Festus Adedayo

Shhhhh… the President has a flight to catch!

No doubt, photographs evoke metaphors, imageries and diverse interpretations. Imagery was evoked in my mind as…

August 27 and a daughter’s celebration of Abacha

Last week, August 27, 2024, was the 39th anniversary of the coup that toppled Gen Muhammadu…

Nigeria’s dinner with ‘Mugabe’

Have you ever read Heidi Holland’s Dinner With Mugabe? It was published in 2012 by a…

Nigeria as shock-horror skits

Nigeria was treated to another skit last week. Ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo had hosted some members of…

The python and Tinubu-North’s matrimony

Being a student of Nigeria’s political history and one right inside its vortex, from its…

The protest, M̀gbekē and her cutlass

Festus Adedayo writes that the #EndBadGovernance protest which commenced last Thursday revealed several cracks in our Nigerianness.…

Hardship protest: Tinubu, “bi iwo ba se rere…”

All of a sudden, President Bola Tinubu is running from pillar to post. The febrile…

Dangote and NNPC’s Gwo Gwo Gwo Ngwo dance

I do not want to go into details of the Nigerian establishment’s battle with this…

Akpabio’s Kleptocrats’ Republic

We all know that Ndume, being part of the gang of kleptocrats himself, knows the…

Ogunsola: Celebrating the man who wanted my head

Dr Festus Adedayo pens a tribute to Chief Ajibola Ogunsola at 80