All Essays viewed from June 1 through June 30, 2013FINAL

UPDATE: Janice Cottrill, the daughter from hell won’t sell father’s house she took to father;

June 26 is eviction hearing!

Yoruba engagement aso oke, etcetera – Tola Adenle

Update: Small donors stop greedy daughter, Janice Cottrill from evicting own father from his

home – Tola Adenle

Woolwich murder, the MI6 connection: Younger brother of Michael Adebolajo ‘was paid

thousands to spy in Middle East’ – Robert Verkaik

Education Sector in Crisis: Evidence, Causes and Possible Remedies – Ladipo Adamolekun

The Story of Emotan – Tola Adenle

Incredible NASA photographs of Cotopaxi volcano, Ecuador, as seen from Space –

Yahoo News

Yoruba classic clothes at weddings: Sanyan, Etu & Alaari – Tola Adenle

Student loses eight family members on way to her graduation in auto crash – Kehinde Adio

Obit: Oyinade Asuni-Akran passes on!

Obit: Wahab Dosunmu, NPN Minister, Abiola /”June 12″ & a NADECO/PDP leader, dies at 74

– Tola Adenle

Most Yoruba males complete their looks – most looks – with Fila – Tola Adenle

O le ku! – The more things change, the more they remain the same, & Modern Uses for

Aso Oke

Rev. Brother Leo Ryan, Director, 60s-era Peace Corps Nigeria, Asoju Ataoja of Osogbo,

bestowed Honorary Degree by De Paul University – Tola Adenle

Yoruba and Sericulture: Yoruba classic clothes and textiles – Tola Adenle

We’re paying off our mortgage in less than 5 years! Yahoo News

Yoruba Aso Oke: 2013 Oje-Ibadan & Oje-Ede Market Days – Tola Adenle

OLOWO of Owo Sir Olateru-Olagbegi at Igogo Festival (1960s) – Tola Adenle

HELP, Nigeria’s Senators, a.k.a. “legis-looters” are bleeding the country dry! – Tola Adenle

Are happy days here again for Nigeria’s foreign-owned construction giant?

A bit of [Yoruba] history: Bashoorun Gaa (The Wicked Prime Minister of the Old Oyo

Kingdom) – Taiwo Olaniyi

On the edge: Devil’s Pool isn’t for faint of heart – David Strege

New Brit visa requirement: “Critics put ‘migrant bond’ in disarray” – Financial Times

Yoruba Classic Aso Oke (1 of 3) – Sanyan – Tola Adenle

A lowly bus driver shows there is a higher % of regular Nigerians who fear God than Nigeria’s

“men of God” who do His will

In Nigeria today, there is no discernible government – Anglican Cleric Bishop Fajemirokun

Meet charming though disarming Titilayo Oyinbo whose Yoruba mastery would shame

“Yoruba-Americanas” & “Yoruba-Londoners” – Tola Adenle

Yoruba Aso Oke: classic & modern, for every age, in every age – Tola Adenle

A real life tale of greed and betrayal from God’s own country as daughter attempts to evict

father from own home!

President Obama, stop calling our old man by name; call him Mzee or Madiba! – An

emotanafricana commentator

The Village Mourners Association By Wole Soyinka – Soyinka on Sahara Reporters

Serena, Maria, enough of the tabloid-type exchanges; let’s see a real tournament at 2013

Wimbledon!- Tola Adenle

Broad Street, Lagos of the 1950s [etcetera] & the creativity of our African ancestors that should

continue to shame us – Tola Adenle

Why do immigrant kids perform so well in America (2): The Nigerian example – Tola Adenle

In Brazil, the Yoruba gods are alive – PM News

The “condolence visit”: an in-your-face display by [Nigeria's] political class against the masses

– Tola Adenle

If Peter Kantowroski is his mother’s son, I wonder what the devil looks like!

British soldier’s slaughter a conspiracy? – Two Nigerian voices on the Woolwich slaughter of

British Soldier, Lee Rigby

N22billion Secret Government Largesse To 84 ‘Lucky’ Nigerians: HEDA Warns AMCON

Yoruba Classic Aso Oke (3 of 3, contd): Alaari [Ondo Variation] – Tola Adenle

Republicans cannot stay away from the word ‘rape’: “some girls, they rape so easy”,

Wisconsin’s Roger Rivard once said!

What’s in a name? – A look at Yoruba’s views of some birds’ names! by Dele Daramola

2006 Nigerian Census: Tribunal voids Lagos Mainland population figure, orders recount –

Premium Times

Using neuroscience to ‘cure’ Islamic Fundamentalism – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

Haiti, and the tragedy that Nigeria’s failure represents to people of African descent –

Tola Adenle

200 Nigerian girls trafficked to Russia monthly – Ambassador

African Connection: South Africa Post-Mandela – Ebony

The National Question And The Nigerian Constitution – Femi Aborisade

Yoruba Classic Aso Oke [3 of 3]: Alaari – Tola Adenle

Iju Public Affairs Forum (3 of 3): Images from Professor Adamolekun’s 70th Birthday Edition

2013 Confed Cup (2): Nigeria makes footmat of Tahiti; Uruguay & Spain await!

Why do immigrants perform well in America: the Nigerian example, continued – Tola Adenle

The fight to regain Ataoja of Osogbo throne continues

Obit: High Chief Lisa of Ondo Kingdom, Bayo Akinnola, passes on! – Tola Adenle

Islam and the enemy within – D.H. Habeeb

“The legacy of … a great Nigerian, a General in the Lord’s Army… ” & Yeye Jadesimi – A

