. take Protest to Subsidy-removal Source, The World Bank – Tola Adenle

The disappearing Naira – Tola Adenle

“Take America back (9): Obama’s speech at the DNC convention, contd.

The Tribune, a caricature of Awo’s legacy – Tola Adenle

The Beier archival materials & Obasanjo Library: matters arising – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s Ag minister Akinwunmi Adesina’s world acclaim and a pig-headed $375m cell

phones for farmers project

Pastor Adeboye and the miraculous petrol – Mike Diagbare

Nigeria, Inc., “a nation, or a crime syndicate”?

Son of a Nigerian politician built a bed with N100m Naira Notes – Global Reporters, Vienna

Kuwait, gba wa, o; you are small & don’t have housing problem. We are a large country with a

huge population. – Nigerian Senator begs Kuwait! – Tola Adenle

Comments worth sharing: Mimiko’s re-election & Yoruba aso oke for traditional wedding

Jonathan’s claim of fighting corruption draws congregation’s mockery at Independence Day

service at Abuja

“Say hello to uncle” sub-culture cannot drive major Nigerian languages into extinction –

Professor Sola Oke at Iju Forum

An iconic picture from last year’s ambush of Nigerians on the “fuel subsidy” scam

“Mimiko is real Awoist” – Awo’s “jewel of inestimable value”, HID proclaims!

The success story of Bola Kuforiji – Tola Adenle

Ulli Beier: The man who “needed no introduction” continues to speak to many from the grave –

Tola Adenle

“Kente Weaver” expresses profound sadness at Connecticut [USA] carnage

“Nigerian journalism on trial” – Tola Adenle

Labor & Action Congress Parties and the self-destructive politics of Nigeria’s Southwest: A

short comment – Tola Adenle

Accepting Award

Blogs elsewhere: Equatorial Guinea’s Mbasogo, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun &

other stories – Tola Adenle

Another look at Achebe’s Awo diatribe: “If Igbo leaders had a quarter of Awolowo’s vision

…” Nwaezeigwe

The Yoruba: Stripping away the masks” by Paul Richard, The Washington Post, May 21, 1990,

conclusion, May 23 Posting

Oil Subsidy lobby by Jonathan: Note to Southwest governors about their constitutional

independence to chart their own courses – Tola Adenle

Reuben Abati and the Amen quota – Adeolu Ademoyo

17 percent of all Nigerians in the U.S.A. hold Master’s degrees!

Obama’s second inaugural speech as a Nigerian politician – Victor Ehikhamenor

The siege on homosexuals in Africa: A Nigerian case from the not too distant past –

Tola Adenle

The cabal chooses ‘bad’ from bad, worse, worst; not good enough for Nigeria! – Tola Adenle

Ambition, Alhaji Nuhu Ribadu & a “cooked-up” Petroleum Task Force Report

Abdulsalami, retired General, former military head of state awarded Nigeria’s richest power-

using areas – Tola Adenle

Update: Fads, Fashions & Classics

“Cities dependent on the car will fail”: Architect, Sir Norman Foster in The Economist’s

“Intelligent Life”

Man who fathered 30 kids says he needs a break—on child support

A reader reacts to story on Chinese mistreatment of Nigerian workers

Why do immigrant kids perform so well in America: Indian-Americans & the annual Scripps

Spelling Bee

Update on “fake Ataoja”: Family Disowns Ataoja – Nigerian Tribune

An unlikely Inheritance – “O” magazine

An essay on Oyinlola-era loan of nearly N19 billion resurfaces as Osun goes for another N30b

loan – pardon me, er, “bond” – Tola Adenle

Dr. Jonathan, check out this no-one-should-be-spared corruption allegation (5): Newly-minted

N2.1b takes long walk at the Mint!

S’e ti f’olopa mi l’onje in a world of a police of one’s own – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s “first ladyism” (8): the volcano has finally erupted! – Tola Adenle

Retd. Gen. Obasanjo’s “verdict of history” is already in! – Tola Adenle

That Dowden’s Lecture at Nigeria’s 51st Anniversary

Nigeria’s free fall into the corruption cesspool continues – Tola Adenle

THE FIRST LADIES (4): When Mrs. Patience Jonathan, Nigeria’s First Lady visited my

adopted hometown, Ibadan – Tola Adenle

HARMONY: The Ikoyi Club 1938 Magazine, July – September 2011

Mohammed Haruna vs. Soyinka – Tola Adenle

Joke Adedeji & her Wimbledon High Chapter of Papercraft Club recognized by Queen

Ondo’s Mimiko revives an old sleeping little giant with youth, vitality & technology –

