Tag: Festus Adedayo
Buhari’s October 1 Rhetoric, Mailafia & Akunyili’s Murder – Festus Adedayo
I find a symbolic similarity between the travails of Dr. Chike Akunyili and Reverend Richard Henry Stone, (1837–1915) the latter’s which I picked from his memoir...
Nigeria’s Huge Market Of Blood And Human Sacrifice By Festus Adedayo
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of the discovery of the torso of a young boy by the bank of River Thames in London. On...
Bawa, FFK, Shehu: Of Slump, Slum & Somersault By Festus Adedayo
Last Thursday, when the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) reportedly slumped at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the story of the...
Tale Of VAT, The Lazy Grasshopper & The Ant By Festus...
There is this ancient fable of the ant and grasshopper that best explains the Nigerian fiscal federalism duel. Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, amplified...
Nigeria’s Cat & Mouse Fight With Amnesty International By Festus Adedayo
"Where the cat is a kitten, the court is wretched… No man there would rest at night because of rodents, for we mice would...
Commodore Olawunmi And The Maladies This Time By Festus Adedayo
An early morning inferno broke out in Circus Maximus, Rome on June 19, 64 A.D. It spread like bushfire through the ancient city. Emperor...
Buhari: How Not To Fail By Festus Adedayo
President Muhammadu Buhari made one of the most down-to-earth statements of his presidency last Thursday, though by proxy. After meeting Nigerian security chiefs at...
The ‘Kabiyesiness’ In Buhari, Tinubu’s UK Photo By Festus Adedayo
There was this conversation between President Muhammadu Buhari and Al Jazeera television held in Quatar in March, 2016. That interview explains the imperialness, the...
Is Babangida Also A Master Satirist? Asks Festus Adedayo
In 1964, the Nigerian Tribune’s editorial comment, entitled Where do we go from here?, a scurrilous attack on the Premier, Ladoke Akintola’s government of...
Sunday Igboho & allegory Of Asantehene Golden Stool By Festus Adedayo
Queen Mother Nana Yaa Asantewaa was just a mother and farmer who spiced her vocation with being an intellectual, politician, and human rights activist....
