Tag: Festus Adedayo
The Blood On Buhari, Amaechi’s Hands By Festus Adedayo
Prior to the July 11, 2007, coordinated bombing of commuter trains in India’s largest city of Mumbai, Indians, like Nigerians, were wrapped in the...
Bamise’s Murder & This Cryptocurrency Generation By Festus Adedayo
I delivered this paper yesterday at the World Kegites Club’s celebration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s 85th birthday which held at the OOPL in Abeokuta,...
Buhari’s Serial Abuse Of Nigeria’s Lady Justice By Festus Adedayo
Though it looks harmless, political cartooning can be nerve-racking, provoking the bile of political office holders and triggering huge political umbrage in the process....
Emir Bayero, African Bigmanism & Audacity Of The Blue Blood By...
The spat between the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero and Air Peace, one of Nigeria’s major airlines, has once again, among other...
Aregbesola, Political Treachery & The Ijebu-Jesa Sermon By Festus Adedayo
Chinua Achebe’s Tortoise folktale in his highly celebrated Things Fall Apart, among other motifs, excoriates an act of betrayal as evil.
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In having Ekwefi, one...
The Abba Kyari Mascot We Wear On Our Lapel By Festus...
A lot has been said and written about how a suspended deputy commissioner of police, Abba Kyari, arrived at this disgraceful waterloo juncture of...
Sofiat’s Murder & Our Booming Human Body Parts Market By Festus Adedayo
With the shock, anger, and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of 20-year-old Sofiat Kehinde, allegedly perpetrated by her boyfriend and three of...
Atiku Abubakar & The Sexual History Of The Nigerian Presidency By Festus...
In early 2014, the Zimbabwean public sphere literally caught fire. Rumours that the country’s former Prime Minister and the presidential candidate of the Movement...
General Abubakar, Was MKO’s Death Really Natural? Asks Festus Adedayo
Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English, Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, commonly known as V.S. Naipaul, would seem...
Why Tinubu Must Never Be Nigeria’s President By Festus Adedayo
So I was at the Alausa Governor’s Office in Lagos. Accessing the governor was like seeking needle in a haystack. His Press Secretary sent...
