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12th African Games: Nigeria Gets Its First Gold Medal

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, (THEWILL) - Team Nigeria’s taekwondo athletes on Wednesday in Rabat helped the contingent to be placed on the 12th African Games’ medals table with one gold and two bronze medals. Chinazum Nwosu won the gold medal in...

Buhari Has Reduced Ministers To Kyari’s Clerical Aides — PDP

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, (THEWILL) - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has insisted that Buhari has reduced ministers to his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari’s clerical aides with the directive that they (ministers) forthwith should channel all their meeting...

Man Who Swallowed 68 Cocaine Packets Arrested In Thailand

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, (THEWILL) - A Kenyan man was stopped at Bangkok’s airport for allegedly trying to smuggle more than 60 packets of cocaine in his stomach, Thai authorities announced on Wednesday. Authorities said Glenn Chibasellow Ooko, 43, had flown...

Governors Meet In Abuja, Discuss Agro-Processing Zones

SAN FRANCISCO, August 22, (THEWILL) - Nigerian governors met in the nation’s capital Abuja on Wednesday under the aegis of the Governors Forum (NGF) where they discussed plans to set up Agro-processing zones across the country, among other things. During the meeting,...

OPINION: A LEGACY OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT

Mohamed Orman Bangura: Meet 33-year-old Sierra Leone’s youth affairs minister Mohammed Orman Bangura’s life journey has been a remarkable one. The death of his father when he was a toddler devastated the family’s finances. At the time, his widowed mother...

OPINION: AN ‘AMBASSADOR’ FOR PEOPLE’S RIGHTS

Benedict Faustine Kikove: 31-year-old Tanzanian mobilizing for positive social change I was born in 1988, a time of economic hardship in my country, Tanzania, which was going through a structural adjustment programme. During this period, the World Bank and the International...

OPINION: P&ID VS. NIGERIA: A REVIEW

The report that a commercial court in the UK has ruled that Nigeria must pay a UK firm, Process and Industrial Development Limited (P & ID) a sum of $9.6 billion or have its assets in the UK to...

OPINION: KWEREMADU’S ASSAULT AND THE DYNAMICS OF REVOLUTION

The assault of Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu in Germany is unsurprising, but shocking. Unsurprising because it’s certain Nigerians would revolt against their leaders misrule someday. It is shocking because many never envisaged such could happen now,...

OPINION: YAKUBU GOWON’S SERMON

Yakubu Dan-Yumma Gowon, 84, is Nigeria's former Head of State. He served in the Nigerian Army between 1954 and 1975. Nine out of those years were dedicated to Nigeria as her ruler. Within that period, he also led war...

OPINION: TRANSFORMING NIGERIA’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY ON BUHARI’S WATCH

The managerial run of the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration will begin this week with the announcement of portfolios and swearing in of ministers-designate. As important as petroleum, together with its derivatives, is to the Nigerian economy, being...

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