Category: Featured
The President Is A Sick Man
The President Is A Sick Man: Buharis’ secret surgeries inside Oneida yacht By: Festus AdedayoThe President Is A Sick Man is the title of a book written by Philadelphia-born award-winning American journalist, Matthew Algeo. It is a chronology of the medical travails...
Mr. & Mrs. and the Joint Account
Mr. & Mrs. and the Joint Account By: Deji Yesufu So a tweet has been making the rounds on social media. It is one of those story tweets that are relayed in a chain. Someone has even gone further to...
Why Pombe Magufuli Can Never Grow on Nigerian Soil
Why Pombe Magufuli can never grow on Nigerian soil By: Festus Adedayo Statesman and late President of Senegal from 1960 to 1981, Leopold Sedar Senghor, through his philosophy of negritude, believed that Africa and its culture had manifest contributions they can...
Why the Coronavirus Has not Killed You
Why the Coronavirus Has not Killed You By: Deji Yesufu A few days ago I came across an article I wrote last year just about the time the lockdown was beginning to happen all around the world. The stories we...
Bombs on the Third Mainland Bridge
Bombs on the Third Mainland Bridge “I hope we do not get stuck in hold up again today. I must be home before my children go to bed. We may decide on an alternative route home if traffic on Third...
Hijab Crisis in ISI and the Loss of Missions
Hijab Crisis in ISI and the Loss of MissionsBy: Deji Yesufu (This article was first published in 2018. I publish it again in the light of the crisis over hijab in Kwara State)After a knock on the door of my...
Monguno’s Missing $1 billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?
Monguno’s Missing $1 billion: Fraud or Freudian slip?By: Festus AdedayoUnbeknown to many Nigerians who haven’t heard him speak, Major General Babagana Monguno (rtd), President Muhammadu Buhari’s National Security Adviser (NSA) secretly admires self-styled Mr. Bombastic, Jamaican–American reggae musician, singer and Disc Jockey, Orville Richard Burrel, better...
Buhari and His Tinubu Frankenstein
Buhari and His Tinubu Frankenstein By: Festus Adedayo The news last week that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had begun a probe into the finances of former governor of Lagos State and All Progressives Congress (EFCC) strongman, Bola...
Generosity: A Lifestyle Many Learn Late
Generosity: A Lifestyle Many Learn Late By: Deji Yesufu Mama Deji supplies us meat at the place where I work. One finds it better patronizing her because her customer base here is large and thus she always runs out of...
Arogidigba as the Trouble with Southern Nigeria
Arogidigba as the trouble with Southern NigeriaBy: Festus Adedayo An old photograph currently sits regally in the living room of a top Nigerian politician. Shot sometime in 1954, some 67 years ago, ostensibly in the old Osun Division of the Western...