Ademola Adeoye
TheCable
Lagos, LA, Nigeria
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Past articles by Ademola:
Avoidable and senseless killings in Nigeria don't make sense
If someone had told me either six(6) or seven (7) years ago that what’s happening in Nigeria today would happen, I would have branded that person a liar. We naively → Read More
Desmond Elliot's political summersault and what makes every politician have insomnia
Ten (10) days after live bullets were fire at a sea of faces of nonviolent young citizens of Nigeria at Lekki Toll Gate, Buhari is yet to dim it fit → Read More
Flags dipped in the blood of nonviolent protesters
Amidst heartache, tears and betrayal of trust, I am compelled to speak from my pierced-heart, through my fingers. I had an unusual long night as an effect of the needless → Read More
A non-partisan message to Buhari and other political servants
To start with, since it is easier to see God than to see our political servants and the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the only thing one can → Read More
Why another outfit that will be unveiled will end up like SARS
To start with, it should be clear—as water—to everyone now that Nigeria can never truly move forward without consistent peaceful protests from the true owners of Nigeria. I am talking → Read More
We are citizens
More than a year ago, I wrote (with tears in my eyes) on the issue of brutality, ruthlessness and inhumanness of men of SARS in the Eastern, Western and Southern → Read More
Buhari's Independence Day gift: 'It makes no sense'
No one can function effectively in leadership in this day and time without empathy, no matter who the person is. This is the most important intelligence that is needed in → Read More
Nigeria at 60: Politicians can celebrate, not peasants
The Union Jack was lowered about 60years ago at the Tafawa Balewa Square (TBS) in Lagos and all hopes were as tall as Cocoa House in Ibadan, but 60years after, → Read More
Alhaji Lai does not lie
I remember how chaotic and messy Nigeria was before President Buhari convincingly won the presidential election that finally retired Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and his wife to Otuoke. Nigeria was → Read More
Governments of Nigeria will never lift the poor out of poverty
It is more profitable for governments in Nigeria to keep the poor in poverty than to lift them out of it. You know why? The reason is very simple. It → Read More
So Aisha Buhari’s aide lied?
It is not easy speaking for those in the corridors of power, especially president, his wife and governors! Each time you lie on their behalf, especially when they travel abroad → Read More
Politicians say COVID-19 is real, but do as if it's not
One of the things (in Nigeria) I am yet to fully understand is the reason too far many modern-day-slaves embarrassedly follow slave-owners without being coerced with guns and bullets like → Read More
Nigeria's number one problem –
A few days ago, I looked at the quality, class and worth of folks, who fought and secured our independence and those who led us from the 60s through 70s → Read More
Speaking on behalf of Buhari and Amaechi
On the condition that Buhari were not in government now, he would have joined his political party to speak against the person in power, but he is in power right → Read More
Nigeria: A rich 4th world country, not even a 3rd
When the Union Jack was lowered in 1960 and the flag of Nigeria was being hoisted, one thing that was on the lips of every giant country at that time → Read More
Democracy Day, June 12: ‘Hope’ is not alive yet
The man who directly benefitted from the blood of late Moshood Kashimawo Abiola was the one who was supposed to make June 12 our democracy day, because that was the → Read More
Are you a slave or supporter of politicians?
It is not wrong to support the politicians of your choice. There is nothing wrong with that.Our constitution throws its weight behind it. Also, it is not wrong to dislike → Read More
Buhari, reopen every of our national life now!
A nation that did not learn anything from the civil war that killed millions of our people cannot learn anything as an effect of a mere virus! → Read More
Can the children of politicians eat N70 worth of food?
The common man has been on lockdown since the birth of Nigeria, not as an effect of a virus, but as an effect of man-made-poverty! He is being impoverished by → Read More
Politicians are like fathers who have lost control over their families
Once again, Covid-19 has revealed how disorganized we are as a nation. It has also revealed that we are data-less people. → Read More