Humanity wins USA Midterm Elections, but the Trump menace remains, by Owei Lakemfa
President Donald Trump of the United States, US, still appears dazed from the severe electoral blows he received from his fellow citizens in the 2026 Midterm Elections. Living under messianic illusions, he cannot believe, and is yet to come to terms with the fact that, the aura of indispensability he created around himself has evaporated. […]
A nation that lost its way
By Owei Lakemfa AS an aspirant in 2022, the President of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, made a pilgrimage to Keffi, Nasarawa State. He needed the blessings of one of the most consummate and influential law professors the country has ever produced: Onje Gye-Wado. The latter from 1999, was for four years, […]
Oladipo Diya: The man who rode on a tiger’s back
By Owei Lakemfa IN the rascally days of the military, when generals were wedded to coups, a military officer arose in their ranks called Oladipo Donaldson Oyeyinka Diya. He was unknown to the public until January 1984 when the coup plotters led by General Muhammadu Buhari, who had overthrown the Shagari administration, announced him as […]
The way of the world
By Owei Lakemfa LAGOS, the most cosmopolitan and politically progressive state in Nigeria on March 18, 2023 engaged in the degenerative politics of exclusion. The debilitating disease of campaigning that a non-full-blooded native cannot be governor, is an incapacitating one. Ten days later, a different philosophy of politics evolved in Scotland where the parliament elected […]
Absent from duty
By Owei Lakemfa AT the weekend, after my ear drums had been continuously assaulted for few weeks about how well the government has done, especially on security, my mind went back to one of its ‘success’ stories. The Tanko Salihu Islamic School is in Tegina, a densely populated town in Rafi Local Government Area of […]
ICC: Europe’s lapdog in a theatre of the absurd
By Owei Lakemfa THE International Criminal Court, ICC, on March 17, 2023 added a comic dimension to the tragic war in Ukraine by issuing warrants of arrest for Russian President Vladimir Putin and Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. The ICC, a body notorious for the persecution of people in the bad books of the […]
