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Tunde Fanimokun and Jakande: The path of our fathers – By Owei Lakemfa
I anticipated lots of reactions to my April 12, 2025 column titled “How the military taught Nigerians the art of looting.” However, I did not expect an avalanche. It was as if I had made a monumental discovery on corruption. I have not!
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God save Blacks from France as it invests in violence – By Owei Lakemfa
The French establishment is, again, sowing the seeds of violence in Africa. As it is traditional with France, it will water such seeds, nurture them until they are ripe for harvest. In its latest genetically-modified violence-seed planting, France in May, 2025 set aside 150 million Euro through its French Development Agency to plant violence in Western…
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How the military taught Nigerians the art of looting – By Owei Lakemfa
It will be fallacious to say the military taught Nigerians how to steal. In truth, stealing maybe as old as humanity itself. In fact, stealing is so old that it features in the Ten Commandments God reportedly gave humanity: ‘Thou Shall Not Steal’.
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If you are a migrant, stay alive – By Owei Lakemfa
A frightening total of 9,757 migrants died in 2024 while trying to reach Spain by sea. The Spanish migration group, Camindo Fronteras –Walking Borders, reported that 1,538 of the victims were children and 421 women. These were migrants heading for Spain alone. There are the larger numbers trying to reach other
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Osagie Obayuwana: Unbowed champion of the masses and social justice – By Owei Lakemfa
It was Monday. July 5, 1993. That was the date, conscientious Nigerians had chosen to commence confrontation with the military regime that had weighed the country down, stolen it blind and, in order to perpetuate its misrule, had annulled the Presidential elections. The generals had declared any protest,
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Vietnamese poisoned over 50 years, as Mexico, Nigeria seek joint survival – By Owei Lakemfa
Can you imagine being born 50 years ago with poison in your system; assured that the only remedy is death? That was the fate of about three million Vietnamese who were sprayed herbicides called Agent Orange, specially manufactured by the United States, US, to ensure the victims were not only exterminated but also
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Them belly full, but we hungry – By Owei Lakemfa
The ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, is in a celebratory mood as more politicians defect, depleting the ranks of the rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. In what was like a tsunami in Delta State, Governor Sheriff Oborevwori, his predecessor Ifeanyi Okowa and
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Pope Francis, our father, gone to Heaven – By Owei Lakemfa
The ascendancy of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, Pope Francis, to the papacy was a trinity of sorts. It was historic, prophetic and redeeming. For 1,272 years, the papacy was occupied by Europeans only, especially the Italians. Some even joked about the Italian Mafia at work. Indeed, some mafia might at various stages been at work.
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Nigerians served peculiar mess, a la carte – By Owei Lakemfa
Adelabu Adegoke was one of the most flamboyant and charismatic politicians in pre-independence Nigeria. When one day, the press asked him about deliberations in the Western Region House of Assembly, he replied that it was a “peculiar mess”. He pronounced the words with a Yoruba intonation making the two words sound like “Penkelemesi”. So, his…
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The Caribbean People deliberate on culture, resistance, sovereignty and revolution – By Owei Lakemfa
The Caribbean are one of the most diverse people on earth. Their composition includes indigenous Carib, Taino and Ciboney, integrated with millions violently ripped from Africa, Europeans and migrants mainly of Chinese and Indian origins. They are also some of the most bloodied, repressed and suppressed in world history. Today, most of the