VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa MOST of the world is like Nigeria where the strong sits on the neck of the weak; the powerful on the powerless, and runs the Western Democracy which is the government of the greedy, by the…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA is a country some talk about in the past tense. Like the famous author, Chinua Achebe titled his last book on Nigeria: There Was A Country. The United States of America, an expert in primitive…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa THE drab and monotonous British politics took an exciting turn this Wednesday, July 24 when Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip replaced Theresa May as Prime Minister. An excited…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa FELLOW countrymen and women, people of my country, I have not come to criticize the wise decision of President Muhammadu Buhari, to appoint only those he personally knows, as ministers. Tears trickled down my face, and…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa MARCUS Garvey was a Jamaican who left school at 14, established the Universal Negro Improvement Association, UNIA, at 27 and moved the association to Harlem, New York, two years later. His messages about the dignity of…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa NIGERIA today is three nations. The nation that holds President Muhammadu Buhari infallible, that which sees nothing but fallibility, and, the ‘Third Force’ which sees serious problems and wants to find solution irrespective of who is…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa Words went round the University of Ife, now, Obafemi Awolowo University, that a leading literary critic, Ms. Molara Ogundipe (later, Professor) from the University of Ibadan, was visiting. She was at Ife to give a Marxist interpretation of Professor…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa I worry about Nigeria’s foreign policy because there is none. The American foreign policy under President Donald Trump is visible to all: America First. You may condemn it as nationalist, myopic in the face of globalisation…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa PRESIDENT Donald Trump, the Commander-in-Chief of the United States Armed Forces is quite strategic in his wars. He is an exceptionally likeable president who undoubtedly has changed the way many of us perceive world leaders. He…
VANGUARD By Owei Lakemfa SHE is young. Her dressing gives the impression of a religious-minded lady. She is identified or identified herself by 42 different names. But her real name is unknown. It might not be impossible that among the…