By Owei Lakemfa GLOBAL writer, poet and humanist, Odia Ofeimun is from a lineage with close affinity with leopards. There was an unwritten rule between the humans of Iruekpen-Ekum, Edo State and that   feline family that neither will attack the other. If today, there are no leopards left in that part, it is not because […]

By Owei Lakemfa THE Afghanistan government of  President Ashraf Ghani had to be pulled by the ears and dragged to the peace-implementation table where its American masters are seated with their old adversaries, the Taliban rebels. The complaint of the Afghan government and why it opposed the peace deal for the country was because it […]

By Owei Lakemfa IN a land sycophancy struts. A clime truth is forced to walk on its head. Terrestrial men and women say yes to power. In a climate of distrust where fake and false news are in unholy matrimony. A place the Rubber Stamp Assembly, RSA, proclaims itself the patron saint of accountable governance. […]

By Owei Lakemfa TURKEY under President  Recep Tayyip Erdogan has two boiling pots on the same fire. It is fighting a war against Syria, having invaded that country since October 9, 2019. Like a parasitic virus, it was an opportunistic invasion; moving in to replace the departing American forces. It assumed that after fighting repeated […]

By Owei Lakemfa THE Coronavirus, Covid-19  borne by an Italian flying on the wings of the Turkish Airlines, slipped undetected into Lagos on  February 24. The carrier went through the airport process, spent the night at a hotel in Ikeja, travelled to Ogun State and settled down to work, with nobody being wiser. He took […]

By Owei Lakemfa Victor Olaiya: A WIDELY held African belief is that there are three stages in life: when you are born, adulthood and old age which presages eternal departure. These are also symbolised by dawn, afternoon and sunset. Likewise, the life of Victor Abimbola Olaiya, the music genius can be broken into three equal […]

By Owei Lakemfa Coronavirus: LI WENLIANG, 34  was an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, China. In December 2019, he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars. The victims were said to come from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan. Then he slowly realised that this virus was a strange one. […]

By Owei Lakemfa Buhari: MICHAEL Nnadi, eighteen, is no longer with us. He has become one more figure in the statistics of innocent Nigerians murdered by rampaging terrorists, bandits and kidnappers. When I look at his youthful face, I do not see a Seminarian, I see a blossoming young man who deserved to live; I […]

By Owei Lakemfa TWO overriding ironies marked the 33rd Summit of  African leaders held this week from February 9-10 with  the theme: “Silencing the Guns: Creating Conducive Conditions for Africa’s Development.” The first is that its Chairperson, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt, was a serving general who contrary to the African Union, AU, rules, […]

By Owei Lakemfa I CALLED Dr. Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo a few months ago to discuss what those who fought for the enthronement of democracy can do to rescue the country in the aftermath of the 2019 elections and inauguration. As I began to explain the motives and why I want him to be one of the […]