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When Muhammadu Buhari clinched the presidency, many Nigerians believed it was a year of a big, bloodless political revolution. But now we know this wasn't so much a revolution as a restructuring of the political order, a transfer of...

The issue of ‘reflecting the Federal Character’ is a recurring decimal in our political discourses. Many people have their own notion of what the concept means or ought to mean. Some blame the frequent cries of ‘marginalization’ by different...

I read the beautiful piece titled “Imoke: From Politician to Statesman” written by Dan Amor and published in Daily Sun of July 11, 2017.  Permit me, as an outsider- not being an indigene of the state nor having lived there-...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, (THEWILL) - An Osun High Court sitting in Osogbo, on Friday granted bail to the immediate former Vice-Chancellor, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Prof. Anthony Elujoba, and the former bursar, Ronke Akeredolu. The accused are facing a...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, (THEWILL) - The Chairman of the National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, on Thursday stated that the party’s leadership tussle was a “hard battle”. Makarfi made the confession when he received...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 14, (THEWILL) - The Defence Headquarters, DHQ, on Thursday said it is not part of a rumoured attempt by some ambitious top government officials and members of a purported cabal in the Presidency to hijack power...

The first thought that flashed into my mind when I saw this headline on my newsfeed was: “Oh my God! Nigeria!” Then I started to have spasms of panic attacks. OK, it wasn’t that dramatic – but I was terrified. I...

Do you believe Bukola Saraki, Oba idu, ipa to npaja, would be recalled from Kwara? Many of us should be touched by a plea of a young man that would rather look forward to his death in Asia than die in...

The renewed secessionist agitation championed by Nnamdi Kanu has triggered a chain motion of cleavage-based identification. Whether it's the usual bandwagon attitude of Nigerians to emulate the good, bad and ugly trend or the real deal of our expanding...

It was an opportunity to counter Islamic fanaticism but the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar III, blew it away. He ignored the elephant in the room – Quranic indoctrination of children. Instead, the head of muslims in Nigeria lashed out...