Festus Adedayo

Analysis: Is Babangida also a master satirist?

Last Friday, while fielding questions from the Arise TV, self-styled military president, General Ibrahim Babangida,…

Analysis: On Kyari, who, what shot the Sheriff?

By Festus Adedayo In the Preface to my book entitled Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of…

Analysis: Gumi and the Nigerian state

Save for the obvious ethnic colouration of his submissions and the fact that his type…

Analysis: Buhari’s Dot-in-a-Circle and Makinde’s AK-47

  By Festus Adefayo Was it better that President Muhammadu Buhari remained unapologetically deaf to…

Forty years after Bob: Was he greater than Peter Tosh?

Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Festus Adedayo By Festus Adedayo Last Tuesday, the world marked the…

Analysis: Aburi ghosts, Asaba secessionists and waffles in high places

  Aburi ghosts, Asaba secessionists, Waffles in high places, By Festus Adedayo When you listen…

Analysis: What if we wake up tomorrow to a coup in Nigeria?

The New York Times report of March 13, 1976 put the story of Nigeria’s perennial human sacrifices by…

Crimson as colour of Mrs. Tinubu’s wolf and sheep allegory

  By Festus Adedayo Did Itsekiri, Delta State-born Senator representing Lagos in Nigeria’s National Assembly,…

Analysis: Buhari’s justification of Pantami’s extremist views is twisted logic

What the Buhari justification of Pantami’s extremist views means is that if Abdulmutallab were to…

One hundred minutes before Obasanjo

By Festus Adedayo Did I promise President Olusegun Obasanjo that there would be a ‘rematch’?…