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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari said on Wednesday the country will sign up soon to a $3 trillion African free-trade agreement. Nigeria is one of Africa’s two largest economies, the other being South Africa. Buhari’s government had refused to join a...

Dr. Ahmad Mahmud Gumi is an Islamic scholar, a son to Shiek Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, a fiery and outspoken father of the Izala movement in Nigeria—a movement that advocates puritanical Islamic teachings that went sour against a Sufi tradition...

Over the last week or so, there has been heightened interest amongst Nigerians about the use of the most recently repatriated $322.5 million Abacha loot.  The questions raised around the issue include the choice of using the money for...

The Senate President Bukola Saraki has been “vindicated” by the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land. It is not the first time. James Ibori also fought all the way to Supreme Court before he was also “vindicated”....

If the educated citizen does not defend the pursuit of learning, it will not be defended at all. For there will always be those who scoff at intellectuals, who cry out against research, who seek to limit our educational...

Afghanistan, a country that has been at war with the Soviets, internally and with the Americans for thirty eight years is desperately in search of peace. A three-day Eid  festival  truce between the Taliban fighters and the President Ashraf Ghani-led Afghan...

Professor Adebayo Adedeji, the towering intellectual, scholar, pan-Africanist, international civil servant and pioneer Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and Under-Secretary General of the United Nations (1975 -1991) died on April 25, 2018 at...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, (THEWILL) - The Imo State House of Assembly has started proceedings to impeach the Deputy Governor, Eze Madumere. The lawmakers are accusing the deputy governor of gross misconduct. To this effect, a 6-man panel probe committee has...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 10, (THEWILL) - The Lagos State Police Command says it has discovered a company that allegedly prints fake ballot papers for the upcoming Ekiti State Governorship election. This was disclosed in a statement signed by the Lagos State...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 10, (THEWILL) - A former deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Oluboyo, has said his daughter, Khadijat, was used for ritual. This comes as the lifeless body of Khadijat, a student at the Adekunle Ajasin University,...