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Abia’s ₦58.3 Billion Puzzle in Context: How South-East States Turn Budgets into Year-End Sprints

Posted August 19, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

Budgets are not neutral numbers. They are moral documents—contracts between governments and citizens. Each line item is a promise that classrooms will be safer, clinics more functional, and roads truly connective. When these numbers are reshaped into a frantic year-end sprint, what should be a disciplined program of public investment…

Oyinlola’s crocodile and Fayose’s carcass _Festus Adedayo

Posted July 27, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

Praise and dispraise are two usages for which the tongue of a Nigerian politician can be put. This is a common perception among politicians themselves. In Nigerian politics, back-trackers are as common a sight as a fisherman daily sees shrimps in the creeks. Last Friday, Ekiti State’s former Peoples Democratic…

ADC: Death, Onikoyi and a hunter’s pouch _Festus Adedayo

Posted July 6, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

“Death does not kill alone/Nor does he fight singly/He goes to war with plenty of warriors…/He sends Disease first/He sends Paralysis next/He sends Loss/He sends Curses…/Death finally comes to kill the hunter’s father/Who drinks now of heavenly water.” The lines above are from Professor Bade Ajuwon's, 'Ogun’s Iremoje: A…

Nigeria’s 2025 Tax Laws: A New Fiscal Dawn or Another Paper Reform?

Posted July 3, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

For decades, Nigeria’s tax system has symbolised everything wrong with the country’s broader fiscal culture—narrow tax bases, overburdened workers, under-taxed elites, a thriving informal sector, and rampant corruption. With a tax-to-GDP ratio that has hovered between 6% and 8%, Nigeria remains one of the poorest tax performers in Africa. This…

When Power Lacks Wisdom: Authority, Oppression, and the Erosion of Trust

Posted June 30, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

In a famous fictional scene from the "Game of Thrones" series, a man boldly declared, “Knowledge is power.” Instantly, the queen commanded her guards to seize him, and as they obeyed without hesitation, she smiled and replied, “Power is power.” That moment, though imagined, mirrors a brutal truth in…

The Vanishing Honour of Matrimony: A Reflection on Sacred Fidelity and Eroding Values

Posted May 29, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

In many African communities of old, the sanctity of marriage was not just a moral ideal, it was a spiritual edifice, a sacred covenant upheld by tradition, custom, and the ancestral spirits. Today, that edifice is crumbling, brick by brick, under the weight of modernity, imported liberal values, and the…

Tinubu’s lifejacket and a deer’s sacred skin _Festus Adedayo

Posted May 25, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

What hunters see in the forest is enough to make children of men without balls blind. An ethnographic study of hunters in a wild called Ìgbẹ Alágogo conducted by a scholar at the University of Ibadan, Ayo Adeduntan, gave birth to the narrative. Ọláníyì Ọládèj̣ọ Yáwóọ̣ré had gone hunting one…

Umo Eno, Oborevwori and Okowa’s political harlotry _Festus Adedayo

Posted May 4, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

Is there morality in politics? Or, should there be morality in politics? Governors of Akwa-Ibom and Delta States, Umo Eno, Sheriff Oborevwori and ex-governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, are of the opinion that there isn’t. Or, there shouldn’t be. They made this known last week in epistles that should…

President Tinubu Calls for Calm and Dialogue Amid Nationwide Protests

Tinubu is the law! _Festus Adedayo

Posted March 23, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

"Everything is my business. Everything. Anything I say is law...literally law." Barbara Geddes, et al in their How dictatorship works (2018) quoted Malawian dictator, Hastings Kamuzu Banda, as having once said the above. In Nigeria of a little more than a week ago, they all came in quick successions:…

President Tinubu Announces 30-Day National Youth Conference to Tackle Challenges Facing Nigerian Youths

The Balewa road Tinubu is travelling _Festus Adedayo

Posted March 16, 2025 by Freedom Square TV

An ancient Yoruba anecdote narrates the destructive nature of the tongue. Its moral is specifically targeted at leaders who take unconscionable decisions as dictated by their fleeting passion. It is the tragic life and reign of King Odarawu. Odarawu was an Alaafin in the old Oyo Empire. His brief reign…

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