Tag: Festus Adedayo
June 12 & Its Casualties, 32 Years After By Festus Adedayo
On Thursday this week, it will be 32 years of that June 12 phenomenon. On July 9, 1998, the lifeless body of a young...
A Fictional Report Of Tinubu, Trump’s Meeting At The White House...
An ice wall initially separated President Bola Tinubu and POTUS Donald Trump. As they sat inside the White House’s Oval Office, Tinubu was the...
Tinubu’s Lifejacket & A Deer’s Sacred Skin By Festus Adedayo
What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. An ethnographic study of hunters in a wild...
Dele Momodu: Celebrity Of Nigerian Journalism @ 65 By Festus Adedayo
Last week, icon of the Nigerian media, Dele Momodu, celebrated his 65th birthday. One of the events hallmarking the celebration was the Dele Momodu...
Aso Rock’s Voodoo Statistics And My Friend, Al Venter By Festus...
A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never knew it was Providence’s...
Umo Eno, Oborevwori & Okowa’s Political Harlotry By Festus Adedayo
Is there morality in politics? Or, should there be morality in politics? Governors of Akwa-Ibom and Delta States, Umo Eno, Sheriff Oborevwori and ex-governor...
Nigeria Hosts Nyerere’s One-Party Ghost By Festus Adedayo
It was almost impossible not to be infected by the joy writ large on the face of the One-party state Villa-fawning group this past...
Nigerian Leaders As CBEX Ponzi Chancers By Festus Adedayo
On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen Ellis, British historian and Africanist,...
Olunloyo: Goodnight, Voltaire By Dr. Festus Adedayo
At his ancient 'imperial' home in Molete, Ibadan last Thursday, I wrote in the condolence register: “He was a man, like French philosopher, Voltaire,...
‘Tell Your Papa’ As The Spirit Of Rwanda’s Simon Bikindi By...
In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the United States’ University of East...
