Lasisi Olagunju
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The terrorists are back, By Lasisi Olagunju
My mystery Hausa friend has been busy with me lately. He has been firing a series of probing (invasive) messages.…
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Encounter with a prophet, 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…
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Elections: Lessons from Oyo to Nigeria, By Lasisi Olagunju
“The ides of March are come,” Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar says in utter derision and dismissal of a life-and-death warning. And…
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2023 election postscript, By Lasisi Olagunju
Under the cover of darkness, a dish was placed on a highway in Lagos at the weekend. It was food…
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The scramble for Lagos, By Lasisi Olagunju
If you were in Western Nigeria in the 1980s, you would remember a television drama with the title Fó’po mó’yò…
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Bola Tinubu, oun t’o lóó dà lo dà yìí o, By Lasisi Olagunju
The 2023 presidential election in Nigeria is not the worst in human history. That dubious reputation belongs in Liberia where,…
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Lessons and scandals of this election, By Lasisi Olagunju
Who registered the kids we saw in the election queues in Kano on Saturday? I watched video clips of women…
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The North, this week, By Lasisi Olagunju
(I am calm. I am calm. It is the calm before something awful – Sylvia Plath, American poet and short…
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On Buhari and his successor, By Lasisi Olagunju
Ancient Oyo people found it very convenient to follow the Alaafin to Koso (where kings are made); they balked at…
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Naira and February feast of vultures, By Lasisi Olagunju
The naira exchange affliction of 1984 rose up a second time in 2022 and spilled into 2023 because it has…
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