Festus Adedayo

Reuben Abati and Davido as “cockroaches”

Dr. Reuben Abati, one of Nigeria’s foremost public intellectuals, has faced a gaslight of Hiroshima…

Lagbaja: When Generals, the  Olúóde, die

For the recently deceased General Taoreed Abiodun Lagbaja, the trees in the forest of a soldier…

Ayinde Barrister, North and the New VAT Bill

In a gripping but evergreen musical rendition of a Yoruba fictional folksong, late Fuji music…

INEC’s naked dance in Ondo

There is no way a man would judge his own case and lose. That is…

The President is a sick man

On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick…

Did a ring kill Ayinla Omowura?

Obviously because I am the unauthorized biographer of Ayinla Omowura, the musical enfant terrible of…

Examining the President’s T-Pain alias

To them, their president’s diverse self-procured prefixes – Asiwaju, Jagaban etc – are miscasts today.…

Garlands for Mimiko and Farounbi on their birthdays

Within a week, two great Nigerians celebrated their birth anniversaries of 70 and 80 years…

Wike’s Nigeria feeds citizens’ bodies to pigs

Nigerians and indeed, the world, watched aghast last week as a South African grisly movie…

Kabiyesi Ladoja at 80

Festus Adedayo eulogises Rashidi Ladoja: Brilliant strategist and engineer, his strongest point is that his…