SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, (THEWILL) – The House of Representatives Wednesday kicked against the proposed Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union (EU) and West African countries. It consequently directed its Committees on Treaties and African, Caribbean and Pacific...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 22, (THEWILL) – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, Wednesday, ordered the Public Account Committee (PAC) mandated to investigate the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, over allegations of spending over N10...
Add this to Reuben Abati’s file: The man cries. There are some things Abati can’t fix – lies and betrayal. By now, Abati must have settled the fact within himself that lies have a short life, but truth lives...
An immediate observable unintended consequence of the just concluded World Economic Forum for Africa (WEFA) was the unprecedented scale of interest of the global media to Nigeria’s hitherto local affairs.
A major area of focus of the international media was...
The hypocrisy of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is on full display and the world should join me in a collective act of SMH (Shaking My Head). The selective amnesia of the ruling party is pathetic, shameful and highly...
African leaders take action that may transform the mining
The Hollywood blockbuster movie, Blood Diamond, tells a gripping story of how diamonds fuelled Sierra Leone’s 11-year civil war which erupted in 1991. It depicts kidnappings, use of child soldiers, amputations,...
When the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby was asked by a BBC journalist on what he saw about Nigeria at 100, he quickly identified the three major things he saw as challenges which he described as ‘Tripod challenges’. These...
Though the Oba of Lagos, Oba Rilwan Akiolu, has spoken, the race has not ended. It has just begun. I have followed the reactions of many Lagosians to Oba Akiolu’s open endorsement of the Former Accountant General of Lagos...
IF you ever thought that one smart, educated person cannot change the world, then you need to consider the life of former South Africa President - the late Nelson Mandela - a man who has suffered the slings of...
We have been following developments since the abduction almost a month ago of over 200 students from the Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State.
In the first instance, it appears because the kidnap incidence happened on the night of...