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The Voice of Mutallab, the Hands of the Dead

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Terrorist Umar Farouk AbdulMutallab is the ill-bred scion of privilege that was perhaps destined to be the instrument through which the dead would visit the comeuppance of sleeplessness on a certain vicious establishment that is responsible for the greatest heap of corpses in Nigeria’s history. Let’s be clear from the onset: I am [...]

December 29, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Pius Adesanmi  Comments

Professing Dangerously: the Road to Charles Soludo

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My title plays on the title of Professor Femi Osofisan’s inaugural lecture at the University of Ibadan, “Playing Dangerously”, and my reasons shall become apparent presently. First, an anecdote. Back in secondary school, one of my close cousins, Bola Akanbi, fell in love with Professors. Bola and I were then sharing the same [...]

December 11, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Pius Adesanmi  Comments

Little Ends: Still on El-Rufai

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I assume that the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign affairs, Ambassador Joe Keshi, read George Orwell’s famous novel, 1984, before authoring the face-saving memo that was reportedly responsible for President Yar’Adua’s volte-face in the Nasir el-Rufai/Nuhu Ribadu passport saga.
Acting on “orders from above”, Ambassador Keshi sent a memo to Nigeria’s [...]

October 28, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Pius Adesanmi  Comments


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