Author: Owei Lakemfa
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Let us reset by deporting Saudis – By Owei Lakemfa
A DOZEN years ago when I first lodged at the prestigious Corinthia Hotel, Khartoum overlooking the confluence where the White Nile River and Blue Nile River are in eternal embrace, a waitress approached me.
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Masters of the game: Britain plucks Cameron to regain balance – By Owei Lakemfa
THE British are known masters of diplomacy and politics. This is exemplified in the quote by its former Prime Minister Winston Churchill who said: “’Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
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Governors, thugs and settlement of disputes – By Owei Lakemfa
IN 2011, we in the Trade Union Movement were worried that the new National Minimum Wage of N18,000 consented to by the Federal and State governments, and signed into law the previous year, was not being implemented.
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On Judgement Day, I will say, I stood for humanity – By Owei Lakemfa
IF on Judgement Day, the Lord asks me what I did while the Palestinians were being exterminated like flies, I will say, I stood up to protest, to campaign against the genocide. I will say I wrote against the world leaders who want an-eye-for-an-eye, a tooth-for-a-tooth.
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No Hope for democracy – By Owei Lakemfa
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe Ajaero, was on Wednesday, November 1, battered in Owerri, Imo State by armed hoodlums, some in security uniform. He was about addressing
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John Shinkaiye: An African great straddles world stage – By Owei Lakemfa
The bright stars of Nigeria shown again when two famous African-Americans and two illustrious Africans last Saturday received the Medal of Glory Award, MOGA, in Miami, United States. It is a prestigious award by the Foundation for Democracy in Africa.
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Blessed are the human rights defenders – By Owei Lakemfa
My mind raced back 34 years as I stood on Saturday in the assembly of human rights defenders who had gathered in Ilorin.
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Clara Pulido: Daughter of Fidel, friend, sister, comrade – By Owei Lakemfa
CARLOS Trejo Sosa was perhaps the friendliest Cuban Ambassador I ever knew. He was a wise, widely travelled man with deep knowledge of Cuban sayings and proverbs which he said mainly emanated from Africa.
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Ibrahim Gambari: Navigating the South Africa-Nigeria high seas – By Owei Lakemfa
PROFESSOR Ibrahim Agboola Gambari, a giant in diplomatic circles on Wednesday, went down memory lane. He had been United Nations, UN, envoy to Myanmar, its Special Adviser on Africa, the Joint African Union-UN
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Citizens of a turbulent world in search of a direction – By Owei Lakemfa
IT was a multinational gathering which included 41 embassies. It was a trans-generational assembly which comprised diplomats of the 1960s and 70s, activists of the 1980s and current students, mostly from Bingham University, Keffi. Also in the assembly were government officials, labour leaders, writers and academics.