Tag: Lasisi Olagunju

Prominent Nigerians from the political, business, traditional and media sectors converged on Jogor Centre, Ibadan, to celebrate Chief Demola Babalola, immediate past Chairman of...

In February 2025, Daily Trust quoted him as saying: “I’ve been fighting battles all my life and I have not lost one yet." In May...

Okuku town in present Osun State has a well-recorded history of cultural promotion and preservation. Ulli Beier's 'Yoruba Beaded Crowns' (1982) and Karin Barber's...

The Ibadan Discourse Group (IDG) has congratulated prolific writer and journalist, Dr. Lasisi Olagunju on his induction as a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy...

Power politics in the animal kingdom could be as intense, deceptive and selfish as it is in the human kingdom. An ancient African allegory...

"There is a kind of price for life," says Charles A. Curran, and that price, he says, "moves in the direction of death." Death...

In Yoruba, there is a proverb: “Ojú l'arí, ọ̀rẹ́ ò dé 'nú” — literally it means 'we only see the face; friendship does not...

I found myself inventing the above verse as today's headline. The verse came sounding like "The Lord is my shepherd/ I Shall not want..."...

If he had lived one more week, he would have defeated himself. When he turned 87 three years ago, I told him we would...

Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi spent his last three months winding down in a spectacular way. He made some moves and held some meetings which,...