Tag: Lakemfa

The coup in Niger and the Moncada Barracks attack

By Owei Lakemfa. EXACTLY 70 years separate the July 26, 1953 suicidal…

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Nigeria to host International Centenary on Lenin

The International Centenary Commemoration on the passing of Vladimir Lenin the man…

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Aboru, Aboye: Attacks on Africa’s highly tolerant traditional religion

By Owei Lakemfa The firestorm among some Christian leaders in Western Nigeria…

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Joblessness, idleness and feigned piety

By Owei Lakemfa The Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Kolapo Sulu-Gambari, as…

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African peacemakers: Rescuing Europeans from mutual slaughter

By Owei Lakemfa. Seven African leaders stunned the world on June 16…

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The United States recurring memory loss in diplomacy

By Owei Lakemfa Four archenemies of the United States, US met variously…

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Homosexuality should neither be criminalized nor weaponized

By Owei Lakemfa Homosexuality has in contemporary times been hotly debated and…

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If Obafemi Awolowo were President Bola Tinubu

By Owei Lakemfa Chief Obafemi Awolowo, affectionately called Awo, was the programmatic…

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The road to Heaven may no longer be narrow

By Owei Lakemfa AS a child I was taught that the road…

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Laoye Sanda: The man who saw tomorrow

By Owei Lakemfa THE story of Laoye Oluwole Sanda reads like fiction.…

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Many things we don’t know or may never know

By Owei Lakemfa THE United States of America, US, this Monday placed…

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National Assembly sovereignty: Joke taken too far

By Owei Lakemfa AS an undergraduate in Great Ife, the Obafemi Awolowo…

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