By Lasisi Olagunju Useful Abdullahi Ganduje kissed the canvas on Friday. Many more will go his way. His fall was the wish of his maker, the...
By Lasisi Olagunju A tree does not fall in the forest and kill someone at home. That proverb may be true one hundred years ago. It...
By Lasisi Olagunju Who knows Òkòlò in Oyo? Òkòlò was a Tapa (Nupe) and a slave of the Alaafin of Oyo. His duty was to gather...
By Lasisi Olagunju “There is a kind of price for life,” says Charles A. Curran, and that price, he says, “moves in the direction of death.”...
By Lasisi Olagunju “When lions battle, jackals flee.” Isaac Newton wrote that to his bitter rival, Gottfried Leibniz. It was a barbed remark on their feud...
By Lasisi Olagunju One of the first jokes I picked when I moved to Ibadan 30 years ago is that failure of patronage is the only...
By Lasisi Olagunju My generation met him famous. His first novels he wrote as an undergraduate. One of them was the hugely popular ‘Weep Not, Child’;...
By Lasisi Olagunju If you think there are too many beggars on your street, please take heart and brace up. A trending video is showing a...
By Lasisi Olagunju At the Alaafin’s Garden Hall in Oyo on 6 November, 1934, Alaafin Siyanbola Ladigbolu held a storming meeting with the Resident of Oyo...
By Lasisi Olagunju The enemy is behind everything that happens to anyone here. In electronics and computing, a glitch is an unexpected software or hardware malfunction....