THE Left Movement in Nigeria gained two of its best known leaders in 1973. Edwin ‘Eddie’ Ikechukwu Madunagu was a 27-year-old postgraduate student of Mathematics, specifically Differential Equations and Functions of …
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Anthony Asiwaju: 40-year Inaugural Lecture that humanised African borders
by Owei Lakemfaby Owei LakemfaANTHONY Ijaola Ayinla Asiwaju was unaware when he delivered his inaugural lecture on December 12, 1984 that it would change his life forever. More importantly, that with that step, …
There is the senseless war in Sudan in which troops from the same armed forces, nationality, religion, language and culture are engaged in a siblings conflict. Its only parallel, in …
There is a famous saying that: “The law is an ass.” It is simply saying that the law, which in any case is not value-free, should not be applied in …
ECOWAS also needs to align itself with the basic principles of sovereignty. It should know that its endorsement of the West African Gas Pipeline Project otherwise called the Nigeria-Morocco Gas …
The Babalola-Farotimi drama reminds me of a story I was told as a child. Early one morning, villagers, on their way to farm and market, found the parrot tied in …
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Ousting Assad was more tragic than the West canonising jihadists
by Owei Lakemfaby Owei LakemfaA world led by Western elites and their US first cousins, cannot but be a confused one because their philosophy is not about development, but acquisition and control… This is …
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The great Yusufu Bala Usman-Yusuf Bangura debate: Forty years after
by Owei Lakemfaby Owei LakemfaWhat are we to make of ‘contractocracy’ as a ‘government which ‘is for contractors, by contractors and of contractors?’ Are we to believe that the ruling class in Nigeria are …
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Nigeria: Strings of trade agreements, bringing little to the table
by Owei Lakemfaby Owei LakemfaI was taught as a kid that it is when a pupil does not know the answer to a question, that he stares at the ceiling; whereas the answer is …
Some of us stand on the broad shoulders of these fearless, selfless and principled fighters for a better universe and a New World Order. Abdulkadir Isah Uguda turned 70 on …