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Dupe Baruwa-Dada: I Lost A Sister

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By Fepstus Adedayo In 2011, less than six months into the birth of a new government in Oyo State, a proposal was brought for the celebration of a festival in the state. The memo got to the topmost decision-making organ of the…
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INEC’s Naked Dance in Ondo 

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By Festus Adedayo There is no way a man would judge his own case and lose. That is the logical basis for the legal maxim nemo judex in causa sua. It is the reason an umpire's company is always of interest to contestants.…
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The President is A Sick Man

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By Festus Adedayo On April 4, 2021, I wrote a piece with the title The President is a sick man: Buhari’s Secret Therapy Inside the ‘Oneida.’ It was a lamentation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s knee-jerk and off-the-cuff…
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Did A Ring Kill Ayinla Omowura?

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By Festus Adedayo Obviously, because I am the unauthorised biographer of Ayinla Omowura, the musical enfant terrible of Yorubaland of the 1970s, I have been inundated by requests to lend a voice to an ongoing debate which has…
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Garlands for Mimiko and Farounbi

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By Festus Adedayo Within a week, two great Nigerians celebrated their birth anniversaries of 70 and 80 years respectively. They are, Olusegun Rahman Mimiko and Akinyemi Farounbi. While the former, a medical doctor-turned…
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I Think Tinubu was Right

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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 Minna, Niger State, last Sunday. So did…
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Who stole the Yoruba python skin?

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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, inside the forest, there is a consistent superiority war, often…

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