Author: Anthony Ademiluyi

Africa’s ‘greatest statesman’ is unarguably Madiba Nelson Mandela. Who in his or her ‘right senses’ can fault this age-long assertion? He devoted his entire life to fighting against apartheid and paid the price by being incarcerated for over three decades and at a time was the world’s most famous prisoner when he spent a total of 27 years behind bars serving alongside the unsung Govan Mbeki, the father of Thabo Mbeki who succeeded him as President. He was condemned to life imprisonment where he spent a substantial period of it in the notorious Robben Island. He chose to serve for…

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He bared his mind to Tony Ademiluyi on a plethora of issues ranging from his journey to journalism, the stories he did that won awards, his coverage of the June 12 crisis, years in exile, the controversy he courted in writing about the Chief Obafemi Awolowo legacy, the role of Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, literary accomplishments of Prof. Chinua Achebe, the technological disruption of the print media, and the misinterpretation of his Obi-tuary coinage in the last elections which nearly cost him his life.  Buzz Times: You studied history at the then University of Ife now Obafemi Awolowo University between 1980…

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IN THE BEGINNING Until 2019, popular businessman, Oba Otudeko of the Honeywell Group fame was the Chairman of First Bank. At the time he stepped down as Chairman and was succeeded by Ibukun Awosika – the first female Chairperson of Nigeria’s oldest bank founded in 1894, he was the largest individual shareholder of the long-lasting financial institution. In 2021, he was removed as a non-executive director alongside his successor by the Central Bank of Nigeria for refusing to submit to regulatory authority, corporate governance breach as the health of the bank was allegedly compromised, the apex bank was alleged to…

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‘Sola check Thisday. Your article is there.’ This was the voice of Lagos Lawyer and former Editorial Board Member of Thisday, Barrister Sonnie Ekwowusi. The day was Saturday and day, January 6, 2027. My debut article ‘If I were Pat Utomi’ was published in the opinion page. It was an advice from my humble self to the then presidential candidate, Prof. Pat Utomi and heralded my entry into the world of opinion writing. At the time I was still a starry-eyed undergraduate of the University of Lagos and thought I could change the world through my pen. My journalists role…

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I have a confession to make. Despite being a journalist of over a decade standing, I suck really hard with my usage and understanding of social media. I am extremely bored with audience analytics, distribution, virality, and other such nuances. My personal belief is in the division of labour. My primary calling is public intellectualism through my writings and speeches which of course can be greatly amplified by social media but it doesn’t have to be done by me. I am only active on Facebook, LinkedIn, and WhatsApp. Not being much of a picture person, Instagram didn’t appeal to me.…

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While I worked with the consulting firm Workforce Group, the then Lead Consultant, Bolaji Olagunju whom I was privileged to directly work under with used to tell me and my colleagues that the business models of most great companies especially those founded in the 21st century was lean – extremely low overheads with gargantuan profits. He used to ring it in our ears and sing it like a swan song – Facebook is the world’s largest social media but they create no content, Uber is the world’s largest transport company but they don’t own a single vehicle, Air Bnb is the…

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British Newswire – Thomson Reuters described President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as ‘Baba Go Fast’ in stark contrast with his predecessor who was aptly nicknamed ‘Baba Go Slow.’ Since his famous ‘Emilokan’ speech in Ogun State which literarily means ‘It is my turn,’ as he made it known to the world that becoming Nigeria’s President was his lifelong ambition for which he had made so many sacrifices, he hit the ground running from day one. He yanked off subsidy from petroleum products, signed the students’ loan into law, appointed some key aides who do not need senate confirmation and he left…

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When Bill Gates visited Nigeria’s President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, I warned in the media that Tinubu should beware of Bill Gates because of the latter’s sinister depopulation record for Africa and his alarming influence on the health sector in Africa and Asia through his Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. As expected, a cross-section of apparently financially compromised journalists blasted me and dismissed me as a Dooms Day prophet as well as a needless rabble rouser without a cause. As was well splashed in the media, a selected group of Nigerian journalists were invited to meet with him privately and these…

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Life in the state of nature which exists without a government was aptly described by Thomas Hobbes as nasty, brutish, and short. This is the raison d’etre behind why hitherto independently-minded individuals voluntarily surrender their rights before a government to which they would be accountable and which has the power to effect sanctions against them if any steps out of line. Pa Adebanjo needs no introduction except to a large cross-section of the Gen Z’s or indomie generation as their critics derisively refer them to. He was a nationalist who as a then-young lawyer was involved in the independence of…

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Lifesite News reported that Pro-life priest Fr. Fidelis Moscinski was sentenced to six months in prison for blocking access to a New York abortion facility in an attempt to save innocent unborn children. On Tuesday, the priest was dealt the punishment in a federal court, months after being found guilty of violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. Moscinski is frequently involved in Red Rose Rescues and “lock and blocks” — forms of pro-life advocacy in which volunteers enter the waiting room of abortion facilities, or block access to said facilities, in a final attempt to dissuade women from…

