Ahmed Lawan, Festus Adedayo and the APC Mob, By Reuben Abati
I urge Senator Ahmed Lawan to avoid this kind of situation in the future. Critics are not destroyers. They are also part of the national common project. Nobody should be subjected to an apartheid treatment or the politics of segregation just because they express a different opinion. Central to all…
Buratai’s Bruises On Nigerian Troops, By Festus Adedayo
Whether the Chief of Army Staff, General Tukur Buratai, failed to think through his statement last Tuesday condemning Nigerian military troops who are on the frontline of fighting the Boko Haram insurgency or he was just being magisterial like all bosses do, the import and symbolism of that waffling condemnation,…
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The Festus Adedayo They Thought They Could Pull Down, By Festus Adedayo
I was just informed a few minutes ago of the withdrawal of the appointment offered me as the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Nigerian Senate President, Dr. Ahmed Lawan. I had hitherto enjoyed every of the diatribes provoked by the appointment. I was told it was the…
Boycotting the Killers’ Bloody Beef In Kumuyi’s Cow Country, By Festus Adedayo
As rational beings, let us lift the veil and go beyond the veneer of Buhari’s June 12 day as Democracy Day. When you now situate this side by side Kumuyi’s doggerel, you will see that all that Nigerian leaders and their episcopal accomplices want is a cowed country or a…
Oyo’s N3000 School Fees Debacle, By Festus Adedayo
His charge should be to spend the next 100 days erecting a solid, visible and logical foundation, especially in education, health and wealth creation. It is then that he will be able to totally convince us – the naysayers – that, abridging the payment of N3000 in Oyo State schools…
Allegory of the Talking Bird and Nigeria’s Zero Tendency For Mercy, By Festus Adedayo
For how long shall we continue this way? How can we escape from this existential dilemma? No Nigerian is his brother’s keeper any longer. The economic strains have further squeezed the last pints of the blood of humanity from our bloodstream, leaving us as mere languidly walking mummies on the…
Who Will Be Nigeria’s Last President?, By Festus Adedayo
In all these, I see a resolution of our national crises coming soon, faster than we imagined. We may just start counting who the last Nigerian President will be. Like the holy writ says, when you see the fig tree’s branches becoming tender and putting out leaves, you should know…
Your Excellency, the Chickens Are Home To Roost, By Festus Adedayo
The first reality that will dawn on the exiting governors on the morning of May 30 is that the colour of life after office is dark, very dark. The second reality is that, of all the gifts that providence may bestow on man, power is the most un-enduring, the most…
Can’t We Outsource Nigeria To Miyetti Allah?, By Festus Adedayo
The most painful implication of this negotiation with Miyetti Allah is that Buhari is openly raising his arms in the sky in surrender as affirmation of his inability or incapability to ensure peace in the country. It is also an affirmation that he is, by that very fact, ceding the…
Nigeria and Violent Revolt of the Almajirai, By Festus Adedayo
Even chronic pessimists know by now that Nigeria is in a state of complete war with herself. The only difference is that, unlike other wars with known and identifiable enemies, those who roll artillery tanks against the people of Nigeria are at best unidentifiable and at worst, being shawled in…
