By Lasisi Olagunju It is either Nasir El-Rufai is a very lucky man, or he is a very strong man. He was arrested by his friends,...
By Lasisi Olagunju I begin with Game of Thrones, a world not far removed from ours, where power, wealth, and revenge are the true currencies of...
By Lasisi Olagunju Three politicians—America, Britain, and Nigeria—died in a stampede over oil, influence, and global validation. In the afterlife, they were received by Angel Gabriel,...
By Lasisi Olagunju A mother sits her son beside her, looks into his eyes and tells him: “Son, listen to me carefully. I want to tell...
By Lasisi Olagunju Our power minister, Adebayo Adelabu, is now mocked as the King of Darkness—Kábíyèsi Olókùnkùn. I laugh at his traducers. They are crowning the...
By Lasisi Olagunju On August 2, 1100, England’s King William II went hunting in the New Forest in southern England. During the chase, an arrow shot...
By Lasisi Olagunju Nigerians when they cry, even the bereaved gets scared. Because they are an impossible people; everything divides them. The Iranian crisis is the...
By Lasisi Olagunju Journalist arrived at the Government House with a proverb on his tongue. “Your Excellency,” he began after the courtesies, notebook open, “in Yoruba,...
By Lasisi Olagunju Ours is a country where piety and perfidy share a table — where, as William Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet, “One may smile, and...
By Lasisi Olagunju Alhaji Shehu Shagari first met General Murtala Mohammed in August 1974. Newly appointed Federal Commissioner for Communications, Murtala, wrote a memo for cabinet...