Tag: Festus Adedayo
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...
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,...
