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We Want Money! – Adewale Sobowale

Photo credit: the Guardian Anytime I hear the NLC call out workers to go on strike for wage increase, I always laugh. I tend to resort to laughter because it’s evident that the Labour leaders have learnt nothing so they couldn’t have forgotten anything. You don’t give what you don’t have! There have been at…

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Ao M’erin Joba! – Adewale Sobowale

There’s this fable about an elephant who had been terrorizing a community. The people then decided to make him the King so that he might probably stop giving the community hassles. But then, the community was wise enough to have sunken a ditch below the enthronement platform. The people were singing, Ao m’erin j’obaEweku eweleAo…

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Buhari VS Buhari! by Adewale Sobowale

I just thought we should compare the military government of Mr Buhari to his executive presidency. It’s true the Shagari administration which Buhari toppled really made a mess of the economy. But was the Buhari administration well positioned to bail out the Nigerian people? Well, the military used its usual force of repression to cow…

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Japan cuts Africa exchange program!

Photo credit: Al Jazeera Japan’s foreign aid program has scrapped a cultural exchange initiative with African countries after an online misinformation campaign led to a torrent of complaints and fear of increased immigration. AlJazeera reports that the country’s International Cooperation Agency (JICA) announced on Thursday that it will cancel the Africa Hometown scheme, after an episode that…

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