Tola Adenle

Oje-Ibadan & Oje-Ede Market Days (2)

Still on public officers’ questioned/questionable wealth: Azazi, Madueke, etcetera –

Tola Adenle

An open letter to Nigeria’s President Jonathan – Tola Adenle (2)

U.I. preaches get-rich quick scheme – Tola Adenle

Life in Nigeria: the smell of blown cables, and pop goes everthing! – Tola Adenle

Dr. Jonathan, check out this no one should be spared corruption allegation (6): A presidential jet

purchase thru a yahoo email address!

Throwback: Senators rebuke colleague for admitting their jumbo pay – Audio (Premium Times)

Aftermath of social muscle flexing in Bayelsa: parents learnt of Navy-son’s death on broadcast

news! – Tola Adenle

Sovereign National Conference, an imperative that must come up – or Nigeria goes down

More words [of deceit] on marble

Nigerian legislators are “rogues, armed robbers … the judiciary is corrupt” – former

President Obasanjo

The continued calls for “Yoruba unity”

Nigerian Embassies and Passport rackets affect citizens in Diaspora – Tola Adenle

Broadcast of President E.G. Jonathan on subsidy removal, a.k.a. Deregulation of the

Downstream Petroleum Sector

Obasanjo-era essay: a reader’s mail answered – Tola Adenle

Emeka Ugwuonye’s case against Sahara Reporters’ Sowore dismissed by U.S. Court

“…if we handle things well, he [Jonathan] would win the elections [Obasanjo] … delegates who

gave him the ticket bribed in $! – Ciroma

Is government “in collusion with private rogues who import oil”? The Sun’s Adeseko interviews

Prof. Aluko

Federal Character: The Hunter and the Hunted – Sahara Reporters

[Nigerian] government’s sponsorship of holy pilgrimages is sheer insanity

Late Tayo Aderinokun: The tributes continue from a former colleague

Disappointing Anniversary: Jonathan Moves To Bribe Nigerian Publishers, Editors –

Sahara Reporters

Landmark birthday as London Tube [Subway] – world’s first – celebrates sesquicentennial!

Taxi driver receives N30,000 for returning passenger’s N18m – The Punch Newspapers

Body enhancements unlimited: the tight laugh lines are here!

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Free yourself from imprisonment, Food imprisonment, that is!

Two Nigerians in US Civil Service win White House praise

“How come there is so much testosterone in the Obama cabinet and so little estrogen? –

Republican Mike Huckabee

Venus & Serena Wiliams and their Parents: A Tribute at Wimbledon Time – Tola Adenle

Nigerian journalism & newspaper publishing industry: 2 of 2

PDP and the denigration of traditional institutions

Words on Marble from Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Viola Onwuliri

Alhaji Bala Mohammed, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Minister, take down THAT Vegas-type sign,

p-l-e-a-s-e! Tola Adenle

“If a woman wants to do a real job AND have a family, something has to be sacrificed” –

Senegal’s Marie-Therese Basse

More unscientific “polling” on Nigerian elections

Clemency for Tolu – words of plea from former prison officers who knew Tolu

Michelle Ukegbu’s Nigerian eatery at Houston that screams home – and class!

Contact us

Adeyemi Adetoye weighs in on the Ciroma bombshell: “…if we handle things well, he

[Jonathan] would win the elections”! – [Obasanjo] …

Personality clash & the stoking of THE war of attrition in Yorubaland – a brief comment –

Tola Adenle

WHY IS KEROSINE PERENNIALLY SCARCE?

Bad Debt holders, a.k.a. “non-performing” loan holders – Central Bank of Nigeria

THE 2012 IJU PUBLIC AFFAIRS FORUM (2 of 3): “No nation can rise beyond the capacity

of its public service” – Amal Pepple

Dr. A. Ajetunmobi comments on “Geopolitical stakes in Nigeria: Curious role of the IMF” by

Frederick William Engdahl

Spirituality and Corruption – Re: … War that cannot be won in Nigeria

Dear Governor Mimiko, P- L – E – A – S – E, help get Ajuwa Grams’ Chief Gargiulo

naturalized! – Tola Adenle

Alex Jones, a radio journalist, exults: “America was born on guns and whiskey … we’re a

violent society”! – Tola Adenle

emotanafricana.com welcomes the Williams Sisters to Nigeria! – Tola Adenle

T.I.B. and other “NOT”-distressed [Nigerian] banks – Tola Adenle

African American fight for freedom on dispaly at civil rights exhibit – The Washington Post

