By Festus Adedayo On Thursday this week, it will be 32 years of that June 12 phenomenon. On July 9, 1998, the lifeless body of a...
By Festus Adedayo As Ngugi wa Thiong’o says in his Wizard of the Crow, (2007), ire is more corrosive than fire. Make no mistake about it:...
By Festus Adedayo What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. Ọláníyì Ọládèj̣ọ Yáwóọ̣ré had gone hunting one...
By Festus Adedayo In May, 2016, a young man got abducted by three men. They drugged him and gouged out his two eyes and testicles. According...
By Festus Adedayo A couple of months ago, history walked on its two legs into my feeble embrace. When it did, I never knew it was...
By Festus Adedayo Today, icon of Akure Kingdom in Ondo State, foremost Yoruba leader and one of the major twines holding together the Yoruba nation, Baba...
By Festus Adedayo Is there morality in politics? Or, should there be morality in politics? Governors of Akwa-Ibom and Delta States, Umo Eno, Sheriff Oborevwori and...
By Festus Adedayo Through its ancient mythology, Yoruba had a counterpoise of the western Frankenstein monster. It’s a negatively phenomenal child called Àjàntálá. In folklore and...
By Festus Adedayo It was almost impossible not to be infected by the joy writ large on the face of the One-party state Villa-fawning group this...
By Festus Adedayo On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016), Stephen Ellis, British historian and...