Owei Lakemfa

The fuel subsidy debate of the deaf, by Owei Lakemfa

Fuel subsidy is the main  debate in the country today. This is over three years after President Bola Tinunu’s declaration that  “subsidy is gone” It  was the main debate in the country twenty six years ago leading to   President Olusegun Obasanjo’s estalishment of the Petroleum Products Pricing  Regulatory Agency,  PPPRA.  The basic arguement of Labour,  […]
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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

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?

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

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. […]

Don’t mind Erdogan the gambler

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 […]

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