Author: Dr Bolaji Akinyemi

Action they say speaks louder than words. If this be true then Governors and all Nigerians should discountenace the words of Mr President. Bola Ahmed Tinubu when he said; “It’s time for governance; set political differences aside during Iftar at the Presidential Villa. President Bola Tinubu had called on state governors to set aside political differences and collaborate with the federal government to build the nation. Speaking during the breaking of Ramadan fast with governors at the State House in Abuja, on Thursday, President Tinubu emphasized the importance of transitioning from politics to governance, noting the need for unity and…

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Sunday, 10th of March 2024, I stood on the Altar of Great Commission Bible Church on the invitation of Rev Olukayode Johnson Oyekunbi and Pastor Mrs Ololade Johnson Oyekunbi, teaching on the covenant of marriage from what seems to be a one sided message in favour of wifes. Men in the audience were so green with envy. My chief host of course got back on the altar to repeatedly demand of me the need to be back to preach the side that will “favour men”. I got out of that service to see the post of the separation of the…

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The overbearing influence of Seyi Tinubu over state affairs was first noticed prior to the Lekki Toll gate massacre of Nigerian youths who were out on a peaceful protest against police brutality. Seyi’s company is alleged to hold the monopoly of right to the lighting and the camera system at the facility. Though, his role, or of the company was hidden from the prying eyes of the public but its effect set the stage for what will become the worse state onslaught against peaceful and unarmed civilians in human history. They set the stage for what was to follow by…

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…good intention,wrong delivery! by  Dr. Bolaji O. Akinyemi. The decision to move some departments of CBN and FAAN to Lagos from Abuja should not be viewed as a move against any geo-political bloc of the Nigeria. It is not different from the unplanned removal of fuel subsidy and floating the exchange rate of naira which all the geo-political blocs of Nigeria views as a decision against the ordinary people who voted the President to power. No one can contend with the need to remove subsidy and float the naira as being in the best interest of the nation, but it…

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It would be heartless of me to wish a mortal like myself evil. Far be it that this is an attempt to take advantage of the Senate President’s moment of mortal weakness which could be the lot of anyone; particularly the Senate President and the entire National Assembly who are all stressed beyond limit on the Appropriation assignment due to the President Tinubu’s Budget of Renewed Hope and the need to deliver same before the end year 2023. Creating time in the midst of such schedule is overtaking for most of our aged leaders. Life recently has chosen to speak…

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My routine for everyday life is fixed. Usually I must be up before 6:00AM when Word for Today; a special morning devotion with Joy and Bolaji Akinyemi is scheduled for. This of course will last the next 30 mins, after when the day finally starts with activities recorded against them. Fridays however are slightly different. It’s not out of place to hear me say Thank God it’s Friday. An expression of joy in appreciation of another opportunity to hear from a brother thrown several thousand kilometres away from his kits and Kins. “Ise aje so omo nu bi oko”. Survival…

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…We didn’t accept Tinubu — The Patriots A Rejoinder By Bolaji O. Akinyemi “No! This is a wrong caption: We didn’t accept Tinubu but accepted the reality of his government, which derives from the finality of Supreme Court Judgement”! The foregoing was the response from the Head of the Secretariat of the Patriots; Olawale Okunniyi conveying the dissatisfaction of the group on my choice of caption. I am not unaware of the demand for detail and clarity that such a group of Eminent Personalities will place on public communication emanating from them. The group which prides itself with some of…

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Emeka Anyaoku’s name was first heard in my primary school class in 1975 when he became the Assistant Secretary General of the Commonwealth. Though the magnitude of the office and his role were lost to my 9 year old mind. Nevertheless it was worth celebrating that a Nigerian has risen to that height in the service of the Commonwealth. The seeds of bigotry and tribalism had been planted way back 1966, by successive military coup in those years. The spirit of our National Anthem in the lines; “though tribe and tongue may differ, in brotherhood we stand”, refused the growth…

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Rufai Oseni of ARISE NEWS TV , no doubt has some mien of sorts! This often translates to anger, which is a bit difficult to manage like that of every other sincere Nigerian who is at the receiving end of APC shege! I did advise a session on anger management for the Nigerian police when “trigger happy” was the phenomenon that journalism found to describe for frustrated, depressed armed officers who pull the trigger at the slightest provocation. They were desperately in need of mental health evaluation but our brand of journalism bails issues. Ajakaiye Adewole and Adewole Ajayi Ajakaiye…

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Tinubu, as President is an Institution! No amount of negative prayers or curses will affect him- Oyedepo Tinubu, no doubt is a man that God has blessed, crooked as his past might have been. The greatest blessing of any man is not in his bank balance, nor the inordinate desire to own the world and how much of it he has acquired. The blessings of men are men! People, come rain or sunshine who have made up their minds to stick to you no matter what, are your spiritual blessings and your social assets! In politics, it is called loyalty.…

