No governance without consultation: Demilitarizing and demythologizing the Nigerian Government, by Owei Lakemfa
I did not expect my column ‘When uneducated minds change the education system’ to attract so much reaction. A parent said that in my review of the new education curriculum imposed in September 2025, I did not draw sufficient attention to some facts. The most fundamental, she said, is that government imposed new trade subjects on the […]
Bursting Nigeria’s 60-year coup myths with nuclear-headed missiles, by Owei Lakema
The last fortnight has been a-washed with stories marking the sixtieth commemoration of the January 1966 coup that terminated the First Republic. But as usual, a lot of it are myths that had been promoted to the status of history. So, I decided to emerge from the bomb-resistant bunker of my knowledge on Nigerian history to shoot […]
The melodies of Shola Ayebola, Ozo-Eson and Abubakar Sokoto, by Owei Lakemfa
Shola Ayebola was one of the most principled student leaders that emerged from the University of Lagos, UNILAG in the late 1980s. Equally, he was one of the leaders of the 1990s proDemocracy movement that eventually forced the military out of power. During one of the mass protests, he led the leaders in the Sango […]
Goodbye 2025: The Year of carnage and criminality
By Owei Lakemfa Madness. This will be a fitting description of 2025 as it casts its last shadows on humanity. My conclusion is not just based on the mindless slaughter in Gaza where even the Devil will willingly take lessons. What can be more evil than luring starving people to supposed food centres and […]
Tragic a nation without heroes or in need of heroes, by Owei Lakemfa
Nigeria is like an orphan. A country without heroes. The political leadership over the decades have been held in suspicion by a frustrated citizenry whose situation simply gets worse. The country does not seem to have heroes that generations can look up to or, can inspire. The famous German writer, Bertolt […]
Nigeria’s blurred vision in a fractured world, by Owei Lakemfa
It is difficult to be a patriot when you don’t know where the truth lies. It is good to stand by your country. But at least, you should know where your country stands to be able to stand by it or with it. However, where the vision is blurred, it becomes difficult to know where to […]
Michael Imoudu, Labour Leader Number One, roars 20 years later, by Owei Lakemfa
The world witnessed an awakening on May 8,1945. The nightmarish Second World War virtually ended. In Nigeria, the immediate fall-out of this was that freedom bells tolled for an implacable enemy of colonialism, Michael Aithokhaimen Omiunu Imoudu. He had been detained by “freedom loving” Britain for 29 months. Imoudu’s release came on May 20, 1945. The day […]
Benin: Between military claws and bloody talons of President Talon, by Owei Lakemfa
Early morning Sunday, December 7, 2025, while many Beninois slept, hoping to go to church, mosque and traditional places of worship at dawn, some members of their armed forces fanned out. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Paschal Tigri, they planned to bring the people under their claws. At 05:00 they attacked the Presidential Palace and then retreated […]
Blacklisted Gov Eno takes on intellectual Offiong Aqua hits rock
The International Press Institute, IPI, Nigeria, part of a global network of editors, journalists and media executives, on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, blacklisted three serving Nigerian leaders. It found Governor Umo Bassey Eno of Akwa Ibom, his Niger State counterpart, Umaru Bago, and the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Kayode Egbetokun guilty of suppressing press freedom across […]
The inside story of the fake coup in Guinea-Bissau, by Owei Lakemfa
Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo on November 26, 2025 sat in his office as the President of Guinea-Bissau. As a retired General, the 53-year-old knew when he was beaten. Three days earlier, he had succumbed to unbearable pressures that he allowed general elections to be held despite his fears. His tenure had expired on February 27, 2025. […]
Tinubu’s security emergency is only a half measure, by Owei Lakemfa
I have worried that President Bola Tinubu did not appreciate the fact that our country is at war against vicious, unfeeling bandits and terrorists who massacre babies, children, the young and the old. But on November 26, 2025, he proclaimed a state of emergency declaring war on these criminals some of who are foreign invaders. […]
Guinea-Bissau’s lawless President Embalo has no business in office, by Owei Lakemfa
The military coup on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 that swept away President Umaro Sissoco Embaló did not come as a surprise. Embalo, a retired general who camouflaged as an elected President, was a lawless leader who consistently trampled the country’s constitution under his feet. He had a sense of entitlement and a culture of impunity. In […]
Ibrahim Gambari: Untiring diplomat for risky missions, by Owei Lakemfa
The world was in turmoil in the mid 2000s. Nature had visited humanity with one of the most devastating storms in contemporary times. Hurricane Katrina which made a landfall in New Orleans, United States, claimed 1,392 lives and displaced a million people. But if humans had no chance against such natural disasters, it should at least do […]
We charge the United States with genocide, by Owei Lakemfa
As the year 2025 rolls to a close, there are citizens of the United States planning, in the new year, to charge their country with genocide against its “Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples.” The Peoples’ Senate, one of the movements engaged in the “National Mobilisation Against Genocides”, declared that to mark the 250th Commemoration of the […]
The law of the jungle, by Owei Lakemfa
The Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike made two errors of judgement in the incident involving the alleged property of Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, a former Chief of Naval Staff. These have given the leeway for military apologists, defenders of impunity, apostles of the law of the jungle and unfortunately, unsuspecting ‘bloody civilians’ to rule the […]
Rewarding brigandage: When the Security Council seeks to reverse the General Assembly, by Owei Lakemfa
A very dangerous situation has arisen in the world with the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, on October 31, 2025 deciding illegally, to reverse a resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA. This has not caught world attention. It has not hit internal headlines because there is a universal complicity. Almost all countries are afraid of […]