Book Review – Tola Adenle

Something definitely worth sharing on – what do I call it now but still – “O le ku!”: A reader’s

challenge on “street language & slang” in Yoruba

Row over Mandela grave deepens as children are re-exhumed –

Ibadan “Grammar” celebrates its Centennial – Tola Adenle

Nigerian journalism & newspaper publishing industry: 1 of 2

Crunch Time: Gathering the [non-related Northern Nigerian] “Cousins”

Under an oft-referred to by racists in & outside Congress as “1st Black President”, African-

Americans lose two Civil Rights gains in one week!- Tao

Ashesi hosts biggest graduation ceremony yet for the Class of 2013

Obit., Updated: Chief Oluwole Awolowo is dead! – Tola Adenle

“The Lost Boys of Soccer” – Kenya’s Gallant Academy speaks out

Many Nigerian judicial pronouncements made to kowtow to political imperatives –

D.A. Habeeb

Snub, racism and official cheating against Venus & Serena: remember when “Umpire’s

Unforced Errors Lift Capriati” over Serena? – Tola Adenle

Yoruba Classic Aso oke (2 of 3), comprising all previously written on Etu – Tola Adenle

Yoruba Modern Aso Oke – TOLA ADENLE

[U.S.] Senator Chambliss gets his comeuppance from for his “gee whiz”, hormones remarks!

Sipping Moet & Chandon champagne or Hennessy brandy amidst the ruins in Nigeria

A Letter to my niece: the writing life & saying ‘goodbye’ – Tola Adenle

Kenyan joy: Britain “regrets” colonial abuse; cannot apologize due to “legal implications” –

Chron

Yoruba, as we know it, is an endangered language

Is Islamic Banking relevant in Nigeria? [Conclusion] – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

Women no longer at ease – Uganda’s Independent

Still to find a real home & a form, Freddie Adu debuts in Brazil with Bahia in a 3-1 loss to

Criciuma – Tola Adenle

“Fanciful reality [and] colourful fiction”: the Yoruba Wedding Engagement Ceremonies

revisited – Tola Adenle

Professor Adelabu becomes Ekiti State’s new Deputy Governor – Tola Adenle

New generation of elite universities rises around the globe – reuters.com

Yoruba Classic Clothes – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s depth & impact of corruption and a president who does not get IT

The Police Pension Fund Scandal; The SEC scam, etcetera

Yoruba classic clothes at weddings: Sanyan, Etu & Alaari – Tola Adenle

“What do you want in Ghana? Go back to your country!” – Ian Duncan Utley

“Sowing seed offerings” for entrepreneurs masquerading as “men of God” – Tola Adenle

Tragedy in America: Couple, who took “till death do us part” to mean just that, die in

suicide pact!

Whiz kid businessman, Jimoh Ibrahim “currently under investigation for fraud by EFCC”, will

be guest speaker at Police Anti-Corporate Fraud Seminar! – Sahara Reporters

Nigeria’s economy Czarina finally acknowledges her “baby” is in trouble same day she spoke

glowingly of same

A remembrance at Iju, Akure North of Ondo State – Tola Adenle

“Gee whiz,” hormonal level of ELECTED Republicans must make for narrow-mindedness &

Sexism! – Blogger’s opinion

2013 Confed Cup Wednesday, June 19: Brazil shows it still owns the Samba; sends

Mexico home!

Corruption lies at the heart of the underperformance of public sector organisations in many

developing countries – Joe Abah at Iju Public Affairs Forum

Update: Daughter from hell will get Eviction Hearing by jury of her peers, a victory of sorts –

NOT on June 26!

THE IMPOSSIBLE IS THE FUTURE: 1950-2000, a staggeringly life-changing and human

transforming period in modern history

The ugly face of China: Chinese tourists abroad are rude

Son of a Nigerian politician built a bed with N100m Naira Notes – Global Reporters, Vienna

Jeopardy! host poised for politics – Judy Kurtz

Yoruba Sericulture, contd.: The Akinkoye Collections (Male & Female) – Tola Adenle

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/27CnYO/:jGmFRvB+:AWtlyZZw/www.theweek.co.uk/crime/

war-drugs/49386/richard-branson-says-us-drug-policy-%E2%80%98war-black-

people%E2%80%99/

Voting Rights, Affirmative Action, and the Slow Murder of Dr. King’s ‘Dream’ – Kevin Powell

Nigeria’s “first ladyism” (12): Senate decision on Mrs. Jonathan’s N4 billion African 1st Ladies

Mission House may not be final!

Did President Jonathan, as Bayelsa’s governor, sponsor Beyonce for This Day’s

music “festival”?