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The beauty of law is in its practice, the strength of law is it learning. Little wonder lawyers refer to each other as learned colleague. Professor Yemi Osibajo stands not just out, but shoulder high among many both in the teaching of, and practice of law. Personal interests however, is a factor when opinions are sought on legal matters. The RCCG factor will not allow me to lean on the erudite law teacher and immediate past Vice President of the federal Republic of Nigeria on this. I had promised my readers a peep into the EFCC files to see how…

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Violence is bad enough in itself, but worse for humanity when it is corrupted by minds that are demonically inspired. Gen.6.13 And God said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before Me, for the earth is filled with VIOLENCE through them; and behold, I will destroy them with the earth. (NKJV) The word Violence in the context of this verse is translated from the Hebrew word “Hamas”. Let the world make no mistake, the vision of Hamas is very well stated and should be clear; to eliminate the state of Israel, in which case all Israelis are…

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In Ilesa, Osun State South West, Nigeria on October 15th 2021, the wild bull of constitutional, ideological roaming cows in Nigeria that was claiming lives, wrecking havoc and displacing communities was tamed prophetically. By a simple step of obedience; the tearing of our article of bondage. A very ridiculous thing to do, but it has to be and I am glad that God found a man to do it, before the gathering of available Kingdom remnants who believed in the prophecy of Pa Sydney Granville Elton. Pa Elton was a British Born Citizen who, “japaed” from London to Nigeria in…

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A democratic society should rely purely on the rule of law and its processes at achieving peaceful co-existence among its component parties!  Nigeria is of course a country in practice of Constitutional Democracy on paper! Our reality speaks to the contrary! Recently, in order to redeem the integrity of the police force, the new IGP Mr Kayode Egbetokun took the decision to withdraw all mobile police-men attached to VIPs! The police before now, had been so abused that some have become mere bag carriers for our oga madams as we call them! Others are family errands men, in some cases…

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The colour of an Elephant is anything between grayish to brown. One of the brightest of colours that is of tremendous attention catching is white! The saying “white elephant project” is an idiomatic capturing of the bigness of an Elephant that makes it impossible for it to be unnoticed! Bestowing whiteness on conspicuous land mammals that have no record of any being white in its historical records of existence is to pass across the nuisance to sight of an abandoned project! Obviously the most imposing structure in the home state of Retired General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma popularly known as TY…

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The change of leadership in the Country and its consequences on our social values is already being felt. A new direction for our entertainment and culture was rolled out at the Nigerian Bar Association in grand style.  The age-long song, “Bata re a dun ko ko ka….” sang with thrill by most of the lawyers in their primary school days in hope of becoming lawyers had lost its meaning! Named, Habeeb Olalomi Ogungbile, a. k. a Portable, goes commonly with the name Habeeb Olawunmi, is not limited in controversy to many names and aliases! The dramatic personality is no stranger…

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A headline on Tribune online reads this: ‘There’s no food, there’s no water, there’s nowhere to sleep’. This paints a picture of the growing humanitarian situation in Niger Republic mildly! Economic Countries of West African States should be disturbed about this reality, if truly our priority is the economy of the region and its people. But, interests other than the economy is at the centre of their consideration. 16 countries are listed as members of ECOWAS, 6 out of which have portions of their territories trapped in the traditional area referred to as the Sahel. Sahel describes a territory that…

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The office of the Chief of Staff was an invention of President Olusegun Obasanjo, patterned after the American model. The duties of the office are assigned by its Principal. Primarily it is meant to focus on managing the flow of information and people; serving as adviser to the president on various issues. Through these roles, the position wields considerable influence! It may become the most powerful office after that of the President depending on two basic factors, the relationship of the occupier with the President and his interest in the game of power! Nothing much of a conflict was noticed…

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Subsidy is the terror walking the streets in Gombe, the excuse for beneath human behavioural expression. A crowd of passengers were seen on the roof of a pickup in transit holding to nothing on Kano road and a bewildered me asked my Gombe friends what could be responsible for such unreasonable risk. I was simply told it was subsidy! What at this time is my mission to Gombe? Bolaji Akinyemi Kingdom Outreach, BAKO, is holding a Kingdom Life Empowerment Campaign at the Christian Association of Nigeria Centre. The focus is on talent economy; harnessing what you are given by God…

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Amidst the controversy of going to war with Niger Republic or not over a military coup, Nigeria loses an Army General, this is according to reports. Physical fitness of men and officers of the Nigerian Army is a premium routine in the military. This is regularly carried out to ensure the fitness and readiness of men and officers of the Nigerian Army. News monitored online this morning says an Army General fell and died while running during a physical training test. A senior officer in the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General I. M. Ahmadu has died while running during the Second…

