Adeola Akinremi
TheCable
Lagos, LA, Nigeria
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Elumelu’s enduring influence on the global stage has many benefits for Africa
In a world full of 7.8 billion people with diverse demographics, making a list of 100 most influential people is extraordinary.Advertisement Time Magazine has released its list of the 100 → Read More
As schools reopen
After months of no school activities due to COVID-19, school children and college students across the country are now set to return to school. Many of them are on automatic → Read More
With fuel subsidy gone, it’s essential that Buhari finds courage for federalism
In the past, Buhari and his base have blamed the PDP for everything. They have blamed former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki. → Read More
What does the rise of unemployed Nigerians mean?
The news is downright depressive. Nigeria’s unemployment rate climbed to 27.1% in the second quarter of 2020. Let’s do the math: With a labor force of 80.2 million, that means → Read More
Sanwo-Olu, the governor who empathises
If you’re looking for a good telling of humans of Lagos stories, you should check out the social media handles of the Governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. He connects → Read More
Can Buhari bank big on Sunday Dare for economic vitality?
President Muhammadu Buhari’s slow steps and poor vitality in governance continue to sow doubts about the commitment of his government to expanding economic prosperity and reducing inequality for the citizens. → Read More
China’s weird way with Africa
As conversations around COVID-19 move from death to data, ventilator to survivor, spread to flattening the curve, and lockdown to re-open, the relationship between China and the rest of the → Read More
Akinwunmi Adesina’s high 5 in deadly wind
There are many blights in Daniel F. Runde’s Op-ed on Africa Development Bank (AfDB) that he penned for The Hill—an American news website, based in Washington, D.C—in the summer of → Read More
Letters from my daughter’s teachers
With widening statistics of deaths and unending story of new cases of COVID-19, there is a cloud of uncertainty on when teachers will be back to the classroom. But there’s → Read More
Elumelu’s public good package
In August of 2017, as Sierra Leone struggled with human tragedy and economic woes that resulted from a massive landslide that killed more than 800 people in its capital, Freetown, → Read More
The charlatan-in-chief in coronavirus pandemic
It is that a vast majority of Nigerians do not know what underlying health conditions that they have. → Read More
Fight a good fight of rape
A chorus is forming in the number of women accusing the lead pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo, of sexual misconduct. Their outspoken complaints, through online → Read More
It’s time to say 'bye Baba, bye Buhari'
There’s nothing left in President Muhammadu Buhari that Nigerians cannot dispense with. His corrosive body with failing energy cannot provide needed service that will justify his bogus payslip over the → Read More
It's Brutehari politics against PDP’s new deal
At first, he came with chaos. He appointed dead men to serve in his government. He looked the other way as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Department of → Read More
June 12: Why we fought
It was a common cliché back in the day: “on June 12 we stand.” The cliché is bigger than any special honor. It was a cliché everyone could identify with → Read More
Chasing Elumelu: On the road with big-hearted billionaire
In contrast to what everyone will do, on his Twitter page, Africa’s front row businessman and philanthropist, Tony Elumelu, has his portrait looking over boundless water. The billionaire’s masterfully calibrated → Read More
Meet Olukorede Yishau, The Nation journalist who’s thinking outside the newsroom
The Nation newspaper has many good names written on it for bylines. Olukorede Yishau, an associate editor whose job at the newspaper is to plough through tons of news stories → Read More
Tinubu’s triumph and humbling of Oyegun
If the message this week about the illegitimacy of the tenure elongation for the All Progressives Congress chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, isn’t quite the end of Oyegun’s politics in APC, it → Read More
Tapping Toyin Umesiri, others for Africa reputation building in United States
Bentonville, Arkansas, in the United States, is the most unusual place to build good reputation for Africa. It is not considered an important place for international relations, yet businesses thrive → Read More
Chibok, Dapchi, others and psychosis of Boko Haram terrorism
I have lived with the trauma of threat to my life for nearly three years. Every day I see my body lower into the grave. It’s hard to deal with → Read More