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These are trying times for many businesses and their owners in Nigeria.  Businesses are crumbling due to economic upheavals. Reputations of businessmen and women, nay government contractors, especially those of them who are not politically correct, are being shredded on...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, (THEWILL) - Former Attorney-General of the Federation and human rights activist, Olu Onagoruwa, on Friday died at age 80. Onagoruwa was appointed as AGF in November 1993 by then head of state, late Sani Abacha. He left...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, (THEWILL) - The Bauchi governor, Mohammed Abubakar, on Thursday dissolved his cabinet, sacked the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Alhaji Bello Ilelah and disengaged his Special Assistants. A statement to that effect, signed by Permanent...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 20, (THEWILL) - The National Economic Council, NEC, on Thursday received the interim report on forensic audit of revenue accrued into Federation Account, Excess Crude Account and Consolidated Revenue Fund from revenue-generating agencies. Governor Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia...

It has become a pastime for me to write about political parties and movements since I submitted my first degree dissertation, Political Parties and Democratization: The Effects of Party Politics on Nigeria’s Democratic Experience (2003-2011) at the Department of...

A nation where mob action seems to be the only alternative to justice, the innocent will continue to cry for same justice. Mob action is increasingly becoming a reoccurring decimal in Nigeria. From the rampaging Fulani herdsmen and retaliatory attacks...

In an attempt  to raise much needed funds, the Finance Minister, Mrs Kemi Adeosun, has come up with the most ludicrous suggestions of all time : she plans to tax even beggars on their 'earnings'. She made this perfectly clear...

WHY NIGERIA SHOULD OPPOSE MOROCCO FROM JOINING THE ECOWAS The treaty establishing the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was signed in Lagos on 28 May 1975, after several years of painstaking efforts by General Yakubu Gowon, the then...

Nigerians love mantras - statements or slogans repeated frequently enough that they begin to sound like established facts or self-evident truths. Recently in this column (on June 22 2017), I interrogated the mantra of ‘generation shift’, which was renewed...

“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” - Martha Graham The title of this piece sounds profoundly hurtful, but that is the reality of our times.  Fire outbreaks have been on the rise in Nigeria in recent times...