Adewale Ajani
Trained as a Civil Engineer both at home and abroad, 'Wale has great interest in casual writing. He is also a public affairs commentator. His BLOG.
Articles by this Author
Lessons from the US Elections
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 11/12/2008
- Africa & World
- Unrated
After the dust has settled at the trail of electing the first man of colour to take over the wheel of affairs of the most powerful nation on earth, what are the salient lessons to be learnt?
Rescuing the Insatiable Custodian from Self-Destruction
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 11/6/2008
- Science & Technology
- Unrated
Sustainable development ensures that the use of resources and the environment today does not restrict their use by future generations. Man has a responsibility to handover his planet to generations unborn in a manner in which they can also meet their needs...
It is Not in the Name!
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 09/19/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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Genuine, tangible and constructive changes must be premised only on structural revolution which addresses leadership, content and character – in essence, the human element...
Going Brrrrrrh on the Creative Side of Advertising
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 08/23/2008
- Miscellaneous
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In present times, advertising via whatever means, has gone highly cerebral while scintillatingly appealing to all the senses of already captured or potential customers...
Olórunsògo
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 08/23/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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Olórunsògo is the fading inscription written above the door entrance of the communal living quarters popularly called Face-Me-I-Face-You in local parlance, located at the end of Liadi Street
Escaping the Age Noose
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 08/15/2008
- Relationships & Gender
- Unrated
Just before I am labelled as an errant, ‘westernised’, neo-colonised and cheeky African or infuriate the ‘traditional’ African reader, it is expedient to say I am an uncompromised, thick-lip, bushy-hair black African, with crimson-red Nubian blood running through my capillaries...
Birthday Boy
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 08/12/2008
- Relationships & Gender
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18 years after betraying a childhood love, here I am struck by the sudden appearance of my bank’s Client Relation Officer who bears every semblance of Yemi, my heartbroken first love...
Urban Legends: Fooling the Rest of Us
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 08/7/2008
- Miscellaneous
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In recent times, our mail boxes are inundated one time or the other with tons of urban legend messages that heed us to watch out for rat faeces-infested coke cans, poisonous spiders in airport conveniences or HIV-infected pins at cinema hall seats...
Nigerian Banks, ATMs and Customers: Matters Unending
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 07/9/2008
- Business & Economy
- Unrated
While it is well understood that banks are not non-profit making outfits, banking should albeit be practised in a very professional and idealistic manner. Nigerian banks should desist from continuously devising means of ripping their unsuspecting customers of their deposits in trickles...
Fire on the Mountain – A Mind of Your Own
- By Adewale Ajani
- Published 07/9/2008
- Arts & Reviews
- Unrated
It will be dim-witted not to appreciate the works of Asa who landed on the Nigeria music shores a couple of years ago. Listening to the France-based Nigerian performer sing can’t but captivate an individual...