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: “Ghana, The Begging Millionaire – Africa, The Begging Trillionaire”

Abdulsalami, retired General, former military head of state awarded Nigeria’s richest power-

using areas – Tola Adenle

“If a person in Singapore cannot account legally for the wealth he has amassed, there is a

presumption of corruption that he must disprove.” – Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew

In Nigeria, high blood pressure IS a terminal disease for the poor – Tola Adenle

“Age shall not wither her …” – Wole Soyinka [WS] quotes WS at Lady SAN’s 75th –

Tola Adenle

World-class university & golf course put sleepy Ondo-State’s Ilara-Mokin on world map! –

Tola Adenle

APGA wants Nigeria Governors’ Forum scrapped, says its existence threatens democracy

A high seas devilry: “Florida Teen Hitches Ride on 30-Foot Whale Shark” – Matt Gutman &

Anthony Castellano

Petition Update: “Warden at FMC Carswell recommended Compassionate Release to the

Federal Bureau of Prisons”

The Beatrice Olajide Ajayi Foundation (BOAF)

Meet Folake Ayoola: smart, passionate about the motherland, socially-aware and U.S. attorney

of repute

Of “wasted generation”, the one that “left town” & others – Pat Utomi

Betraying the people’s trust remains Jakande’s albatross & Aregbesola’s “mega schools” could

become his burden of trust despite people’s warm embrace in 2010

2013 Confederation Cup (4): Tahiti, The Cinderella of the 2013 Confederation Cup! –

Tola Adenle

Obit: Abibat Mogaji, Asiwaju Tinubu’s mother dies at 96! – Nigerian Tribune

The Letters to My Aunt/Letters to My Niece Series: Introduction – Tola Adenle

Banning of Hijab by Lagos State Government: still more comments

“Unprecedented lead poisoning” killing children in [Nigeria’s] Zamfara’s gold rush

Nigerians need “weep, not” on the present “Nigerian Governors’ Forum” brouhaha –

Tola Adenle

Pentecostal spirituality and noise pollution – Rev. Father Emeka Nwosuh in The Guardian

Yoruba Aso Oke: Oje – Ibadan & Ede – Market Days 2012 – Tola Adenle

Full Text of Oby Ezekwesili’s address at the 42nd Convocation Lecture at her alma mater,

UNN, Nsukka

The success story of Bola Kuforiji – Tola Adenle

The “condolence visit”: an in-your-face display by [Nigeria's] political class against the masses

– Tola Adenle

SOUTHWEST INTEGRATION (2): Revisionism? Awo’s legacy is imperishable – Tola Adenle

It’s Richard Dowden, again, but this time: “The G8′S Here, Time To Act On Tax Havens”!

Gov Ajimobi tackles Ibadan’s endless love affair with chaotic street-trading – Tola Adenle

Indonesian Women in Mixed Marriages Fight for Equality – Jakarta Globe

Yoruba History & Culture: Who are the Yoruba people? – Femi Fani-Kayode

Sole arguments before U.S. Supreme Court this term by African-Americans made by Nigerian-

American, Debo Adegbile

Abuja orphanage brouhaha or FCT Minister’s “rescue mission” – Tola Adenle

If you want your daughter to wear Hijab to school, send her to a private Muslim School – Lagos

State Government

Ondo-State born Nigerian-American becomes Provost/Vice-Chancellor at Illinois/Urbana-

Champagn

Lagos State’s ban of Hijab in government schools: Comments worth sharing

Hijab war in Nigeria’s Osun State: offshoot of growing religious problems in Nigeria –

Tola Adenle

2013 Confeds Cup Opener: Brazil 3, Japan 0

Northern Nigeria plays “dead man’s hand”! – Tola Adenle

Retired Lt. Gen. R.M. Kupolati, B.Sc., M.Sc.(Mech. Eng.): A tribute – Tola Adenle

Did You Know [U.S.] Memorial Day Was Started by Ex-Slaves?

Street protesters win: Brazil officials reverse transport hike – Tola Adenle

“Nigerian Women’s Empowerment – The Voice of Folayegbe Akintunde -Ighodalo” –

Tola Adenle

Ghana arrests Chinese nationals for illegal gold mining – fullmoonafrica.wordpress.com

Achebe left “a moral vacuum for the Igbo writer to emerge and the conscientious writer to go

under” – Damola Awoyokun

The “outrage” over Serena Williams’ comments on an American rape case – Tola Adenle

An open letter to Nigeria’s President Jonathan – Tola Adenle (2)

A reader’s comments on Emotan, The Woman, brings additional information

The Hijab Controversy in Nigeria: Yisa Ajao

Blogs elsewhere: Equatorial Guinea’s Mbasogo, former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun &

other stories – Tola Adenle

Women to get 30% of board seats & 40% of management positions by 2014!– CBN’s Lamido

Sanusi to Nigerian banks

With the Ibrus, the Akingbolas … of Nigeria’s banking industry in jails or en route, here’s a

little piece that cautions Nigerians, even now – Tola Adenle

St. Andrews, Oyo: 1903 – 2003, A Century of Andrian Legacy – Tola Adenle

A list of those who have continued to profit from Nigerians’ collective misery thru the “Oil

Subsidy” lie – Tola Adenle

Edward Snowden: the man who blew the whistle

Words on Marble from Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Viola Onwuliri

Oklahoma tornado disaster: Seven children ‘drowned’ in school hit by twister

2012: Where did Emotan readers come from? – www.wordpress.com

Update on “fake Ataoja”: Family Disowns Ataoja – Nigerian Tribune

An Ibadan-based [Nigeria] orphanage cries out for assistance –

Yoruba and Other Disappearing Languages, A Revisit – Tola Adenle

Yoruba betrothal and accompanying bizarre bazaar – Tola Adenle

Fola Akintunde-Ighodalo: (2 of 3) – “Education, women empowerment and public service” re-

echoes in Adamolekun’s keynote 2nd Annual Keynote address

Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo (3 of 3): Images from 2nd Memorial Lecture – Tola Adenle

FIFA 2013 Confed Cup (5): Diego Forlan celebrates international milestone with dagger into

Nigeria’s heart!

