Festus Adedayo

Qatar World Cup, alcohol and gays

A little over a week ago, on a Qatar Airways flight journeying to Doha, city…

Day Ayinla Omowura and Ayinde Barrister dueled in Philadelphia

I presented a paper entitled Between Ayinla Omowura and Ayinde Barrister: Conflicting Notions of Superstardom…

An evening with Seinde Arogbofa and salute to Origunloye at 60

Aside the lofty things I had heard about him, mostly from my friend, Louis Odion,…

Southwest’s forests of a thousand demons

From my personal ranking of their tragic imports, three events which occurred in the last…

The abduction of Pa Reuben Fasoranti

Last week, the gourd of Yoruba leadership broke – or was broken – and the…

Abuja bloodshed warning and Nigeria’s Cassandra complex

Greek mythology, in the Aeschylus tragedy called Agamemnon, told the story of Cassandra. She was a…

Oluwo, Wande Abimbola and philistinism of culture

Sometime in the 19th century, as he stood in the ancient town of Ijaiye in present…

Death of workplace religion: The Polaris Bank mis-example

By Festus Adedayo A letter was found in 2006 in the room of a Nigerian…

The Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta at Obajana

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, is however battling a bigger flood of greater intensity. Dangote…

Independence, whose independence?

By Festus Adedayo Yesterday, it was 62 years since Nigeria got her independence from colonial…