Author: Owei Lakemfa
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People who forget their past, can’t have a good future – By Owei Lakemfa
NIGERIANS are brilliant, one of the best educated peoples in the world. But none of us can show our children or grandchildren the spot where, 63 years ago, our country’s independence was declared.
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Stocking the fires in the time of human slaughter – By Owei Lakemfa
THE human slaughter going on in Israel and Palestine are horrendous. In the first five days of the conflict, over 2,500 human beings were slaughtered.
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Using local governments to scoop national funds – By Owei Lakemfa
Aare Afe Babalola, the 94-year-old Senior Advocate of Nigeria with a 60-year experience at the bar, recently revealed an open secret: that virtually all state governors are stealing the funds of the local governments. The nonagenarian founder of Afe Babalola University lamented on
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Migrate to UK, go to jail in Rwanda – By Owei Lakemfa
THE United Kingdom, UK, and Rwanda who conspired to have hapless migrants flown from London to open prison in Kigali, are trying hard to keep their unholy alliance on track.
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Baptising Umahi in Abuja after refusing to learn in Ebonyi – By Owei Lakemfa
IT was a short honeymoon. I expected it to be so. The Minister of Works, Senator David ‘Dave’ Nweze Umahi, was just 38 days in office when the staff of the Ministry publicly demanded his removal.
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Macron plays the outlaw in Niger Republic – By Owei Lakemfa
FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron loves acting on the world stage. In the on-going drama about the West and some West African leaders threatening to use force against the military regime that came to power in Niger Republic on July 26, 2023, he chose to play the outlaw.
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Why youths stand for Mohbad in death – By Owei Lakemfa
Emerging music star, 27-year-old Ilerioluwa Aloba alias Mohbad passed away on September 12, 2023 of undisclosed reasons and crowds poured out in the streets.
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The gates to hell were opened long ago – By Owei Lakemfa
THE world gathered this week under the United Nations to talk peace, security and socio-economic justice, but hawks circled and beneficiaries of a skewed world sat silent in cold complicity.
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Nigeria: Stepping back from a major blunder on world stage – By Owei Lakemfa
President Bola Tinubu on September 2, 2023 recalled all Nigerian career and non-career ambassadors across the universe from their duty posts. His action he said, is to transfuse his renewed hope agenda into foreign policy and ensure
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Moroccan earthquake: A monumental disaster and a monarch’s parochial politics – By Owei Lakemfa
THE six-point-eight earthquake that hit the High Atlas mountain range of the Moroccan Kingdom last Friday claimed 2,901 lives and injured 5,530. The number of casualties is likely to rise, and we may never know how many more will die.