17 percent of all Nigerians in the U.S.A. hold Master’s degrees!

Watch out, your webcam may be turned on, but not by you, & monitoring your most

private moments!

Nigeria’s so-called “national” newspapers do not measure up – Tola Adenle

Pastor Adeboye & the miraculous petrol – A readers’ forum

Pastor Tunde Bakare’s State of the Country after Ezekwesili’s challenge to Nigerian govt to

come clean on squandermania!

PHOTONEWS: Fueling Poverty-New Film Exposing Nigeria’s “Fuel Subsidy” Problem Gets

U.S. Release

Opawoye &Ajetunmobi Group discusses the “Three Myths of Corruption” and the

Nigerian situation

Dolapo Ogutuga starts Nigeria’s First Winery – Anu Adams

Cloth only wears to shreds: Yoruba textiles photographs from the Beier collection [2] –

Tola Adenle

Islamic/Sharia-compliant banking

Awon ara orun l’o po ju l’Osodi – Tola Adenle

Where did emotanafricana readers come from in May & what subjects interested them? –

Tola Adenle

“Mimiko is real Awoist” – Awo’s “jewel of inestimable value”, HID, proclaims!

Zainab Kuchi, Power Ministry’s junior minister: “evil spirits behind Nigeria’s power failures”

as $13m+ goes to build Aso Rock’s banquet hall

Gulbis slams ‘boring’ tennis stars in French Open rant – The Week, Daily Email

Venus & Serena Wiliams and their Parents: A Tribute at Wimbledon Time – Tola Adenle

Iwa Rere L’Oso Enia: Poetry Review – Tola Adenle

If Peter Kantowroski is his mother’s son, I wonder what the devil looks like!

It may be almost three decades late, but Nigeria has finally arrived at “1984″ as president

splashes $40m on internet surveillance!

Retired General Obasanjo acts proxy on Ataoja Tussle – Tola Adenle

“Veni, Vidi, Credi, [I came, I saw and I believed]” – Bolaji Akinyemi at Mimiko’s

Inauguration Lecture

25,000 Guests at a wedding & the bride’s face was heavily veiled throughout the hours-

long ordeal!

Adiree launches videos from 2012 Show for African Fashion Week 2013 – Tola Adenle

NEPA/PHCN corruption alone sufficient to confirm “crime syndicate …” status for Nigeria

What were George W. Bush’s qualifications for president of the United States of America? –

Tola Adenle

A promising Tech Start-up Culture & Community in Akure, Ondo State?

Igbo-ora Land and other modern Yoruba “kingdoms”

Should we worry about the new mega schools? – A revisit to July 2012 essay, “Impending

disaster awaiting education in Osun State”

Nigeria’s pseudo “federalism” gets worse under Jonathan! – Tola Adenle

Another look at Achebe’s Awo diatribe: “If Igbo leaders had a quarter of Awolowo’s vision

…” Nwaezeigwe

Obit: Two-time African Footballer of the Year, Rashidi Yekini dies at 48!

Judge in $145m loot of Police Pension Fund erred in accepting defence’s plea bargain that

excluded prosecution lawyer’s input – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

Tafa Balogun, like others convicted for corruption, still flies high in society!

Yewande Akinola wins Exceptional Achiever award – Arup [UK]

“Good luck, Mr. Jonathan. It’s time you were impeached … Nigeria worst place for a child to

be born in 2013″

The manuscript that got “lost”: Remembering the Rev. Samuel Johnson, (Ayinla Ogun) –

Tola Adenle

An open letter to Nigeria’s President Jonathan – Tola Adenle (2)

Boko Haram Terrorism: politicizing insecurity in the Nation – D.H. Habeeb

In losing IT Down Under, Dear Serena, do not lose more than a return to World’s Number One

– Tola Adenle

Ulli Beier, teacher, patron of the arts, passes away far from “home” – Tola Adenle

“The lost boys of Soccer” – Tola Adenle

Dr. Joe Abah’s scope of study for POEs too narrow for conclusion reached – Bunmi Famosaya

for Discussants’ Remarks

A reader’s reaction to “Ibadan Grammar School Centennial” & my response – Tola Adenle

Something for Sunday

3-D Printer Brings Dexterity To Children With No Fingers – Steve Henn and Cindy

Carpien, NPR

15-year old Nigerian girl picks Harvard among many choices! – saharareporters.com

Does an expectant mother look this way? You be the judge! – MailOnline

World Bank To FG: Don’t Borrow To Finance Budget Deficit

Sovereign National Conference, an imperative that must come up – or Nigeria goes down

Achebe’s “There was a country” continues to generate reactions

Michelle Ukegbu’s Nigerian eatery at Houston that screams home – and class!

