Lasisi Olagunju
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Fayose’s Bedroom Electrification, By Lasisi Olagunju
Starting a week with the joke of a joke can be very distressing. The ‘architect of modern Ekiti State’, Mr…
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From Emilokan to Bulldog Brower, By Lasisi Olagunju
A grandson of Uganda’s former military ruler, Idi Amin Dada, is Aziz Abdul, better known as “Ringo.” Like his grandfather,…
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For JAMB’s Ishaq Oloyede, By Lasisi Olagunju
In 1528, the sixteenth-century Italian writer Baldassare Castiglione published his classic, The Book of the Courtier (Il Libro del Cortegiano).…
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Politicians who sell their own toes, By Lasisi Olagunju
Somewhere in present-day Osun State, about a hundred years ago, an oba ordered a manhunt for a troublesome strongman in…
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Democracy’s sweet billions, By Lasisi Olagunju
At the dawn of this democracy, masked musician, Lagbaja, looked at the value of a million naira and asked in…
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Kurfi and the Radarada in Katsina, By Lasisi Olagunju
If Katsina State governor, Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, were a Yoruba man, the people would say he is living his…
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Why Oriire was not Chibok, By Lasisi Olagunju
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and the Northern Elders Forum (NEF) were in the media yesterday (Sunday) urging President Bola…
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Afrophobia: Should Nigeria ask South African companies to leave? By Lasisi Olagunju
Jacob Zuma was President of South Africa when he declared on October 21, 2013 that South Africa should not “think…
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Nigeria’s biggest scandal is here, By Lasisi Olagunju
President Bola Tinubu’s Villa scriptwriters are supremely gifted. Go back and read Mr. Bayo Onanuga’s So Long a Letter on…
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Tunji Bello at 65, By Lasisi Olagunju
I call myself a dove. That is why I choose my friends carefully. Yet, for reasons I have never understood,…
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