By Lasisi Olagunju In the early 1940s, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the hugely popular Sardauna of Sokoto, found himself at a crossroads of politics and rivalry. After...
By Lasisi Olagunju In ‘Jokes and Targets’ by Christie Davies, a Soviet journalist interviews a Chukchi man: “Could you tell us briefly how you lived before...
By Lasisi Olagunju “You may forward this to him to reflect on…if he’s redeemable!” A Tinubu minister from the South-West sent this message to a respected,...
By Lasisi Olagunju I was an undergraduate in Ife on Friday, 23 January, 1987 when the statue of Oduduwa was commissioned at the Oduduwa Hall. Several...
By Lasisi Olagunju Why did Bola Tinubu offend Nasir El-Rufai? He should have kept him. There are three principalities the Yoruba dread to offend: The first...
By Lasisi Olagunju A race of giants. The Yoruba had been producing monumental men and women long before Nigeria became a country. Professor Adelola Adeloye’s ‘African...
By Lasisi Olagunju Yesterday, someone asked me to give my current impression of that coalition party called the ADC. I asked if the person knew the...
By Lasisi Olagunju My literature teacher told me that situational irony is a fire station burning down, or a Babaláwo dying of Mágùn. Some 40 years...
By Lasisi Olagunju Who killed Dele Giwa? Who was Gloria Okon and where is she today? How did David Mark accurately predict in 1994 that Sani...
By Lasisi Olagunju Each time this country discounts tribe and tongue, region and religion, it wins. Nigeria’s stunning victory in the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations...