The title simply means “Professor Sunday Ijirhevwe Awhefeada.” For the purpose of this article, his Urhobo name, Ijirherhe, means I also have them (intelligence, knowledge and administrative prowess). The surname, Awhefeada, roughly translated means “one who distributes wealth abroad,” although Prof is distributing his wealth of knowledge mainly at home. Professor Awhefeada is not just a professor. […]

I can watch them all day. And its not because their antics amuse or entertain me. They don’t. If anything, I am disconcerted, and sometimes, anguished by what I see. I watch therefore, as a witness, or if you like, a chronicler which has always been part of my job as a journalist. Fortunately, they don’t stay […]

Tinubu’s first term is effectively over. His report card is ready. His wife already hails him as the architect of modern Nigeria. The National Assembly worships at his feet. This is the closest Nigeria has come to one-man rule. The irony is unmistakable. A former opposition firebrand now presides over a system where dissent is handled like  […]

When six states in Nigeria’s South-West zone came together in January 2020 to create Amotekun, a regional security outfit to confront social ills spreading across the region, they weren’t reinventing the wheel, despite the political fanfare.  They were re-enacting a past that seemed so far back it had been forgotten altogether – a policing structure that […]

The leading international leaders of hypocrisy and deception, with headquarters in Western Europe, are as they historically do, teaching lessons they themselves will neither take nor accept. Iran has since February 28, 2026, been under waves of relentless attacks by the United States, US, and Israel with children and adults, citizens and leaders, being dispatched with […]