THE United Nations (UN) under then Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon met on March 17, 2011 to decide the  fate of Libya. Civil War had broken out in the country  with rebels seizing the city of Benghazi and parts of the country. The rebels were armed by the West with the United States getting Saudi Arabia to supply anti-tank rockets, mortars and surface-to-air-missiles.

Libya is a conflict economy in which everything including human beings are commodified; it is ruled by violence and the persons who can muster the most violence, get away with anything

Is Saudi Arabia also amongst the terrorists? – Owei Lakemfa

People who know their origins and are conscious of the present, will navigate better towards the future

Zimbabwe going the way of Guinea Bissau – Owei Lakemfa

This should rub off on JAMB which   can have   a five-year plan within which   candidates will write their examinations from the comfort of their bedrooms

WEEP not for Robert Gabriel Mugabe. He does not need our tears in Africa for he has done his bit. Whether the coup plotters set up a puppet leadership or directly run Zimbabwe, will not change the legacy of this African warrior who spent a decade in White prisons and took to armed struggle to restore our dignity as human beings.

Eyinla dismissed the notion of equality of states saying that Cape Verde with a 500,000 population cannot claim same equality of votes with Nigeria which has over 183 million people

CHARLIE Chaplin, The Tramp was a little, downtrodden man in baggy trousers with a  mustache, bowler hat and carrying a cane. He was  poor, powerless and  bewildered.  Chaplin (Charles Spencer Chaplin)seemed a lonely, vulnerable  figure who tried endlessly to make sense of the world. His caricature of Adolf Hitler, the most powerful man in his generation, remains a winner to-date.

It is tragic that unlike our undergraduate days, schools are no longer producing the mass of patriotic youths dedicated to building a progressive country