THOSE who think the war against banditry is a joke, need to take a look at the statistics coming out of Kaduna State. The long-suffering state continues to bleed. In the …
By Owei Lakemfa HOW do you react to a preventable war in which just in Lagos alone – one of the thirty six states in Nigeria -700,000 human beings are annually taken …
By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known as Pantami, is busy fighting off those who accuse him of holding extreme Islamic …
THE last time I was in Chad was in 2014. In its capital, N’Djamena, I couldn’t resist the feeling that I was in a big rural village. Many of the …
In the on-going repression of the OAU and KWASU students and the denial of lecturers in private universities their fundamental right to associate, the state and federal governments behave like …
THE first time I saw Blaise Compaoré was at the African Union, AU, Heads of State Summit that held in Addis Ababa in 2013. At that time, at 62, he …
EASTER is a season of peace. But what peace can there be when evil struts the land in the garb of bandits and terrorists maiming and killing? What peace can …
By Owei Lakemfa The former Latin American labour leader and past Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, and African intellectual and ex-President of Cote d’Voire, Laurent Gbagbo have returned …
By Owei Lakemfa THERE is virtual chaos in the country today. The right hand does not seem to know what the left is doing. The presence or absence of President …
By Owei Lakemfa IN the name of order or for disorder, but definitely in their interests, international powers perpetually intervene in African affairs in order to build the world in …