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 […]
Nigerians either surrender to soldiers or control them
By Owei Lakemfa DODAN Barracks, which was the seat of military regimes, is in Obalende, Lagos; the area I grew up. There were three gates I knew: the State House, Keffi and Obalende gates with the last being the general entrance. In those days, the guards at the Obalende Gate in the evenings could be […]
Inhumanity in the season of human tragedies
By Owei Lakemfa WE have gone just a quarter into 2020. Yet we have lost at least 43,000 souls to a tiny virus that has become an unseen and unwelcome guest which forces itself on us. Some 900,000 humans have been unwilling hosts. It is an adversary that dictates we maintain forced spacing in a […]
Come and I will increase your heavy burden
By Owei Lakemfa THESE are times people are burdened. When many, with the future appearing bleak due to partial or full lockdowns, need help to get by. This is when religious leaders should be praying for all, or at least their followers, and strengthening them. Yet these are also the times some clerics are sowing […]
Nigerians are in this together
By Owei Lakemfa IN the war against the Coronavirus, Covid-19, the television screens show various countries fumigating public places and streets. I have neither seen nor heard of a single case of fumigation in our country. I commuted between the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja last week. They are the […]
Coronavirus: Destroy biological weapons, we’re mere humans
HUMANITY, despite its giant strides in knowledge, and over the planets, lies prostrate before an almost invisible enemy, the Coronavirus (Covid-19) The nuclear weapons, stealth jets, sophisticated weaponry and armies of the human race are no match for a virus that is not as big as a spec that human eyes can see or detect. […]
