Lasisi Olagunju
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‘They chop their own, they chop our own’, By Lasisi Olagunju
She spoke with so much authority on the sleaze and dirt that make our lawmakers so fat like the well-fed…
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Olubadan Olákùlẹ́hìn: Names and destinies, By Lasisi Olagunju
Odysseus survived the Trojan War. He experienced “blissful forgetfulness” in the land of the Lotus-Eaters; he was captured by the…
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From the North, ‘a storm is coming’, By Lasisi Olagunju
Decades ago, my late mother pointed at a house to me: “Someone in that house once snatched someone’s wife. In…
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For Ganduje and Kabiyesi, By Lasisi Olagunju
Useful Abdullahi Ganduje kissed the canvas on Friday. Many more will go his way. His fall was the wish of…
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Let Tehran, Tel Aviv bleed, Abuja will pay the price, By Lasisi Olagunju
A tree does not fall in the forest and kill someone at home. That proverb may be true one hundred…
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Òkòlò, our president’s mad lover, By Lasisi Olagunju
Who knows Òkòlò in Oyo? Òkòlò was a Tapa (Nupe) and a slave of the Alaafin of Oyo. His duty…
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Death of a Queen, By Lasisi Olagunju
“There is a kind of price for life,” says Charles A. Curran, and that price, he says, “moves in the…
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Sick Nation Debate: APC Vs ADC, By Lasisi Olagunju
MODERATOR: We take this space for ‘The Sick Nation Debate’, a town hall exchange between two political tendencies recommending themselves…
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Ijebu and their six tubers of yam, By Lasisi Olagunju
One of the first jokes I picked when I moved to Ibadan 30 years ago is that failure of patronage…
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For Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu, By Lasisi Olagunju
“When lions battle, jackals flee.” Isaac Newton wrote that to his bitter rival, Gottfried Leibniz. It was a barbed remark…
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