Tag: Festus Adedayo
What If We Wake Up Tomorrow To A Coup In Nigeria?...
The New York Times report of March 13, 1976 put the story of Nigeria’s perennial human sacrifices by the bloodthirsty grove of coup-plotting most startlingly.
The day before, newly...
Gbenga Adeboye: 18 Years After The Gnome’s Exit By Festus Adedayo
Last week, specifically on April 30, 2021, humorist, broadcaster and multi-talented Master of Ceremony, Elijah Oluwagbemiga Adeboye, clocked 18 years underneath the surface of the earth....
Pantami: Buhari’s Terrorism-Canceling In Name Of Region And Religion By Festus...
On Christmas day in 2009, Nigeria’s Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, aged 23, having been born December 22, 1986, attempted to detonate plastic explosives that were...
One Hundred Minutes Before Obasanjo By Festus Adedayo
Did I promise President Olusegun Obasanjo that there would be a ‘rematch’? I cannot precisely remember. But here we were, about 20 years after;...
Fayose’s Seaside Prayers As Nigeria In Hands Of Mammy Water By...
At first sight, you would think you had seen Mammy Water, that fish-god image created by Sir Victor Uwaifo, famous Joromi singer, Nigerian musician, sculptor and university...
The President Is A Sick Man: Buhari’s Secret Surgeries Inside Oneida...
The President Is A Sick Man is the title of a book written by Philadelphia-born award-winning American journalist, Matthew Algeo. It is a chronology of...
Ilorin Hijab: Between Babarinsa & Kawu By Festus Adedayo
The needless crisis over the wearing of veils called Hijab by students and pupils of Kwara public schools, like an ill-wind, has provoked all...
Monguno’s Missing $1b: Fraud Or Freudian Slip? Asks Festus Adedayo
Unbeknown to many Nigerians who haven’t heard him speak, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Security Adviser (NSA) secretly admires self-styled...
Buhari & His Tinubu Frankenstein By Festus Adedayo
The news last week that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had begun a probe into the finances of former governor of Lagos...
Exit Of Ewart Beckford, U-Roy By Festus Adedayo
The reggae world lost a pioneering icon last week. He is Ewart Beckford, better known as U-Roy. Beckford was a king of the microphone, beginning...
