May 29, (THEWILL) - One day last December, Obinna got a call from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to report in their office in Ikoyi, Lagos. A single father of two boys, Leo and Joseph, he lives in...
May 23, (THEWILL) - Long before a shoot begins at locations, long before rehearsals, one professional would have been consulted compulsorily by either the director or producer of a film, documentary or whatever project is at hand. He/ she...
May 15, (THEWILL) - There’s something to be said for a teenager who, while awaiting results of his final exams, is employed as a teacher by his alma mater. Look at it this way: you’ve just sat for your...
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May 09, (THEWILL) –In one of his lectures at Freedom Park Lagos sometime in 2013 NLNG poet laureate Tade Ipadeola told his listeners that right from the very beginning, Africa...
May 01, (THEWILL) - The longest running exhibition opened last week in the Federal Capital Territory mounted by multidisciplinary artist Ken Nwadiogbu in collaboration with Dolly Kola-Balogun Creative Director and founder of Retro Africa. Maurice Chapot is the curator.
The...
May 01, (THEWILL) - For some people, staying in any one profession for too long becomes a bore, something of a routine. Faced with such situation, some will gleefully take up something else, find another way of satisfying their...
April 25, (THEWILL) - They don’t go around with guns, grenades and bombs like bandits or terrorists but they kill all the same. Their victims are almost always women they know intimately who they lure and slaughter as ritual...
April 17, (THEWILL) – The famous Kukuruku Hills have existed for thousands of years long before the first settlers found a home beneath its rocky boulders. Legend has it that Igarra people of yore found solace in the caves...
April 03, (THEWILL) – That was the soubriquet by which she was known for much of her time as vice chancellor of University of Benin for seven years from 1985. It was borrowed not by her but by those...
March 27, (THEWILL) – Any 13-year-old Nigerian boasting of becoming a Mark Zuckerberg of Africa is likely to earn a dismissive wave from family or friends. Computer whiz Emmanuel Njoku did exactly that six years ago. His mother thought...