Tag: Festus Adedayo

Two great musicians of the Yoruba extraction, Yusuff Olatunji and Ayinla Omowura — lords of Sákárà and Àpàlà, two generes of Yoruba traditional music...

“I walked into the Governor’s Lodge, my feet languid and heart trembling. When you walk into that hallowed premises, you are not sure of...

The way things are panning out, by the time President Bola Tinubu finishes his course, he will be competing with Mrs. Malaprop in serial...

“Critics must talk. When they accused me of killing the opposition, but I didn’t have a gun.” That was President Bola Tinubu talking last...

As Eze Ogbunechendo of Ezema Olo Kingdom in Enugu state, Lawrence Agubuzu, stood before him last week, President Bola Tinubu must be fascinated by...

At the height of its glory, D’Rovans Hotel in Ibadan, Oyo State, stood like the Chappal Waddi. Standing 2419 meters or 7996 feet above...

Subú-seré? Poetic licence gave me the indulgence of this headlining. Not even the English Language, in its pretentious globality, could capture Subú-seré. Like Shakespeare...

In perhaps his most famous song after dying in a car crash in 1971, Cardinal Rex Lawson, Kalabari highlife soulful singer of the 1960s...

Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, Minister of Education in the First Republic, under Tafawa Balewa, and Minister of Justice under Alhaji Shehu Shagari, and one...

As I write this, I am listening to a line of the song of my favourite Jamaican reggae music superstar, Peter Tosh. It is...