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The Yesterday Telegraph for breakfast

Wednesday, 14 May 2008 10:10 P GMT+01

I have a gotten a reply from the Daily Telegraph, they would not be ensuring the paper arrives early in Gran Canaria

Nigeria: A National Assembly fudge

Tuesday, 13 May 2008 6:26 A GMT+01

Ex-President refused to appear before the House Committee on Power and Steel yesterday, so the committee withdrew its invitation and have arranged alternatives that are worrisome. Who is an ex-President answerable to?

Akin Akintayo

Nigeria: Leaving the objective for the subjective

Monday, 12 May 2008 12:49 P GMT+01

I highlight a case of where people allow the subjective to obfuscate the objective and in doing so lose sight of the main issue being discussed.

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Hotel Riu Palace Maspalomas

Saturday, 10 May 2008 10:34 P GMT+01

My guest comment about Hotel Riu Palace Maspalomas

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The underbelly of living in Gran Canaria

Tuesday, 6 May 2008 1:29 P GMT+01

The tourist may never realise that residents at their holiday resort towns are not on holiday. They meet challenges and have to make choices sometimes more difficult than ones we encounter at home. The sun is not all heat, it could be hell too.

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Spotting the English from afar

Friday, 2 May 2008 12:22 P GMT+01

What reputations the English have, in public, at dinner and in sport.

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Nigeria: Beyond Due Process

Thursday, 1 May 2008 12:59 P GMT+01

We should get off the the issue of due process and view the matters that makes any deal above board, transparent and devoid of any conflicts of interest. This is about the character of people not the letter of law.

Akin Akintayo

Josef Fritzl: A man apart, an arch-demon indeed

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 6:35 P GMT+01

The case of Josef Fritzl touches on families, communities, society and humanity. He might not be wanted in the company of all that is good and decent, but he is still a product of some society that comprises human-beings.

Akin Akintayo

Living wage - a dimension to fighting corruption

Tuesday, 29 April 2008 1:20 P GMT+01

I do wonder if the government took on the responsibility of paying a living wage to its staff the corrupt practices we experience would be reduced. However, there are those who abuse their positions of authority, we need to find a way to deal with t

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Grand Inga Project: Another White Elephant for Black Africa

Monday, 28 April 2008 7:37 P GMT+01

The Grand Inga Project that involves building that largest hydro-electric dam in the world in DR Congo is sounding like exciting news but it has nothing for Africans in general. It should be aborted forthwith.

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Nigeria: Why Poor Countries Are Poor

Monday, 28 April 2008 12:40 P GMT+01

I write about the role of bureaucracies in limiting the ability for developing countries to latch onto progressive economic growth and productive programmes for development.

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Nigeria: Kick out all foreign British Airways staff

Sunday, 27 April 2008 3:05 P GMT+01

The developments regarding the British Airways treatment of Nigerians are coming to a head, some serious action needs to be taken about their attitude and the revelation that it is institutionally racist. Some African development issues are covered.

Akin Akintayo

Sun shines hard in Gran Canaria

Saturday, 26 April 2008 5:54 P GMT+01

Back to Gran Canaria for just over 2 weeks.

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Nigeria: Yar'Adua healthy from Germany with love

Sunday, 20 April 2008 8:04 P GMT+01

President Yar'Adua is bundled off to Germany in haste for an allergic reaction - it seems there is no one to treat the President for any simple ailment in Nigeria.

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The entity is Nigeria, the identity is Nigerian

Sunday, 20 April 2008 5:29 P GMT+01

Nigeria would continue to be a single entity from which we all derive the identity of being Nigerian - it is time for us to accept that fact and begin to use it for nation-building.

Akin Akintayo

Nigerian scammers will always be a minority

Sunday, 20 April 2008 2:02 P GMT+01

The arrest of Nigerian scammers in Spain leaves one disappointed and ashamed of people who bring the great name of our country into disrepute. We cannot however shirk from our ambassadorial duties of keeping the good name of Nigeria respected.

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Nigeria: Senator frogjumps her back wall

Friday, 18 April 2008 8:54 A GMT+01

The more Senator Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello garners newsprint inches the more embarrassing her case becomes, it is an utter disgrace to say the least.

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Nigeria: Senate safety from blame not guns

Monday, 14 April 2008 5:31 P GMT+01

The Senate clears a senator from blame about receiving money for a junket but that did not stop a policemen from blowing his head off where the Senate President was partying for being made the custodian of guns.

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Olympics: I have a facial on the 8th of August

Sunday, 13 April 2008 5:17 P GMT+01

Looks like a few of us have scheduling conflicts that we would not be watching the opening of the Summer Olympics in Beijing. Do not mention Tibet or Darfur.

Akin Akintayo

Zimbabwe: Mugabe is a coward

Sunday, 13 April 2008 4:23 P GMT+01

Robert Mugabe is coward, he cannot bear to see he has lost and he cannot accept the fact that he has lost - he is afraid of the truth of democracy in Zimbabwe and he must not be allowed to change the truth.

Akin Akintayo

Boycott British Airways

Friday, 11 April 2008 6:26 A GMT+01

British Airways has blundered agin and this time with the maltreatment of Nigerians. It is time for us to rise up against this behemoth of bumbling and give it one where it hurts - do not fly that airline if you can help it.

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Olympic torch lights up Tibetan cause

Wednesday, 9 April 2008 1:33 A GMT+01

If anything, the Chinese have been naive to think they could pull off the Olympics without the spotlight being shone on their internal affairs including Tibet. They should have known someone would take advantage of the Olympic year for this.

Akin Akintayo