Lasisi Olagunju
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Opinion
Awujale’s Ojude Oba ‘swansong’, By Lasisi Olagunju
I can’t afford to die,” Thailand’s former King Bhumibol Adulyadej famously told his biographer, Bill Stevenson, who was peering into…
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Sowore, a vampire state and its dead whale, By Lasisi Olagunju
In July 1968, a year into Nigeria’s civil war, one of the divisional commanders fired a note, from the war…
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A hero from the North, By Lasisi Olagunju
We have our curious caste of peculiar heroes and we worship them every second. Our Chief Justice is one of…
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A hero from the North
By Lasisi Olagunju We have our curious caste of peculiar heroes and we worship them every second. Our Chief Justice…
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Nigeria’s ministers and the giant snails, Lasisi Olagunju
A young man walked into a buka with a swag and placed his orders. He asked for pounded yam, egusi…
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Herdsmen of Katsina, By Lasisi Olagunju
From Geoffrey Chaucer to Robert Southey and to James Russel Lowell we learn, like all men who unleash chicken to…
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Buhari’s Ruga insult, By Lasisi Olagunju
By Lasisi Olagunju On October 18, 1990, the United States, in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), predicted the end of…
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Senate President Ahmed Lawan’s baptism, By Lasisi Olagunju
I should have known that when an elder runs barefooted on a field of ekan grass, he is either chasing…
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Ohanaeze and Buhari’s Next Cabinet, By Lasisi Olagunju
If tomorrow I have the opportunity of meeting President Muhammadu Buhari, I will ask him just two questions: One, as…
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Aisha is her father’s daughter, By Lasisi Olagunju
“AS I watched our First Lady on television on Saturday, I saw dissent. I saw deviance. I saw resistance. I…
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