Owei Lakemfa

Houthis and Saudis: When the weak strike back, by Owei Lakemfa

Ears across the globe have been virtually blocked since September 14, 2026, with news of Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, including its fuel pipeline and military infrastructure. The news outlets are jammed with stories of alleged Houthi aggression. These one-sided stories, some of which I will try to debunk here, portray Saudi Arabia as the […]
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Slavery: Humanity found its voice, but US-Europe want it silenced, by Owei Lakemfa

Humanity found its collective voice on March 25, 2026 by situating the 400 years of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and categorising it. Also, it sought ways of honouring the millions who lost their lives in the evil trade, and how justice can be ensured. This United Nations, UN, Resolution was passed under the theme: “Commemoration of […]

Chants of treason: No water, no electricity, no food! By Owei Lakemfa

A diplomat from the Group of Seven, G7, countries in March 2026, invited me to dinner in Abuja. The first thing he asked was how I was coping with water supply. The diplomatic mission, like some others, is suffering disruption of water supply. I explained that since I relocated to Abuja from Lagos a quarter of […]

Football, Moroccans and a runaway monarchy, by Owei Lakemfa

Moroccans. I love Moroccans. They are a fine people with a very rich history and culture. But in the last six decades their country has been in the news, often for the wrong reasons.  They are now known for being intolerant, divisive,  quarrelsome, arrogant, but subservient and unscrupulous.  When it was to host the 2026 Africa […]

Tinubu’s UK visit: Britain’s gains, Nigeria’s pains, by Owei Lakemfa

It was, undoubtedly, a difficult time for President Bola Tinubu to visit the United Kingdom, UK. Yes, he is a regular visitor. In fact, since he became Nigeria President on May 29, 2023, he has visited the mother country at least nine times, including spending weeks at a stretch on private visits and “working vacation”.     But […]

Washington’s three blind mice, see how they destroy the world, by Owei Lakemfa

Washington’s three blind mice. Donald Trump, their President. Marco Rubio his Secretary of State and Pete Hegseth, Secretary of Defence, now transformed into Secretary of War. A trinity of the greedy, the liar and the lawless, nesting in territorial and colonial delusions. In carrying out mass destruction and massacres as they are doing in Iran, and […]

When educated illiterates rule, society is in trouble, by Owei Lakemfa

Fuel prices in Nigeria went up an average 40 percent within days of the United States, US, and Israel attacking Iran. Diesel prices went up 50 percent. This development shot up prices of transportation, and more Nigerians who cannot afford the price hike took to trekking. Mr.  Peter Obi, former Anambra State Governor, lamented the plight of […]

Love thy neigbour, but attack if he habours your attackers, by Owei Lakemfa

The leading international leaders of hypocrisy and deception, with headquarters in Western Europe, are as they historically do, teaching lessons they themselves will neither take nor accept. Iran has since February 28, 2026, been under waves of relentless attacks by the United States, US, and Israel with children and adults, citizens and leaders, being dispatched with […]

After 30 months, Nigeria returns with ambassadors, fumbling, by Owei Lakemfa

Thirty months after recalling all Nigerian ambassadors, and 15 months before the end of its four-year tenure, the Tinubu administration on March 6, 2026, unveiled ambassadors for Nigeria. In the first place, the recall of the ambassadors in September 2023 was myopic. It resulted in the country having no ambassadors at a time the world […]

Donald Trump, like Adolf Hitler, walks on both legs, by Owei Lakemfa

The on-going invasion of Iran by the United States, US, and Israel, coupled with the zeal of the European Union and Britain to appease President Donald Trump as he turns the international world order upside down, reminds me of Adolf Hitler. After the First World War in 1918 in which about 20 million died, the leaders […]

Police sense, common sense and no sense, by Owei Lakemfa

Finally, Mr  Kayode Adeolu Egbetokun exited  as the twenty second Inspector General of Police, IGP on February 24, 2026.  The  needless controversies that trailed his welcome exit, reminded me of what a policeman from Obalende Police Barracks, Lagos told  me when I was a boy.  He said his profession  was based on police sense which  is based […]

Nigerians rally for Cuba as US grows politically schizophrenic, by Owei Lakemfa

The United States is becoming increasingly schizophrenic as it tramples on territories around the world. One of the first instances was when it imposed increased tariffs on many countries as a political weapon to cow the world. Over 90 countries have been affectead with Brazil, whose President, Lula Da Silva, stood up to President Donald Trump, […]

Shall it be renewed hope without end? By Owei Lakemfa

The dynamic Kano State Government under the able leadership of Alhaji  Abba Kabir Yusuf  on February 18, 2026, the first day of the Ramaddan fast, captured a dozen Nigerians. These prisoners of religious war were apprehended  for three types of assault against religious observance. Eight were captured by the Hisbah Religious Police in places like  Kantin Kwari, […]

Broken African Union, eyes a broken world, by Owei Lakemfa

Africa is in the vile grip of insecurity. This was the verdict of the African Union, AU, Heads of State 39th Summit which held on February 14, 2026 in Addis Ababa. This should call for a state of emergency. But this was not part of the Summit outcome. It was business as usual. In the first […]

Biodun Jeyifo: The intellectual as a revolutionary, by Owei Lakemfa

The inaugural lecture of Professor Wole Soyinka in the 1980/81 period at the then University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University, was expectedly explosive. Its title, “The Critic and society: Bathes, Leftocracy and Other Mythologies”, left no one in doubt that this was an ideological offensive. It was the famous writer’s nuclear-powered intellectual attack against Leftists who had […]

US-Nigeria: The partnership of the hawk and the hen, by Owei Lakemfa

Information filtered through a few weeks ago, that “a small team” of  United States, US, soldiers were in Nigeria. On Tuesday, February 10, 2026 an additional information was that 200 American soldiers areA being deployed to provide security for the small team. I am sure that soon these 200 would need a thousand US soldiers to […]

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