Another plea for more signatures for Tolu Akinrosotu’s clemency – Clyde Mansfield

“I want to leave a souvenir of my life,” – Gina Lollobrigida says as she donates jewelry to stem

cell research

Professor Sam Aluko’s Obit(2): Never shunned the role of a “lone voice crying out in the

wilderness” – Tola Adenle

Still on Ms. Christiana Mbakwe’s “It’s impossible ‘to not see color’ no matter what Kim

Kardashian says”

Two Social Causes for this Blog – Tola Adenle

The Sahara Reporters/Soyinka interview: comments worth sharing

The disappearing Naira – Tola Adenle

“There are only so many withdrawals you can make from your health bank account” – Arianna

Huffington warns 2013 Graduating Class of Smith College

The so-called Nigerian Governors’ Forum”: Acquired Instability Destabilization (AID) brings

more Nigeria’s political chickens home to roost

Update on “Most Yoruba males complete their looks – most looks – with Fila – Tola Adenle

Chinese teenager defaces 3500-year old Temple of Luxor with graffiti! –

The next Oje Market day at Ibadan & other shopping ideas elsewhere – Tola Adenle

Nigeria scores perhaps another world’s first: a land where properties NOT for sale are

advertised! – Tola Adenle

A $79,000/annum Nigerian nurse & 23 others among 32 credit card fraudsters who stole

millions of dollars through identity thefts!

A DIRGE FOR SINA OJO, Jr.: A LOST TALENT – [Late Organist at Tinubu Methodist

Church] – Tola Adenle

“Uncle T, no more emails”: Taiwo Obe’s tribute to GT Bank’s Tayo Aderinokun

Nigeria’s “man of God”, Pastor Adeboye justifies joining the jet-owning set! – Premium Times

UPDATE: Oje-Ibadan & Oje-Ede Market Days in 2013 – Tola Adenle

Premium Times Exclusive: Angry Jonathan mulls cancellation of $40million Internet spy

contract awarded to Israeli firm

Technology Makes Impossible Art Possible: Ted Weekends on Huffington Post with

Mick Ebeling

Day of Destiny for Ondo State

SOUTHWEST INTEGRATION (1): Ko s’ogun mo, ko s’ote mo … – Tola Adenle

Yoruba aso oke, classic & others [formerly Yoruba classic clothes), including a reader’s

suggestion to scholars of Yoruba culture out there

Blogs elsewhere: “Aso Ebi” menace

DV-Lotteries that are often pathway for Africans & Caribbean nationals to enter the US may

soon stop!

The siege on homosexuals in Africa: A Nigerian case from the not too distant past –

Tola Adenle

Green Beret who vanished in Vietnam War still alive? – Yahoo News

Nigeria’s legis["looters"] retreated at Ghana; “federal” civil servants retreat everywhere & now

Yoruba Governors leave for Dubai for SW “integration”?

Ghanaian Yalies, Heroes of Thursday, February 9th & beyond! by Metty Markwei

Free yourself from imprisonment, Food imprisonment, that is!

PDP and the denigration of traditional institutions

2012 Olympics (1): Noor al-Malki & Qatari women make history as Noor sprints her way to

London 2012

Wrapping guns and crosses in American flags enables America’s ultra-right to derive power of

falsely representing the “real America”: A reader’s comments by Yisa Ajao

Joe Odumakin gets U.S. Secretary of State’s Intl. Women of Courage Award

“Age shall not wither her …” rest of quote? – A blog visitor

Shining a Light on Poverty – Janine di Giovanni

Howard University’s African Students’ Association hosts “Evolution of African Fashions”

tonight in D.C.

The lie of Nigeria’s education: Benue library made its last book purchase during the library’s

inauguration 22 years ago!

Terminological Inexactitudes, another visit – Tola Adenle

Abracadabra accounting: Nigeria settles N51 billion London Club loan but none can tell who

took it? – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s “first ladyism” (10): Gbenga Daniel’s wife “held herself out as a Public Officer” while

Ogun’s first lady – Ogun State’s “Truth Commission”

Late Tayo Aderinokun: The tributes continue from a former colleague

Osun State’s mega schools – P. Tade Adekunle in Osun Defender

Strangers Donate Dream Wedding to Bride With Cancer – By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo News

Mission Incredible: Nigeria To Invest US$2.68 billion In Indonesian Refinery Deal

Reuben Abati and the Amen quota – Adeolu Ademoyo

Gambia: Information minister abruptly leaves Press Freedom Day gathering

Landmark birthday as London Tube [Subway] – world’s first – celebrates sesquicentennial!

Female loan defaulter beaten up before 3-day lock-up by Micro Finance Bank – The Vanguard

The Nigerian Police FARCE – D.H. Habeeb

The oil subsidy scam elicits words on marble by Nigeria’s Central Bank Governor, Sanusi

South African police accused of brutality and torture: “This is not what we fought for” –

Ronnie Kasrils

Will Nigerian boom babies feed prosperity or entrench poverty? – Tim Cocks

Time to end Nigeria’s pseudo “federalism” – Tola Adenle

Ulli Beier: The man who “needed no introduction” continues to speak to many from the grave –

Tola Adenle

Two Nigerians in US Civil Service win White House praise – Lai Opawoye

Nigerian “man of God”, Bishop Oyedepo accused of exploiting British members

The harmattan of venom – The Nation on Sunday’s Tatalo Alamu

Mohammed Haruna vs. Soyinka – Tola Adenle

International Fashion Moguls Diane Von Furstenberg and Adiat Disu of Adiree PR (producers

of Africa Fashion Week) work to Empower African Women in Fashion, Beauty ,and

Home Decor

“Hagiographers, foreign ‘African experts’ … have confined Chinua’s achievement space into a

bunker over which hangs an unlit lamp labeled ‘Nobel’” – Soyinka

PHOTONEWS: The State Of $470 Million Abuja CCTV Cameras & Solar Panel Backups 6

Months After Installation – Sahara Reporters

Gender in Nigeria Report 2012: Improving the lives of girls & Women in Nigeria – The

British Council

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: “Ghana, The Begging Millionaire – Africa, The Begging Trillionaire

– A New York Times recent essay as exclamation point

Of Nigeria’s “federal” capital’s 2013 budget, “African First Ladies Peace Mission” Bldg gets

about 2%! – Abuja Daily Trust

Boko Haram kills Christian Association of Nigeria leader minutes after emergency declaration –

Premium Times

Nigerian kidnappers-for-money strike again: which VIPs next, & when will these end?

