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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...
THE AGONY OF SILENCE
THE AGONY OF SILENCE By: Olugbenga Adejayan The recent Fulani criminalities brought into the spotlight the dangers of remaining silent in the face of injustice. Some of the so called leaders of the Yoruba people have chosen to remain silent...
The Stench of Success
The Stench of Success By: Ibinabo Amakiri I woke up yesterday morning and I smelt it!I smelt it! Faint but it was there Oh God I hope I was not making a mistakeI had wanted this for so so longWas...
Random Thoughts on Tithing and Justification
Random Thoughts on Tithing and Justification by Gbanaibolou Burutolu I recall the last tithe, as a student, I paid, many years ago: N79,200. I paid it to a small boy, one RCCG pastor. Mehn, hurts me till now.Tucked it in...
IMPENDING EXTINCTION OF NIGERIAN LANGUAGES
IMPENDING EXTINCTION OF NIGERIAN LANGUAGES By: Femi Hassan This is really an interesting topic. I seriously identify with it. Wahala wa indeed. Right from their infancy, I’ve been speaking Yoruba to my kids but over time, I noticed they don’t...
Death: Learning to Say the D Word
Death: Learning to Say the D Word By: Peju Simoyan (MD, MPH) In a recent essay published in Pulse, Dr. Charlotte Grinberg reflected on some of her experiences as a medical intern related to how doctors tend to communicate about...