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I vividly recall having a discussion with a senior journalist who used to be with the BBC and Times of London in her prime and now in semi-retirement keeps a regular column with Vanguard and The Africa Report. She told me that while she was at the University in the UK in the 1970s spilling into the 1980s, she and her course mates used to laugh at their friends who were studying mass communication because in their opinion not only did they lack a sturdy base as the course was a mishmash of a lot of courses which wasn’t really…

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu made his first official visit as Nigeria’s President to France where he was between June 20th 2023 and June 24th 2023. He attended the summit on New Global Financing Pact in Paris, France’ capital. At the time Tinubu was attending the historic summit, two masterstrokes had been achieved in Nigeria – the removal of fuel subsidy and the unification of the country’s exchange rates. Oche Egwa in an op-ed in PM News had this to say about this highly strategic meeting where he wrote: “The two decisions taken on the nation’s economy made President Tinubu a toast of…

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Permit me to go historical. For the first 1054 years of Christianity, the only Church that existed in the world was the Catholic Church. The first schism occurred in the year 1054 AD when the then-mighty Russian Empire seeing gains in the politicization of religion, created the Eastern Orthodox Church with slightly separate rites for the conduct of its service. The major break came in 1517 when the former German monk, Martin Luther formed the church after breaking away from the Catholic Church after it criticized her for the sale of indulgences for penance as a way of raising funds…

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It is no news that the naira has been devalued by about fifteen percent. Basic economics teaches that the raison d’etre behind any devaluation is to massively encourage exports that thrive better with a weaker currency. However, it is economically suicidal for it to happen in an import-dependent economy like ours. We are so import dependent that we even shamelessly import toothpicks. The naira has fallen to over 800 naira to 1 USD as at the last time I checked yesterday which portends a dangerous signal for the frail economy. It is not in doubt that President Bola Tinubu means…

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Many pro-abortionists in the United States planned to roll out the drums to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the murderous Roe v Wade. Everything was working in order for them. They had a sturdy ally in President Joe Biden – arguably America’s most pro-abortion President albeit a Catholic. The propaganda blitzkrieg of the world’s largest abortion services provider, Planned Parenthood was blazing to the High Heavens in a way not even envisaged by the legendary Joseph Goebbels of the Nazi Germany infamy. Then all of a sudden, the ghost of Donald Trump showed up in the conservative justices of the…

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‘Remember the Alamo’ was the battle cry of war synonymous with the American State of Texas. The cowboys owe their origins to Texas and the Texans have a slightly distinct accent from the rest of Americans that stands them out of the pack. When it came to standing up for the truth, one of the major baseball clubs – The Texas Rangers did not disappoint conservatives despite the gargantuan pressure from the left to use its premises to host the ‘Pride Night.’ The great club was once owned by erstwhile American President, George Walker Bush Jr between 1988 and 1994…

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Some radical writers under the leadership of British Poet, Stephen Spender were aghast at the brutal suppression of the works and oeuvres of Soviet dissidents which were banned from being read by the public in national interest. This was at the height of the cold war and the tension between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialists Republics (USSR) and Spender, a Brit, who was obviously an ally of Uncle Sam felt the compulsion to greatly protect free speech and freedom of expression. This led to Spender spearheading the launching of The Index on Censorship magazine in 1972…

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New York Catholic Church to Hold Pride Mass Lifesite News reports a scandal of monumental proportions in the world’s economic and financial capital – New York. The Church of St. Paul the Apostle plans to hold a ‘pride’ mass in commemoration of the 1969 homosexual Stone Wall Riots that occupy a historical pride of place in the lives of the American LGBTQ community and their straight allies as well. Lifesite News went further to report: The Church of St. Paul the Apostle, run by the now notoriously liberal Paulist Fathers, will hold the “LGBTQ” Mass on June 22 at the Stonewall National…

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British PM, Rishi Sunak mocks Transgender Ideology  Lifesite News did a recent report on a leaked video that showed the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak mocking the idea that gender-confused men are biological women. Pro-LGBTQ Website, Pink News blasted the Indian-originated Prime Minister as dehumanizing the transgender ideology for his subtle criticism of them. Sunak was said to have opined: “Like me, you were probably seeing that he was busy trying to convince everybody that women clearly had penises,” Sunak said. “You all know I am a big fan of everybody studying maths to 18 [years old], but it turns out…

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Conservatives all over the globe had cause to be happy with the decision of the world’s largest abortion services provider – Planned Parenthood shutting down one of its murderous facilities in Utah, a state in America. Lifenews.com reported that: “As Planned Parenthood Association of Utah fights a blocked near-ban on abortion and a recently passed abortion clinic ban in Utah courts, its only facility that offers abortions outside Salt Lake County “temporarily” closed in March, providing no explanation to patients. And although abortion procedures aren’t performed there, patients can go to the clinic to access medicated abortion. Only three other…

