Owei Lakemfa

The diplomacy of politics: The eighty first UNGA and impunity, by Owei Lakemfa

The diplomacy of politics: The eighty first UNGA and impunity, by Owei Lakemfa

The United Nations General Assembly, UNGA is the global platform for all countries. So, no country can bar another speaking from its podium.  But the United States, US at the on-going UNGA decided that the voice of the Palestinian State will not be heard. Only that of the State of Israel    would be permitted. […]
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Minimum Wage, Maximum Politics

Minimum Wage, Maximum Politics

THE general strike on September 27 and 28 over a new National Minimum Wage will, going by antecedence,  be the first of many strikes to come. This strike was not about a new wage per se or  figures; not about  agreement or disagreement, not to talk about implementation. It was merely to demand that the Buhari administration which has an unenviable history of cancelling   promises, returns to the negotiation table. If a general strike had to be called just to pressure government to talk with workers and employers on a New National Minimum Wage in accordance with the constitution, imagine the struggles that will need to be waged to get the new wages implemented across all sectors and levels of government.

Orphans of the African continent

Orphans of the African continent

FIVE  million fellow  Africans in Western Cameroon are between the hard hitting hammer of the Cameroonian military and security forces, and the anvil of an armed opposition that has risen to defend the victims. With unending military operations, life for these people has become a vicious cycle of harassment, arrests, torture, mass murders, disappearances and mass displacement.

Sultan blames money politics on corruption

Sultan blames money politics on corruption

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, has said that money- based politics was a major factor responsible for unprecedented corruption and bad governance in the country.