One Urhobo leader of his town’s union sometimes exclaims when things get heated up with his people, “Urhobo be suoor” (Urhobo people are difficult to lead!). I would burst out into uncontrollable laughter. What do you expect from people who are republican by nature, where virtually everybody, trained and untrained, is a lawyer, where a poor person […]

The ways of our politicians are confounding sometimes. The constitution is the document that binds people of diverse backgrounds and nationalities together and therefore must be seen to be truly representative. Unfortunately, it is not often available. It is also often worded in a legal and technical manner that makes it difficult for an average person to […]

The regime in the United States, US, led by Mr Donald John Trump has in the past seven months, introduced  many alien relations into international relations. But when many thought it cannot get worse, the American regime is taking  decisions that do not appear to be the product of a sound thought process. Perhaps the main […]

A cursory perusal of the state of affairs in Nigeria today and how things are managed by the politicians in charge led me to one conclusion — we, the people of Nigeria, do not matter a jot to the politicians managing our affairs. In addition, the laws that we have in place to regulate our daily […]

In his seminal offering last Sunday titled, “Whose president is Tinubu, anyway?” TheNiche columnist, Dr. Chidi Amuta, concluded in a rather cautionary note: “Tinubu’s current quandary as to his real national constituency may end in greater confusion unless he is ready to rediscover the source of his original sin and redress it. That original sin is […]