Michael Jimoh, THEWILL

When Mother Nature Alters Your Destination

July 19, (THEWILL) - Nature is capricious. It can, without seeking man’s opinion, do whatever it likes with us mere mortals. It could be for good or ill. Passengers in a Lagos-bound flight from Abuja to Lagos last Thursday found...

Star Quest, Our Star Child by Amos Esele, Marama Communications, Lagos, 102pp

July 12, (THEWILL) - Curiosity, so the idiom goes, killed the cat. In the case of the protagonist of this book, curiosity drove him to excel in an essay competition and then became a star in the process. It...

Controversy Over Planned Return of Benin Artefacts

July 11, (THEWILL) - The spoils of war have been, for centuries, part of human nature. When nations or countries go to war, the victors almost always loot whatever they can lay their hands on from the vanquished. Such...

Spinning His Own Story  Avant-Garde: The Cool DJ Jimmy Jatt Story by Peju Akande and Toni Kan, Radi8; Lagos, 168pp

July 04, (THEWILL) - Spinning discs on turntables is what DJ Jimmy Jatt is best known for by all who have had cause to deal or relate with him. Younger and upcoming DJs look up to him for inspiration...

Peerless: Legend of All Time By Peju Akande and Toni Kan, Shonny Books, Lagos, 210pp

June 28, (THEWILL) - He built the first modern estate in Nigeria. He was a millionaire in his thirties. He held managerial and executive positions in opulent companies such as UAC and Amalgamated Press, publishers of top of the...

Politicians & Spirit of Larceny: Farouk Lawan Goes to Jail

June 27, (THEWILL) - I’ve got larceny in my blood. I’d take it in a goddamn minute.” So did onetime U.S. Congressman, John Jenrette, declare enthusiastically when asked if he would, by any means, use his office as a member...

An Unfinished Life

June 20, (THEWILL)- The First Regular Combatant: Brigadier Zakariya Maimalari by Haruna Yahaya Poloma, Abuja: Warp Nigeria Ltd, 394pp The story of Nigeria may just have been different if, by any chance, the subject of this book had survived the...

Toni Kan @ Fifty: A Road Well Travelled

BEVERLY HILLS, June 06, (THEWILL) - Some kids get all the luck, sired by wealthy and educated parents who parcel them off to Ivy League schools where rich parents’ kids go and then end up in blue chip companies...

Independence Boy’s Zigima Sound

BEVERLY HILLS, May 30, (THEWILL) – He was born famous, arriving on the very day the British lowered the Union Jack and raised the Green-white-Green flag adopted by their former colonial territory called Nigeria. For that, family friends and neighbours...

Desperate Religious Charlatans

...The Role of a Culture of Superstition in the Proliferation of Religio-Commercial Pastors in Nigeria by Chima Agazue BEVERLY HILLS, May 24, (THEWILL) – They are more desperate and wily than politicians and conmen combined. They exert almost hypnotic control...

About Me

Michael Jimoh is a Nigerian journalist with many years experience in print media. He is currently a Special Correspondent with THEWILL.
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