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...

/ July 5, 2020

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,...

/ June 28, 2020

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...

/ June 21, 2020

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...

/ June 14, 2020

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...

/ June 7, 2020

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...

/ May 31, 2020

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...

/ May 25, 2020

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...

/ May 17, 2020
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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...

/ May 11, 2020

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...

/ May 6, 2020