UNILAG and the Sex Narrative In the Villa, By Festus Adedayo
The sex-for-marks story in Nigerian universities, one can understand, but what exactly was responsible for the hoax about President Buhari getting married to one of his ministers? Who was behind this “sinister” motive of insinuating that sex matters, just like the UNILAG experience, is also a bother in Aso Rock?…
Time To Drag Buhari, El-Rufai and Others To Kigali, By Festus Adedayo
No one can visit the Genocide Museum without being touched by the unprecedented bestiality. I instantly remembered home and how, ostensibly unwittingly, President Muhammadu Buhari’s hyper-promotion of his Fulani stock at the expense of other tribes in Nigeria, bears similitude to President Habyarimana’s; how Nasir el-Rufai’s glorification of the Fulani…
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Can’t the President Read It From the Script?, By Festus Adedayo
In all this, can’t President Muhammadu Buhari be a whistleblower of what actually transpired in the N90 billion debacle? If all of us are not aware of the sainthood of the Man of God, the president at least sure knows. If he can’t tell us directly, he can at least…
Seun Onigbinde and the Bloodthirsty Hounds of Twitter, By Festus Adedayo
Again, the paternity of the Nigerian state came up for consideration last week. Who exactly owns Nigeria? Is it the exclusive preserve of politicians, their kith and kin, their hangers-on or Nigerians? Put differently, because politicians compete for offices that become vacant in the process of nationhood, are those offices,…
Buhari, Atiku Before the Great Tribunal, By Festus Adedayo
You would think it was a scene from Geoffrey Chaucer’s classics, The Canterbury Tales and its tale of a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. Members of the Election Jury (EJ) have journeyed from earth to Heaven and are standing…
What Soured South Africa’s Umqombothi, By Festus Adedayo
I have searched frantically for the lure of the gruesome murders of Nigerians and other African nationals by South Africans at the drop of a hat, the looting of their property and the animal instinct latent in these acts, and my findings revealed a retained savagery of Apartheid. In the…
The Ghost of Ayatollah Khomeini, By Festus Adedayo
For the Nigerian government under President Muhammadu Buhari, no two words carry with them, today, equal measure of excitement and objection as the words “change” and “revolution.” You can earn an unearned place at the top by simply professing to be an apostle of “change”, the same way a Mussolini-like…
Shugaba, the Plane Is About To Crash!, By Festus Adedayo
A serious government desirous of pulling its country from an economic morass like ours cannot sustain these Acheulian ministerial characters on parade. An ideal one would have its bureaucracies policed by ministers who possess a combination of sterling qualities, talents and skills. Just in case you missed this frightening and…
Babangida: ‘The Prince’ At 78, By Festus Adedayo
One of Nigeria’s arguably most impactful rulers, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, was 87 years old yesterday. A combatant officer of the Nigerian Army, who joined the force in 1962, IBB, the acronym he became known by while he was the Nigerian military head of state, will go down in history as…
Sowore, Alaafin Aole and Murder In Wukari, By Festus Adedayo
Like Alaafin Arogangan and Aole, history’s recording spool is fast-putting in a permanent form, Buhari’s penchant for hitting his foot against the stone. I sneaked into the spool and found what it etched on the Buhari, history tells me, is Alaafin Aole personified. There is this folk song sang mostly…
