By Lasisi Olagunju An oba is put on the throne to keep “the bush at bay.” Collectively and individually, the successful oba is praised as “so’gbó...
By Lasisi Olagunju Opeyemi Bamidele was the candidate of the Labour Party in the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State. He thought he had...
By Lasisi Olagunju The people of Lagos should thank their stars that their state is not a country. If it were, it would have seen worse...
By Lasisi Olagunju The only reason the poor have not started eating the rich in Nigeria is, perhaps, because this is the season of corn. And,...
By Lasisi Olagunju Today’s Yorubaland is a very reluctant part of Nigeria. But it is also the most conflicted of the parts. Its goals are difficult...
By Lasisi Olagunju The Jerusalem Post is arguably Israel’s most-read English news website and best-selling English newspaper. Last week Wednesday, it published an interesting report of...
By Lasisi Olagunju One of the bitter lessons Bola Tinubu may have learnt in his abortive war against Niger Republic’s military junta is that with northern...
By Lasisi Olagunju Our president has charm. “Charm is seduction without sex,” says Robert Greene, author of ‘The Art of Seduction’ (2001). The president is a...
By Lasisi Olagunju Ile Ife and Oyo Ile were at the very core of the cultural and political essence of the Yoruba. While the whole of...
By Lasisi Olagunju Immediate past Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, recently waxed proverbial and made a Facebook post which sounded like a loud complaint: “The axe...