Tag: Festus Adedayo
What Is New About New Year 2023? Asks Festus Adedayo
So that mythical Nigerian year, 2023, is here at last? For Nigerians, 2023 is not just a year of newness as all years represent...
Onanuga, Alake & Obaigbena At Thessalonica By Festus Adedayo
To many, the recent virulent attacks and counter attacks by top Nigerian journalists, served a la carte to the world in the last two...
Ariwoola’s Raw Baptism By Festus Adedayo
Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Olukayode Ariwoola, got a raw baptism from politicians recently. In a statement attributed to him which went viral and...
Charlatanism At Chatham House By Festus Adedayo
Egba, Ogun State-born indigenous African Sakara music exponent, Sanusi Aka, popularly known as S. Aka Baba Waidi, in two of his vinyls, illustrates my...
Qatar World Cup, Alcohol & Gays By Festus Adedayo
A little over a week ago, on a Qatar Airways flight journeying to Doha, city of the current World Cup fiesta, I saw a...
Day Ayinla Omowura & Ayinde Barrister Dueled In Philadelphia By Festus...
Bala-blu-blu-bulaba, All Progressives Congress (APC’s) festival of incoherences, should attract a writer. So also the celebration and justification of its impending fatality.
Feeble and...
Southwest’s Forests Of A Thousand Demons By Festus Adedayo
From my personal ranking of their tragic imports, three events which occurred in the last week constitute leading narratives of where we are today....
The Abduction Of Pa Reuben Fasoranti By Festus Adedayo
In 1996, his car riddled with bullet holes inflicted by General Sani Abacha’s goons aimed at assassinating him, Yoruba Afenifere Leader, Senator Abraham Adesanya,...
Abuja Bloodshed Warning & Nigeria’s Cassandra Complex By Festus Adedayo
Greek mythology, in the Aeschylus tragedy called Agamemnon, told the story of Cassandra. She was a pretty damsel highly sought after by the god,...
Oluwo, Wande Abimbola & The Philistinism Of Culture By Festus Adedayo
Sometime in the 19th century, as he stood in the ancient town of Ijaiye in present-day Abeokuta, Ogun state, an American missionary, Richard Henry...