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OPINION: BIAFRA AGITATION: DISCONTENTED YOUTHS AND FAILURE OF THE NIGERIAN STATE

As I write this piece, a military operation called Operation Python Dance takes place. Its target is a secessionist movement in Nigeria's Southeast, led by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). This military operation is intended to clamp down on real...

OPINION: PYTHONS, CROCODILES AND THE NIGERIAN ZOO

Chains by any other name would still hurt as much. As a person I am a cautious optimist on "project Nigeria", although it is one that I put my whole heart on, despite the counsel of a statesman who once...

OPINION: THE BIAFRA/IPOB TERRORIST THREAT AND THE NEED TO STAMP OUT GENOCIDE

For the last two years, any constant listener of Radio Biafra, when hosted by Nnamdi Kanu, would have discerned three very critical themes behind his broadcasts. The first is the hate and derision directed against a group he terms...

OPINION: HYPOCRISY, POLITICS AND EL-RUFAI

In Nigeria, my enemy's enemy is my friend. That is what is currently the case in Nigeria as regards ‎recent political events, especially within the camp of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. People always want to say and...

OPINION: IPOB AGITATIONS: BETWEEN ACTIVISM AND TERRORISM

Until the recent declaration by Nigeria's military that the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) is a terrorist group, members have been operating with impunity particularly in the South-Eastern part of the country. Before the skirmish and eventually onslaught against...

OPINION: THAT GOV. EL-RUFAI’S APC PANEL ON RESTRUCTURING MUST NOT BE THE USUAL RUSE

When, lately, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, slammed former President Olusegun Obasanjo for trivialising the agitations of Nigeria's constituents for restructuring of the country, it only shows the extent of the reach of the clamour for the nation's reorganisation, and...

OPINION: 2019: ON YOUR MARKS…

When Nigerians talk about ‘2019’, we know they are referring to an event they believe will likely define that year – the holding of a presidential election. Several years ago there were also talks of ‘2015’. The year came...

THEWILL Editorial: Ending The Strikes Crippling Activities In Public Universities Once And For All

BEVERLY HILLS, September 16, (THEWILL) - Notwithstanding the truce reportedly reached between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, at a recent closed-door meeting, all is yet to be well with Nigeria’s public universities. While declaring...

Dickson Says Ijaws Are Most Marginalised People In Nigeria

BEVERLY HILLS, September 15, (THEWILL) - The Bayelsa State governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Friday declared that the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta are the most oppressed ethnic group in the whole country. Speaking when the leadership of the...

Only Female Lawyer On SAN Award List Loses Prestigious Rank

BEVERLY HILLS, September 15, (THEWILL) - Barely 48 hours to the conferment of the prestigious rank of the Senior Advocate of Nigeria on 30 lawyers by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, the Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, LPPC, has removed...

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