Sub-Saharan Africa will not reach the poverty goals until the year 2147 - 129 years from now, and 117 years after the Sustainable Development Goals ought to have been achieved. 117 – 129 years of tardiness is monumental failure....
The journey to the political demise of the governor of Lagos state Akinwunmi Ambode has been titivating and salacious, bitter and sweet.
The former because, if it’s a plot or storyline in a Nollywood movie, it would be a blockbuster....
Nigeria’s main opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) lost power to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2015, after ruling the nation for 16 years. As the 2019 presidential election race gains speed, the PDP has...
BEVERLY HILLS, October 07, (THEWILL) - Acceptance speech by President Muhammadu Buhari at APC Special Convention in Abuja.
6th October, 2018
PROTOCOLS:
I wish to express my sincere gratitude to the Chairman and members of the Convention Committee for planning and conducting...
Nigeria’s main opposition party, which this weekend selects its candidate to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari in an election in February, is aiming to make his northwestern power base a main battleground in the contest.
To do so, however, it needs...
The Police have summoned Senate President Dr Bukola Saraki, Senators Dino Melaye and Ben Bruce who were among those involved in a protest on Friday.
The senators and other leaders and members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), took to...
Looking for just anybody to bet his house that this is the end of Yekini Amoda Ogunlere (alias Tinubu) in Lagos after Ambode succumbed, only some people would offer their houses. Most people would rather “siddon look” and others...
Democracy is anchored in strong balancing systems such as independent electoral platform, free and fair judiciary, independent civil services, equal and co-partners in legislature, Presidency, and judiciary among others. If the structure is sound and strong, democracy can withstand...
It is of course globally accepted that the legislature is an essential arm of the presidential system of government. In fact, to many scholars, of all the arms of government in a democracy, the legislature is considered the most...
It is difficult suppressing a yawn of boredom when tracking recent media reportage on the so-called crises in the governing All Progressives Congress, APC. Add to this scenario, the opposition's lip-smacking spins of imminent implosion of the party -...