By Lasisi Olagunju He was my friend and gist mate. I remember I was right on the Asejire Bridge on the Ife-Ibadan Road when his very...
By Lasisi Olagunju On Monday, 25 March, 1946, Chief I. B. Akinyele, Chief James Ladejo Ogunsola, Messrs D. T. Akinbiyi and E. A. Sanda, the very...
By Lasisi Olagunju To the north of Ibadan, on the way to Iseyin, is a village perpetually wearing mournful, forlorn looks. You must have some interest...
By Lasisi Olagunju I begin with a telling scene. In 2001, former Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, then a young journalist, visited the strongman of Kwara politics,...
By Lasisi Olagunju A trending video shows Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, interrogating his national football team after their recent loss to Nigeria. His question was simple...
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a Yoruba proverb for our insecurity and the external help we got last Thursday: Let the man see the snake; let...
By Lasisi Olagunju “Beware the quiet man; for while others speak, he watches. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest, he strikes.”...
By Lasisi Olagunju General Sani Abacha was a great teacher. He pioneered the doctrine of consensus candidacy in Nigeria. He founded a country of five political...
By Lasisi Olagunju Better a child is confirmed dead than a child is unaccounted for. I am not sure we remember that about 250 pupils of...