Festus Adedayo

WHEN the Nigerian government announced a 30-day temporary fuel price intervention last Thursday, likes began to attract likes. In…

HISTORY records that the most fatal stabs always come from within oneself. In other words, there is a motif of proximity to stabs.…

ANCIENT Yoruba says, he who seeks to purchase only the fresh head and limbs of a tortoise will end up buying the whole creature —…

There is a silent war brewing in Lagos State. It is the war of filth. Last week, the state government announced the resumption of…

In perhaps his most famous song after dying in a car crash in 1971, Cardinal Rex Lawson, Kalabari highlife soulful singer of the…

While growing up, I went on hunting expedition with elderly men. From it, I found out that the forest, as an ecosystem, is…

Three Nigerian “witches” just got beaten by a midnight downpour. They are, Siminalayi Fubara, Nyesom Wike and Bola Ahmed Tinubu,…

A few weeks ago, an outburst of the then aspirant for Nigeria’s presidential office, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, marked its third…

When the weight of words spoken is weightier than whatever response it may attract, my people say Oro p’esi je. The English say…

Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, in his lowest moment in prison, drew a comparison of how he sank from being one of the…