Tag: Festus Adedayo
COVID-19: Time to go Madagascar By Festus Adedayo
Like many other societies in the world, Africa boasts of a past that is ambivalent, a mixture of the good, the bad and the...
Eighty Gun Salutes For The GOC, Ibadan Media Division – By...
There are two General Officers Commanding (GOCs) in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State. While the 2 Division of the Nigerian Army, based in Ibadan,...
The rebirth of Ayinla Omowura By Festus Adedayo
My book on the late Yoruba Apala music maestro, Ayinla Wahidi Yusuff, popularly known as Ayinla Omowura, will be out on Wednesday, May 6,...
Should We Hang Abba Kyari On The Crucifix Or Beatify Him?...
Last week, conversations on the kind of man and the type of life lived by Malam Abba Kyari, late Chief of Staff to President...
Can’t Buhari Stop Waffling On Boko Haram? Asks Festus Adedayo
Even when its blood-sucking soldiers slash the throats of captured Nigerians in audacious video recordings that periodically go viral on the social media, the...
Do Buhari, Malami know a man called Tafawa Balewa? – Festus...
Apparently a young officer of the Nigerian Army at the time Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was the Nigerian Prime Minister from 1957-1966, it goes without...
Amontekun, Ekun: A Missing K’ajola Spirit By Festus Adedayo
Southwestern Nigeria, last week, in an act that was alien to it in the last decades, came together with one voice to tackle a...
Yoruba’s So’gigun and Buhari, the Old Soldier By Festus Adedayo
Sometime in 2015, General Ibrahim Babangida, during a visit to him by General Muhammadu Buhari to seek his support for his dream to become...
Between The Police And Abdullahi’s Hate Bill By Festus Adedayo
In fulfillment of the Socratic dictum which says that an unexamined life is not worth living, I want to begin this piece by playing...
Kogi’s Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta And Nigeria’s Head Of The Medusa By Festus Adedayo
Three things appear very tragic in last week’s Kogi governorship/senatorial elections. They are, first, the video that went viral of the young Kogi ladies...
