Showing posts with label Owei Lakemfa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Owei Lakemfa. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Chants Of Treason: No Water, No Electricity, No Food!

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  By Owei Lakemfa A diplomat from the Group of Seven, G7, countries in March 2026, invited me to dinner in Abuja. The first thing he asked w...
Monday, March 23, 2026

Tinubu’s UK Visit: Britain’s Gains, Nigeria’s Pains

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  By Owei Lakemfa It was, undoubtedly, a difficult time for President Bola Tinubu to visit the United Kingdom, UK. Yes, he is a regular visi...
Wednesday, March 18, 2026

When Educated Illiterates Rule, Society Is In Trouble

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  By Owei Lakemfa Fuel prices in Nigeria went up an average 40 percent within days of the United States, US, and Israel attacking Iran. Dies...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

After 30 Months, Nigeria Returns With Ambassadors, Fumbling

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  By Owei Lakemfa Thirty months after recalling all Nigerian ambassadors, and 15 months before the end of its four-year tenure, the Tinubu a...
Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Tragic: A Nation Without Heroes Or In Need Of Heroes

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  By Owei Lakemfa Nigeria is like an orphan. A country without heroes.  The political leadership over the    decades have been held in suspi...
Friday, December 12, 2025

Benin: Between Military Claws And Bloody Talons Of President Talon

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By Owei Lakemfa Early morning Sunday, December 7, 2025, while many Beninois slept, hoping to go to church, mosque and traditional places of ...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

The Inside Story Of The Fake Coup In Guinea-Bissau

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  By Owei Lakemfa Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo on November 26, 2025 sat in his office as the President of Guinea-Bissau. As a retired Genera...
Friday, November 28, 2025

Guinea-Bissau’s Lawless President Embalo Has No Business In Office

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  By Owei Lakemfa The military coup on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 that swept away President Umaro Sissoco Embaló did not come as a surpris...
Monday, November 3, 2025

The First Time I Was Battered By Policemen

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  By Owei Lakemfa The   images of the police taking on demonstrators in the streets of  Tanzania and Cameroun, following disputed elections,...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Nigeria: Beautiful Nonsense As Governance

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  By Owei Lakemfa Senate President Godswill Akpabio issued a very powerful statement to the world on October 11, 2025, titled “The Trials an...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Rescuing Nigerians From The Talons Of Some Leaders

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  By Owei Lakemfa The resolve, determination, precision   and speed with which the Petroleum and Natural Gas   Senior Staff Association of N...
Monday, September 8, 2025

Banditry, Its Politics And Practitioners

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  By Owei Lakemfa One of the major challenges of Nigeria since colonial times had been corruption. But President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has now p...
Monday, September 1, 2025

The Clans Gathered For Brother Okello Oculi As He Paddled Across

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  By Owei Lakemfa The clans gathered. The intellectual clan surpassed the academic. The former flowed into the radical. The radicals bowed t...
Monday, July 7, 2025

The Masses Need Food, The Elites Want More Bureaucracies

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  By Owei Lakemfa The World Bank in its May 2025 Report stated that 75.5 per cent  of rural Nigerians are engaged in deadly combats with pov...
Tuesday, May 13, 2025

How The Military Taught Nigerians The Art Of Looting

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  By Owei Lakemfa It will be fallacious to say the military taught Nigerians how to steal. In truth, stealing maybe as old as humanity its...
Friday, December 20, 2024

Battered ECOWAS Applies Cosmetic Make-Up

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  By Owei Lakemfa The highlight of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Authority of Heads of State and Government Summi...
Friday, November 29, 2024

Trumpism Set To Upset The World

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  By Owei Lakemfa Unto us, a man-child is again born by the United States, US, electorate. Donald Trump is actually a reincarnation sent t...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Nigeria-Vietnam: When Your Friend Tells You The Truth

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  By Owei Lakemfa The primary reason a group of Nigerians had a meeting in Abuja with embassy and trade officials from Vietnam on Wednesda...
Tuesday, October 29, 2024

The Nigerian Alignment Is Faulty

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  By Owei Lakemfa It was a triumphant occasion. The venue was the Muhammadu Buhari Cantonment, Giri, Abuja. The joyous occasion was the de...
Monday, October 7, 2024

Abiola, Tinubu And I On A Derailed Train

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  By Owei Lakemfa I am excited. After about two months in police cells and the Kuje Maximum Prison, three #EndBadGovernance protesters: Mi...