By Festus Adedayo At the risk of being labeled thanatophobic – a preoccupation with death or its anxiety – the grim reality is that, last Tuesday,...
By Festus Adedayo There was territorial tension in Nigeria last week. Like in the famous fable where animals gathered in the forest to delineate their individual...
By Festus Adedayo Praise and dispraise are two usages for which the tongue of a Nigerian politician can be put. This is a common perception among...
Why should I bother myself with what is done to my body when I die? Oyomesi (the council of seven high-ranking chiefs in the Oyo Empire)...
By Festus Adedayo Sometime in the early 2000s, at the cusp of Tafa Balogun’s glory as the Inspector General of Police, an oil magnate from a...
By Festus Adedayo Last Monday, as noiselessly as a phantom, President Bola Tinubu brought home his strange friend. While an Igbo proverb says the footsteps of...
By Festus Adedayo The furore over the recently pulled down Owo Memorial Park in Ondo State is said to have thawed, which is gladsome. There is,...
By Festus Adedayo Power politics in the animal kingdom could be as intense, deceptive and selfish as it is in the human kingdom. An ancient African...
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:...