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...
By Lasisi Olagunju In mid-19th-century Ibadan, military expeditions under Balogun Ibikunle were so successful in slave-catching that by 1859, the city was gripped in the apprehension...
By Lasisi Olagunju ‘Teacher of Light’ is the title of a biography of Chinua Achebe written by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Tijan Sallah. What does it mean...
By Lasisi Olagunju You know where the latest anti-government journalists are in Lagos? Kirikiri. On a day that Nigerians were celebrating an additional spur of 100...
By Lasisi Olagunju General Lucky Irabor wrote a book that attracted a gathering of Generals in Abuja last Friday. Irabor, in the book, describes the January...