Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi

  Happy New Year to all Nigerians, and I hope we’ve all gotten off to a revamped tax culture that the President Tinubu-led government officially kicks off today, 1st January 2026. Payment of tax is one of the requisites of “citizenship”, and the effective and transparent utilization of these revenues is, in turn, a fundamental proviso of public leadership, whether in a democracy or any other form of government. Notwithstanding the declining public trust in Nigerians who hold public office (political office holders and civil servants), the question is: will you be any different if you were appointed or elected to any of those official seats today? The assurance in our individual answers will only stem from our current “citizenship” ratings.   When a Nigerian “citizen” points a finger at those in positions of authority, three fingers point back at him or her, signalling that there are enormous responsibilities expected of every bearer of a National Identification Number (NIN...

  My country has been in the global spotlight for the wrong reasons in recent times, as many Nigerians struggle to sleep with their two eyes closed, travel along our highways without panting in fear of possible kidnapping, congregate in their respective places of worship without trembling, or allow their children to go to school without fear of mass abduction. Albeit more prevalent in the northern region of Nigeria, insecurity is fast eroding our normalcy. From Kebbi to Niger, Kwara to Adama, Yobe to Borno, all 36 States and the FCT have each had an unfortunate share of Nigeria’s intractable insecurity over the last 15 years or so. I cannot but concur with the salient position advanced by the Senior Fellow and Director, Africa Program, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Oge Onubogu, at the public hearing held on Thursday, 20th November 2025, at the hallowed chambers of the United States Congress about the alleged genocide against Christians in our troubled country....

  The verb “decamp” is almost confined to political parlance among Nigerians, as it frequently adorns the headlines of media houses when they raise the alarm over the defection of politicians from one political party to another. It turns out, however, that major news outlets haven’t been led to investigate and create a sense of urgency on the need to control the cross-carpeting of a critical group of workers in one of the most essential non-political sectors of Nigeria’s landscape. Therefore, this article aims to shed light on a similar drift within Nigeria’s health sector, as well as the carrots being dangled by the receiving end (public health) that leave the donor entity (frontline clinical health) at the short end of the stick. I often hear colleagues in Nigeria tell me of their desire to exit clinical practice in search of “WHO-like jobs” (World Health Organization-type careers) that can take them around the world, attract them to conferences in beautiful hotels, earn fore...

  Happy 2025 Independence Day, fellow Nigerians. I had concluded this article a week ago and was searching for an appropriate image (not my usual picture) that would represent both its message and the significance of Nigeria’s Independence Day. Then, out of sheer coincidence, I stumbled on a message that read “I am a Nigerian. My tribe comes 2nd” at the back of a hooded white top of a fellow traveller at London Heathrow Airport en route Abuja on Friday, 26th September 2025. Gleefully, and like a man struck by love at first sight, I dashed to this torchbearer, who turned out to be Ambassador Otunba Adejare Adegbenro, to introduce myself and ask for his permission to take a picture - a request to which he passionately & humbly obliged before we exchanged contacts and boarded the plane to Nigeria. Of course, I had thought it fitting to dedicate my piece on Nigeria’s 65th Independence Day commemoration to discouraging a long-standing habit that unknowingly destroys our peace ...