MANY Nigerians are pleased that President Muhammadu Buhari has assembled a formidable team of technocrats and experienced administrators to help him in steering the ship of state and deliver the dividends of democracy to all Nigerians.

THE current economic crisis, an exposé on the predicted disabilities and inhuman dispositions of neo liberal policies, especially its role in developing economies just as it is in all sectors, seem to be one that will ignite, if it has not already ignited a revolt that will sure upturn global fortunes for the better.

AFRICA has a glorious past. Before the advent of white imperialists , Africans had their own systems of government. We had the ancient Benin Kingdom, Oyo Empire, Ghana Empire, the reign of Mansa Musa in Mali, and others. In the pre-colonial lgboland, the cultural practices and norms of the people were embedded in their republicanism, which used to be their system of government. Achebe’s anthropological novels documented the historical past of the Igbo people

OPENING this discuss with the word “again” means that similar situation happened before in the lives of the great people of the Urhobo Nation of the Niger Delta – talking of derailing from the road they should have passed and finding themselves in a turbulent “political wilderness”. The last time it happened, they remained like flock without shepherd for almost 25 years while only the creator of mankind can say with sure precision how long it will take them [in the wilderness] this time around before coming out of the woods.

BUT didn’t an erudite professor, renowned scholar, iconic playwright and social critic, who publicly threatened to destroy his document, however way it was acquired, over the outcome of a distant periodic election, he did not even vote and for which his interest is at best marginal, brutally assault common sense, that the rest of us, should be embarrassed to share the same nation space with him?