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Festus Adedayo

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 27, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Festus Adedayo

    Good night, Dr. Ben Ohiaeri (opens the original)

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    ABOUT two years ago, I received a referral to meet Dr. Benjamin Nnamdi Ohiaeri, a renowned obstetrician and gynaecologist. He was the founder and Chief Medical Director of First Consultants Medical Centre, located in Obalende, Lagos. It is a stone’s throw from the famous St. Gregory’s College and a trekking distance from the erstwhile Nigerian seat of power, Dodan Barracks. Ohiaeri, who hailed from Isu, Imo State, oversaw specialties like obstetrics, pediatrics and general surgery and was the bo

  2. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · Festus Adedayo

    El-Rufai’s betrayers and betrayals (opens the original)

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    MY first encounter with Nasir El-Rufai was in year 2000 at the Akodo Resort, a popular Lagos beachfront getaway along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Ibeju-Lekki. As Director-General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE), he had come to sell to his audience the talismanic powers of the agency in unbundling the potential of the Olusegun Obasanjo administration. I saw a super-brilliant man. A pint-sized frame trapping a mountainous intellect, Nasir spoke with verve and conviction. In a voice barel

  3. Article · Sep 13, 2026 · Festus Adedayo

    Two savage Kano murders, 45 years apart (opens the original)

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    Last Wednesday, popular political commentator, Ibrahim Khalil (aka Dan Shagamu) was brutally murdered in Kumbotso, Kano. He had his throat slit. Known for his scathing Hausa posts on Facebook and TikTok, Khalil was a fierce critic of the APC-led government, President Bola Tinubu and the military. Kano Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf also frequently drew his ire, as he hit him hard with his spatula. The influencer constantly called out economic hardship, northern insecurity, and alleged army atrocities

  4. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Festus Adedayo

    Amódemájá and Nigeria’s political paradise of lies (opens the original)

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    In 1969, legendary Yoruba Sakara music lord, Yusuff Olatunji, serenaded and celebrated the sterling qualities of the Seriki of Egbaland, Chief Abdul-Wahab Amódemájá. Amodemaja held an Egba high-ranking military-derived civil title. In his Volume 3 album entitled Amódemájá, using a twin engine of dense metaphor and vivid imagery, Olatunji advocated for the place of good people as templates of a good society. The man he called “Abudu Amodemaja” was his prime example. He sang: “If you behold some p

  5. Article · Sep 6, 2026 · Festus Adedayo

    Elegy for Dotun Oladipo (opens the original)

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    When his longtime associate and composer, Akanni Fatai (alias B’olodeoku), died in the late 1970s, the Apala music emperor, Ayinla Omowura, captured the shock in a tear-jerking elegy. He described the news of Fatai’s passage as “agbo-ju-’gba-nu” –news so rudely shocking that, upon hearing it, you instinctively throw away the calabash bowl in your hand. The news of the death of my friend, Dotun Oladipo, reached me in the quiet of an early morning. Opening my phone to check the world’s daily anxie

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