Author: Owei Lakemfa
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Israel, the untamed hunter’s dog in the wilderness – By Owei Lakemfa
ISRAEL on Monday, April 1, 2024 attacked the Iranian Embassy in Damascus killing 16 persons, including two Iranian generals, Mohammed Reza Zahedi and Mohammed Hadi Haji Rahimi.
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The runaway Republic of Nigeria – By Owei Lakemfa
The cumulative 29-year military rule left the country in ruins. In the Civil War alone which was triggered by military coups, over two million Nigerians lost their lives.
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Thirty years after, recreating the Rwanda Genocide in Gaza – By Owei Lakemfa
VICTIMS who narrate stories of genocide, do so because they survived. Millions perish, whose voices we may never hear again. There are even victims who did not have the chance of being born. Their lives were simply terminated as they grew in the womb.
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Ali Chiroma: Leading labour under rampaging military regimes – By Owei Lakemfa
THE year 1984 was quite a trying one for the country. The military, which had five years before, handed over power to civilian leaders, had returned like a badly treated Miliary Tuberculosis. It was on rampage, smashing all other powers in the country. To deal with the press, the regime
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Hostages to Islamic State, Israeli State and United States – By Owei Lakemfa
IF the claims of the Islamic State, ISIS, are to be believed, four of its members on Friday, March 22, 2024, broke into the Crocus City Hall, Moscow. The complex housed a shopping centre and a music hall. The band, Picnic, was scheduled to play in the hall.
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A labourer deserves his wages except in Methodist Church Nigeria – By Owei Lakemfa
WAGES is oxygen to the worker. In the main Holy Books, they are sacred. Leviticus 19:13 says: “… The wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.” First Timothy 5:18 admonishes that: “The laborer is worthy of his wages.” Deuteronomy 24:15
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In the fog of uncertainty, Senegal lights a fire – By Owei Lakemfa
IT is in the genre of fairy tales. A virtually unknown 43-year-old in 2023, makes a Facebook post alleging that Macky Sall, the ubiquitous President of his country, Senegal, was trampling on the fundamental rights of citizens.
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Side-stepping criminality – By Owei Lakemfa
I HAVE been to a number of budget ‘defence’ sessions in the National Assembly, and some were like bazaar sessions with buying and selling going on.
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UK, taking medicines for Russia’s headache – By Owei Lakemfa
THE United Kingdom, UK, has become the chief mourner, wailing over the presidential election in Russia which gave President Vladimir Putin a new term. For a country at war and under all sorts of sanctions, it might have been expected that the Russian election would be postponed indefinitely. But it not only held, there was…
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Jonathan Ihonde: Red Salute to an ubiquitous leader – By Owei Lakemfa
JONATHAN Ihonde. I never came across a leader so dominant, but invisible. So influential, but unknown. Silent waters, running deep, he was like a wall gecko in the Nigerian house, observing everything, but remaining virtually unnoticed.