Western paternalism & mercantilism by Coca-Cola a reminder of America’s industrial slavery

age of the 20th Century

The Yoruba Clothes, continued – Tola Adenle

Obama swears 2nd term’s oath “to God and country”, not party or faction … to preserve, protect

and defend the U.S. Constitution – Tola Adenle

Obit: It’s curtain-call for Chinua Achebe, Africa’s master story teller! – Tola Adenle

“Say hello to uncle” sub-culture cannot drive major Nigerian languages into extinction –

Professor Sola Oke at Iju Forum

Spain puts “spirited” Nigeria in its place with a 3-0 trouncing!

Eminent citizens to Jonathan: disband your cabinet now – Professor Nwabueze-led Eminent

Nigerians to Jonathan

Nigeria’s oil minister, Madueke who often flies on private jets abroad, hospitalized in England

The “letters to my niece” series – Tola Adenle

An essay on Oyinlola-era loan of nearly N19 billion resurfaces as Osun goes for another N30b

loan – pardon me, er, “bond” – Tola Adenle

2012 London Olympics (5): A personal angle – Tola Adenle

Let’s fight the scourge of kidnapping-for-money in Nigeria by getting the “unknown

kidnapped” captives freed – Tola Adenle

O le ku! ["Oleku"], The more things change, the more they remain the same & Modern Uses for

Yoruba Aso Oke – Tola Adenle

Comments worth sharing: Mimiko’s re-election & aso oke for wedding mail answered

HARMONY: The Ikoyi Club 1938 Magazine, July – September 2011

Nigerian women & the 2015 elections: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti in a view from the past &

other stories [Emotan, The Mag.]

The way people & things were … exactly 35 years ago this month in Nigeria – Tola Adenle

Fola Akintunde-Ighodalo (1 of 3): A tribute as a FINAL “letter to my aunt” – Tola Adenle

Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi speaks to PM NEWS

If Yoruba cannot grow their food, Yoruba must starve & – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s new ministerial list portends a future that is Nigeria’s immediate past – Tola Adenle

emotanafricana.com welcomes the Williams Sisters to Nigeria! – Tola Adenle

“I can’t take that money; I won’t sleep well at night … it’s not right” – Jeremy Affeldt

CBN donates N100m to Boko Haram victims in Kano

About 80% of businesses in Nigeria paid bribes – The World Bank

Why do immigrant kids perform so well in America: Indian-Americans & the annual Scripps

Spelling Bee

Jeremy Affeldt’s story reminds me of the extremism of the Japanese for integrity, loyalty and

honour – Dolapo Ajao

Echoes from historical times; rumbles from a distant past – Tola Adenle

Coming: days of reckoning for Nigerian looters?

United States of America worst place in Industrialized World for Babies – ABC News

Langley Park, Maryland: a Third World urban jungle amidst a glittering megalopolis –

Tola Adenle

President Obasanjo’s acts of omission and commission contributed to the ineffectiveness of the

two corruption-fighting agencies he started – Ladipo Adamolekun

Lock-out at University of Ado-Ekiti: Governor Fayemi, where are your “progressive” stripes? –

Tao

President Jonathan’s the-good-life amidst the reality of citizenry’s penury

Rotimi Amaechi, another top PDP pol, reportedly buys a jet – saharareporters.com

Nigeria keeps a-borrowing; will send generations yet unborn a-sorrowing! – Tola Adenle

Yoruba Governors NOT going near Burj Al Arab at Dubai for any parley! – Senator

Sola Adeyeye

Speak Yoruba App – Service to readers in Diaspora, not a paid advertisement

[US] NPR The Race Card Project: Six-word Essay Series – “Black babies cost less to adopt”

The Yoruba: from a glorious past to a feudal present – Tola Adenle

Scottish Church opens doors to Muslims – BBC Asian Network

The Dowden Lecture – Another view

God’s Surgeons in Africa – The Atlantic

Arguments on the issue of dressing code for Muslim Women – Yisa Ajao

Mr. Segun Adeniyi, p-l-e-a-s-e, spare us the agony of your sanctimonious posturing –

Tola Adenle

What qualified Nigeria’s ruling elites for my old awards of/for non-excellence: the ’09 Awards?

– Tola Adenle

Halliburton Bribery Scam: Million-Dollar Bribes Were Wired To Abdulsalami Abubakar, Julius

Berger, And Obasanjo – Sahara Reporters

Alex Jones, a radio journalist, exults: “America was born on guns and whiskey … we’re a

violent society”! – Tola Adenle

Comments on “OLOWO of Owo Sir Olateru-Olagbegi at Igogo Festival (1960s)

Andre Agassi’s drug bombshell & drug-fuelled excellence – Tola Adenle

Tafawa Balewa’s Leadership and Nigeria’s glorious past versus today’s “leadership” that brings

shame to MOST Nigerians

Mimiko calls for true federalism & assures sister states on regional integration at

2nd inauguration

Kidnappers of ex-Ondo commissioner’s mum demand N50m ransom – Abimbola Ayobami

This Day Newspapers shut down by workers over unpaid wages – saharareporters.com

Obama signs bill to grant Nigerian student U.S. permanent residency – Faith Karimi (CNN)

PDP is Nigeria’s greatest impediment to democracy and the country’s very survival

Obit: Mike Olopade, Loyola “Old Boy”; UniLag & Howard University alumnus, passes on –

Tola Adenle

What of federal civil (evil) servants who retire but do not leave the service?

