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...
By Lasisi Olagunju I wanted to find out who the greatest massager in history was, but the Internet told me history keeps no such Hall of...
By Lasisi Olagunju One sad Monday in June last year (2025), I wrote in passing about the perils of fibroid and the ruin it does to...
By Lasisi Olagunju President Bola Ahmed Tinubu returned over the weekend, swagger intact, despite his tumble in Turkey. His face was calm; his steps steady. His...
By Lasisi Olagunju The Cambridge English dictionary defines ‘Wizkid’ as “a young person who is very clever and successful.” Collins Dictionary defines it as “a person...