Michael Jimoh, THEWILL

News of former president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua’s demise reached Nigerians from a hospital bed in Saudi Arabia in May 2010. From Chatham House four years later, presidential wannabe, Muhammadu Buhari, laid out his plans for his countrymen and women...

Nnamdi Azikiwe was a poet, journalist and publisher before he became ceremonial head of state of Nigeria in the First Republic. His compatriot, Dennis Osadebay, was a poet and premier of Mid-Western Region at the same time. One of...

August 22, (THEWILL) - “When a book leaves its author’s desk,” Sir Salman Rushdie once said, “it changes.” It would turn out to be exactly so following publication of The Satanic Verses in 1988. Never in the history of modern...

When the 47th edition of the Toronto Film Festival begins on September 8 in Canada, a film adaptation of a Nigerian play will be screened for audiences made up of actors, directors, producers, cinematographers, screen writers and sundry professionals...

July 31, (THEWILL) – They were stolen in time of war. They were returned in time of peace. But 125 years after the British looted hundreds of Benin artefacts in 1897, finding an ideal home for them from whence...

July 24, (THEWILL) - Patronising flea markets used to be a place for the poor, those who can barely afford expensive ready-to-wear outfits in classy boutiques. Katangua Market by Super Bus Stop in Abule Egba, Lagos is now a...

July 03, (THEWILL) – It is a tough job for chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency retired Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa. He is not finding it funny at all as the number one man charged with sniffing...

June 27, (THEWILL) – Bisi Is The Boss by Bola Tinubu, Quramo Publishing: Lagos, 2021, 48pp Confronted with a potential rapist, women are most times advised to avail themselves of the most useful weapon at their disposal – the mouth....

June 20, (THEWILL) – Killing in the name of religion is fait accompli for some people as witnessed in the casual murder of Deborah Samuel by fellow students of Shehu Shagari College of Education Sokoto on Thursday, May 12...

...In God’s Name: An Investigation into the Murder of Pope John Paul 1 by David Yallop; Constable & Robinson, London, 2007, 343pp June 13, (THEWILL) - Investigative journalists get their adrenalin pumping faster when they take on very important personalities...