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By Monday next week - to be precise - the son of canoe-carver-born former university teacher would have bitten the dust. Results of the presidential election would have humbled him. It would be the heaviest political fall from grace...

Tomorrow the voting for the president of Nigeria begins. How is the process supposed to work? This is the best answer I got from questioning people involved in the elections: One must have registered and must have collected his/her PVC...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, (THEWILL)  – Niger State Governor, Mua’zu Babangida Aliyu has suffered an embarrassing defeat in his bid to represent his district in the Nigerian Senate following his loss to Mr. David Umaru, the candidate of the...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, (THEWILL)  – Yobe State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Habu Zarma, said on Sunday that security concerns necessitated the inability of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to hold election in 18 wards in Gaidam Local government...

An indefinite lockdown was ordered on three areas in northeast Nigeria on Sunday after troops battled scores of Boko Haram fighters outside the Bauchi state capital, Bauchi city, the authorities said. Soldiers supported by two fighter jets intercepted the militants...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, (THEWILL)  – Senate President, Senator David Mark, is set to win the Benue South Senatorial district race by a wide margin, winning in six out of nine local governments in the district, according to exit...

President Goodluck Jonathan has won all the 16 local government areas of Ekiti State, Southwest Nigeria, according to results of the presidential election announced by INEC in the state. The President’s party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) also won all...

At an event organized by the office of the National Security Adviser to the President and the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Inter-Party Affairs with supports from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and other...

National Conference The APC does not support the National Conference though the recommendations made by the NC will help to move the country forward if implemented. Some of the recommendations of the NC are the creation of states mostly...

Those of us who regularly observe and try to make sense of the madness sweeping the Middle East often find ourselves, perhaps out of desperation, engaging in wishful thinking, hoping that in the end, reason will prevail over lunacy....