Owei Lakemfa

Victor Eburajolo: Mega employer who fought Nigeria’s deliberate de-industrialization, by Owei Lakemfa

Forty years ago, on July 24, 1986, Victor Ogebyiwa Eburajolo was forty. He was a sought-after expert in the Nigerian industrial complex. A lawyer, business strategist, planning tactician, industrial and labour relations expert. He was then the Executive Secretary of Nigeria Textile Employers. The textile industry had sixty-two companies and over 750,000 workers, not counting those […]
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Haunting images in a world of criminalities, by Owei Lakemfa

Dogs, no matter how we view them, are animals. To force human beings to eat like dogs, and under conditions worse than how a dog feeds, is intolerable. But that is what is going on in “God’s own country” the United States, US. It has been plucking alleged illegal immigrants, or those with supposed criminal records, […]

If you can’t keep traditions, don’t be a traditional ruler, by Owei Lakemfa

Four leading Nigerians died within three months, each leading to one national debate or the other. Dr Victor Omololu Olunloyo, noted mathematician and former Governor of Oyo State passed away on April 14, 2025 and the nation mourned him. However, when the iconic Polytechnic, Ibadan was renamed in his honour, it ignited the old debate: must Nigeria […]

Alassane Ouattara: African President who rules for Europe, by Owei Lakemfa

President Alassane Ouattara, 83, is the most favoured boy of the West ruling an African country today. To make him President of Cote D’Ivoire, the West, with France leading, backed two civil wars which claimed thousands of lives. Also, in order that Ouattara became President, French and compromised United Nations troops, marched on the Presidential Palace […]

Nigeria: Flying blind in the global space, by Owei Lakemfa

The United States, US, government of President Donald Trump insulted Nigerians by seeking to offload its responsibilities on Venezuelan immigrants on them. The US in regarding the Venezuelan immigrants as some piece of shit, decided to throw them down Nigeria, a country Trump once referred to as a “shit hole”. The schizophrenic attitude of Trump to […]

Seconding Netanyahu for Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize, by Owei Lakemfa

The great warmonger of our time, Benjamin Netanyahu, wanted by the International Criminal Court, ICC, for war crimes and genocide has proposed President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Israeli Prime Minister, an expert in infanticide and the strategic deployment of starvation to wipe out resistant peoples, handed over to Trump the nomination letter […]

The masses need food, the elites want more bureaucracies, by Owei Lakemfa

The World Bank in its May 2025 Report stated that 75.5 per cent  of rural Nigerians are engaged in deadly combats with poverty. The number in the urban areas, it said, is 41.3 per cent with an additional 13 million Nigerians, projected to slip below the poverty line by the end of the year. It also stated […]

Closing Ogoni wounds, opening old ones, by Owei Lakemfa

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in commemoration of Democracy Day 2025, conferred posthumous national honours on famous writer and environmentalist, Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogonis hanged in 1995.  I attended part of their trial in Port Harcourt and had no doubt that the Tribunal was working towards a pre-conceived conclusion. Doubtlessly, by this conferment, the Tinubu […]

Nigerian massacres: Treating ring worm while ignoring leprosy, by Owei Lakemfa

I was in Ndjamena, Chad in 2014 as the then Secretary General of the African Workers, to meet the labour leaders in that country. There was a major barracks on the road opposite the hotel I stayed. Newly arrived soldiers poured from the barracks towards the hotel. They were Chadian troops that had been expelled by the […]

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