Routing of PDP in Yoruba States not a wholesale endorsement of the ACN – D.H. Habeeb

Man who fathered 30 kids says he needs a break—on child support

Broadcast of President E.G. Jonathan on subsidy removal, a.k.a. Deregulation of the

Downstream Petroleum Sector

Wanted: A Moral Compass

LeBron & colleagues turned on the heat at Miami to hand San Antonio a loss in the NBA Finals

A Nigerian NOT on the list of “oil subsidy” receivers of Billions of Naira offers Jonathan’s

government advice

Geopolitical stakes in Nigeria: Curious role of the IMF

The plagiarism charge against the CBN’s Alhaji Lamido Sanusi is a blight on Nigeria & her

citizens – Tola Adenle

Wither Africa? Uganda & Nigeria’s economic choices

Oshiomole rejects multi-million Naira backing to “Good Governance Tour” group out “to

showcase govt achievements”: it’s a “scam”! says Soyinka

Obit: Funmi Olayinka, Ekiti State’s Deputy Governor is dead!

Obit: Sheila Solarin, Late Tai Solarin’s wife, passes on at 88

Blogs from elsewhere in the recent past on Naira devaluation, 2011 elections, etcetera

Open Appeal for security to Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police – Dr. Femi Aborisade

A reader reacts to story on Chinese mistreatment of Nigerian workers – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

Words on Marble: “it [debt relief]will be like a second independence … giving us the freedom

to focus …something our children will appreciate …” Ngozi Iweala

“Sanusi’s generosity to his Kano people” – Timothy Otunla

Letter to President Jonathan (3): “Oil Subsidy removal politics”: baits will be resisted because

protests are beyond labor leaders now

A reader’s contribution to “Time to end Nigeria’s pseudo ‘federalism’” – Abdsalam Ajetunmobi

‘ Wetin you carry’ and memories of a distant past

It’s Impossible To “Not See Color” No Matter What Kim Kardashian Says –

Christiana Mbakwe

Nigeria, still crawling at 51: a heartfelt plea in prose, and then in poetry!

Readers react to “Open letter to President Jonathan”

Yoruba Textiles –a short note FYI – Tola Adenle

Update: Fads, Fashions & Classics (flea markets, etcetera) – Tola Adenle

What is the promise of reform worth when President Jonathan budgets a billion Naira for

generators for Aso Rock?

Obit: The “Iron Lady”, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is dead!

The First Ladies, I: Nigeria’s “First Ladyism”: volcanoes waiting to erupt – Tola Adenle

Gospel/Book of Revolution according to St. Farcrook

WHY IS KEROSINE PERENNIALLY SCARCE?

UEFA: When John Terry played defense for England inside the net! — Tola Adenle

Fads, Fashions & Classics – Tola Adenle

Kogi Police explains arrest [of Action Congress Party members]

Pastor Adeboye and the miraculous petrol – Tola Adenle

The Guardian’s articulate & socially-aware Abati vs. Aso Rock’s Reactionary, His Excellency

Reuben Abati

Aftermath of social muscle flexing in Bayelsa: parents learnt of Navy-son’s death on broadcast

news! – Tola Adenle

Benue’s Yemisi Suswan & Nigeria’s “first ladyism”: (6) – Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s free fall into the corruption cesspool continues – Tola Adenle

Trending on emotanafricana.com – Tola Adenle

More words [of deceit] on marble

Five women, including bride-to-be perish in Lincoln Town Car fire en route to bachelorette’s

party in California – AP

Dr. Jonathan, check out this no one should be spared corruption allegation (7): A pension fund

thief stole $145m and got a wink-wink by a Nigerian judge; go-and-sin-no-more (almost)!

Shanghai Pictures re-done; earlier ones did not post complete images – Tola Adenle

Stella Damasus: When Is It Enough? – Stella Damasus

No one would be spared … corruption charges (5)

(Oil Subsidy Removal)/Wole Soyinka: Back to the Trenches, Predictably!

An Open letter to ACN’s Akande & Tinubu – Tola Adenle

2012 London Olympics (4): ‘Never again’ to fake opening ceremonies! – Tola Adenle

We cannot afford to wait …there will be nothing left to eat for the poor but the rich…! –

Dele Daramola

Obasanjo Library & the Beier Materials

As 2015 elections near, evidences show Nigerian women still have a long way to go: two op-eds

from emotan, the mag. from 1978 & 1981

Third World sensitivities beneath a façade of First World sensibilities – Tola Adenle

Blogs elsewhere: Mimiko is jittery – Olu Agunloye

African American fight for freedom on dispaly at civil rights exhibit – The Washington Post

“Cities dependent on the car will fail”: Architect, Sir Norman Foster in The Economist’s

“Intelligent Life”

An unlikely Inheritance – “O” magazine

That Dowden’s Lecture at Nigeria’s 51st Anniversary – Tola Adenle

LinkedIn or not, would media-savvy new IG, Mohammed D. Yussuf, be a better Nigerian

Chief Cop?

