Ayokunle Adeleye

YOUTHS, Save NIGERIA

May 17, 2014December 22, 2016 Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment

I have since heard many a youth lament about how our grandfathers continue to ruin the country in the name of ruling it, about how the rulers of yester years are yet the leaders of tomorrow, about how these grandfathers themselves were youths when they set out but now detest our youth and our entitlement, about how the affairs of the youth are left for… Read more

The POTENTIAL III: Minding Your Own Business

May 13, 2014December 22, 2016 Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment

I have since realised that youth can be turned to advantage, that things are easier when one is young (contrary to popular opinion and everyday observation); that when one is young, the ‘whole world’ typically rallies around to help, advice is easier to get and experience, to garner, and the ancient argumentum ad misericordiam holds sway. Ironically, that is when one is interested in camaraderie,… Read more

THE POTENTIAL: Realising limits

April 20, 2014December 22, 2016 Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment

It was the best of times. His luck could not have been better. Yes, he was in debt, but that day he recouped his losses. That day he had made 25 000 from betting at the casino. That day, he only needed 25 000 more and his debt would be no more. There was no need to debate the issue. All he had to do… Read more

The POTENTIAL: Breaking Forth

March 19, 2014December 22, 2016 Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment

It was the beginning of a new session. The young boy put on his uniform and was set for school. At the end of the term, the boy was sent home with a note from his teacher thus: ‘This boy should not report to school henceforth. He’s too dull for knowledge and performed woefully in arithmetic. He may never amount to anything in life’. That… Read more

The PROFIT Percent

March 11, 2014December 22, 2016 Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment

Everyone is out to make money. More money. And more money. And if you’ve put in some money already, then you’re out to make a profit, plain and simple. Still, one often, if not frequently, makes profit but still doesn’t quite hit jackpot– or put another way, doesn’t feel as comfortable as his seemingly lesser competitor seemingly making lesser profit. So that one is eventually… Read more

In Defence of the ASUU STRIKE

November 7, 2013November 7, 2013 Ayokunle Adeleye Leave a comment

Resolved: ASUU strikes are utterly ineffective, totally uncalled for, profoundly senseless, and the students are always the only victims. Defence: It is no news that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) had for the past three years embarked on shorter, warning, strikes over the non-implementation of its Agreement with the Federal Government (FG) with the general public- and market women- haplessly looking on and… Read more

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