The truth stands naked in the United Nations, by Owei Lakemfa
The Moroccan delegate at the United Nations October 7, 2026 hearings in New York on decolonization was clad in a red skirt suit. The choice of colour should have warned petitioners on Western Sahara that she was there not to hear anybody but to fight everybody that did not support her country’s ongoing attempts to […]
Imran Khan fallen, but not in the streets
SOMETIMES the difference between a coup and a democratic process can be so narrow as to be interchangeable. The move to oust Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had been in the offing for some time, but there were questions of methodology, and how the populace may react.
It’s time to dissolve the Nigerian electorate
By Owei Lakemfa It was a symbolism. As the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, led by contented men and women in rich flowing robes, with siren blasting, gathered to disturb the peace of a troubled Abuja, bandits were staging a raid at the Kaduna Airport, a two-hour drive away. The APC chieftains were gathered for […]
Tragedy indefinable: Murders in a derailed train
By Owei Lakemfa Musa-Lawal Ozigi was a bearded, ebullient but serious minded Nigerian patriot who exuded confidence in a better society and had a positive effect on his compatriots and those around him. He was a lawyer and my comrade in the Labour Movement. On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2022, he wrote me a letter. […]
Conversations with my European friends
I HAVE been engaged in countless conversations with my European friends across continents, groups and social media about current world events and whether their leaders are right in pursuing a solitary military solution.
Contents and malcontents of democracy
By Owei Lakemfa I had the privilege of being invited by the Nigerian Guild of Editors led by Mustapha Isa to be a panellist in their March 3, 2022 Town Hall Meeting in Abuja. Their focus was ‘Agenda Setting For Sustainable Democratic Culture’. My argument is that democracy is a system of government by popular […]
