
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a Yoruba proverb for our insecurity and the external help we got last Thursday: Let the man see the snake; let...

By Lasisi Olagunju “Beware the quiet man; for while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest, he strikes.”...


By Lasisi Olagunju General Sani Abacha was a great teacher. He pioneered the doctrine of consensus candidacy in Nigeria. He founded a country of five political...

By Lasisi Olagunju Better a child is confirmed dead than a child is unaccounted for. I am not sure we remember that about 250 pupils of...

By Lasisi Olagunju “You taught me language, and my profit on it / Is, I know how to curse” (William Shakespeare: ‘The Tempest’). The Nigerian government...

By Lasisi Olagunju “Don’t fight Man,” said Lion to his Cub, but the Cub didn’t listen. The Cub went looking for Man. He saw a Bull....

By Lasisi Olagunju Mr Donald Trump and his Generals are buckling their armour to wipe out terrorists who kill Christians in Nigeria. “I am hereby instructing...

By Lasisi Olagunju Respect old age. A “strictly by invitation” conclave of Yoruba cardinals sat for two days last week, not in the traditional capital, Ibadan,...

By Lasisi Olagunju When Christopher Columbus met the Tanio people in today’s Bahamas in 1492, he handed them a sword, they grasped it by the blade...