Browsing: Festus Adedayo

We are not all Lagosians who don’t ask questions. Lagos State has never asked a single question about the running of its state since 1999.

Suddenly, a huge blot appeared on the landscape. In the eyes of the world, àjàò, the animal called sloth, suddenly crept up the hill of Mapo.

Tinubu, the godfather, also betrayed his party’s presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, for Jonathan. Ribadu, as a result, won only Osun State for his party, ACN.

Rather than embark on that effusive binge of showmanship, methinks the best the president could have done was to put up a system which will grow champions of the girls’ hue.

In that state today, there are two emirs occupying one stool, with federal and state governments in a consuming tiff over their control, for political reasons.

The voice of the fawning Senate President who said the president would win 99.5% in the 2027 votes is receding too, no thanks to the coalition.

So, why did Tinubu conflate the universities? Was this a deliberate lie, misrepresentation, falsification of fact or fabrication of relationship?

It is not as if the folks at the NBC are not equally recipients of the mis-governance that has become ten a dime in the polity.

Last week, at a temper session in Abuja he called a Ministerial Briefing, in a fit-like burst of anger, like King Odarawu, Wike named his enemies.

This bad news had hardly subsided when on Tuesday, same last week, nine surveyors were also said to have been kidnapped. 

The hùn-hùn-hùn fuming and grumbling of the Senior staff members of the CBN however refused to reside inside of them.

Quite frankly, Amaechi and El-Rufai were dead right. Nigerians are too docile and possess incredibly short-spanned memory.

To Dotun, Mofehintoluwa and Adibi, this is a tribute to lives lived for humanity. It is a tribute to unripe mangoes rudely plucked by fate.

Before now, everything that emanated from the January 13, 2025 impeachment of former Speaker Obasa was wrapped in rumours. 

Stubbornly courageous, Aketi cared not whose ox got gored while he spoke his mind. You could be president or an emperor

The musicians’ recent quest for supremacy is not new. From time immemorial, supremacy battles have been part and parcel of Yoruba music. 

Recently, Edo State was alleged to have witnessed that brazen dalliance between INEC and politicians in high places. 

Potts-Johnson’s crime was demanding and collecting bribes of the sums of #5.30s and 25s.2d from two prostitutes, Elizabeth Agadagwu

Yoruba are in a dilemma. They have an impostor child who, unfortunately, hails from their home of noble leadership pedigree and honour

It was at that conference that General Muhammed delivered his famous and powerful speech he entitled: “Africa has come of age.”