Browsing: Owei Lakemfa

By Owei Lakemfa The country heaved a sigh of relief on Thursday, October 13, 2022, as the eight-month strike by academics which…

By Owei Lakemfa Smart Europeans. After building their wealth from resources taken from the colonies, including gold, diamond, rubber, cocoa, cotton…

By Owei Lakemfa Governor  David ‘Dave’ Nweze Umahi of Ebonyi State reminds me of the colonial District Officer who was a…

By Owei Lakemfa The Confluence Hotel in Ganaja, Lokoja, used to be my favourite spot whenever I visited Kogi State. Its main…

By Owei Lakemfa Poverty is often presented as statistics. But what the Yusufu Bala Usman Institute did on September 21, 2022, was…

By Owei Lakemfa His Excellency William Ruto, Kenya’s newly minted President, prides himself as the Hustler-in-Chief of the country. He…

By Owei Lakemfa Once the Muhammadu Buhari government had failed to get striking lecturers in our public universities back to…

By Owei Lakemfa Funerals, official and unofficial, were held in parts of the world this Monday September 19 to eternally…

By Owei Lakemfa Mahdi Shehu, one of the supporters of the bloodthirsty Abacha military regime, runs around today in the…

By Owei Lakemfa As a child growing up on Lagos Island, I frequently walked through the Race Course to  school.…