Tag: Festus Adedayo
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...
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...
