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,…
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,…
By: Festus Adedayo As I made to angrily start the car, he howled, “Move an inch from there! If I no waste you now and dem bury you today, call…
By: Festus Adedayo Maradi, one of the three largest cities in Niger Republic, may yet be the metaphor of the fragility of the Nigerian state and an explainer of Nigeria’s…
By: Festus Adedayo When the Yoruba want to justify intervention in a hopeless case, they invoke the anecdote of the madman in possession of his mother’s corpse. Their argument is…
Festus Adedayo Forget the glittering multi-billion Naira-worth plazas of Abuja, the shimmering skyscrapers on the streets of Lagos and the aesthetic blackness of Port Harcourt highway asphalt, Nigerians are hungry,…
By Festus Adedayo Any student of autocratic rule will tell you that free speech is always the first casualty of a budding despotism. So, watching the viral video of how…