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Olalekan Adetayo

Reporter · NG

Indexed articles, last 90 days
12
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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Olalekan Adetayo

    Nigeria @66: Beyond flags and speeches (opens the original)

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    Tomorrow, Thursday, is October 1, and the nation is already in a celebratory mood again. It has been 66 years since the country gained independence from its colonial masters. Children born on the day the Union Jack was lowered are already senior citizens in their own right. Attaining 66 years is, no doubt, no mean achievement. On Monday afternoon, when I walked into a supermarket I frequent in a part of Ogun State, I met people already decorating the space with green-and-white balloons. It is th

  2. Article · Sep 15, 2026 · Olalekan Adetayo

    How high can petrol prices go? (opens the original)

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    On Monday morning, I drove through some major areas in Lagos. Those areas include Maryland, Ikeja, Egbeda, Ogba, Alausa and others. One thing that caught my attention during this trip was the different petrol prices displayed at filling stations along my route. The second thing was also about the stations. Most of them were empty. Later that afternoon, as I was concluding the trip, I drove into a filling station on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The station that I have been patronising for years,

  3. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Olalekan Adetayo

    The fake products slowly killing Nigerians (opens the original)

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    There is a serious crisis on our hands as a nation beyond insecurity, high fuel prices and poor power supply. It is the danger posed by merchants of deaths that specialise in producing fakes. There is absolutely nothing that these unscrupulous persons cannot fake to make money at the expense of people’s health. Wherever you turn, whether a supermarket, pharmacy, roadside stall, or market, they are there staring you in the face. There are fake medicines that will, instead of healing the sick, end

  4. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Olalekan Adetayo

    The sudden deaths we must stop ignoring (opens the original)

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    It wasn’t my plan to write on health issues again this week after last week’s edition that centered on illnesses that are becoming a death sentence. But I found it difficult to resist the urge, with some deaths recorded last week, including those of senior colleagues. Here, I am not talking about deaths after prolonged illness. I am talking about what has now become known as sudden deaths. Many times, when deaths that fall under this category are announced, we hear about how those involved went

  5. Article · Aug 25, 2026 · Olalekan Adetayo

    When illness becomes a death sentence (opens the original)

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    Nigerians are daily confronted with some very disturbing stories across traditional and social media platforms. They are stories of Nigerians, young and old, who are down with one illness or the other and are seeking public assistance to stay alive. These people, or their spouses, parents, friends and family members must have spent all their savings on the illness before resorting to seeking help outside their immediate circle. Media practitioners get these requests too often, an indication that

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