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...
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a royal family in Lagos called Oniru. In the earliest times when there was no Lagos and Eko knew its boundaries,...
By Lasisi Olagunju In five parts, thirteen chapters, six appendices, including an interview; a prologue and an epilogue, he sought to give a definite definition of...
By Lasisi Olagunju Afenifere leader, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, died on Friday. He would have been 100 years old if death had not been too fast; if...