Owei Lakemfa

The truth stands naked in the United Nations, by Owei Lakemfa

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 […]
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Nigerians are in this together

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

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. […]

I will ask questions with stones: Odia Ofeimun at 70

I will ask questions with stones: Odia Ofeimun at 70

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 […]

Is it peace in Afghanistan, oh Donald, son of Trump?

Is it peace in Afghanistan, oh Donald, son of Trump?

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 […]

Eyinnaya Abaribe: No Nigerian should kneel for anybody

Eyinnaya Abaribe: No Nigerian should kneel for anybody

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. […]