VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa MANY parts of the world were in festive mood this Wednesday marking Christmas, but thousands of Australian volunteers were at war, fighting hundreds of fires ravaging their country. Men and women left behind their families to…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa IN the heady days of the Babangida and Abacha military regimes, the State Security Services, SSS, frequently invaded the Imaria Street, Anthony Village, Lagos office and home of Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, BRK, leader of the pro-democracy…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa THE Labour Party was born in 1900 by trade union and socialist parents and what its leader, Jeremy Corbyn tried to do in this month’s British elections, was to return it to its origins which emphasise…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa TRAGICALLY, our country is headed back to the odious days of General Sani Abacha when dissent was regarded as criminal, protest as a coup and reason as treason. In the last few days, patriotic Nigerians including…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa. Nabil Suleiman stood before the Nigerian audience. His speech was quite short. It did not matter because his being told the story of pain. Apparently, he has done well for himself but it is an inner fulfillment…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa A LARGE chunk of the media last week was taken over by reports and comments about the earthshaking, or is it ground breaking foundation laying ceremony of the Transport University in Daura. The star of the…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa AGEING is a natural process, but some age faster due to a variety of reasons including ill health, lack of good nutrition and troublesome children who raise their blood pressure. The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, NATO,…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa MOBOLAJI Johnson was an officer in a profession with a command structure where people were trained to obey the last order. But as military governor of Lagos State, Johnson was known not to obey the last…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa POPE Francis this week sent humanity on another soul searching mission. During a visit to Japan, he held out the mirror in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, and invited the world to look at itself. The only imagery…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa IT follows a familiar pattern. African leaders who are courageous enough to speak the truth to powerful countries, pay quite heavy prices. They are vilified, victimized, blackmailed or sometimes murdered. Ambassador Arikana Chihombori-Quao, who was the…