Tag: Festus Adedayo
Natasha: Playing Rosa Parks and Potiphar’s wife, by Festus Adedayo
The Nigerian Senate erupted again last week. This time, it was not about allegations of its leadership being a cesspool of sleaze, a home...
Babangida’s journey and his service, By Festus Adedayo
(Published by the Sunday Tribune, February 23, 2025)
Since Thursday, when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida...
Nuhu Ribadu’s hell and other hellish stories, by Festus Adedayo
Nigeria has just had one hell of a week. Like an evil spirit, hell hovered over Nigeria with fraught silence. To stave it off,...
Bisi Akande, poverty and Ige’s death, By Festus Adedayo
In her biography of Ayo Rosiji, one of the key politicians of Nigeria’s first republic, entitled Man With Vision, Australia-born historian, Nina Mba, citing...
Amaechi, El-Rufai, and Tinubu’s kernel, By Festus Adedayo
Rather than sounding sanctimonious, el-Rufai, Amaechi, and the Nigerian opposition will need to abandon rhetoric. I am sure that what God deployed to drive...
Obasa: Lagos na wa! By 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...
Making of an Aláàfin: Bribe or gods? By 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 Festus Adedayo
(Published by the Sunday Tribune, January 5, 2025)
The door of life is binary; it opens either ways, inwards or outwards. So goes an age-long...
Nigerians in Súàrá Sòbó bus, by Festus Adedayo
(Published by the Sunday Tribune, December 29, 2024)
I have been asked severally what my opinion was on last week’s presidential media chat. First, I...
Ex-Queen Naomi and beheaded skulls in Mògún shrine, by Festus Adedayo
(Published by the Sunday Tribune, December 29, 2024)
In my piece of last week, I made a tangential reference to the place of African magic...
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