Category: Festus Adedayo
The Hushpuppi, Woodberry Jibiti Generation
The Hushpuppi, Woodberry Jibiti Generation By: Festus Adedayo Until their arrest and extradition last week by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to the United States, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Ray Hushpuppi and his accomplice in cyber-heist, Olalekan Jacob...
APC as One Big Forest of Lion, Hyena and Cobra
APC as One Big Forest of Lion, Hyena and Cobra By: FESTUS ADEDAYO Professor of Linguistics and President, Academy of Letters, Francis Egbokhare of the University of Ibadan, on an Ibadan, Oyo State, radio programme where we both appeared yesterday,...
Edo: Of Oshiomhole and Saraki’s snail, naked masquerade allegories
Edo: Of Oshiomhole and Saraki’s snail, naked masquerade allegories By: Festus Adedayo Court-suspended All Progressives Party (APC) Chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, a few days before his court ouster, subtly flexed his power muscles and demonstrated a commendable grasp of African proverbs...
Pulling down Christopher Columbus’ Buhari statues
Pulling down Christopher Columbus’ Buhari statues By: Festus Adedayo You may not like their reckless consumption of drugs, the airs they put on as “stars” and the pumped-up peacock ego sometimes exhibited by them at their apogee of stardom. The...
Majek Fashek and the Curse of Drug Addiction
Majek Fashek and the curse of drug addiction and Other Matters By: Festus Adedayo The death of Nigerian singer-songwriter, guitarist and reggae music lord, Majek Fashek, in New York, America, last week threw Nigerians into a nostalgic mood. It brought...
Why Trump may throw AfDB Adesina inside the Bandama River
Why Trump may throw AfDB Adesina inside the Bandama River By: Festus Adedayo Occasionally, some occurrences on the African continent remind us of how vulnerable we are. Or, put in the lingo of neocolonialism advocates, how tied to the apron...
Amaechi’s Theory of the Monkey and Nigerian politicians
Amaechi’s theory of the monkey and Nigerian politicians By: Festus Adedayo Away from the ravages of COVID-19 and the dispiriting news of multiple infections and rising deaths, the interview granted last week by Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, to...
The conversations on Agboola Gambari
The conversations on Agboola Gambari By: Festus Adedayo If credentials and academic certificates/laurels approximated excellence, by now, applauses to President Muhammadu Buhari for his choice of Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as successor to the late Abba Kyari as his Chief of...
COVID-19: Time to go Madagascar
COVID-19: Time to go Madagascar By Festus Adedayo Like many other societies in the world, Africa boasts of a past that is ambivalent, a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly. She had villains, despots, tyrants, developmental leaders...
Festus Adedayo’s Ayinla Omowura
A review of Festus Adedayo's 'Ayinla Omowura: Life and Times of an Apala Legend' By: Lasisi Olagunju, Ph.D (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Tuesday, 5 May, 2020) Five hundred and thirty five pages in seven chapters girded firmly, front...