Tag: Festus Adedayo
Obasa, Aláàfin Ṣàngó & The Capture Of Lagos By Festus Adedayo
On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group which...
Babangida’s Journey & His Service By Festus Adedayo
Since Thursday when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has taken center-stage of national attention.
The autobiography...
Nuhu Ribadu’s Hell & Other Hellish Stories By Festus Adedayo
Nigeria has just had one hell of a week. Like an evil spirit, hell hovered over Nigeria with fraught silence. To stave it off,...
Bisi Akande, Poverty & Ige’s Death By Festus Adedayo
In her biography of Ayo Rosiji, one of the key politicians of Nigeria’s first republic, entitled Man With Vision, Australia-born historian, Nina Mba, citing...
Amaechi, El-Rufai & Tinubu’s Kernel By Dr. Festus Adedayo
Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, in his lowest moment in prison, drew a comparison of how he sank from being one of the...
Mudashiru Obasa: Lagos Na Wa! By Dr Festus Adedayo
Lagos State and the drama of its embattled lawmaker and ex-Speaker of its parliament, Mudashiru Obasa, appropriately answer to an idiom in Lewis Carroll’s...
A Sunday Worship With Ifa Priest, Wande Abimbola By Festus Adedayo
Last week’s ascension to the Alaafin of Oyo throne by then Prince Abimbola Akeem Owoade courted tremendous ruckus in Yorubaland.
Why would an unseen Ifa...
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...
