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When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were...

I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name "government" is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals to mindlessly loot the resources of the larger collectivity.   This argument has been eloquently...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The last of Reagan Uformba’s colleagues in his faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) last Friday formally collapsed their structures into Alex Otti’s gubernatorial campaign at Osisioma on the outskirts of Aba,...

…Alleges Marginalisation Of Yorubas By Jonathan Administration SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The Yoruba Assembly, Thursday, insisted that the general elections scheduled to hold on March 28 and April 11 must hold as scheduled even as it maintained that...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 19, (THEWILL) – The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, Thursday, assured that the Commission is on course and ready to conduct the rescheduled general elections fixed for March 28 and...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – Newly-freed captives from Bama in Borno State, numbering well over 200, including women and children, have been moved to a separate camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, that the Federal Government would not concede any part of the country to Boko Haram insurgents. Addressing a Northeast Peoples Democratic Party...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The United Nations (UN) has expressed concern over the possibility of violence during and after the rescheduled general elections in the country, warning all stakeholders to eschew violence. The UN Under-Secretary-General on Political Affairs,...

A spate of victories against Boko Haram has pushed the militants out of much of the territory they controlled in Nigeria, but that is unlikely to do much to boost President Goodluck Jonathan's bid for re-election by divided voters...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The Borno State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Samuel Madaki, Thursday, in Maiduguri, the state capital, advised Nigerians to shun all forms of election violence, saying "the bottom line is that post-election violence...