Segun Akinyode
Articles by this Author
The Making of a Boss
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 08/19/2010
- Personal Development
- Unrated
Being a boss is very simple. The first step is to garner every conceivable and inconceivable subterfuges, including blackmail, ethnicism, praise-singing, name-calling, tale bearing, bootlicking, laying claim to bogus intellectual achievements...
When Will These Insults Abate?
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 05/4/2010
- Nigeria Matters
- Unrated
It is understood all over the world that one of the features of democracy is freedom of speech and allied freedoms. However, certain freedoms become an aberration given conditions and backgrounds surrounding their manifestations...
Tajudeen Afolabi Adeola: An Enigma
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 09/14/2009
- Nigeria Matters
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One should utilize this opportunity to invite the Nigerian Federal Government team in charge of her re-branding drive not look too far if they hope to achieve any success in the foreign aspect of the scheme. The man they should not tarry in consulting is Taju...
An Amorous Encounter with Barak Obama
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 07/9/2009
- Relationships & Gender
- Unrated
Clara sat right opposite me sipping from a bottle of Guinness. The combined effect of the physical act of the inadvertent unbuttoning and the mild exclamation at the sight of Obama’s portrait had unleashed an inexplicable passion in me for Clara....
Our Woes: The Way Out
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 04/22/2008
- Nigeria Matters
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The most glaring of the Nigerian malady is corruption. The type of corruption where Nigerians in positions of responsibility divert the money meant for the development of the country into private pockets...
Fellow 'Nigerians,' Let Us Drink From This Cup
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 02/28/2008
- Travel & Leisure
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How come a transporter refuses to refund an unused fare? The most painful aspect is that the money involved is about $400, too much for a poor teacher like me to lose...
Re: My Reflection on Education and Democracy in Nigeria: Vision 2020
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 12/22/2007
- Education
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In his defense of the shortcomings of the article articulated by some critics, Sadiq raised three basic approaches to appreciating and perhaps solving the problems plaguing the system of education in Nigeria...
To Nigerians in the Diaspora
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 11/20/2007
- Nigeria Matters
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For the knowledge of those Nigerians in the Diaspora who have been curious about how we have been surviving in a debilitating environment, a typical day...
Aaron Ringera and Nuhu Ribadu
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 09/10/2007
- Africa & World
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The name of the Kenyan counterpart of Nuhu Ribadu is Aaron Ringera. From what we have garnered from press reports, not many Kenyans feel Justice Ringera and his commission are doing much in the quest to make corruption kiss the feet of reasoning...
The Nigeria in Kenya
- By Segun Akinyode
- Published 09/10/2007
- Africa & World
- Unrated
Each day I walked the streets of
