By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA was “elected” into the 15- member United Nations (UN) Security Council last Friday and there was a big jubilation in government circles. It was hailed as proof of the country’s growing international status, thanks to President Umaru Yar’Adua’s outstanding leadership qualities. Foreign Affairs Minister, Ojo Maduekwe, located our election partly in […]

By Owei Lakemfa THE  Nobel prize awarded to American President, Barack Obama  on October 9, 2009 was for peace but it has since turned into an international war of words. Ironically, the award news came to Obama while he was holding a war cabinet. It was over the Afghan war he inherited from his predecessor, […]

MY generation and the younger generation may not be aware that we owe a debt of historical gratitude to Jeremiah Olatunji Otegbeye who passed away on Friday October 9, 2009.

By Owei Lakemfa THE massacre was expected. It was just a question of time. The international community is still undecided what to do. The Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) has taken a step; it has sent a veteran coup plotter, President Blaise Campore of Burkina Faso to mediate. Mediate what? Mediate between the […]

By Owei Lakemfa I WAS not at last Thursday’s 49th Independence celebrations held by our leaders. I know I was not missed. Almost all of us ordinary citizens were not there, either physically or in spirit. We were not missed. The important thing was that our leaders had fun, congratulated themselves and remembered to thank […]