Memo to Their Excellencies, the Governors-Elect By Festus Adedayo
In 1953, Honourable Member, Western House of Assembly, Samuel Ladoke Akintola, left a word for today. “I can understand the heaven of acceptance and the hell of rejection. I cannot…
The Muslim-Muslim Ticket, The Prostitute And Her Qu’ran
By Festus Adedayo (Published by Premium Times, June 19, 2022) Separating the Nigerian from his politics and religion is almost like a man trying to forcefully pull off…
Has Tinubu Read The Story of S. L. Akintola’s Last Days?
By Festus Adedayo (Published by The Cable, June 5, 2022) The war of the First Republic had reached a feverish height. Those it consumed were wheeled to the sepulchre…
Deborah: Atiku Abubakar and Why Votes are Thicker Than Blood
By Festus Adedayo (Published by The Cable, May 15, 2022) Distressing pieces of bad news are everywhere. From the murder of Miss Deborah Samuel Yakubu by students of…
Crimson As Colour of Mrs. Tinubu’s Wolf and Sheep Allegory
Festus Adedayo (Published by Premium Times, May 2, 2021) Did Itsekiri, Delta State-born Senator representing Lagos in Nigeria’s National Assembly, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, nee Ikusebiala – interpreted, meaning, “death’s most…
Buhari and His Tinubu Frankenstein
Festus Adedayo The news last week that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had begun a probe into the finances of former governor of Lagos State and All…
Tinubu, run! Please, run!
By: Festus Adedayo What could have prompted Aunt Adelina to declare in The Feast of the Goat that “Well, that’s what politics is, you make your way over corpses…”? After seeing what politics…
For how much longer can we endure Buhari?
Festus Adedayo Two anecdotes, told by keynote speaker, Professor Adeolu Akande, at a congregation of lawyers in Ibadan, Oyo state last week, drew the graph of the gripping state of…
My Lord, I am counsel for the accused, General Olusegun Adeniyi…
Festus Adedayo British statesman and Liberal politician, William Ewart Gladstone and this white friend of my Shaki, Oyo State-born friend, who we call Kollysho, seem to be in a consensus of…
The bloody or bloodless massacre of Lekki
By: Festus Adedayo As leaders of the youth miscreants who invaded the palace of Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, triumphantly made away with the monarch’s insignia of office last Wednesday,…