ABSU: Running a university as a local village contraption, by Owei Lakemfa
Professor Nnamdi Chinwendu Nwaeze holds three degrees in economics, all with distinction. When, on August 11, 2026, lecturers of the Abia State University, ABSU, where he professes, went on strike, he applied his economics profession by comparing the N400,000 some of the lecturers are paid with the income of the commercial tricyclist who makes an average […]
The return of heroic Ana Montes
By Owei Lakemfa ANA Belen Montes returned. Captured spies are usually killed, imprisoned for life without the possibility of parole, or used in prisoner exchanges. But the 65-year- old American super spy who, based on her principles, worked for free in Cuba, has returned to resettle within American society. But this was not owing to […]
The Afe Babalola testimonies
By Owei Lakemfa A lot of hope has been placed on the February 25, 2023 general elections in the country. It actually seems that the country’s continued existence depends on them. Already, some foreign observers have dispatched advanced teams. However, in the midst of all these, a 93-year-old statesman, scanning the horizon, advises that the […]
Pope Benedict: Shaped and dislocated by history
By Owei Lakemfa THE youthful Father Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, later, Pope Benedict XVI, was a brilliant theologian and academic who, at age 31 in 1958, was already a full professor at Bonn University. But before turning to the priesthood, he had been a POW in the Second World War. It was a war in which humanity […]
Ukraine–Nigeria: Reign of grand illusionists
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was in Washington, where, in a speech to the American Congress on December 21, 2022, he rehearsed some of his daily speeches back home. One thread I picked were his claims that the war with Russia is about democracy and that its outcome will determine whether humanity […]
Apes obey, but no free lunch in Washington
By Owei Lakemfa THE United States invited or summoned 49 African presidents to Washington, DC, for a summit from December 13–15, 2022. There was 100 per cent attendance. However, it unilaterally excluded six African countries, and none of the invited countries protested this exclusion. The body language from the African presidents was that everybody was […]