“Ask for the evidence behind any claim you encounter!” – Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Lab

Hajj sponsorship by government is another avenue to steal public funds – Kano’s

Governor Kwankwaso

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2011-10-18 (Summarized)

Naming Ceremony 2

emotan blog map

Professor Sam Aluko goes home: the passing of a true Icon as I knew him – Tola Adenle

PDPs continued ways to bring Nigeria to her knees – Sahara Reporters

America’s communication giant, NBC stinks! – Tola Adenle

Ghana Arts Council’s “Soul to Soul”, a blast from the past & other blogs – Tola Adenle

With a “disobedience of order of Court”, is Osogbo being ruled by a “fake” Ataoja? –

Tola Adenle

Race & social construct on different cultures: an e-book on “Dada’s” fascination with Yoruba

culture by Raymond Ladebo

Accidental political writer – Tola Adenle

“The march of extreme intolerance in the form of religious fundamentalism is Africa’s most

critical present problem” – Soyinka

Something worth sharing: Robert Wills & Ors [USA] gifted with a spectacular show of “A

rockslide and an arch that disappeared into sea”!

The Season’s Compliments & Greetings … – Tola Adenle

A slide back into our dark past

“Double congratulations” & other sycophancies – Tola Adenle

The Yoruba: from a glorious past to a feudal present

Minister Onwuliri’s “Town Hall Meeting: a reader’s reaction & explanations on the short essay

“Removing subsidy is not a silver bullet that solves our economic problems” – CBN’s

Lamido Sanusi

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: “Ghana, The Begging Millionaire – Africa, The Begging Trillionaire

– A New York Times recent essay as exclamation point

Would Jonathan deserve ‘transformational leader’ in 2015? [Ladipo Adamolekun, D.Phil, Oxon,

President Jonathan’s Inauguration Lecturer]

2012 Olympics (1): Noor al-Malki & Qatari women make history as Noor sprints her way to

London 2012

Further discussions on Islamic Banking

A DIRGE FOR SINA OJO, Jr.: A LOST TALENT – [Late Organist at Tinubu Methodist

Church] – Tola Adenle

Kole Omotoso conjures a vulcanizer whose passion is reading! – Tola Adenle

What did visitors to emotanafricana.com check out from January 1 – 31, 2013, & countries

checked from?

Obit: Sheila Solarin, Late Tai Solarin’s wife, passes on at 88

Obit: Olusola Oke,university teacher, scholar … passes on

THE FIRST LADIES (5): Strange calls for constitutional recognition of “first ladies” grow

more strident – Tola Adenle

2012 London Olympics (5): A personal angle – Tola Adenle

A family united but heading in different directions – The Independent on Sunday

A troubling trend: a letter to President Obasanjo [Old Newspaper Column]

“Riba-Ile Petroleum” & other civil servants-owned “enterprises” took pensioners to

the cleaners!

“The lost boys of Soccer” – Tola Adenle

Comments on Public Lecture Delivered at Prof. Adamolekun’s 70th Birthday Celebration- July

21, 2012

Nigeria may want homosexuals jailed but it winks, winks to “bi-gender” – Tola Adenle

Senate revised-constitution IS carriage ahead of horse – Tola Adenle

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala’s mother could not have been kidnapped because of the oil subsidy

payments – Fatai Bakare

Two different posts from two v-e-r-y different websites for your weekend enjoyment

The First Ladies, I: Nigeria’s “First Ladyism”: volcanoes waiting to erupt – Tola Adenle

Acts of kindness & generosity at Christmas – Tola Adenle

“After Buhari, every [Nigerian] Minister and Head of State became an oil sheikh, except

General Abdulsalami Abubakar” – David-West

Greetings to Moslem readers at Eid!

Echoes from historical times; rumbles from a distant past – Tola Adenle

Postings may slow down a bit; illustrations less but verve remains – Tola Adenle

Geopolitical stakes in Nigeria: Curious role of the IMF

situation room

A look-back at some posts in Emotan’s July/August 1978 issue

Did Nigeria’s Aviation Minister ask for 5% share in Arik Airlines?

Two U. S. Generals show civvies how it’s done: A hear-say – Tola Adenle

President Jonathan & entourage refused to say “Amen” at “Democracy” Day prayers! –

Tola Adenle

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