Owei Lakemfa

Louis Ogbeifun points oil workers, labour towards tomorrow, by Owei Lakemfa

Louis Ogbeifun points oil workers, labour towards tomorrow, by Owei Lakemfa

Life is in flux and labour in Nigeria is caught in its crosswinds. To navigate the strong currents of change, and produce a compass, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, Port Harcourt Zone, turned to the union’s 2003–2005 president, Louis Brown Ogbeifun. They asked the 71-year-old former manager, Employee Relations of […]
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Nigeria and Ghana: Big boys disturbing the peace

Nigeria and Ghana: Big boys disturbing the peace

By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA and Ghana, the two neo-colonial Anglophone ‘neigbours’ who are also two of the three largest economies in the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, are at each other’s throats, fighting like kindergartens. Both countries, like sibling rivals, have squabbled for decades, the latest being last Friday, August 28, 2020 when […]

Gliding in the shadows of insecurity

Gliding in the shadows of insecurity

By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari last Tuesday peered into the last three years of his administration and released a volley of nine promises to be fulfilled. He must have looked back at the past five years of his government and found them littered with broken promises. I know his propagandists have been on full […]

Mali: African leaders leave leprosy to cure scabies

Mali: African leaders leave leprosy to cure scabies

By Owei Lakemfa MALI is in turmoil. It has been so since the June uprising began. The masses in Mali are no longer ready to be governed the old way or be raped by their leaders in the name of democracy. They no longer want to see their children starve, their young ones killed, their […]

Bandit tales by Aminu Bello Masari

Bandit tales by Aminu Bello Masari

Banditry in the North West and the Boko Haram disturbance in the North East are two of the most serious challenges threatening the very existence of the country. So you can imagine how happy I was when Masari, who is also the chief security officer of the state, announced that he had uncovered the sponsors of these criminal gangs.

A harvest of ideas: Fidel Castro at 94

A harvest of ideas: Fidel Castro at 94

Cuba is an international power primarily because of its doctors and health workers, teachers and international workers who are ready to go anywhere in the service of humanity