Tag: Festus Adedayo
Making Of An Aláàfin: Bribe Or Gods? Asks Festus Adedayo
In a viral video, Professor Wande Abimbola, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, and the Awise of Yorubaland...
My Man Of The Year By Dr Festus Adedayo
The door of life is binary; it opens either ways, inwards or outwards. So goes an age-long wisdom. When the Thisday newspaper, on January...
Nigerians In Súàrá Sòbó Bus By Dr Festus Adedayo
I have been asked severally what my opinion was on last week’s presidential media chat. First, I must commend the presidency for hosting the...
Harvest Of Human Chickens For Xmas By Festus Adedayo
The unnamed woman had just given birth to a baby five days before. Her body was still wet as Yoruba say of mothers who...
Between Farotimi & Afe Babalola By Festus Adedayo
The question of whether the law of defamation is a hindrance to freedom of speech and a curtailment to democratic process confronted the Burkinabe,...
Reuben Abati & Davido As ‘cockroaches’ By Festus Adedayo
In 1992, Leon Mugesera, a senior politician in the then Rwanda ruling party, gathered a crowd of supporters at a rally held in the...
Obasanjo & Tinubu’s Tańtólóhun Dogs By Festus Adedayo
In 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘐𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘦 – 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘐𝘴 𝘞𝘪𝘴𝘦, 𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘏𝘦 𝘏𝘢𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘴 𝘖𝘸𝘯 𝘓𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤: Essays by Ulli Beier,...
Lagbaja: When Generals, The Olúóde, Die By Festus Adedayo
The Yoruba believe in the law of causation, a principle of philosophy which says that, every change in nature is produced by some cause....
Remi Tinubu, What Has God Got To Do With It? Asks...
The above was the question asked by Britons and the rest of the world in the afternoon of May 22, 2013. Close to the...
Ayinde Barrister, North & Tinubu’s VAT Bill By Festus Adedayo
In a gripping but evergreen musical rendition of a Yoruba folklore, late Fuji music lord, Ayinde Barrister, once deployed the canvas of the forest...