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Monday Lines
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
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…

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Lasisi Olagunju
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
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…

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Lasisi Olagunju
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…

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Lasisi Olagunju
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
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
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…

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Lasisi Olagunju
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…

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Lasisi Olagunju
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
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

Omololu Olunloyo: An egret flies home

If he had lived one more week, he…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
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
Lagos

Lugard: 80 years after 

On 9 June, 1913, Lord Friedrick Lugard minuted…

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Lasisi Olagunju
Balling with Bola Tinubu at 73 Powerful mob at Ikeja power I pity Sanwo-Olu A review of IBB’s book Bank shares An enemy of the Mass murder on River Flying gods lying prophets
Birthday

Balling with Bola Tinubu at 73

The Nigerian presidency is an energizing elixir. It…

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Lasisi Olagunju
Natasha and her Osun Nigeria's triangle of incest, They will write the results Akpabio as Oliver Twist Tracing an unusual Muslim A celebration of death El-Rufai Obasa and other godfather Are Yoruba Muslims truly marginalised Let us name Nigeria after our Beyond terrorism and Boko Haram Some words for king Fulani Hausa and Pastor Adeboye owners of Desperate crowds and foods of Tinubu Atiku and the Lion’s A trial of the Supreme Court For the three musketeers Issues in Adenuga’s ‘death’ We collected money A bouquet of stories In defence The shuffle in Abuja The waist beads Petrol price Wike and Fubara, Poverty professors We beg bread they belch beer ‘I am Here to Plunder’ ‘Those who are about to die salute you’ Marriage Yes Education No Destiny and enemies \ In defence of our president The Yoruba spirit Protesters of the North Protest Dangote and Protestant Greeks in Abuja
goddess

Natasha and her Osun goddess

A short four minutes, thirty three seconds video…

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Lasisi Olagunju
Natasha and her Osun Nigeria's triangle of incest, They will write the results Akpabio as Oliver Twist Tracing an unusual Muslim A celebration of death El-Rufai Obasa and other godfather Are Yoruba Muslims truly marginalised Let us name Nigeria after our Beyond terrorism and Boko Haram Some words for king Fulani Hausa and Pastor Adeboye owners of Desperate crowds and foods of Tinubu Atiku and the Lion’s A trial of the Supreme Court For the three musketeers Issues in Adenuga’s ‘death’ We collected money A bouquet of stories In defence The shuffle in Abuja The waist beads Petrol price Wike and Fubara, Poverty professors We beg bread they belch beer ‘I am Here to Plunder’ ‘Those who are about to die salute you’ Marriage Yes Education No Destiny and enemies \ In defence of our president The Yoruba spirit Protesters of the North Protest Dangote and Protestant Greeks in Abuja
Nigeria

Nigeria’s triangle of incest

"No man's life, liberty, or property is safe…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
Natasha and her Osun Nigeria's triangle of incest, They will write the results Akpabio as Oliver Twist Tracing an unusual Muslim A celebration of death El-Rufai Obasa and other godfather Are Yoruba Muslims truly marginalised Let us name Nigeria after our Beyond terrorism and Boko Haram Some words for king Fulani Hausa and Pastor Adeboye owners of Desperate crowds and foods of Tinubu Atiku and the Lion’s A trial of the Supreme Court For the three musketeers Issues in Adenuga’s ‘death’ We collected money A bouquet of stories In defence The shuffle in Abuja The waist beads Petrol price Wike and Fubara, Poverty professors We beg bread they belch beer ‘I am Here to Plunder’ ‘Those who are about to die salute you’ Marriage Yes Education No Destiny and enemies \ In defence of our president The Yoruba spirit Protesters of the North Protest Dangote and Protestant Greeks in Abuja
Balewa

2027: They will write the results

President Nnamdi Azikiwe was certain that the 1964…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
Balling with Bola Tinubu at 73 Powerful mob at Ikeja power I pity Sanwo-Olu A review of IBB’s book Bank shares An enemy of the Mass murder on River Flying gods lying prophets
Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company

Powerful mob at Ikeja power office

The English language is a compulsive borrower; a…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
Natasha and her Osun Nigeria's triangle of incest, They will write the results Akpabio as Oliver Twist Tracing an unusual Muslim A celebration of death El-Rufai Obasa and other godfather Are Yoruba Muslims truly marginalised Let us name Nigeria after our Beyond terrorism and Boko Haram Some words for king Fulani Hausa and Pastor Adeboye owners of Desperate crowds and foods of Tinubu Atiku and the Lion’s A trial of the Supreme Court For the three musketeers Issues in Adenuga’s ‘death’ We collected money A bouquet of stories In defence The shuffle in Abuja The waist beads Petrol price Wike and Fubara, Poverty professors We beg bread they belch beer ‘I am Here to Plunder’ ‘Those who are about to die salute you’ Marriage Yes Education No Destiny and enemies \ In defence of our president The Yoruba spirit Protesters of the North Protest Dangote and Protestant Greeks in Abuja
Akpabio

Akpabio as Oliver Twist

“Possibly he cohabited with Miss Bloggs, but don't…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
Balling with Bola Tinubu at 73 Powerful mob at Ikeja power I pity Sanwo-Olu A review of IBB’s book Bank shares An enemy of the Mass murder on River Flying gods lying prophets
Lagos

With a heavy heart, I pity Sanwo-Olu

There is a royal family in Lagos called…

By
Lasisi Olagunju
Natasha and her Osun Nigeria's triangle of incest, They will write the results Akpabio as Oliver Twist Tracing an unusual Muslim A celebration of death El-Rufai Obasa and other godfather Are Yoruba Muslims truly marginalised Let us name Nigeria after our Beyond terrorism and Boko Haram Some words for king Fulani Hausa and Pastor Adeboye owners of Desperate crowds and foods of Tinubu Atiku and the Lion’s A trial of the Supreme Court For the three musketeers Issues in Adenuga’s ‘death’ We collected money A bouquet of stories In defence The shuffle in Abuja The waist beads Petrol price Wike and Fubara, Poverty professors We beg bread they belch beer ‘I am Here to Plunder’ ‘Those who are about to die salute you’ Marriage Yes Education No Destiny and enemies \ In defence of our president The Yoruba spirit Protesters of the North Protest Dangote and Protestant Greeks in Abuja
Muslim

Tracing an unusual Muslim name

In his column last Saturday, my friend and…

By
Lasisi Olagunju

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