Lasisi Olagunju
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Guest Columnist
Yakubu Mohammed: 1950 – 2026, By Lasisi Olagunju
He was my friend and gist mate. I remember I was right on the Asejire Bridge on the Ife-Ibadan Road…
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Inside Nigeria
Ibadan is Oyo, By Lasisi Olagunju
On Monday, 25 March, 1946, Chief I. B. Akinyele, Chief James Ladejo Ogunsola, Messrs D. T. Akinbiyi and E. A.…
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Arts
Saraki’s persona in Bolaji’s book, By Lasisi Olagunju
I begin with a telling scene. In 2001, former Sports Minister, Bolaji Abdullahi, then a young journalist, visited the strongman…
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Black is White, Foul is Fair, Wrong is Right, By Lasisi Olagunju
A trending video shows Uganda’s president, Yoweri Museveni, interrogating his national football team after their recent loss to Nigeria. His…
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Christmas and a motherless child, By Lasisi Olagunju
If we were Christian in my family, Christmas would have been for us a mixture of joy, mourning and remembrance.…
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Gumi and His Terrorists, By Lasisi Olagunju
During the Kiriji War of the nineteenth century, a grim parable of war came and became a subject of racial…
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Time for the Abachas to rejoice, By Lasisi Olagunju
General Sani Abacha was a great teacher. He pioneered the doctrine of consensus candidacy in Nigeria. He founded a country…
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Good night, My Prof, By Lasisi Olagunju
He was from Ede, the town of Sango; and so, when death came, it struck with the grating harshness of…
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General Christopher Musa: Lessons and warnings, By Lasisi Olagunju
Better a child is confirmed dead than a child is unaccounted for. I am not sure we remember that about…
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Idiocracy, senators and children of food, By Lasisi Olagunju
For ten clean years (November 2015 to 7 October, 2025), Mahmud Yakubu was the chairman of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral…
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