Author: Owei Lakemfa
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Before marching to Niamey, let us pause – By Owei Lakemfa
THE new military rulers in Niger Republic, the country which marked independence day on Thursday, August 3, 2023 have a Sunday ultimatum from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS
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The coup in Niger and the Moncada Barracks attack – By Owei Lakemfa
EXACTLY 70 years separate the July 26, 1953 suicidal attack on Moncada Barracks by Cuban youths who wanted to remove the military from power, and this Wednesday’s coup in Niger Republic which removed elected President Mohamed Bazoum and restored military rule.
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A thief is not a thief if he is powerful – By Owei Lakemfa
Four female students of the Zamfara State College of Arts and Science, abducted by bandits six months ago, may know their fate this week. Their abductors have given the parents of the young ladies, one week within which to pay N12 million ransom or the victims will be married off. This may be an euphemism…
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Joblessness, idleness and feigned piety – By Owei Lakemfa
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu-Gambari, as a former Justice of the Court of Appeal, ought to know that Nigeria is a secular country. As a graduate of the Nigeria Law School, he should know that Section 10 of our country’s Constitution states in simple English that: The government of the federation or…
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Xi, Biden and Putin: Big men in a small world – By Owei Lakemfa
The tension which has enveloped the universe for over a century, has been exacerbated by the multinational war in Ukraine, so any candle light for peace gives a ray of hope. That was what the United States, US, and China offered the world
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Bill and the gates to Nigerians healthcare – By Owei Lakemfa
Bill Gates, the American with a trophy as one of the World’s richest men, came visiting Nigeria last week. He publicly visited the Presidential Villa twice; first to meet President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the second, to meet Vice President Kashim Shettima Mustapha and our governors who came before him with begging bowls for health aid.
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African peacemakers: Rescuing Europeans from mutual slaughter – By Owei Lakemfa
Seven African leaders stunned the world on June 16 and 17, 2023 when they went on a peace mission to warring Ukraine and Russia.
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The United States recurring memory loss in diplomacy – By Owei Lakemfa
Four archenemies of the United States, US, met variously in its Latin American ‘backyard’ this week. It was the five-day Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s to Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba. No, the quartet did not make themselves enemies of the US, it was the latter which at various times had dictated to those countries, that designated…
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Straightening the k-leg of June 12, thirty years later – By Owei Lakemfa
Today is exactly 30 years after the June 12, 1993 presidential election which were annulled by the Ibrahim Babangida military regime.
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Homosexuality should neither be criminalized nor weaponized – By Owei Lakemfa
Homosexuality has in contemporary times been hotly debated and discussed but with little attention paid to the persons involved. I have been guilty of this excessive concentration on its politics and diplomacy; its local and international misuse, and its commercialisation, to the detriment of the human beings involved.