Michael Jimoh, THEWILL

It used to be that business moguls of a certain generation in Nigeria followed the classical route in their rise to top managerial positions. A sound education from a prestigious school - London School of Economics, say, or Harvard...

April 16, (THEWILL) - It takes a certain amount of courage to quit one supposedly respectable profession for another seen as less dignified. In the eyes of many, a priest in a Catholic Church has more social standing and...

In July 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed a career-oriented woman and investment promotion expert Hajiya Saratu Altine Umar as the new Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission. It was to last for five years. It...

Paris has the Louvre, New York MOMA. The London Museum is smack in the centre of England. There are as many museums in Florence and Venice as there are gondolas plying its waterways. Art aficionados and tourists flock to...

For the women folk in Nigeria and beyond, it would have been a moment to relish forever if Senator Aishatu Dahiru Ahmed had won the governorship election in Adamawa state on March 18. She would have made history as...

From the moment of conception 40 years ago, the Lagos Metro Line was doomed from the start. Proposed under the civilian administration of Lateef Kayode Jakande, it is one of the oldest projects by any state government in Nigeria,...

Last Monday March 6, INEC headquarters had the most unlikely uninvited guests milling around its plush premises in Maitama district in Abuja. Numbering in their hundreds, the visitors had not come to say well done to Professor Mahmood Yakubu,...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s victory in the February 25 presidential poll has raised hackles among his opponents who charge that thugs under the auspices of his All Progressives Congress intimidated voters and destroyed voting materials in some polling units. Because...

Spontaneous acts of violence have become part of the political system in Nigeria, especially during and after elections. Last weekend’s poll was no different as hoodlums dared the authorities by disrupting the elections despite the peace accord signed by...

Doctors are there at our bedside when we are born. We look up to them when we fall sick. They are at our death bed when we expire, thus making them an integral part of our existence. In between...