Nigeria: The Olu of Warri As Daddy Overseer Melchizedek

18 September 2013
opinion

What does the storm fomented entirely out of a "born again" king's tea cup tell us about our rulers, "spiritual" or "temporal?"

By a proclamation, the Olu of Warri, Ogiamen Atuwatse II, sought to abrogate the ancestral title of Ogiamen on the ground that it implied worship of a false god, Umalokun the Itsekiri deity of the sea.

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