Tag: Festus Adedayo
Tinubu Is The Law! By Dr Festus Adedayo
"Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law." Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator,...
Nasir El-Rufai & The Philosophy Of Nothing By Festus Adedayo
Former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai caused a mild stir last week. Though the resignation of his membership of the All Progressives Congress...
Now That Natasha Has Made Akpabio Happy By Festus Adedayo
In South Africa under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, any analysis of government and governance without factoring sex into the mix was tame and...
Obasa, Aláàfin Ṣàngó & The Capture Of Lagos By Festus Adedayo
On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group which...
Babangida’s Journey & His Service By Festus Adedayo
Since Thursday when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has taken center-stage of national attention.
The autobiography...
Nuhu Ribadu’s Hell & Other Hellish Stories By Festus Adedayo
Nigeria has just had one hell of a week. Like an evil spirit, hell hovered over Nigeria with fraught silence. To stave it off,...
Bisi Akande, Poverty & Ige’s Death By Festus Adedayo
In her biography of Ayo Rosiji, one of the key politicians of Nigeria’s first republic, entitled Man With Vision, Australia-born historian, Nina Mba, citing...
Amaechi, El-Rufai & Tinubu’s Kernel By Dr. Festus Adedayo
Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, in his lowest moment in prison, drew a comparison of how he sank from being one of the...
Mudashiru Obasa: Lagos Na Wa! By Dr Festus Adedayo
Lagos State and the drama of its embattled lawmaker and ex-Speaker of its parliament, Mudashiru Obasa, appropriately answer to an idiom in Lewis Carroll’s...
A Sunday Worship With Ifa Priest, Wande Abimbola By Festus Adedayo
Last week’s ascension to the Alaafin of Oyo throne by then Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade courted tremendous ruckus in Yorubaland.
Why would an unseen Ifa...
