VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa The Afghanistan government of President Ashraf Ghani had to be pulled by the ears and dragged to the peace-implementation table where its American masters are seated with their old adversaries, the Taliban rebels. The complaint of the Afghan government and why…
VANGUARD, 9 March 2020 By Owei Lakemfa IN a land sycophancy struts. A clime truth is forced to walk on its head. Terrestrial men and women say yes to power. In a climate of distrust where fake and false news…
VANGUARD, 6 March 2020 By Owei Lakemfa TURKEY under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has two boiling pots on the same fire. It is fighting a war against Syria, having invaded that country since October 9, 2019. Like a parasitic virus,…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa THE Coronavirus, Covid-19 borne by an Italian flying on the wings of the Turkish Airlines, slipped undetected into Lagos on February 24. The carrier went through the airport process, spent the night at a hotel in…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa Victor Olaiya: A widely held African belief is that there are three stages in life; when you are born, adulthood and old age which presages eternal departure. These are also symbolized by dawn, afternoon and sunset. Likewise,…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa Coronavirus: LI WENLIANG, 34 was an ophthalmologist at Wuhan Central Hospital, China. In December 2019, he noticed seven cases of a virus that he thought looked like Sars. The victims were said to come from the…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa Many Nigerians want to leave. That is why a citizen would gather a lot of money and pay a human trafficker to be taken through the horrors of the desert with the possibility of dying of…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa DIANA Ross, The Supremes and The Temptations had a 1968 hit song titled ‘The Impossible Dream.’ In it, they sang: “To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear with unbearable sorrow To…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa I WAS one of the Nigerians stunned on New Year Day 2020 when our quite busy President Muhammadu Buhari wrote us a letter. Yes, Nigerians, high and low, the powerful and the commoner, received a letter…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa MURITALA Ramat Muhammed was the charismatic General who emerged Head of State following the July 29, 1975 coup. In a counter-coup on February 13, 1976, he was cut down in a hail of bullets. The frightened…
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