By Owei Lakemfa THE stories I am going to tell in this very short piece would have been regarded as fiction except that they happen in Nigeria. They remind me …
By Owei Lakemfa IT was a marvel that WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, was still standing on his feet this Monday, January 4, 2021 as the British courts stopped his extradition …
By Owei Lakemfa IN their beloved city of Osogbo, Osun State, two indomitable African lions: Hassan Adebayo and Hussein Oyekanmi Sunmonu, are turning 80 this Thursday, January 7, 2021. Theirs …
By Owei Lakemfa HUMANITY in 2020, the year we bade a hurried goodbye to, yesterday, like snails, withdrew into their shells following the outbreak of the corona virus Covid-19 pandemic. …
By Owei Lakemfa THE immediate-past Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, on December 22, 2020, turned 70. It was less an occasion for celebration and more …
By Owei Lakemfa THE Hungarian parliament in Central Europe on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 made a startling discovery that: “The mother is a woman, the father is a man.” This …
By Owei Lakemfa AN old friend and fellow journalist, Ya’u Shehu Darazo called me in 2006 asking if I could arrange a meeting between former Head of State, retired General Muhammadu …
By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Donald Trump is a joke carried too far. He is a problem child the United States imposed on the universe. There is an African saying that …
By Owei Lakemfa THE House of Representatives is sulking that President Muhammadu Buhari did not honour the invitation to address it on Thursday over serious insecurity in the country. It …
By Owei Lakemfa ETHIOPIA is today, bleeding. It bled yesterday. The day before, it bled. The challenge is how to stop its bleeding, stabilise, and hopefully, stop her from bleeding …