Author: Anthony Ademiluyi

Much Ado about Cryptocurrency Ban by the CBN

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
The Industrial Revolution swept through England in the 19thCentury like a wildfire. It changed the world greatly and was one of the reasons why the sinister slave trade was outlawed as the industries in the United Kingdom needed a robust and thriving market in Africa to sell their goods t ...

From Service Chiefs To Ambassadors

Sunday, February 7, 2021
The appointment of Non Career Ambassadors or Diplomats by Nations is nothing new as it has always been the norm right from time immemorial. Benjamin Franklin, the Father of the United States Nationalism, a charismatic personality who had succeeded with scientific inventions, printing, publishing, bu ...

Nay to the discrimination against Corporal Omolola

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
After the United States then known as the thirteen colonies defeated their erstwhile colonial masters ndash; the British headed by King George III, the women turned their attention to their plight in the patriarchal and male dominated American society. Women could not own property, vote or be vo ...

Sunday Igboho to the rescue?

Sunday, January 31, 2021
19thcentury Italy was characterized by massive insecurity as bandits roamed freely throughout the country killing, maiming and raping the vulnerable. The government was clueless as to how to curb the menace and the citizens were regularly physically and psychologically battered left, righ ...

Out Trump, In Biden By Tony Ademiluyi

Thursday, January 21, 2021
In 1988 Donald Trump made speculations that he will be throwing his hat in the ring in the US presidential race. Nobody gave the lsquo;Real Estate rsquo; mogul a chance as the then Vice-President George Bush Sr was the front liner by the opinion polls to succeed the legendary Ronald Reagan. Trum ...

Adieu Jerry John Rawlings

Sunday, November 15, 2020
June 4 1979 was a defining moment in Ghana rsquo;s chequered political history. It was the day when the word lsquo;Revolution rsquo; roared throughout the length and breadth of the former British colony which was once called The Gold Coast. On May 15 1979, a then obscure Flight Lieutenant Jerry ...

In Biden, out Trump

Sunday, November 8, 2020
The then thirteen colonies of the United States rose up in arms in unison against the brutal tyranny of King George III who was then the English monarch. George Washington was given the onerous responsibility of leading the army against the world rsquo;s most powerful army at the time as well as nav ...

Femi Adesina’s Gaffe

Saturday, October 24, 2020
Chinua Achebe rsquo;s lsquo;Anthill of the Savannah rsquo; ndash; his seminal work after a twenty-one year hiatus in novel publishing is eternally relevant as it encapsulates the challenges faced by journalists in Nigeria in the effective discharge of their duties. In the novel, three friends nda ...

Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s Faux Pas

Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The former Military Head of State between 1985 and 1993, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida was in the news recently when he said that the military should not be blamed for the nation rsquo;s woes. This remark is rather insensitive and asinine especially when you consider the ruin that the Khaki ...

Nigeria Must Be Immediately Restructured

Wednesday, October 14, 2020
The Richards Constitution of 1946 introduced regionalism into the political structure of the pre-independent Nigeria. The country was balkanized into the Northern, Western and Eastern Regions. It was the Lyttletons constitution of 1954 that made it possible for Nigerians to be at the helm of affa ...

The Disinvitation Of El Rufai By The Nba

Tuesday, August 25, 2020
Mallam Nasir El-Rufai came into the public limelight in 1999 when democracy returned back to the country after a sixteen year hiatus of military misrule. The then President Olusegun Obasanjo made El-Rufai the Director-General of the Bureau for Public Enterprises (BPE) which was saddled with the g ...

Diezani Alison Maduekwe’s Two Cents

Friday, August 14, 2020
2006 was a defining year for affirmative action in The Shell Petroleum Development Company ndash; the Anglo Dutch Oil Multinational which is the largest international oil company in the country. It was the year that a woman was first appointed into the company rsquo;s Board of Directors and she ...

Olusegun Obasanjo’s Faux Pas

Sunday, August 9, 2020
The English playwright William Shakespeare described three ways in which mortals become great. lsquo;Some are born great, others achieve greatness and the rest have it thrust upon them. rsquo; Nigeria rsquo;s former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo a.k.a Ebora Owu represents the third way in wh ...
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