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Momoh, Peterside, Shehu, RMD, Ochei, Olorunyomi, Abdullahi, Chike-Obi, Jideonwo, Others For OPAN New Media Conference

SAN FRANCISCO, February 02, (THEWILL) - The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria, OPAN, Nigeria’s premier association of digital/new media publishers and entrepreneurs has announced speakers, panelists and moderators for its maiden Annual New Media Conference holding on February 6,...

OPINION: OBASANJO AND THE EXTENT OF PRESIDENTIAL POWERS

More than a week after President Olusegun Obasanjo released his state of the nation commentary and devastating assessment of the Buhari administration, it has remained the main subject in the public arena in Nigeria. It is a measure of...

OPINION: WHAT HAS BECOME OF OUR MUCH LOVED PARTY “THE APC”

The All Progressive Congress (APC) is a great party that fought the strongest political battle in the history of Nigeria and Africa as a whole, won and occupying the highest positions in Nigeria today. History has it that, APC...

OPINION: IS BUHARI STILL THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE?

The letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo asking President Muhammad Buhari not to contest the 2019 election is one of the most misinterpreted missives in the Nigerian political climate. Again, it shows that much as the polity has been awash...

OPINION: PROLIFERATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES AS COUNTERPRODUCTIVE TO NIGERIAN DEMOCRACY

Only recently, precisely at the commencement of this year, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) presented certificates of registration to twenty-one newly registered political parties, saying that they have equal status with any parties; an action that surged the...

OPINION: LOCAL GOVT. ELECTIONS: ‘YOU DO ME, I DO YOU’ DEMOCRACY

'YOU do me, I do you, God no go vex' is a diluted coinage of Nigerian adulterated English for 'an eye, for an eye and 'a tooth for a tooth'. It's a vengeful hysteria bereaved of ethical, political, economic...

OPINION: BETWEEN JEGA’S ‘KILLER HERDSMAN’ AND LEADERSHIP DEFICIT

One of Nigeria's cerebral columnists, Malam Mahmud Jega, has not only paid his dues, but commands remarkable readership across the country, especially in the North where his analytical prowess has become almost an awesome machine of intellectual coercion. To...

OPINION A CASE FOR NEW POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN BENUE

Since the death of the visionary, pragmatic and inspiring political leader of Benue people, Joseph Tarka, it has been pretty difficult for any politician in the state to step into the shoes he left behind.  Tarka was such phenomenally urbane...

OPINION: HOW NEPOTISM ERODES PATRIOTISM

In the last few days since after the former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo published an open letter to the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, the talking point has been the issue of nepotism in appointments which principally constituted the rationale...

OPINION: RULE OF LAW AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA

Corruption in Nigeria context has been a nagging issue. The phenomenon has defied any known definition.It is as recalcitrant as the character "Abiku, the Ogbanje girl", in Wole Soyinka's popular" Abiku" which keeps reincarnating. Corruption has also defied every...