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Tinubu’s security emergency is only a half measure, by Owei Lakemfa

Tinubu’s security emergency is only a half measure, by Owei Lakemfa

I have worried that President Bola Tinubu did not appreciate the fact that our country is at war against vicious, unfeeling bandits and terrorists who massacre babies, children, the young and the old. But on November 26, 2025, he proclaimed a state of emergency declaring war on these criminals some of who are foreign invaders.   […]

Guinea-Bissau’s lawless President Embalo has no business in office, by Owei Lakemfa

Guinea-Bissau’s lawless President Embalo has no business in office, by Owei Lakemfa

The military coup on Wednesday, November 26, 2025 that swept away President Umaro Sissoco Embaló did not come as a surprise. Embalo, a retired general who camouflaged as an elected President, was a lawless leader who consistently trampled the country’s constitution under his feet. He had a sense of entitlement and a culture  of impunity. In […]

Ibrahim Gambari: Untiring diplomat for risky missions, by Owei  Lakemfa

Ibrahim Gambari: Untiring diplomat for risky missions, by Owei Lakemfa

The world was in turmoil in the mid 2000s. Nature had visited humanity with one of the most devastating storms in contemporary times. Hurricane Katrina which made a landfall in New Orleans, United States, claimed 1,392 lives and displaced a million people.  But if humans had no chance against such natural disasters, it should at least do […]

We charge the United States with genocide, by Owei Lakemfa

We charge the United States with genocide, by Owei Lakemfa

As the year 2025 rolls to a close, there are citizens of the United States planning, in the new year, to charge their country with genocide against its “Black, Brown and Indigenous Peoples.” The Peoples’ Senate, one of the movements engaged in the “National Mobilisation Against Genocides”, declared that to mark the 250th Commemoration of the […]

The law of the jungle, by Owei Lakemfa

The law of the jungle, by Owei Lakemfa

The Federal Capital Territory Minister Nyesom Wike made two errors of judgement in the incident involving the alleged property of Vice Admiral Awwal Zubairu Gambo, a former Chief of Naval Staff. These have given the leeway for military apologists, defenders of impunity, apostles of the law of the jungle and unfortunately, unsuspecting ‘bloody civilians’ to rule the […]