The evil of Nigeria’s federal policing in a grouping of multi-nationalities: The worrying case of

Akwa Ibom ACN Governorship candidate

Africa a Net Creditor to the Rest of the World – New Report Says

Hajj sponsorship by government is another avenue to steal public funds – Kano’s

Governor Kwankwaso

Crash Victim Maimuna Anyene: A Charming Woman Who Died Along With Nine Family

Members – SaharaReporters, New York

Phillips Patterson, Aids sufferer, copied entire Bible by hand in four years!

“Ask for the evidence behind any claim you encounter!” – Sophien Kamoun, The Sainsbury Lab

EXCLUSIVE: FG bans film on Nigerian poverty, places producer under security watch –

Premium Times

17th Century Slavery-era cabin headed to The Smithsonian – AP

The Standby Generation – Bernard I. Odoh

Passengers stranded as strike cripples airports – The Nation

Check out a – sort of – emotanafricana.com mini paronama at 2! – Tola Adenle

Time for [Nigeria's] legislative arm to check corporate greed, a la Multichoice, et al –

Tola Adenle

Nigeria’s financial insanity grows: purported millions on fueling generators at

foreign embassies!

S’e ti f’olopa mi l’onje in a world of a police of one’s own – Tola Adenle

A look-back at some posts in Emotan’s July/August 1978 issue

How will good leadership emerge in Nigeria? – A blog reader laments Akande’s “eldership”

in ACN

Buhari at 70: “He can salvage Nigeria”, millions believe

“If a woman wants to do a real job AND have a family, something has to be sacrificed” –

Senegal’s Marie-Therese Basse

Personality clash & the stoking of THE war of attrition in Yorubaland – a brief comment –

Tola Adenle

UAE cautions her citizens: Shun plastic bags!

Outrage after People’s Daily’s ‘Dishonest Americans’ column goes viral! – Amy Li

Endangered languages take to the airwaves: A reader urges various Nigerian governments

to act!

Islamic Banking Discussions get ugly!

Kuwait, gba wa, o; you are small & don’t have housing problem. We are a large country with a

huge population. – Nigerian Senator begs Kuwait! – Tola Adenle

Classifications of essay categories completed – Tola Adenle

Why Nigeria’s economy under Jonathan will continue to flounder – Tola Adenle

SOYINKAs OF AFRICA

THE FIRST LADIES (5): Strange calls for constitutional recognition of “first ladies” grow

more strident – Tola Adenle

It’s Richard Dowden, this time: “In Nigeria, they have all but given up on government”!

Mimiko’s re-election: in a land of overbearing “federalism”, has Nigeria arrived at one-man,

one vote, courtesy President Jonathan?

Still on public officers’ questioned/questionable wealth: Azazi, Madueke, etcetera –

Tola Adenle

Treat Greed in Africa as a War Crime – Kamari Maxine Clarke

Zimbabwe on Path to Regain International Acceptance – George E. Curry

The tragedy of wasted opportunities and baseless excuses by President Jonathan! – Fay

Deleola Daramola

But financial meltdown is already here! – Tola Adenle

Something worth sharing: Robert Wills & Ors [USA] gifted with a spectacular show of “A

rockslide and an arch that disappeared into sea”!

With a “disobedience of order of Court”, is Osogbo being ruled by a “fake” Ataoja? –

Tola Adenle

THE DANA AIR CRASH: Blogs Elsewhere

The Osun Mega School imbroglio: Open Letter to Dr. Isiaka Owoade, A Special Adviser to

Osun’s Governor Aregbesola

“Support Jonathan’s administration … only God can solve Nigeria’s problems”! – Osogbo

Anglican cleric

Election tribunals regarding Oshiomole & Mimiko: politicians must learn to win through losing

– D.H. Habeeb

“GIVE YOUR HUSBAND MY REGARDS, AND TELL HIM I WISH I ALWAYS AGREED

WITH HIM”!

Nigeria’s Ag minister Akinwunmi Adesina’s world acclaim and a pig-headed $375m cell

phones for farmers project

Letter to Nigeria’s Senate President, retired Col. David Mark – Tola Adenle

Nigerians, stop using communication gadgets to wish each other “happy new month”; start

asking questions with them – Dele Daramola

RELIGION & CORRUPTION: Continued discussion among an Opawoye & Ajetunmobi Group

‘Branding’ Nigeria, drug courier, etcetera – Tola Adenle

“It’s a mad, mad world” – Tola Adenle

You must tell Nigerians what you earn – Federal High Court Judge [Ms. Bilikisu Bello] to

Nigeria’s “lawmakers”!

The Nigerian Situation brought ["Face to Face"] Muyiwa Adetiba face to face with humiliation

at the American Embassy

The ever-falling Naira, a personal story – Tola Adenle

The Yoruba: Stripping away the masks” by Paul Richard, The Washington Post, May 21, 1990,

conclusion, May 23 Posting

Body enhancements unlimited: the tight laugh lines are here!

Ghana Arts Council’s “Soul to Soul”, a blast from the past & other blogs elsewhere –

Tola Adenle

Tanker fire guts 70 houses in Ibadan – Sahara Reporters

Mommy, daddy, ab’ole l’e d’ibo fun? – Tola Adenle

Obit: Olusola Oke,university teacher, scholar … passes on

An open letter to Nigeria’s President Jonathan – Tola Adenle (1)