FESTUS ADEDAYO Archives - Global Upfront Newspapers

Nigerian Leaders As CBEX Ponzi Chancers

Global UpfrontApr 20, 2025April 20, 20250

By Festus Adedayo, April 20, 2025 On Page 28 of his very provocative book, The Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organized crime, (2016) Stephen

Tell Your Papa As Spirit Of Rwanda’s Simon Bikindi

Global UpfrontApr 13, 2025April 13, 20250

By Festus Adedayo, April 13, 2025 In July, 2006, John Street, Emeritus Professor in the School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies at the

Profiling Natasha As Segilola, Sweetheart Of 1001 Men

Global UpfrontApr 6, 2025April 6, 20250

By Festus Adedayo, April 6, 2025 Sorry, I digress. Gradually, the Nigerian presidency is putting finishing touches to its own sculpture of a village liar,

‘Our Doc, Who Art In The National Palace’

Global UpfrontMar 30, 2025March 30, 20250

By Festus Adedayo On April 23, 1971, the New York Times did a feature on Haitian tyrant, Francois Duvalier, infamously known as Papa Doc. It

Tinubu Is The Law!

Global UpfrontMar 23, 2025March 23, 20250

By Festus Adedayo “Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law…literally law.” Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted

When Bandits Took Over Ondo State

Global UpfrontMar 16, 2025March 16, 20250

By Festus Adedayo Ondo State was in the news for the bad reason last week. A gale of killings, kidnapping and demand for ransom swept

Now That Natasha Has Made Akpabio Happy

Global UpfrontMar 9, 2025March 9, 20250

By Festus Adedayo In South Africa under the presidency of Jacob Zuma, any analysis of government and governance without factoring sex into the mix was

Obasa, Aláàfin Ṣàngó And The Capture Of Lagos

Global UpfrontMar 2, 2025March 2, 20250

By Festus Adedayo On Wednesday, February 25, 2025, a very toxic but innocuous advertorial was published in the Punch newspaper. It was authored by a group which called itself

Babangida’s Journey And His Service

Global UpfrontFeb 23, 2025February 23, 20250

By Festus Adedayo Since Thursday when his autobiography, A Journey In Service, was launched, former military president, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, has taken center-stage of national

Nuhu Ribadu’s Hell And Other Hellish Stories

Global UpfrontFeb 16, 2025February 16, 20250

By Festus Adedayo Nigeria has just had one hell of a week. Like an evil spirit, hell hovered over Nigeria with fraught silence. To stave