Tag: Festus Adedayo
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...
The Python & Tinubu-North’s Matrimony By Festus Adedayo
Undoubtedly, the political matrimony between President Bola Tinubu and Northern Nigeria is at Talaq stage. Talaq is the Islamic unilateral repudiation of a marital...
The protest, M̀gbekē & Her Cutlass By Festus Adedayo
There is this anecdote in Igboland of M̀gbekē and her cutlass. By the way, M̀gbekē is a synonym for an unrefined and unsophisticated girl....
Hardship Protest: ‘Bi Iwo Ba Se Rere…’ By Dr Festus Adedayo
All of a sudden, President Bola Tinubu is running from pillar to post. The febrile fear with which his presidency tries to stave off...
Akpabio’s Kleptocrats’ Republic Dilemma By Dr Festus Adedayo
Last Wednesday, Nigeria’s upper parliament became a grammar class where semantics, syntax and structure are examined. His Excellency, the Senate President of Nigeria, Godswill...
Ministering To Maalu With 774 Heads By Dr Festus Adedayo
The Iloko, offspring of Arelu, (Iloko Omo Arelu) are held in awe in Yorubaland. For a people who fought one another in internecine wars...
Ruto In Davido’s Marriage Of Anansewa By Festus Adedayo
Nigeria of the 1950s and early 1960s had very many interesting personalities. Western Region had its fair share of such. One of them was...
Rehoboam, Presidential Jet And Nigerians’ Aparo Eggs By Festus Adedayo
Nigerians have indeed suffered tremendously in the last one year. Not strictly the hunger tugging at our bellies. That pestilence of hunger was brilliantly...
Tinubu’s Bragging Right And His 200 Needles By Festus Adedayo
In Africa, when a man loses his virility, he is subject of scorn, ridicule and disdain. Male impotence or infertility is not only disdained...