Tag: Festus Adedayo

On Thursday last week, in Ibadan, Oyo State, I was at the wake and tributes service in honour of Isaac ...

Last week, Nigeria was faced with what Yoruba call Egbinrin ote. When afflictions come in multiple, they become a plague. ...

The enchanter recited the incantation with utmost fury: “River Niger and River Benue, the confluence is in Kogi State. Except ...

Talented filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, recalibrated a popular Yoruba folklore in his famous Agogo Ewo (the forbidden gong) movie. A supremacy ...

It was 25 years ago; Saturday, October 10, 1998 to be precise. We were all inside the living room of ...

Father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, must have had the conversation last week between Senate President, Godswill Akpabio and the recently ...

Why do Nigerian public officials always fail to see the divide between the public and the private? Perhaps taking a ...

Who is the man who today sits atop the presidency of Nigeria? What is his name? Who are his parents? ...

Humour and laughter often serve as a powerful tool in driving home words that may otherwise be difficult to communicate. ...

When Chief Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987, amid a deluge of musical tributes in his honour, a line among those ...

The social and cultural setting in Yorubaland literally exploded last Friday. It almost took the shine off the Oyo State ...

If you diligently analyze social media’s initial reactions to the allegation that Mmesoma Ejikeme forged her Joint Admissions and Matriculation ...

Since Wednesday, March 1, 2023, as Persians, Carthaginians and Romans did in penal sanction, I have been literally hung up ...

In a piece I wrote entitled A O M’erin J’oba At Tinubu’s Colloquium (April 1, 2018) I warned that the ...

To many, the recent virulent attacks and counter attacks by top Nigerian journalists, served a la carte to the world ...