Tag: Festus Adedayo
Ahmadu Bello Children’s Territorial Politics By Festus Adedayo
There was territorial tension in Nigeria last week. Like in the famous fable where animals gathered in the forest to delineate their individual boundaries,...
Oyinlola’s Crocodile & Fayose’s Carcass By Dr Festus Adedayo
Praise and dispraise are two usages for which the tongue of a Nigerian politician can be put. This is a common perception among politicians...
Awujale’s Burial & Aso Rock’s Graveyard Politics By Festus Adedayo
“Why should I bother myself with what is done to my body when I die? Oyomesi (the council of seven high-ranking chiefs in the...
The Rotten Apples At Louis Edet House By Festus Adedayo
Sometime in the early 2000s, at the cusp of Tafa Balogun’s glory as the Inspector General of Police, an oil magnate from a Southwest...
ADC: Death, Onikoyi & A Hunter’s Pouch By Festus Adedayo
“Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends Paralysis next/He sends Loss/He...
Tinubu’s Chicago Certificate As Afó’kéèmù By Festus Adedayo
Last Monday, as noiselessly as a phantom, President Bola Tinubu brought home his strange friend. While an Igbo proverb says the footsteps of a...
How Atiku, El-Rufai, Amaechi Can Learn From Tinubu’s School Of Politics...
Power politics in the animal kingdom could be as intense, deceptive and selfish as it is in the human kingdom. An ancient African allegory...
Farewell, Olori Solape Abolarin By Dr Festus Adedayo
For the well-respected monarch, the Orangun of Oke Ila in Osun State, Oba Dokun Abolarin, what philosophers mean by the concept of brevity of...
June 12 Wounds & Nigeria’s Search For Closure By Festus Adedayo
Antjie Krog is a South African writer, academic and broadcaster. As a radio journalist with the South African Broadcasting Corporation, (SABC) Krog reported the...
June 12 & Its Casualties, 32 Years After By Festus Adedayo
On Thursday this week, it will be 32 years of that June 12 phenomenon. On July 9, 1998, the lifeless body of a young...
