Adeyemi Cole, Author at Afripinion-News Blog And Lifestyle Magazine Site

We Will Meet the Barbarians at the Gate: No Retreat, No Surrender, No Plan B!0
- Nigeria
- Thursday, May 13th, 2021
In 1842 Thomas Babington Macauly wrote my favourite poem titled ‘Horatius at the Gate’ and made a point that we can all learn from in Nigeria today. He wrote: “Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: “To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die
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LASTMA as an instrument of extortion and entrapment in Lagos State.0
- Nigeria
- Saturday, May 8th, 2021
The supposed purpose of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) is to “manage traffic in Lagos State, Nigeria”. In other words, LASTMA is traffic wardens tasked with the sole purpose of managing the free flow of traffic. But, as a lot of Lagosians will observe, the agency has morphed into a money-making machine both
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Gumi demands the CNB pay 100 million Greenfield students’ ransom.4
- News
- Wednesday, May 5th, 2021
Sheik Ahmad Gumi, an Islamic cleric, recently urged the Federal Government of Nigeria not to make light the threat by the kidnappers of students of the Greenfield University, Kaduna. He warned of dire consequences in relation to the lives of the students should the ransom demands of the kidnappers not be met. Gumi urges FG
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African Participation and Resistance to the Slave Trade 0
- Africa
- Saturday, May 1st, 2021
With some early exceptions, Europeans were not able to independently enter the West and Central African interior to capture Africans and force them onto ships to the Americas. Instead, European traders generally relied on a network of African rulers and traders to capture and bring enslaved Africans from various coastal and interior regions to slave
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