Category: Festus Adedayo
Will Buhari learn from Zuma in Estcourt Prison?
Will Buhari learn from Zuma in Estcourt Prison? By: Festus Adedayo In ex-President Jacob Zuma’s jailing for 15 months by South Africa’s Constitutional Court, Africa and humanity in general are dragged to school by the nape of their dresses. Author...
Igboho, Kanu, Kimathi and betrayals on the soil of Kenya
Igboho, Kanu, Kimathi and betrayals on the soil of Kenya By: Festus Adedayo The claim that Kenya was where Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB) was arrested and extradited to Nigeria had better not be true....
What If We Wake Up Tomorrow To A Coup In Nigeria?
What If We Wake Up Tomorrow To A Coup In Nigeria? By: Festus Adedayo The New York Times report of March 13, 1976 put the story of Nigeria’s perennial human sacrifices by the bloodthirsty grove of coup-plotting most startlingly. The day before, newly appointed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Kadaria, Kagara and Abductors of our Collective Intelligence
Kadaria, Kagara and Abductors of our Collective IntelligenceBy: Festus AdedayoOn sighting the headline of her piece entitled Nigerian Media: Let’s Stop Ethnic Profiling!, I initially thought well-respected media mogul, Kadaria Ahmed, was set to confront a media orthodoxy. Though it was...
Gov Bala Mohammed’s Paradise for AK-47, Cows and Fulani
Gov Bala Mohammed’s paradise for AK-47, cows and Fulani By: Festus Adedayo At the risk of being charged for excessive hyperbolism, “AK-47,” “cows” and the word, “Fulani,” are the most notorious clichés on parade in Nigeria today. And, come to...