Henry Kissinger: A curse on Africa, Asia and Latin America, By Owei Lakemfa
HENRY (Heinz) Alfred Kissinger, the most infamous United States Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, passed away peacefully at 100 on November 29, 2023 and is guaranteed a marked grave. Not so for the tens of thousands Africans, Latin Americans and Asians who experienced violent deaths in their youth and had no tomb stones […]
Africans meeting in Nairobi: If Nigeria’s awake, Africa will rise, By Owei Lakemfa
I HAVE attended a few African Union, AU, Heads of State Summits and always came away with the impression that the agenda is always overloaded. But three things struck me about the July 16, 2023 meeting in Nairobi. First, its modest three-point objectives; fast-tracking the integration process in Africa; examining the Division of Labour among the […]
Aboru, Aboye: Attacks on Africa’s highly tolerant traditional religion, By Owei Lakemfa
The firestorm among some Christian leaders in Western Nigeria over the lyrics of a new song by Gospel artist, Tope Alabi, is in its fourth week. She had sang in Yoruba that she is “Aboru Aboye” which translates to “I am a sacrifice which God has accepted.” This caused an uproar with some Christian leaders […]
Onward Western soldiers, marching to Third World War, By Owei Lakemfa
The gathering of 32 European countries and their North American first cousins in Lithuania under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO, is the clearest indication yet, that they want to put humanity on the path to another World War. British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, made a truthful summary of the July 11-12, 2023 NATO Summit […]
Joblessness, idleness and feigned piety, By Owei Lakemfa
The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu-Gambari, as a former Justice of the Court of Appeal, ought to know that Nigeria is a secular country. As a graduate of the Nigeria Law School, he should know that Section 10 of our country’s Constitution states in simple English that: The government of the federation or […]
We’re beasts not humans: Italy’s new law of the sea, By Owei Lakemfa
Who can call Italy to order? It is not listening to the UN, EU, international organisations or the Vatican; Italy prefers to be lawless and treat human life with the type of levity it does not treat even its animals
