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Hunting buffalo in presidential jet By Festus Adedayo   Why do Nigerian public officials always fail to see the divide between the public and the private? Perhaps...

Tinubu’s certificate, open society and its enemies, By Festus Adedayo Who is the man who today sits atop the presidency of Nigeria? What is his...

Why Tinubu must sack his US lawyer By Festus Adedayo   When Chief Obafemi Awolowo died in 1987, amid a deluge of musical tributes in his honour,...

Obasanjo’s Bode Thomas discourtesy for Oyo Obas, By Festus Adedayo     The social and cultural setting in Yorubaland literally exploded last Friday. It almost took the...

Of Shettima, cows and goats By Festus Adedayo   Yoruba have a solemn way of expressing disgust with vacuity. Wherever elders look forward, in huge expectation, that...

The wind that blew Dapo Abiodun’s rump By Festus Adedayo   Prof Akinwumi Isola’s Efunsetan Aniwura (1981), his first play written in 1961-62 while he was a...

Does Shiroro fallen soldiers’ blood matter? By Festus Adedayo When death became ubiquitous and cheap as air, afflicting the young and the old in their scores,...

France, your Queendom is falling! By Festus Adedayo   Zimbabwe-born medical doctor and activist, Arikana Chihombori-Quao’s viral video which hit airwaves last week evokes the music of...

Tinubu as "Sobia" in need of Oluganbe leaf, by Festus Adedayo     Initial applauses from Bretton Woods and some local economists that greeted the economic reforms...

Mmesoma’s wrong was being Igbo, by Festus Adedayo   If you diligently analyze social media’s initial reactions to the allegation that Mmesoma Ejikeme forged her Joint...