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Examining The President’s T-Pain Alias

Global UpfrontOct 13, 2024October 13, 20240

By Festus Adedayo In Arabian folklore, the genie is a spirit depicted as being imprisoned inside a bottle or oil lamp. No matter how impregnable

Wike’s Nigeria Feeds Citizens’ Bodies To Pigs

Global UpfrontOct 6, 2024October 6, 20240

By Festus Adedayo Nigerians and indeed, the world, watched aghast last week as a South African grisly movie reel began to roll. Full of all

The Wayo Imprisonment of Bobrisky

Global UpfrontSep 29, 2024September 29, 20240

By Festus Adedayo On February 18, 1947, the Daily Service newspaper published a story whose theme, like the ancient Secretarybird, has remained with Nigeria ever

I Think Tinubu Was Right

Global UpfrontSep 22, 2024September 22, 20240

By Festus Adedayo One by one, three Nigerian former military rulers, Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar, arrived at Babangida’s Hilltop Mansion in

Who Stole The Yoruba Python Skin?

Global UpfrontSep 15, 2024September 15, 20240

By Festus Adedayo One of the thematic preoccupations of the book, What the forest told me: Yoruba hunter, culture and narrative performance, (2014) is that,

Shhhhh… The President Has A Flight To Catch!

Global UpfrontSep 8, 2024September 8, 20240

By Festus Adedayo No doubt, photographs evoke metaphors, imageries and diverse interpretations. Imagery was evoked in my mind as I read President Bola Tinubu’s remarks

Nigeria’s Dinner With ‘Mugabe’

Global UpfrontAug 25, 2024August 25, 20240

By Festus Adedayo Have you ever read Heidi Holland’s Dinner With Mugabe? It was published in 2012 by a Zimbabwean journalist and columnist who worked

Nigeria As Shock-horror Skits

Global UpfrontAug 18, 2024August 18, 20240

By Festus Adedayo SKITS literally crack ribs with laughter. The line separating fact from fiction or faction (fact and fiction) in skits is paper-thin. An

The Python And Tinubu-North’s Matrimony

Global UpfrontAug 11, 2024August 11, 20240

By Festus Adedayo Undoubtedly, the political matrimony between President Bola Tinubu and Northern Nigeria is at Talaq stage. Talaq is the Islamic unilateral repudiation of a marital union. There

The Protest, M̀gbekē And Her Cutlass

Global UpfrontAug 4, 2024August 4, 20240

By Festus Adedayo THERE is this anecdote in Igboland of M̀gbekē and her cutlass. By the way, M̀gbekē is a synonym for an unrefined and