Though he may right now be sunk in the pastime of feeding his cows in Daura,…
Tag: Festus Adedayo
OPINION – Yoruba kings as kidnappers’ supper
Those kings killed like ordinary rodents in Ekiti and Kwara states are like many other Yoruba…
OPINION – Osun’s Sallah scuffles and Abuja’s dog meat
These two political agbo “o wo’leya” as the lingo of Eid-El-Kabir says. Their blood fight vitiates…
OPINION – Titanic’s crash and anger of Olokun, the Sea goddess
Is humanity suffering from what the Yoruba call agbere, arrogant audacity? Or, is this absolute nonsense,…
OPINION – Lamidi Apapa’s missing cap
My cap is here as you can see it. It was not burnt, and the boy…
OPINION – Will north, the Shrew, bite the APC’s nose?
Tortoise was the last to rush to the scene. He had been engrossed with a customer…
OPINION – Tinubu, judicial corruption and Madman of Gadarene
Last week in Port-Harcourt, Tinubu woke up the ghost of judicial corruption, an albatross that hovers…
OPINION – Nigeria’s Sudan question
Like Nigeria, however, Sudan is ridden with corruption. It is perceived as one of the most…
OPINION – Memo to their Excellencies, the Governors-elect
Betrayal, dog eat dog, hatred and witch-hunting are the posters of Nigerian politics. As it is…
OPINION – Now that we have arrived Rwanda
By Festus Adedayo Just before genocide broke out in Rwanda in 1994, a broadcaster on…
OPINION – Asian Tiger moms and Nigerian Yahoo-Yahoo mothers
Africa must not discard a method that has stood it in good stead for centuries now.…
OPINION – Independence, whose independence?
The other allegory as told by Epo Akara in another song was the consort of four…
OPINION – PDP and allegory of the sick lion, wise fox
When Wike claimed that Atiku’s arrogance adrenaline is daily pumped up because some characters in Aso…
OPINION : Where will Tinubu, Atiku, Obi’s multibillion naira campaign funds come from?
For instance, the new electoral act 2022 contains very robust sections on campaign financing, ceilings and…
OPINION – Kizz Daniel, stars’ buga and the curse of stardom
Stardom as a feature of popular culture has been explored severally by scholars. One of the…
OPINION – Tobi Amusan, Ozuah and history behind the N1.14b vehicles for Niger
we found out that as irresponsibly profligate as the Buhari government’s vehicle purchase is at this…
TRIBUTE – How could Michael Awe die?
A few weeks after, my ears tingled. News of his death spread. I was downcast and…
OPINION – Can we get Buhari to resign? Today!
The Nigerian 2015 election that enthroned Buhari as president and the enormous and grotesque carnival of…
OPINION – Kashim Shettima and the fury of Christianity
By Festus Adedayo Two anecdotes of the extreme reaction of scorned women will avail you if…
The Muslim-Muslim ticket, the prostitute and her Qu’ran
By Festus Adedayo Separating the Nigerian from his politics and religion is almost like a man…
OPINION – Has Tinubu read the story of S.L. Akintola’s last days?
By Festus Adedayo The war of the First Republic had reached a feverish height. Those it…
Alaafin: I’ve prepared my burial
By Festus Adedayo How was I to know that that meeting I had with the Alaafin…
Feeble dance of the Tinubu, Osinbajo masquerade
By Festus Adedayo The most appropriate representation of the impending 2023 presidential election contest for the…
2023 conspiracy theory of how Dino Melaye’s god may be our God
By Festus Adedayo A single thread links the duo of Dino Melaye, former Senator representing Kogi…
OPINION: The blood on Buhari, Amaechi’s hands
By Festus Adedayo Prior to the July 11, 2007, coordinated bombing of commuter trains in India’s…
Inside the whoredom and harlotry preceding the 2023 election
By Festus Adedayo In Russia’s 1998 St. Petersburg local assembly elections, incumbent Oleg Sergeyev had been…
Bamise’s murder and this Cryptocurrency generation
By Festus Adedayo On Saturday, March 12, 2022, I delivered the paper below at the Kegites…
Sofiat’s murder and our booming human parts market
By Festus Adedayo With the shock, anger, and general revulsion that followed the gruesome killing of…
General Abubakar, was MKO’s death really natural?
By Festus Adedayo Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer of works of fiction and nonfiction in English,…