Lasisi Olagunju
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Ilé ò gbàá, ònà ò gbàá, By Lasisi Olagunju
“I did not mention it to you. The lady that was among the trio recently freed from the Kaduna train…
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Are Terrorists now our Government? By Lasisi Olagunju
Will there be elections next year? Across the 19 northern states, tell me, apart from certain parts of Kwara and…
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Before They Kidnap our President, By Lasisi Olagunju
Singer and songwriter, Bukola Elemide, is better known as Asa. She was paid by the Nigerian state to perform on…
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Kuje Prison Attack: Monkeys can do Better, By Lasisi Olagunju
The July 5, 2022 attack on Kuje Prison, Abuja, was more than a story of shame. You cannot be safe…
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Yoruba: From Restructuring to àwa l’ókàn, By Lasisi Olagunju
A professor friend who works abroad is home-sick. He recently asked me: “I want to visit home. I am scared.…
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Sold Votes and a Dead-duck Democracy, By Lasisi Olagunju
From a lack of horses, we always saddle dogs, or cows, or even the ugly, scaly-backed alligator (agílíntí ab’ara hòìhòì).…
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Peter Obi, Dragons and Muslim-Muslim Ticket, By Lasisi Olagunju
“Confidence is like a dragon; for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.” That is from Criss Jami,…
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Bólèk’ájà Party Primaries, By Lasisi Olagunju
Bólèk’ájà means ‘come down and let’s fight’. If you lived in Yoruba land of 1970s with its wood-bodied passenger Bedford…
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Inside Nigeria
2023: Where is Patience Jonathan? By Lasisi Olagunju
She was famously called Mama Peace. If there was anything in the Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency that many have missed, it…
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The North’s Tadpoles and Deborah Yakubu, By Lasisi Olagunju
A Sokoto mob on Saturday violently protested against justice for Deborah Yakubu who was murdered by her schoolmates in broad…
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