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Akin Akintayo's entries
Nigeria: God is signing autographs on beef - up North
Tuesday, 22 July 2008 9:48 P GMT+01
Inscriptions of Allah and Mohammed have appeared on cuts of beef up North in Birnin Kebbi - astounding.
Nigeria: Women badly represented at CEDAW convention
Monday, 21 July 2008 6:06 P GMT+01
Our women's minister took a battalion to the UN, they could not shoot their guns and the medics gave them an overdose of sarcastic nudity.
Firing of Pardon Attorney hardly a victory for Nigerians
Saturday, 19 July 2008 10:45 A GMT+01
The Pardon Attorney Roger C. Adams is fired for including racist recommendations in the clemency petition of a reformed Nigerian ex-convict minister.
I sympathise more with the attorney than the Nigerian immigrant.
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Apes Obey! Vague dread of the supernatural
Thursday, 17 July 2008 5:10 P GMT+01
My first contribution to the Apes Obey! Series where I take a phrase from Lord Lugard's writings and juxtapose it with a contemporary event in Nigeria.
This is on the vague dread of the supernatural which lead to the loss of 17 lives.
Apes Obey! Lacks the power of organisation
Thursday, 17 July 2008 5:08 P GMT+01
My second Apes Obey! Series post dealing with a stampede caused by the failure to organise an effective recruitment drive.
Introducing the Apes Obey! Series
Thursday, 17 July 2008 4:52 A GMT+01
Introducing the Apes Obey! series of blogs that takes a phrase our of an excerpt of Lord Lugard's writings 86 years ago and aligns it with contemporary events in Nigeria today, showing how those observations still find true today.
Medicine man rescues marriage
Tuesday, 15 July 2008 12:00 P GMT+01
Are medicine men relevant to society in problem solving everyday life?
Nigeria: Lost are the arms of right and wrong
Thursday, 10 July 2008 11:07 P GMT+01
A girl's arms get amputated after an accident for medical reasons, the girl feels cheated, the parents feel wronged, the doctor feels hounded, the situation seems criminal and many feel ritualised.
Cordially invited, my regrets
Thursday, 10 July 2008 6:02 A GMT+01
Invitations that give due consideration in publicity, time and accommodation of the agenda of the invitees would be well attended and earn reciprocal respect.
Category: Commentary Nigeria
Nigeria: What a bunch of smarmy idiots
Monday, 7 July 2008 10:09 P GMT+01
We hear today that the governor of Ogun State was poisoned three weeks ago that he had to seek treatment abroad.
Meanwhile, all we have to work on are wild allegations with no facts, this really pisses me off big time.
Nigeria: Reforming the Justice System
Monday, 7 July 2008 6:25 A GMT+01
Recognising that the Nigerin justice system is in need of radical reform is a first step in the process of assuring the rights of Nigerian citizens.
Lagos State has gone a lot further and this should be the template for reform in Nigeria as a whole.
The gospel of the widow's mite
Sunday, 6 July 2008 11:31 P GMT+01
The gospel, its presentation and who does it against metrics we cannot properly measure from observation.
Category: Religion Commentary
My father is my mother
Saturday, 5 July 2008 2:16 P GMT+01
Father, mother, child, love - all the world needs to exist in happiness? Maybe, but the roles change and the genders are now non-descript - this is our society running ahead of our prejudices.
Satan's hand in human stupidity as church splits
Friday, 4 July 2008 6:58 P GMT+01
The split afflicting the Anglican Church is more about competing egos than doctrinal differences because it takes the church no further in its work of remaining relevant to the communities they are operating in.
Nigeria: Diaspora in vision dispersal
Wednesday, 2 July 2008 7:42 P GMT+01
Finding out about the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation in Europe leaves me wondering why it has been individuals advocating better treatment of Nigerians in Europe.
Category: Commentary Nigeria
Statues come alive in my mind
Sunday, 29 June 2008 12:21 P GMT+01
I might just get what I have always thought about - statues coming alive, the result of an ultra-vivid imagination
Category: Commentary
Indonesia: Two heroin smuggling Nigerians killed
Friday, 27 June 2008 11:42 A GMT+01
Reading about the killing of 2 Nigerians by firing squad in Indonesia leaves one wondering if they got any help to appeal their convictions in the hope for a commutation.
In my view, ambassadors have a duty to both law-abiding and criminal Nigerians.
Frankly, Madam Ambassador, I am not impressed
Monday, 23 June 2008 11:05 P GMT+01
Newly appointed ambassadors should do well to find out about their country folk before pandering to cliches and unfounded generalisations that paint Nigerians in less than exemplary and unfavourable light.
Hurdles always topple over
Monday, 23 June 2008 8:55 P GMT+01
A wall might well be a curtain just as obstacles in life might well be hurdles. Hurdles do topple over when knocked, hit or tripped over by a hurdler or runner - it all seems daunting from afar.
Category: Commentary
Adedibu: Benevolence, Wills and Legacy
Monday, 23 June 2008 5:20 P GMT+01
Now that Alhaji Adedibu is no more, it also appears his large giving hand has been cut off.
His children are not carrying on his legacy possibly because he failed to bequeath something to that cause and left no instructions to that effect.
Expecting high drama on the Mount of Olives
Sunday, 22 June 2008 6:37 A GMT+01
Global Anglican Future Conference - a group of hard-line conservative bishops hell-bent on breaking up the Anglican Communium on the back of homosexuality have been unwelcome guests in Jerusalem - we need more high drama, I say.
Zimbabwe: Ready for Re-Colonisation
Tuesday, 17 June 2008 12:25 P GMT+01
Does Zimbabwe offer anything that would make it worthy of re-colonisation? I think not.
So why the delusions, lies and falsehoods of Robert Mugabe?
Nigeria: Dragging Iwu to the court of the Twelfth of June
Monday, 16 June 2008 4:39 P GMT+01
When the tenure of Professor Maurice is placed in juxtaposition to that of Professor Humphrey Nwosu, the former is found wanting.
That is the start difference between the National Electoral Commissions of 1993 and 2007.
A moment of madness
Saturday, 14 June 2008 8:41 P GMT+01
In just a sudden moment of madness a reputation is destroyed in the quest for some pleasure in prohibited places, with illicit paraphernalia and using illegal substance abuse.
Do we need more control of our lives?
Category: Commentary Sexuality
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