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Yesterday’s magnates, today’s exiles (1) (opens the original)
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Associate Editor and multiple award winning journalist with The Nation, Olatunji Ololade The tarmac at the Abuja airport in the rainless, dusty harmattan of late 2015 did not look like the edge of a cliff. Yet, for a specific class of Nigerians who spent a decade profiting from the country’s political economy, it became precisely that. Immediately power changed hands in May of that year, from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress (APC)
Playing ostrich (opens the original)
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The newspaper vendors at Ijaiye bus stop, Pen Cinema, Agege and Ojodu Berger bypass frequently map the Nigerian psyche at their stalls. Every day, the headlines are spread on wooden tables, held down against the breeze by broken concrete or old spark plugs. Around them, men gather in small clusters, their voices rising against the rumble of yellow buses. Many of them define the news strictly by the headlines; only a few dare read between the lines. The latter may occasionally display a sharp ins
On a journalist’s paycheck (2) (opens the original)
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It’d be instructive if it were not so dire that last week’s piece, “On a journalist’s paycheck,” generated mixed reactions. A few senior editors, correspondents and reporters noted how the article speaks directly to their plight. Some interns and cub reporters revealed that the narrative scares them. Yet, the most damning response came from an accounts executive. “You know most journalists aren’t deserving…Or is it not the same people we deal with every day?” he said, narrating how he recently t
On a journalist’s paycheck (opens the original)
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Associate Editor and multiple award winning journalist with The Nation, Olatunji Ololade The last time a colleague rebuked me for writing “worthless English” – precisely four days ago – instead of using this column to “make serious money,” I remembered the twilight of 2005, when Mr Shola Osunkeye screamed my name in an editorial fit. Something really did give the moment he came across my editorial script and yelled: “Aargh! Who is this man? Olatunji Ololade!” “What have I done this time?” I wond
Puppet patriots (1) (opens the original)
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Associate Editor and multiple award winning journalist with The Nation, Olatunji Ololade It’s a sight worth reliving, endlessly, to see a random trader in Agege read the sky to distinguish benign drizzle from torrid downpour. Without consulting any satellite or weather app, she decides by simply taking a look at the peculiar blue of the bruised firmament, and instantly covers her wares with nylon sheets or begins to move her basins of dried pepper and stock fish under the zinc awnings. Beneath h
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