Democratic choice between obeying laws and defending workers’ rights, by Owei Lakemfa
If a labour leader has to make a choice between obeying the laws of the country and court orders on one hand, and defending the rights of workers on the other, can there be a democratic choice? That was the question I set out to answer in Abuja on August 21, 2026 at the workshop […]
Nobel Prize for peacemakers and warmongers
By Owei Lakemfa THE Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps the most prestigious annual award in the world, suffers from a chronic illness: the inability of the award committee to define what is peace. It is like one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. The loose framework; that the prize be awarded to those who have […]
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi for beginners
By Owei Lakemfa The abduction of 317 school girls of the Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, last Friday, February 26 is even more tragic because we as parents and adults once again failed to protect the Nigerian child. It is distressing that this is the fourth mass abduction of children in their schools […]
The Fidel Castro children are here
By Owei Lakemfa CLARA Margarita Pulido Escandell is a 61-year-old Cuban who breathes Africa. When I first met her and she discovered I had a trade union background, she enquired about the African Labour leader, Alhaji Hassan Sunmonu, the founding President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC. Sunmonu had spoken at the university in Legon, […]
Bala Mohammed school of anarchism and disunity
By Owei Lakemfa THE Nigerian state has never been as divided and besieged in its 107-year Amalgamation, as it is witnessing today. The 1966-67 crises which led to the three-year Civil War was roughly between two parts of the country. In the present crises, all parts of the country are in turmoil. The North East […]
The corona vaccine wars: The poor will die first
By Owei Lakemfa UNITED Kingdom, the small but mighty country which has the history of invading 178 or 90 per-cent of the countries on earth, has taken on the European Union, EU, in a COVID-19 vaccines war. The war which is the first of expected post-Brexit wars, is on account of the former’s voracious nature […]
