Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
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Past articles by Bámidélé:
President-elect; there is no margin for error left for Nigeria, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
The President-elect should start the removal of subsidy during the honeymoon period. He will have to negotiate the national cohesion. → Read More
Bridging the gender gap in the political arena, By Bamidele Ademola-Olateju
The country's perennial underachievement cannot be explained, or redressed, without factoring in the gender gap. → Read More
2023: Nigeria's make or break presidential election, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
2023 is a make or break presidential election. It can no longer be business as usual, as the EndSARS protests were a warning. → Read More
Yoruba youths: Endangered and in need of repositioning, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Civic orientation of dispirited and dysfunctional youths must now be undertaken with the strategic imperative of an advertising campaign. → Read More
Yoruba kingship, culture and traditions; counteracting the "morbid symptoms", By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Immediately, we must make our voices heard on the selection of the new Alaafin. If we botch this, the Yoruba may never recover. We should let those who appoint political allies and their likeness to sit on revered traditional stools, know that they should not toy with the Alaafin stool. We should warn those who […] → Read More
A change of garb and tenor, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
I am saying goodbye to my position at the PREMIUM TIMES. A departure is necessary as a marker for objectivity and sanctity of opinion. → Read More
Maina's trail and the huge loss to Nigeria, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Maina is a thief. He is only dishonest because all thieves are dishonest. He should be called what he is - a thief. He stole. → Read More
The necessity of ensuring food safety standards, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Before kidney and liver problems become an epidemic, we need an urgent multi-dimensional approach to the creation, implementation and monitoring of food safety standards across Nigeria. This will require educating the public via television, radio, social media, text messages, schools, churches, mosques, and town hall meetings. On food safety, we are all interested parties in […] → Read More
Wasiu Ayinde and his disrespect of the Oluwo of Iwo, Telu 1
About a week ago, a video made rounds on social media showing Wasiu Ayinde challenging the Oluwo of Iwo... → Read More
South-West governors: Revisiting old Western Region tax matrix, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Right after the treaty ending the Kiriji war was signed, a renaissance of Yoruba culture, norms and economic development was induced. The logical end result to cement the advances was the formation in 1948 of the Egbe Omo Oduduwa which eventually transformed into the Action Group. The Action Group ascended into power under the MacPherson […] → Read More
Negotiating identity: A man and his earrings, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Culture also confers identity. We cannot divorce dressing from existing and emerging culture as one of the badges of identity. → Read More
Chinese loans: The devil in the details, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
The Nigerian government should learn from Kenya's predicament as we create our own debt overhang and covet Chinese loans. → Read More
Akeredolu: Laying bricks for Life More Abundant, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Akeredolu has taken the first step, other governors should follow suit and move away from a delusional economy based on low wages. → Read More
Nigeria: Taking a stand for freedom and liberty, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Take a stand and give other people the courage to stand up for what they believe in, and the knowledge that others are also with them. → Read More
'Federalism Means Eating What You Kill', By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Nigeria's independence was negotiated on the platform of federalism, which assumes that the central governments should not do everything. → Read More
Nigeria's newer GDP: "Growth without development", By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
ADVERTISEMENT An ephemeral “5 per cent” growth rate with diminishing purchasing power parity, more people strapped in poverty, unemployment, mass underemployment, millions out of school etc. is a delusional make-believe world thats building a time bomb primed for the future. As the French revolutionist, Régis Debray warned…”a graduate of industrial chemistry without the prospect of […] → Read More
Letting the silent speak, the hidden be seen, and the powerful use their might, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
It is very important and affirmartive that we let the silent speak, let the hidden be seen and let the powerful exercise their might. → Read More
Lai Mohammed: Limits of propaganda in a technology age, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Alhaji Lai Mohammed is averse to the use of modern technology to achieve a breakthrough because of the political consequences. → Read More
The dreadful lessons of America's failure in Afghanistan, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
Afghanistan has humbled America, with the images we are seeing. It has proven to the world again that it is the "graveyard of empires". → Read More
Overcoming Nigeria's quadrennial Olympic shame, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
I heard American athletes speak to sports journalists that they plan to take a month break and then start training for the Paris Olympics. → Read More