The Africa Union, AU, 38th Summit from February 15-16, 2025 promised to be challenging as the body had to elect a new Chairperson for the African Union Commission, AUC, which is its engine room. The Commission is the AU Secretariat and its Chair, its chief executive officer. In the last… The politics of the AU … Read more
There was a popular song when I was a child titled ‘Come and see American wonder.’ It was not so much about the celebration of the perceived wonders of the United States, US. It was more about the incredulous things emanating from ‘God’s own country’. Some of us thought that… Come and see American wonder … Read more
Portable is the stage name of Street-Hop rapper, Habeb Okikiola Badmus. He is crass in appearance and, ill-mannered with apparent gaps in thought. Exhibiting outlandish behaviour, he divides his hair into parts each with a loud colour that gives the appearance of a… The politics of portable – By Owei Lakemfa …C0NTINUE READING >>>>
The rebels of the Tutsi M23 backed by the Rwanda Defence Force, RDF on January 27, 2025 rolled into Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC eliminating whosoever they found in their path. These included the peacekeepers of United Nations Organisation Stabilisation… Kagame’s drum is beating too loud, it may soon burst – By Owei … Read more
The unforgettable Clara Margarita Pulido-Escandell, the then Cuban Ambassador to Nigeria, on Friday June 10, 2022 held a welcome lunch for the new Mexican Ambassador Alfredo Miranda. It was not surprising for she was like a mother hen watching over fellow … Juan Sell: A long goodbye to Spain’s matchless … Read more
Nigerians are as usual, being entertained to the soap opera called budget defence. The 2025 episode is living to its billing. Already, a Senator has staged a walk out on his own committee. The Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun sat in the National Assembly, NASS on… Budget dramas and the rainbow of the unaccountable … Read more
I am a member of the foreign relations think tank, the Society for International Relations Awareness, SIRA. Its membership is made up primarily of retired ambassadors, Emeritus Professors, academics, former Permanent Secretaries, political scientists and lawyers. There is just a… Nuhu Yaqub: The indelible footsteps of a humanist – By Owei Lakemfa …C0NTINUE READING >>>>
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 a Complex Variable. He was in the University of Lagos, UNILAG, and… Bene Madunagu: Intellectual, mother, botanist, leftist-feminist and revolutionary socialist – By Owei Lakemfa … Read more
Anthony 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, he was transforming our consciousness of the seemingly inanimate colonial boundaries of Africa into… Anthony Asiwaju: 40-year Inaugural Lecture that humanised African borders – … Read more
Olamide Abiodun Thomas is a nurse. She went out with some protesters in October, 2024 to commemorate the ‘EndSARS’ mass protest against police brutality in which a yet- unverified-number of young people were murdered. The nationwide protests organised by youths which began on… The law, even in Nigeria, is not an ass – By Owei Lakemfa … Read more