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Author: Seun Kolade

Caroline Odunola Memorial Fellowship

Posted on July 7, 2019 by Seun Kolade

Applications are invited for  researchers currently registered for PhD programmes in a Nigerian university into a training and mentoring scheme aimed at supporting the career aspirations of PhD researchers in various disciplines. This inaugural call is aimed at PhD researchers of Oyo… Continue Reading →

Policy issues

Let wealth flow like a river

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Seun Kolade

Fifty five years ago, in April 1963, Dr Martin Luther King Jr penned his now famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. In response to those who accused him of being an extremist and a rabble rouser, Dr King said he was… Continue Reading →

People, Policy issues

“Demolition” of common sense

Posted on August 19, 2018 by Seun Kolade

In the early hours of this morning, agents of the Oyo state government under Governor Ajimobi stormed the premises of Fresh FM owned by Yinka Ayefele. According to reports, the demolition has been a subject of a restraining court order.… Continue Reading →

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Ajimobi’s game of thrones

Posted on August 29, 2017 by Seun Kolade

  In a move that has generated widespread controversy, Governor Ajimobi of Oyo State, aka The Constituted Authority, recently embarked on a “judicial review” of the 1957 “Ibadan Chieftaincy Declaration”.  In this new arrangement, 11 high chiefs of the Olubadan-in-Council,… Continue Reading →

Policy issues, Viewpoints

President Buhari’s speech is detrimental to national unity

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Seun Kolade

  Fresh from his return from a 103-day stay in London, President Buhari waxed lyrical about national unity in his televised address to the nation. Nigeria’s unity, he said, “is settled and non-negotiable”. He apparently agreed on this with the… Continue Reading →

Policy issues, Viewpoints

Bad Samaritans: the Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat To Global Prosperity

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Seun Kolade

Author: Ha-Joon Chang Publisher: Random House, 2007 276 pages. You’ve probably heard the Gospel of Free Market: if a country wants to break the cycle of poverty and achieve economic growth and prosperity, it should deregulate, open up its market,… Continue Reading →

Book reviews, Policy issues

Why restructuring matters part 2

Posted on July 30, 2017 by Seun Kolade

The creation of states was, as far as I can tell, a “joker” deployed by the then Federal government to diminish regional identity and regional aspirations. Remember this was in the wake of the pogrom and the civil war. We… Continue Reading →

Policy issues, Viewpoints

Why restructuring matters

Posted on June 30, 2017 by Seun Kolade

The debate about the restructuring of the Nigeria has generated a wide range of responses from all sections of the Nigerian society. Former military dictator Ibrahim Babangida is among latter day advocates who have joined the chorus for restructuring of… Continue Reading →

Policy issues

The case for Christianity part 1: The ontology of Christian theism

Posted on June 23, 2017 by Seun Kolade

When you pick up, on a typical day, the arguments of atheists and agnostics against the Christian worldview, you almost always get the sense of straw men on the loose. You hear of god up there “in the sky”, of… Continue Reading →

Apologetics

Wanted: non-fiction writers for Africa

Posted on November 30, 2016 by Seun Kolade

I have observed with interest and then consternation how the African literary landscape has been dominated with fiction in the past two decades or so. Fiction is now the in thing, and there are not a few awards available, including… Continue Reading →

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