By Lasisi Olagunju It was quite nice seeing President Bola Tinubu as he waltzed into the chambers where he met security chiefs last Thursday. “Morning,” he...
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a road in Canada that is officially known as ‘Road to Nowhere’. Road signs there say so. At the terminal point...
By Lasisi Olagunju May Sudan not happen to Nigeria. This piece starts with prayers. It has to. “Everyone in Africa believes in God…It’s the only way...
By Lasisi Olagunju The one who hasn’t been hit by war calls himself a man (Eni ìjà ò bá níí pe ‘ra è l’ókùnrin). The word...
By Lasisi Olagunju It was almost a missed call; or, more appropriately, an ignored call because the telephone number was unusual – an eight digit number....
By Lasisi Olagunju There are books and films on the life and times of Efunsetan Aniwura, the second Iyalode of Ibadan. She was rich, powerful and...
By Lasisi Olagunju My mystery Hausa friend has been busy with me lately. He has been firing a series of probing (invasive) messages. Sometimes, he asks...
By Lasisi Olagunju Like Nigeria’s multiple-award winning poet, Professor Niyi Osundare, I am also “farmer-born, peasant-bred.” Like him, I “encountered dawn in the enchanted corridors of...