Tag: Festus Adedayo
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...
The Saturday Lekki Toll Gate Clampdown By Festus Adedayo
The Lekki Tollgate in Lagos has no doubt become a metaphor for injustice. Its notoriety as the place where the Nigerian government demonstrated its...
Nigeria’s Cow War: Northern Elites As Orogun Adedigba By Festus Adedayo
Oyin Adejobi, late Yoruba cripple thespian, renowned for his famous African alternative dispute resolution drama sketches called Kootu Asipa of the 1980s, once allegorized the story...
Aliko Dangote’s Costly Libido Mess By Festus Adedayo
How can a man fight very difficult life battles, vanquish them all, be a household name in the world as a result of his...
Day Poverty Made Ayinla Omowura’s Star Drummer, Adewole Oniluola To Weep...
"Eyin eyan yi, ti nba ti wa ku nko? (You these people, what if I had died?).” That was how celebrated drummer, Alhaji Rahman...
Bakare’s Acidic Arrows From The Altar By Festus Adedayo
Two anecdotes have been used to justify the controversial pulpit tirades of senior pastor of Citadel Global Community Church in Lagos, Tunde Bakare, whose...
Tinubu, Run! Please, Run! By Festus Adedayo
What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”?...
My Lord, I Am Counsel For The Accused, General Olusegun Adeniyi…...
British statesman and Liberal politician, William Ewart Gladstone and this white friend of my Shaki, Oyo State-born friend, who we call Kollysho, seem to be...
Slaughtered Farmers, Shekwo, Sultan Of Sokoto And Nigeria’s Sad Reality
With the most recent tragic news of the slaughter of over 40 rice farmers by Boko Haram in Zabarmari, Jere local government of Borno...
