The President Is My Brother, I Shall Not Talk
The President Is My Brother, I Shall Not Talk By Lasisi Olagunju I found myself inventing the above verse as today’s headline. The verse came sounding like “The Lord is…
Suspect Parade Ban In Nigeria: Protecting Rights Or Shielding Impunity?
By Kelly Odaro However, while this decision may appear progressive on the surface, it raises critical concerns regarding Nigeria’s peculiar socio-political landscape, where corruption and abuse of power remain rampant…
Nigeria’s Triangle Of Incest
By Lasisi Olagunju “No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” A Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos would not vacate his seat for anyone…
Powerful Mob At Ikeja Power House
By Lasisi Olagunju The English language is a compulsive borrower; a great debtor. It borrows any word that catches its fancy anyhow and from anywhere. From Ancient Rome, the Englishman…
Akpabio As Oliver Twist
By Lasisi Olagunju “Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don’t mention it in front of his wife, let the sleeping dogs lie.” Gordon Jarvie’s ‘Dictionary of Idioms’ contains that…
With A Heavy Heart, I Pity Sanwo-Olu
By Lasisi Olagunju There is a royal family in Lagos called Oniru. In the earliest times when there was no Lagos and Eko knew its boundaries, that family owned all…
Tracing An Unusual Muslim Name
By Lasisi Olagunju In his column last Saturday, my friend and brother, Farooq Kperogi, reminisced his previous piece on unusual Muslim names in Nigeria which do not “seem to have…
Kano: Who Needs Mass Wedding On 2025?
By Funke Egbemode It is very easy to find a woman to marry; what is not easy to find is money to cook soup. That is not a proverb acceptable…
El-Rufai, Obasa And Other godfather Stories
By Lasisi Olagunju It happened one sunny day in mid-May 2003. I was preparing to go to the office around noon when Tayo, the editor’s secretary, called me. “Mr Olagunju,…
Are Yoruba Muslims Truly Marginalised?
By Lasisi Olagunju Each time we hear or read outsiders say they are fighting for Yoruba Muslims, some of us (Yoruba Muslims) laugh. Who told them that we cannot fight…