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With just a few days to the planned general election in the country, it will be appropriate to acknowledge two remarkable developments. First and very fundamental, is the relentless efforts by the independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to ensure a...

By this time in 2015, the drums of war were sounding with much ferocity such that morbid fears were triggered in the polity. Nigerians of Igbo extraction, in the northern part of the country, were particularly gripped.  Their peripatetic...

It is a good development that the former ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has come back to reckoning. This is a party that was founded to promote the unity of Nigeria under a pan-Nigeria platform. The party...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 12, (THEWILL) - The Resident Electoral Commissioner, in Anambra State, Dr Nkwachukwu Orji, has expressed doubts over elections taking place in the state on Saturday as fire gutted containers with card readers at the Secretariat of the...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) - Former secretary of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Chief Taiwo Ogunjobi is dead. Born on August 17, 1953, the football administrator passed on died at the age of 65 after failing to recover from an...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 11, (THEWILL) - The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Diego Garcia-Sayán, is warning that the suspension and replacement of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu...

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, was booed and stoned at President Muhammadu Buhari’s campaign rally in Abeokuta, Ogun State on Monday. Trouble started when the APC National Chairman mentioned the name of the party’s...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 10, (THEWILL) - The Islamic Movement in Nigeria, popularly known as Shiite Group, has alerted the Nigerian public of movements of unknown gunmen in Zaria, Kaduna State. Shiite spokesman Ibrahim Musa, who made the disclosure in a statement,...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 10, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking reelection, Sunday released an article saying corruption threatens Nigeria and the general election which starts this Saturday. “On February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years...

On February 16th, Nigeria will hold a general election. Four years ago, the country experienced its first democratic transfer of power to the opposition since 1999. The vote in a few days will be no less significant. As president, I...