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Joe Biden Hijacks AIDS Program to Back Abortion in Africa US President Joe Biden is criminally hijacking a program meant to tackle AIDS to aggressively promote abortion in Africa. The United States spends at least $40 billion annually on foreign aid including health programs to support people around the world, especially in emerging economies and third-world nations. However, the unscrupulous Biden under the cloak of foreign assistance is promoting and exporting the culture of death called abortion in these countries which is causing a furore not only in the US Congress but even in the countries that are the prime…

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The radically pro-abortion Joe Biden flagged off the campaign for his second term in office on Thursday, June 8 by opining that cruelly slaughtering babies in abortion was somehow good for the ‘soul of America’. Washington Times was quoted to have said that fighting for the ‘soul of America’ is central to the message of his re-election bid. Lifenews.com reported that “The Biden administration and the progressive left have a perverted, skewed understanding of the soul of America,” Brian Burch, president of CatholicVote, told the Times. “They are ripping the country apart with this assault on our children that includes…

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Religious Persecution: Canadian Teacher Blasts Muslim Students for Boycotting ‘Pride’ Festivities  Lifesite News reported that an audio recording exposed an intolerant Canadian teacher who blasted Muslim students for boycotting ‘pride’ festivities which traditionally holds globally in the month of June. The misguided teacher opined that the students cannot be Canadian if they failed to participate in the ‘pride’ activities. The audio recording was posted on Twitter yesterday by user Hamzah wald Maqbul, on which a teacher from Londonderry School in Edmonton made the comments to junior high students. Londonderry includes students in Grades 7-9 in Edmonton Public Schools. “A zealot…

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US Churches Holds Memorial for the 64 million Babies Slaughtered in Abortion Pro-abortion activists were warming up to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Roe vs Wade in the United States when the unthinkable happened. The Supreme Court overturned it leaving them livid with anger at the ‘violation’ of the fundamental human rights of the woman. The liberal media was shocked that this could happen when a Democrat was in power and especially one who is arguably the most pro-abortion President in American history given the tilt of her foreign policy towards its global expansion. Many churches are holding memorials for these…

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Elon Musk promote the documentary What is a Woman? World’s second wealthiest man and owner of the microblogging platform – Twitter has won the hearts of conservatives and pro-lifers all over the world for promoting the controversial documentary ‘What is a Woman?’ on his platform barely a few hours after the media giant had abandoned a deal to stream it on its widely used platform free of charge. Lifesite News reported that On June 1, exactly one year after the release of Matt Walsh’s groundbreaking documentary exposing the evil of gender ideology, Daily Wire co-CEO and co-founder Jeremy Boreing announced that Twitter had backed out…

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The end of the Second World War in 1945 saw the emergence of the United States as the world’s dominant superpower which it has maintained for the last 78 years. The dollar is the currency of the world and Hollywood has been used as a soft power cultural propagandist tool that has greatly done a lot of public relations for Uncle Sam as she is fondly called. Its elections are keenly followed all over the world as policies made in Washington DC either via the White House or Congress make the world catch a cold. The country will go to…

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A UK Christian mathematics teacher, Joshua Sutcliffe has been fired from his job for ‘bringing the profession into disrepute’ by refusing to address a boy who identified as a female ‘correctly.’ A Teaching Regulation Authority (TRA) professional conduct panel has, with the backing of Education Secretary Gillian Keegan, ruled that Joshua Sutcliffe was guilty of unprofessional conduct and has banned him from teaching in any capacity for at least two years and potentially indefinitely. Joshua, who has a two-year-old child and will lose significant earning capacity as a result of the decision, will appeal with the support of the Christian…

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Conservatives around the world were sturdily united in the affirmation of the recent anti-gay law in Uganda which criminalized homosexual relationships in the East African country. Texas Senator and erstwhile US Presidential Aspirant, Senator Ted Cruz greatly betrayed Africa when he sided with the left to condemn the wonderful law. In a tweet, he tweeted: “This Uganda law is horrific & wrong. Any law criminalizing homosexuality or imposing the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality” is grotesque & an abomination. ALL civilized nations should join together in condemning this human rights abuse.” Richard Grennell, a homosexual adviser to former President Donald…

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By Tony Ademiluyi The Black Lives Matter movement claims to be fighting for the interests of the blacks in Uncle Sam against police brutality. The movement gained global prominence with the killing of George Floyd by a Caucasian Police Officer, Derek Chauvin in 2020. The movement spread to other parts of the West where blacks are having a raw deal in the hands of the law enforcement authorities. Most notably it spread to the UK. In an op-ed written by Ken Blackwell, Senior Fellow for Family Empowerment at the Family Research Council for the Washington Times on January 21, 2015,…

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As reported by Lifesite News, a Christian organization was denied service at a pro-LGBT restaurant because its religious beliefs oppose the LGBT ideology. The Family Foundation, a faith-based advocacy group that supports state policy that “preserves and promotes the family in Virginia,” was refused a meal at Metzger Bar & Butchery in the state’s capital of Richmond. The nonprofit had reserved a room for a private event at the restaurant weeks earlier, planning to gather with supporters and those interested in the group to discuss the organization’s work. However, one of the venue’s owners called less than two hours before…

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