Tag: Festus Adedayo

Whether real or imagined, none of the metonyms for “Lagos boy” is complimentary. The “Lagos boy” moniker once came up in the late 1980s....

All roads led to the exclusive Eternal Home Cemetery, Akinyele, Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State where international businessman, author and notable strategic...

In the 19th century and even before, Bobriskys were lynched like common criminals. Their sin was their considered unusual sexuality. Until then, homosexual activities...

“I know the arithmetic of the budget and the numbers that I brought to the National Assembly, and I know what numbers came back…...

Curses and magical beliefs are woven together in African politics. A study found out that virtually all African leaders come to power emboldened by...

Talented filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, recalibrated a popular Yoruba folklore in his famous Agogo Ewo (the forbidden gong) movie. A supremacy battle ensued between Eledumare...

We are about to witness a mud-fight between two gods of integrity. In a Nigeria where the mantra is, if you see something, say...

Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, William Butler Yeats, aptly put it in his famous The Second Coming. When...

So at plenary in the senate last week, Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, rushed naked out of the bathtub. He raised his hand up. In...

This is what Kurumi's Ijaye looked like after it was attacked and defeated by Ibadan forces in 1860/61: “Old people, men and women and...