Dr. Adetolu Ademujimi

  Happy workers’ day to Nigerians who work hard and even smart, but unfortunately earn less than political office workers who receive rewards in exaggerated proportions. The fact that I’ll soon be a member of the country’s political class wouldn’t deter the sincerity of my thoughts expressed in this and many more writings. So, I pen this article with the consciousness that the question is also directed at me. Now that it appears the political terrain in Nigeria is a very fertile ground that is astronomically more rewarding of the ‘hard work’ of politicians than the diligence of millions of non-political professionals & entrepreneurs, a pandemic arising from such detrimental political reward culture is apparently about to consume the rest of us. The crux of this commentary, therefore, is to interrogate this destructive trend of exorbitant privileges along our political corridor that has become more addictive than pornography. This patriotic piece of writing attempts to speak to ea

  It wasn’t an  April fool  report in the second week of March, 2023, that Ogun State police command arrested five suspected “ritualists who had been exhuming corpses from their graves and removing parts of their bodies for ritual purposes”. Be it as rituals or rites, the religious undertone of these barbaric and bizarre beliefs of spewing money from mysterious doings justifies turning the heat on religion in Nigeria, during these dark days, in an urgent effort of “recovering our social architecture”. We need to analyze the theory of long spoons constantly dining with the devil for metaphysical liberation from poverty. Has it ever occurred to Nigerians that there’s no nation of the world without some degree of economic downturn at least at one period of their national lives? Afterall, many African countries have, and continue to experience famine, wars, political instability and so forth with socioeconomic backlash. Yet, how many of their citizens have embraced ritual killings as