Bandit Rats in Our Big Budget
By Lasisi Olagunju/ (Published in the Nigerian Tribune on Monday, 20 July, 2026) On 9 June, 2026, the Presidency announced…
Nigeria’s Biggest Scandal is Here, By Lasisi Olagunju
President Bola Tinubu’s Villa scriptwriters are supremely gifted. Go back and read Mr. Bayo Onanuga’s So Long a Letter on…
An Agenda for Yoruba Oba, Leaders, By Lasisi Olagunju
On Friday, November 1, 1878, a decisive war was fought in the north-eastern corridor of Yorubaland. History remembers it as…
Memories, the Dead, Okanlomo and Other Stories, By Festus Adedayo
As we walked into the venue of Professor Abimbola Adunni Adelakun’s mother’s 25th memorial in Ibadan, Oyo State, last Thursday,…
Gumi and His Terrorists, By Lasisi Olagunju
During the Kiriji War of the nineteenth century, a grim parable of war came and became a subject of racial…
Saluting Our Permanent Patriarchs, By Lasisi Olagunju
Respect old age. A “strictly by invitation” conclave of Yoruba cardinals sat for two days last week, not in the…
APC’s Slave-raiding Expeditions, By Lasisi Olagunju
In mid-19th-century Ibadan, military expeditions under Balogun Ibikunle were so successful in slave-catching that by 1859, the city was gripped…
Time for the Abachas to Rejoice, By Lasisi Olagunju
General Sani Abacha was a great teacher. He pioneered the doctrine of consensus candidacy in Nigeria. He founded a country…