Austyn Ogannah

May 08, (THEWILL) – Most countries operating a form of representative government codify their fundamental political principles into a Constitution. It is through this document they operate their governments with regular amendments making it relevant and modern, for whichever...

May 01, (THEWILL) - In 2008, at the 56th quadrennial presidential election of the United States of America, the unlikeliest candidate, a young, black junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, did the improbable. He beat frontline aspirants in the...

April 25, (THEWILL) - News channels and social media were recently awash with a video of the Chrisland School scandal involving lurid acts by underage children. This despicable sexual encounter occurred in a hotel room in Dubai and was...

April 17, (THEWILL) – As many of us agree, the 2023 presidential election is a make or break poll for our country. I will go straight to the point so that I don’t deviate from the very important message...

April 11, (THEWILL) – In 1955, the government of the Western Region introduced a free primary education programme based on the 1952 proposal by the Minister of Education in the region, Chief S. O. Awokoya, for a free, universal...

April 03, (THEWILL) – Like many Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, I am still pained by the Super Eagles’ shocking inability to qualify for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, clearly the biggest sporting tournament in the...

March 27, (THEWILL) – The reality of the treasonous theft of the nation’s crude oil is suddenly being given the attention it deserves by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, even though it should have come much earlier. By no...

March 21, (THEWILL) – The admirable drive to diversify Nigeria’s economy, which has remained built around oil revenue since the discovery of crude oil deposits at Oloibiri by Shell-BP in 1956, is a constant feature of the campaign manifestos of...

March 06, (THEWILL) - As with every other time of crises in human history, every period of strife presents an opportunity for the intuitive and foresighted to find levers to pull that will guarantee both short-term and long-term benefits...

March 06, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s silly decision to continue expending hundreds of billions of naira annually on the wasteful and fraudulent subsidy on petrol scheme makes me fume in anger whenever I realise how much infrastructural development we could...