Articles by Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi

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Smoking Out a Boko Haram Closet Supporter
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Nov 2015

Boko Haram, the terrorist Islamic organisation crashed into the Nigerian national stage with fury (2002), fire (2007) and firestorm (2009). The word Boko, a Hausa adulteration of the English word “book,” and haram, the Hausa word for forbidden, together mean ‘aversion to Western education.’

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JOHN DARA: NIGERIA’S OBAMA?
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi, Ph.D., 16 Jan 2010

The Peoples Democratic Party, Nigeria’s ruling party, since the transition from military dictatorship to civilian manipulation, which prides itself as the largest party in Africa boasted on 1 October 2009, the 49th independence day anniversary, that the party will rule Nigeria uninterrupted for the next 60 years.  That boast was three months ago.  Since then, […]

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BELLO, CLAPPERTON-1824, YARADUA’S AMNESTY, AND THE NIGER DELTA
Rev. Olufemi Oluniyi, Ph.D. - Centre for Values and Social Change, Nigeria, 12 Nov 2009

In 1823 Hugh Clapperton, a British adventurer, set out to unravel the Niger waterway.  He arrived in the Bornu in the Lake Chad region late that year and went westward to Kano in 1824, and later to Sokoto in the same year.  Sultan Bello, the ruler of the Muslim empire founded by his predecessor, Uthman […]

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