PERSPECTIVE – Protection fee that shored up the dollar
By Owei Lakemfa IT was like a mafia arrangement. A client pays and is sure of protection. In this case, it was between the United States, and the US, which prides itself as the freest,…
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PERSPECTIVE – Politics or forced labour: The new America-China tango
By Owei Lakemfa Super heavyweights, the United States, US, and China wrestled in the last week of last year into 2022 on the issue of forced labour. The US had drawn the first blood when on…
PERSPECTIVE – The American drum is beating too loudly
By Owei Lakemfa. THE little veiled call by Mrs. Nikky Nimrata Haley, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations that China should be attacked for not obeying her country’s unilateral sanctions against Iran, and…
PERSPECTIVE -Taliban: Lessons the big countries cannot learn
By Owei Lakemfa Afghanistan is in chaos. There are videos of Afghans clinging to aircraft taking off and dropping to earth. The dominant media blames the Taliban takeover for the chaos. Not the true…
PERSPECTIVE – As in Vietnam, America breaks into a run in Afghanistan
By Owei Lakemfa BAGRAM Airfield and Military Base, 70 kilometres north of Kabul was the epicentre of the 40-country coalition war to oust the Taliban from Afghanistan. At a point in 2012, over 100,000 U.S. troops passed…
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Kukah’s statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the Nigerian situation on the religious freedom hearings in Washington DC
By Bishop Matthew Hassan KUKAH, Catholic Diocese of Sokoto, 1: FROM its inception as an independent nation, Nigeria has remained a volatile country. Home to almost two hundred million people communicating in over…
PERSPECTIVE – Standing the world on its head
By Owei Lakemfa Some years ago, as Secretary General of the Organisation of African Trade Union Unity, OATUU, I had diplomatic immunity provided directly by my host, Ghana, my country, Nigeria and the African…
America places Nigeria’s Communication Minister, Isa Patami on terrorist watch list
Isa Patami, Nigeria's Minister of Communication and Digital Economy. There is disquiet in the land at the weekend follow¬ing an allegation that the Minister of Com¬munications and Digital Economy, Alhaji Isa Ali Ibrahim, also known…
PERSPECTIVE – Meddlesome international do-gooders in Nigeria
President Joe Bisen of United States. Comrade Owei Lakemfa. 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…
PERSPECTIVE – Nobel Prize for peacemakers and warmongers
Mr. Donald Trump, Nobel Peace prize nominee. By Owei Lakemfa The Nobel Peace Prize, perhaps the most prestigious annual award in the world, suffers from a chronic illness: the inability of the award committee to…