Saving Nigeria from the increasingly absurd theatrics of Jimoh Ibrahim, by Owei Lakemfa
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu this week featured prominently in the newest theatre of the absurd staged by Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Jimoh Folorunsho Ibrahim. The stage was the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja, where, on October 19, 2026, Ibrahim presented the seven-volume UN 2027 draft budget to President Tinubu. Ibrahim began the […]
Spain speaks to a world in turmoil, by Owei Lakemfa
The ground floor was full. The crowd would have been over 80 per cent diplomats. There were, of course, a number of Nigerian government officials and journalists. As the delightful broadcaster, Kemi Asekun and I conversed, the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Bashir Adewale Adeniyi, walked through the crowd towards where we stood. […]
Time for Nigeria to stand up for itself and Africa, by Owei Lakemfa
The world is in turmoil. Various peoples are planning, strategising and re-strategising. The Middle East is meeting, especially as war is being brought to its doorsteps. The Americans want their November elections quickly out of the way so they can focus on their domination the world, irrespective of who wins the elections. Their European first […]
Redrawing the map of the world in blood, by Owei Lakemfa
THE world commemorated the first year of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel with no clear vision to end the on-going carnage. In the First World War, there were about 22 million deaths. Humanity vowed: “Never again!” Never again will we allow such mass scale slaughter. To ensure this, the League of Nations was […]
Abiola, Tinubu and I on a derailed train, by Owei Lakemfa
I AM excited. After about two months in police cells and the Kuje Maximum Prison, three #EndBadGovernance protesters: Michael Lenin Adaramoye, Mosiu Sodiq and Opaluwa Eleojo, are back home. They are on bail. They join the trio of Loveth Angel, Nuradeen Khamis and Abayomi Adeyemi, earlier let out on bail. Incredibly, they face treason charges. Not […]
Nicaragua: The Sandinista Revolution cools off, by Owei Lakemfa
IT was stunning. If it were a football match, it would have been said to be against the run of play. Nicaraguan youths who had risen against the brutal regime of Anastazio Somoza Debayle, on July 17, 1979, rode into Managua putting an end to the reign of the United States-backed butcher. Somoza was so bestial […]
