By Lasisi Olagunju When vultures surround you, stay awake so that you do not die stupid death. Whether you are in business or you are in...
By Lasisi Olagunju “I am a defector, my dictionary defines the act of defecting as ‘abandoning a person or a cause, apostacy, revolt, backsliding.’ Not to...
By Lasisi Olagunju I found myself inventing the above verse as today’s headline. The verse came sounding like “The Lord is my shepherd/ I Shall not...
By Lasisi Olagunju On 9 June, 1913, Lord Friedrick Lugard minuted on a document that Lagos “could never be made a healthy place.” It was his...
By Lasisi Olagunju If he had lived one more week, he would have defeated himself. When he turned 87 three years ago, I told him we...
By Lasisi Olagunju “No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” – Gideon J. Tucker A Governor Bola Tinubu of...
By Lasisi Olagunju President Nnamdi Azikiwe was certain that the 1964 federal elections were a farce and should not produce a legitimate government. By hook and...
By Lasisi Olagunju “Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary...
By Lasisi Olagunju The English language is a compulsive borrower; a great debtor. It borrows any word that catches its fancy anyhow and from anywhere. From...
By Lasisi Olagunju In his column last Saturday, my friend and brother, Farooq Kperogi, reminisced his previous piece on unusual Muslim names in Nigeria which do...