Schools Concession: The Ministry of Education as a retarded child, by Owei Lakemfa
A country’s Ministry of Education is supposed to be a place of illumination with clear ideas about the future. Nigeria has had not just super educators like Professors Wole Soyinka, Ebi Alagoa, Alvan Ikoku and Adamu Baikie, but also outstanding Education Ministers like Abudu Yusufu Eke and Babs Fafunwa. The ongoing conflagration over the award […]
Tigray-Ethiopia: Writing a bloody peace in hopelessness
By Owei Lakemfa Ethiopia, which along with Liberia were the only two African countries Europe was unable to colonise, has been bathed in blood many times in the last six decades until a bloody peace was written on November 2, 2022. A civil war with Eritrea which was then part of Ethiopia, exacerbated the 1983-85 […]
The story of media leaders in Nigeria’s construction and reconstruction
By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA was partly built by journalists who fought the British colonialists so ferociously that Frederick John Lugard, their colonial poster boy who amalgamated the country in 1914, was forced out as Governor General within five years. The media campaigns for the soul of the country went on through the colonial period and […]
Queen Nanny: Ghanaian woman who led liberation army in Jamaica
By Owei Lakemfa NANNY, a young Akan woman from present day Ghana, born about 1686 was captured with her four brothers and sold into slavery. They were taken on ‘The Journey of No Return’ across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming part of the 12.5 million Africans forced on this journey by Europeans and Americans who wanted free […]
What politicians can teach labour leaders
By Owei Lakemfa INTRIGUING. I mean the topic leaders of the Food, Beverage and Tobacco Senior Staff Association, FOBTOB asked me speak on. ‘Trade Union Leadership: Lessons to be learnt from or Taught to the Political Class.’ I know a lot of lessons politicians can teach labour leaders, but scratch my head what the latter […]
Qatar ’22 and a troubled world in search of leaders
By Owei Lakemfa MOST of humanity began a work week on Monday, November 7. I watched hundreds of Congolese youths including ladies engaged in rowdy but seemingly joyous group dances, songs and banter. There were also a sprinkling of soldiers amongst them. Good, you might say. Except that the gathering was not about celebrating life. […]
