Zelensky, Netanyahu and Trump: A prostrate world at their feet, by Owei Lakemfa
There are one hundred and thirty active wars lit around the world today and three outstanding men can be linked to many of them. But President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has emerged the best tactician and strategist of the threesome. Always playing the victim, he just pulled off a major tactical link between the two most […]
Dunni and Seinde Arigbede: Couple who live for tomorrow
By Owei Lakemfa IT was in 1979. Words went round the University in Ife that students of Ijaw nationality should gather at the Post Graduate Hall to listen to an emissary. Then walked in a tall, slim man. He talked about the neglect of the Niger Delta, its exploitation and the need for us to […]
Ana Montes: American super spy who worked for Cuba
By Owei Lakemfa THE United States, had during the Banana War, occupied Nicaragua in 1912. This gave rise to the Somoza political family, which ruled the country from that period until its overthrow by Nicaraguan youths under the banner of the Sandinista Movement in 1979. The popular Nicaraguan Revolution threw many youths across the world into […]
NEXIM Bank, fuel queues, election rigging and other diversions
By Owei Lakemfa STELLA Erhuvwuoghene Okotete was 33 when appointed the Executive Director (Business Development) of the Nigerian Export-Import Bank, NEXIM, in 2017. Her five-year tenure expired this year and was renewed in April for another half a decade ostensibly on account of her good performance. Then in the past fortnight, seemingly coordinated petitions sprouted […]
A world of deceit without end
By Owei Lakemfa THE European Union, EU, and the Group of Seven, G7, comprising Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, the United States, US, the United Kingdom and Australia made a deceitful announcement to the world on Friday, December 2, 2022. They claimed that in solidarity with Ukraine, they have decided to cap the price of […]
Hurrah! The judges awaken, the powerful are becoming convicts
By Owei Lakemfa IT is against the run of play for the powerful in office to be convicted for misdeeds, especially in a reign of virtual lawlessness and impunity. But it happened thrice in the past five weeks with the courts convicting for contempt of the Chairman of the powerful Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, […]