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FCMB: Thinking People, Building The Nation? People thinking, nation focused banking system should preceed human capital development and national evolution for their sustainability. When the chips are down, nations are made of her individual citizens! The first step forward in the re design of modern Israel was taken in 1902, 54 years before the return of Jews back to Israel, when Leumi bank was formed in the UK by the Jews in exile to fund the nation they envisioned. The vision of Leumi inchoated the building of modern Israel. The word “Leumi” in Hebrew is from its root word meaning…

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The 60s was a turning point for Nigeria. The young nation took off with developmental strides, giant enough to make her colonial masters green with envy! With her pace, it won’t take long before overtaking her colonial nation, but a strategy was put in place to slow her down; a time marking strategy. However, that’s a story for another day!   Following the year of our Independence, 1961 to be precise, the University of Ife was founded and 6 years later in 1967 came its tertiary hospital named after the University. Both are now Obafemi Awolowo University and Obafemi Awolowo University…

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Building A Highway of Businesses Between The New Nigeria and Modern Israel A Paper Presented By Dr Bolaji O. Akinyemi at the African Leadership Summit; Jerusalem 2023. Ramada Hotel, 6 Ze’ev Vilany Street, Jerusalem. On the 1st of August 2023. Protocol Preamble: Israel is a nation we can better describe as SMALL but mighty and Nigeria in contrast is a big but feeble nation. What is the secret of this small but mighty nation and what are the reasons for a big but yet feeble nation? *Our Approach:* We are going to look at these two countries in contrast. To…

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The El Rufai On Tinubu’s Ministerial List Phonetics strengthens sound, and words may have different spellings, but if they sound similar, the speaker’s intention confuses the hearer. El’ as a prefix to some names is not necessarily confusing because once the suffix follows the prefix, the character of the bearer clears the confusion. The character of God is the neutralizer of the El sound in his name. When we hear the word “El,” we just need to wait to know if heaven or hell will follow. There is the inferred sound “Hell” in El Rufai, but it’s not all sound…

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The only consolation Buhari’s victory in the 2015 election offered was hope in APC’s promise of Restructuring, for a nation held down by malicious military system, one that created states to the advantage of their cliques in Khaki and gave out Capital for reasons as debased as to their wives or even girlfriend’s place of birth! Alas, our president after election manifested the traits of his military days and wouldn’t remember the promise he made to Nigerians! Sounding this to his hearing made him develop temporary amnesia and he couldn’t remember the word restructuring nor its meaning! Nasir El-Rufai led…

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_”I am a beneficiary of education without which I had no chance to be anybody in life”_ Those were the ear tingling words that got heads raised and all eyes fixed on the Speaker. The occasion was the graduation of Class of 2023 of The Hillside School in Gwarinpa Estate Abuja. I was privileged to accompany him to the event; Dr Ike Neliaku was a load of a choice, 2nd Speaker for the graduation after the Special Guest of Honour Professor Okey Ikechukwu, had given the audience more than enough food for thought to take home. The management of The…

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Several attempts have been made at saving the house of Nigeria from sinking by true Patriots who are averse to politicians’ stronghold on the jugular of our country. Dr Ike Neliaku in his book, The 7 Conspiracies of Power, fearlessly with all boldness took the bull in our China shop by the horns, calling out actors of our peril. Topping the list of our unfortunate reality is the conspiracy engineered against the state and the rest of us by the political elite. Let’s stay within our focus, which is the conspiracy of justice! In my own little way, I got…

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On the 4th of June 2014, we witnessed the emergence of the first politician to become the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria. Emefiele might have been a politician before this appointment giving the political exigencies to rid Sanusi of the Office. However his avowed interest became known when he purchased APC form to slug it out with other Aspirants in the party among whom was Bola Ahmed Tinubu, our new President. His interest in politics is enough reason for him to have been excused, but since Buhari left him to continue his havoc which provided further complications of not…

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In my article assessing Mr President’s one month in office, titled; “Tinubu’s One Month Old Presidency; EFCC Chairman will Determine What to Expect from this Administration”, I tried to be as balanced as any reasonable person can be. But the biases of our society has become cultural. If things will change for the better, a national reorientation must run pari passu with institution transformation. We can’t live in hope of change within our institutions without a public change of thinking and behaviour. Whatever we want to embark upon as a nation to save ourselves must not only address the consequences…

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The Senate Chamber may be a Buka where “judicial delicacies” are served to feed our gluttonous politicians courtesy of Senator Bulkachuwa’s half revealed nature of how seats are gotten in the Senate. The other half may end like Chimamanda’s Half of the Yellow Sun, with Anne Giwa Amu’s claim to the original half, except God the righteous Judge steps in. The red carpeted and furnished Chamber doesn’t look like a place that even an insane man will be comfortable to throw a banana peel. But the mischievous have their way of doing things, that exactly was what El-Rufai did with…

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