No governance without consultation: Demilitarizing and demythologizing the Nigerian Government, by Owei Lakemfa
I did not expect my column ‘When uneducated minds change the education system’ to attract so much reaction. A parent said that in my review of the new education curriculum imposed in September 2025, I did not draw sufficient attention to some facts. The most fundamental, she said, is that government imposed new trade subjects on the […]
Zamani Lekwot: Holding judicial and military terrorism to justice, by Owei Lakemfa
A series of video recordings of men and officers of the Nigerian Army brutalising hapless Nigerians have in the past few weeks been making the rounds. The most disturbing, which a conscious institution should have by now made public either by its interim or full report, is that of a Major General in uniform supervising the […]
Raising the red flag for peace with thousand-day Ukrainian ruination, by Owei Lakemfa
THE first one thousand days of the Russo-Ukrainian War was on Tuesday, November 19, marked in Europe like an anniversary rather than a day of reflection. The European Commission draped its building with the Ukrainian flag, while the European Parliament sat to stirring speeches, including a standing ovation for Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. Those hailing Zelensky […]
Ibrahim Gambari: The intellectual and diplomat who saw tomorrow, by Owei Lakemfa
If the Nobel Peace Prize were less political, more objective and based on direct efforts to achieve peace, Professor Ibrahim Agboola Gambari should have been an awardee long ago. One of the lows in human history was the refusal to prevent or stop the 1994 Rwanda Genocide even when humanity was in a very […]
Mexico, maize and the Day of the Dead, by Owei Lakemfa
I attended for the first time, the Day of the Dead festival. It was at the Mexican Embassy in Abuja. The stairs leading from the embassy gates down to the swimming pool reception area was lit with over 70 candles. There were photos of the dead. In the reception hall were two prominent photographs. To the […]
Providus, sell Methodist Church of Nigeria, not school lands, by Owei Lakemfa
THE Providus Bank wrote J.Wesley Investment Limited, the profit-making company wholly owned by the Trustees of the non-profit Methodist Church of Nigeria, MCN, a love letter. It was a final demand letter dated October 29, 2024 asking the Spiritual Lords of the Church to pay an earthly sum of N2,036,567,275.74 owed the bank. In stating that […]
