Tag: Festus Adedayo
Michael Adeniyi Koleosho: Tribute To Babalaje By Festus Adedayo
On Saturday 19th of October, 2024, the body of Chief Michael Adeniyi Koleosho, popularly known as Babalaje in Oyo State political circle, was committed...
Examining The President’s T-Pain Alias By Festus Adedayo
In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable the walls...
Wike’s Nigeria Feeds Citizens’ Bodies To Pigs By Festus Adedayo
Nigerians and indeed, the world, watched aghast last week as a South African grisly movie reel began to roll. Full of all the elements...
The Wayo Imprisonment Of Bobrisky By Festus Adedayo
On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with Nigeria ever since. It...
I Think President Tinubu Was Right By Dr Festus Adedayo
One by one, three Nigerian former military rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, arrived at Babangida’s Hilltop Mansion in Minna, Niger...
Who Stole The Yoruba Python Skin? Asks Festus Adedayo
One of the thematic preoccupations of the book, What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance, (2014) is that, inside the...
Shhhhh…The President Has A Flight To Catch! By Festus Adedayo
No doubt, photographs evoke metaphors, imageries and diverse interpretations. Imagery was evoked in my mind as I read President Bola Tinubu’s remarks during his...
August 27 & A Daughter’s Celebration Of Abacha By Festus Adedayo
Last week, August 27, 2024, was the 39th anniversary of the coup that toppled Gen Muhammadu Buhari, erstwhile GOC 3rd Armored Division of the...
Nigeria’s Dinner With ‘Mugabe’ By Dr Festus Adedayo
Have you ever read Heidi Holland’s Dinner With Mugabe? It was published in 2012 by a Zimbabwean journalist and columnist who worked with Illustrated...
Nigeria As Shock-Horror Skits By Dr Festus Adedayo
Skits literally crack ribs with laughter. The line separating fact from fiction or faction (fact and fiction) in skits is paper-thin. An instance was...
