Like Sa’eed, Nigeria’s season of migration to the double life of a butterfly – the season of lies – seems to have come. Such seasons come and go like the ever changing colours of a chameleon and unfold like the rainbow. Beginning with the drama of power in Abuja last week, which involved ex-Kogi State […]
Bobrisky and Jesus, the tax collector, By Festus Adedayo
In the 19th century and even before, Bobriskys were lynched like common criminals. Their sin was their considered unusual sexuality. Until then, homosexual activities were classified as “unnatural crime against nature,” while sodomy got punished with, sometimes the death penalty. In comparison, Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, famously known as Bobrisky, has suffered one of the mildest […]
The curse of the Okuama tragedy, By Festus Adedayo
Nigeria must unravel the killing of the officers and men of the Nigerian Army who met their untimely deaths in Okuama. This will need openness and getting to the brass-tacks of the matter. It must be done by an entity independent of the military, which cannot be the accuser and judge in its own case. […]
Abdul Ningi and the “Apapin” fraternity, By Festus Adedayo
Talented filmmaker, Tunde Kelani, recalibrated a popular Yoruba folklore in his famous Agogo Ewo (the forbidden gong) movie. A supremacy battle ensued between Eledumare – God, and Land. The two earthly ancient principalities had gone hunting and jointly killed an Emo rat. When it was time for sharing of the game, both got locked in a […]
The Akpabio-provoked N30 billion revolt, By Festus Adedayo
In my thinking, in pursuit of this general scapegoating agenda, a willing recruit needed to be found. No one fitted the bill than Godswill Akpabio. He wears on his lapel the unenviable pedigree of a reversible chameleon. Even before his recent Odarawu journey, like Nostradamus, ThisDay’s Segun Adeniyi had appropriately dimensioned him. In his last […]
Yoruba kings as supper for kidnappers, By Festus Adedayo
Those kings killed like ordinary rodents in Ekiti and Kwara states were like many other Yoruba kings who climbed to the stools of elders but did not have the wherewithal of elders. A king is no king if he has no mystical power, both to protect himself and his people from assailants. Such kings are […]