Author: Owei Lakemfa
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Rescuing the sheep from the lion’s mouth: Solidarity with Assange – By Owei Lakemfa
JULIAN Assange, an innocent man walked out of an American-staged court this Monday, June 24, a free man after spending1901 harrowing days in British captivity. He spent those hellish days in the British Belmarsh maximum security prison in a 2×3 metre cell, isolated 23 hours a day. Not even a dog deserves such inhuman treatment.
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Arise O Compatriots, Nigeria, We Hail Thee – By Owei Lakemfa
It was a bit of an emotional period for me when names of people who fought for democracy kept popping up in the Democracy Week. It was quite good hearing from the family of Mr Alao Aka-Bashorun, Father of the Nigerian Pro-Democracy Movement.
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UN diplomacy: Half peace, better than no peace – By Owei Lakemfa
THE visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to North Korea and the United States yelling against it have diverted world attention this week. It has drawn attention from the immediate needs and steps to save Palestinian lives, especially those of babies and children. How does Putin visiting his North Korean ally, Kim Jong Un, constitute a…
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Nigerian democracy as a pole vault – By Owei Lakemfa
Nigerians celebrated twenty five years of Democracy last Wednesday, June 12. I did not mean to dampen the enthusiasm. I am not a killjoy. But democracy is not a declaration, it is a praxis. It is not what we wish, but what we live.
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Europe at work, please don’t disturb – By Owei Lakemfa
THE on-going right wing shifts in European parliamentary elections give the impression that there are seismic shifts in the plates of its politics. Please don’t worry yourself. There are no possibilities of earthquakes. These are mere rumblings in the belly of its body politic.
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Offiong Aqua: Meeting a part of Nigerian history – By Owei Lakemfa
IN my visit to the United States from May 22, 2024 to deliver a Lecture, I was determined to meet a man I had never met. I wrote him from Nigeria and we agreed to meet. At the crowded Port Authority train station in New York, we easily picked out ourselves; his image was etched in…
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The African sunset in South Africa – By Owei Lakemfa
The loss of majority in parliament by the African National Congress, ANC in the May 29, 2024 South African elections, was a sunset for the continent. It means that the unrepentant Pan Africanist organisation with its vow to the mass of the people and, unrepentant commitment to humanity as manifested in its unprecedented war against…
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Rescuing and educating the Nigerian child: The Wakirike model – By Owei Lakemfa
A single nuclear weapon can wipe out an entire city and its living contents. It can also cause severe blast over an average five-kilometre radius from the epicenter. Its radiation effects can kill more and, deform human beings over decades.
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The big American cock and the small Cuban needle – By Owei Lakemfa
The big American cock has for over six decades attempted to devour tiny Cuba; but the latter is a needle which the cock might be unable to bite, chew or swallow.
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Rethinking Nigeria amongst Wakirike kinsmen and Tinubu’s unforced errors – By Owei Lakemfa
In two days, May 29, it would be a quarter of a century since we began our third journey on the democratic path. Some insist, this is not democracy, but Civil Rule. It was a bloody process getting back on this path, past three military regimes that brooked no opposition.