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El-Rufai, Obasa and other godfather stories, By Lasisi Olagunju

February 10, 2025Bode DoluLeave a Comment

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, don’t come to the office, Baba Adedibu is here looking for you. He came with his boys.” There were no two birds bearing ‘hawk’ in the skies of […]

Hushpuppi: Fugitive supercop and his godfather, By Tunde Odesola

January 25, 2022Bode DoluLeave a Comment

The pride of lions lounge under the baobab. Some look at the sky belly-up in gratitude to nature. Some crouch on their warm, filled bellies, swishing their tails to the music of the wind and the shine of the sun. Like fleeting ghosts, three monkeys, from nowhere, suddenly descended on the pride; giving a knock […]