By Festus Adedayo As Eze Ogube Nnem Olo Kingdom in Enugu state, Lawrence Agubuzu, stood before him last week, President Bola Tinubu must be fascinated by...
Festus Adedayo I am reading a copy of Marcel Dirsus’ How Tyrants Fall: And How Nations Survive. A 2024 non-fiction book, in it, Dirsus examines historical...
SUBÚ-seré? Poetic licence gave me the indulgence of the above headlining. It is a broad, idiomatic expression whose surface is barely scraped by words like “tumbling”...
By Festus Adedayo In perhaps his most famous song after dying in a car crash in 1971, Cardinal Rex Lawson, Kalabari highlife soulful singer of the...
Chief Richard Osuolale Akinjide, Minister of Education in the First Republic, under Tafawa Balewa, and Minister of Justice under Alhaji Shehu Shagari, Queen Counsel and one...
By Festus Adedayo As I write this, I am listening to a line of the song of my favourite Jamaican reggae music superstar, Peter Tosh. It...
By Festus Adedayo Today’s Gen Z world may not know of “Eddie Kwansa”. It is a famous folk song Owerri, Imo State, donated to the rest...
By Festus Adedayo Famous Ogbomoso, Oyo State-born bard, Foyanmu Ogundare, had some words for evil spins and spinners. Religionists call these spinners “workers of iniquity”. They...
By Festus Adedayo President Bola Tinubu did the unexpected last Wednesday. He attended the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) Conference 2025. It was the very first...
By Festus Adedayo Greek philosopher, Socrates, may be the most famous Western figure of his time to have swallowed the poisonous plant’s juice called hemlock. But,...