By Lasisi Olagunju My literature teacher told me that situational irony is a fire station burning down, or a Babaláwo dying of Mágùn. Some 40 years...
By Lasisi Olagunju Who killed Dele Giwa? Who was Gloria Okon and where is she today? How did David Mark accurately predict in 1994 that Sani...
By Lasisi Olagunju Each time this country discounts tribe and tongue, region and religion, it wins. Nigeria’s stunning victory in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations...
By Lasisi Olagunju She spoke with so much authority on the sleaze and dirt that make our lawmakers so fat like the well-fed pigs in Animal...
Decades ago, my late mother pointed at a house to me: “Someone in that house once snatched someone’s wife. In the evening, when it was time...
By Lasisi Olagunju Useful Abdullahi Ganduje kissed the canvas on Friday. Many more will go his way. His fall was the wish of his maker, the...
By Lasisi Olagunju A tree does not fall in the forest and kill someone at home. That proverb may be true one hundred years ago. It...
By Lasisi Olagunju Who knows Òkòlò in Oyo? Òkòlò was a Tapa (Nupe) and a slave of the Alaafin of Oyo. His duty was to gather...
By Lasisi Olagunju “There is a kind of price for life,” says Charles A. Curran, and that price, he says, “moves in the direction of death.”...
By Lasisi Olagunju “When lions battle, jackals flee.” Isaac Newton wrote that to his bitter rival, Gottfried Leibniz. It was a barbed remark on their feud...