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Monday Lines
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
north

From the North, ‘a storm is coming’

Decades ago, my late mother pointed at a…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
ADC

Sick nation debate: APC vs ADC

(First published on Monday, June 16, 2025) MODERATOR:…

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Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Ganduje

For Ganduje and Kabiyesi

Useful Abdullahi Ganduje kissed the canvas on Friday.…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
Anini, Prince
Abuja

Let Tehran, Tel Aviv bleed, Abuja will pay the price

A tree does not fall in the forest…

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Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
okolo

Okolo, our president’s mad lover

Who knows Òkòlò in Oyo? Òkòlò was a…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Orangun of Oke Ila Orangun

Death of a Queen

"There is a kind of price for life,"…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Sanwo-olu

For Tinubu and Sanwo-Olu

"When lions battle, jackals flee." Isaac Newton wrote…

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Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Ijebu

Ijebu and their six tubers of yam

One of the first jokes I picked when…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
The scramble Niger
Beggars

Nigerian beggars in Ghana

If you think there are too many beggars…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
light

Ngugi, where is the light?

My generation met him famous. His first novels…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Ibadan

Ibadan-Oyo war of supremacy over obas council

At the Alaafin’s Garden Hall in Oyo on…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
JAMB

JAMB, glitches and an inter-tribal war

The enemy is behind everything that happens to…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
NNPC

NNPC’s Ojúl’arí ọ̀rẹ́ ò dé ‘nú

In Yoruba, there is a proverb: “Ojú l'arí,…

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Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Hausa

The president’s new Hausa, Igbo caps

One hundred and seventy-nine Anambra kings gave President…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
federal roads

The shame of Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road 

Mr Dele Alake represents Ekiti State in the…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home

Awolowo and the North’s latest warning 

When vultures surround you, stay awake so that…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Mike Adenuga

Mike Adenuga: What is the meaning of success?

In the early days of Globacom, its chairman,…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
defectors

A nation of defectors

  “I am a defector, my dictionary defines…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
brother

The president is my brother, I shall not talk…

I found myself inventing that verse as today’s…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
From the North nation debate Tinubu against Sanwo-Olu tubers of yam inter-tribal war NNPC’s Ojúl’arí The president’s new Hausa Ibadan-Ife-Ilesa road  Awolowo and the North’s latest warning, What is the meaning of success A nation of defectors The president is my brother For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria 80 years after  An egret flies home
Northern Nigeria

For the Yoruba of Northern Nigeria

“As an Offa citizen, I am made to…

By
Lasisi Olagunju

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