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Last week, representatives of Nigeria’s political parties and its electoral commission met in Abuja. At the end of a marathon meeting, Attahiru Jega of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced that the country’s general elections would be postponed...

Wole Soyinka knows that, in linguistics, there is something called register. Yet, while addressing students at a recent Lagos gathering, the Nobel laureate employed an elevated language suitable for addressing an international literary convention. Why? The answer must be...

It is hard to imagine how a devious, delusionary and destructive individual like Naftali Bennett, the leader of the Jewish Home party, can rise to prominence while openly advocating a racist political agenda. His "solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...

The temptation to give up on Nigeria is common among Nigerians that have spoken and written a lot about the good that is a possible experience for Nigeria. But there is a greater passion, a nobler one, to expect...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 12, (THEWILL) – Judicial workers at state courts nationwide, who have been on strike for several weeks have been directed to resume duties tomorrow (Friday) by the workers’ union, Judicial Workers Union of Nigeria (JUSUN). “We got...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 12, (THEWILL) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said on Wednesday that it had achieved 88 percent distribution of the permanent voter's cards (PVCs) in Yobe State. Disclosing this in Damaturu, the state capital, at a...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCPCO) has described as a hoax claims by President Goodluck Jonathan's government that a high speed Abuja-Lagos rail service will commence running in three years time. The...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 12, (THEWILL) – Five persons were killed Thursday as a female bomber rocked the Biu Main Market in Borno State with explosives at about 3: 30pm, injuring 10 others. A local resident who witnessed the bomb attack,...

Marathon peace talks aimed at ending the bloody crisis in eastern Ukraine concluded Thursday in a breakthrough: A ceasefire that's due to start Sunday and an agreement for both sides to pull back heavy weapons. If the ceasefire holds --...

Former president of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has again cleared the air on his stand concerning the forthcoming presidential elections, as well as the candidate he will support. At the launch of his new book ‘My Watch’ in the United...