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SAN FRANCISCO, December 09, (THEWILL) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Monday, secured the conviction and sentencing of two top officials of Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank), Anayo Nwosu and Olajide Oshodi as well as Ashok Israni,...

The Fowl on a journey inside the basket does not know where it will end. There is this African riddle and I think it is most appropriate today and for the few words I have. The riddle asks, if you...

Some months ago, the BIC Ijiomah Centre for Policy and Research at the University of Nigeria Nsukka called for abstracts and presentations at an international conference on witchcraft. One expected the event to happen like other academic exercises. That...

Upon assumption of office in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari left no one in doubt about his determination to 'kill corruption' in Nigeria. Fight against corruption was one of his major campaign promises both in the 2015 and 2019 Presidential Elections. At...

Just recently, we introduced the Blue Box initiative – a waste collection programme designed to help residents sort recyclable waste from the source, that is, at the point where an item or material is considered waste. This eliminates the...

It has been reported that not less than N1.3 trillion was spent by the Federal Government on the importation of rice, fish, sugar and wheat in the last 12 months, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) made this assertion only...

Exactly two years ago, precisely on December 11, 2017, Prince Uche Secondus entered Wadata Plaza, the National Secretariat of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, as the 13th National Chairman of the main opposition party with the following words on...

The narrative is common knowledge that ten years ago, in July 2009 precisely, Nigeria's security forces swooped in on what was then a relatively little-known Islamic group in the north east of the country. At the time, that group's...

A catholic mission school, Bishop Nwedo Memorial Boys' High School, in Umuahia, Abia State, Eastern Nigeria, has expelled over 20 students for practicing homosexuality. The school management dismissed these students on the day that they were to commence their...

It was an all-female top three affair, as 14 year-old Jolaosho Oluwatoroti Otokini of Louisville Girls High School, Ogun State, emerged the overall winner of the 2019 edition of the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition, winning the grand prize...