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2019 AFCON: Nigeria, Egypt, Advance To Last 16

BEVERLY HILLS, June 27, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s Super Eagles defeated Guinea to become the first team to reach the last 16 at the 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON). The Super Eagles qualified for the next stage after a Kenneth Omeruo...

Buhari Appoints Shakur As Acting DPR Director

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Ahmad Rufai Shakur as the acting Director of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). According to a statement by the agency , the appointment followed the expiration of the...

OPINION: LAWAN, PAX-NIGERIANA AND THE FESTUS ADEDAYO SYMBOLISM

The appointment of Festus Adedayo, columnist and member of Tribune Editorial Board, as a special adviser on media to the senate president, Ahmad Lawan, and the sudden withdrawal of the same, evidently against Lawan’s will, in response to the...

OPINION: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION PETITION TRIBUNAL: WHAT THE COURT DID NOT SAY

The behaviour of some educated Nigerians when it comes to national issues is outrightly incomprehensible. Must we always view critical issues within our partisan political frames rather than being broad enough to call a spade a spade and not...

OPINION: FIRESTORM OF INSECURITY AND IMPUNITY IN NIGERIA

Malcom N. Shaw, Queens Counsel, is a senior fellow at the Lautorpacht Centre for international law, university of Cambridge, United Kingdom. In the preambles to his scholarly work on international law, he had stated as follows: "law is that element...

OPINION: AHMED LAWAN, FESTUS ADEDAYO AND THE APC MOB

Senator Ahmed Lawan is the incumbent Senate President of Nigeria, having won the election into that office, 79 -28, beating his rival, Senator Ali Ndume of the same ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). Lawan was the anointed candidate of...

OPINION: PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC TRUST 

Talking about the public institution, Mahatma Gandhi in his autobiography titled; The Story of My Experiment with Truth, among other things stated that a public institution is an institution conducted with the approval, and from the funds of the...

OPINION: OIL RESUMPTION IN OGONILAND: CAN IT HAPPEN WITHOUT WARS? PART 3

What are the Ogonis Afraid Of? An adage by the Ogoni people says, “The evidence that one has been where palm oil is being processed is a chin smeared with palm oil.” The Ogonis have endured both paradox of plenty...

OPINION: OSUN AND THE QUEST FOR JUSTICE

It is nearly one year that Osun people went to the poll but they are left at the mercy of the judiciary to determine who got their mandate to lead the state for four years. From polling units, the...

OPINION: RE: BURATAI’S BRUISES ON NIGERIAN TROOPS

I recently read the piece by the dependable Festus Adedayo, who in truth is one of the best hands in the media landscape in Nigeria. I mean with a Ph.D. in Political Communication from the University of Ibadan, one...

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