Michael Jimoh, THEWILL

March 13, (THEWILL) - In his final year in Class 5A at St Paul’s Anglican Grammar School Igarra in the then Bendel state round about 1981, Edi Lawani was one of the regular readers of prescribed literature text taught...

March 06, (THEWILL) -  If Fela Anikulapo Kuti had won the 1983 election as the presidential candidate of Movement of the People (MOP), Lari Williams would have been the vice president because he was Fela’s running mate. But of...

February 27, (THEWILL) - Two communities Ifaki and Ilawe are both claiming the newly approved Law School slot for the South west. The first already has a signboard on the ground, complete with the logo of Council of Legal...

February 13, (THEWILL) - With oracular confidence, they tell us what is to come before they happen, to men in power, events big and small and, lately, results of continental competitions like the just-concluded Africa Cup of Nations. Days...

February 06, (THEWILL) - Thousands of apprentices in markets across Nigeria spend time learning a trade under a shop owner - anywhere from two, three, four, five years up - and then own their shops thereafter. This arrangement can...

January 30, (THEWILL) - You are never there, so the saying goes, when others determine or decide your fate. Chief Ernest Adegunle Shodeinde Shonekan who died at 85 mid-January was in Lagos overseeing the affairs of United Africa Company...

January 23, (THEWILL) - There was a time in Nigeria when if you wanted a telephone line at home or in the office, you must, of necessity, go to NITEL – acronym for Nigeria Telecommunications Limited. It was the...

January 09, (THEWILL) - That may or may not have been the prayer of the four children of Josy Ajiboye, veteran cartoonist, graphic artist, painter and sculptor. If it ever was, their prayer request was answered as all of...

January 02, (THEWILL) - Art history is replete with stories of child prodigies starting to doodle very early in life. Pablo Picasso is one famous example. It has been said the Iberian-born, world-renowned artist started drawing as soon as...

December 27, (THEWILL) - Renowned Nigerian contemporary artist, Professor Abayomi Barber, is dead. He was 93. Family sources say he died on Sunday night. Barber is one of the golden oldies of contemporary Nigerian art known for "application of naturalism and surrealism...