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Jacob Zuma: Former South African President Faces Corruption Trial

South Africa's former President Jacob Zuma is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption relating to a multi-billion-dollar arms deal. The case centres on a 30bn rand ($2.5bn; £1.7bn) deal to modernise the country's defence in the late 1990s. The...

We Want These Killings To Stop, Adeboye Says In Benue

The General Overseer of Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye has called for an end to the killing in Benue State and other parts of the country by suspected herdsmen. Pastor Adeboye made this call on Friday...

OPINION: BUHARI AND TINUBU AS METAPHORIC “SCIENCE STUDENTS”

Kosewe, kosegbo, kosewe, kosegbo Won tip’omi gutter po- ojuti dirty Won tipo chemical po- awon omo Science Students (Olamide, Science student) Popular culture remains central to the production of knowledge and communication of societal ills in Nigeria. While Nigerian hip-hop artistes smile to...

OPINION: ATHEIST EXPERIENCES IN RELIGIOUS AFRICA

The overwhelming impression is that Africans are deeply religious and theistic. Indeed, surveys have revealed high levels of religiosity and theistic belief in the region. Unfortunately, there has been limited focus on atheism in Africa especially the experiences of...

OPINION: ‘CONTRIBUTING TO AFRICA’S KNOWLEDGE BASE SINCE 2003’

Today my column takes a deserved break from writing about politics. Given the nature of politics – contest over power, resources and privileges – especially in an almost anarchic environment like ours -   the topics one writes about could quite...

OPINION: TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL’S CPI: MR PRESIDENT, YOU DINE WITH CORRUPTION – AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUHARI

Your Excellency, Naturally, conventional wisdom and etiquette will require that I start by expressing my happiness for the safe return of your son Yusuf from his medical sojourn. However, I am constrained to hold my horses in that regard for...

OPINION: FG-NASU FACE-OFF; TIME FOR TRUCE

Communication, in the words of Grunig and Hunt (1984), is the biggest tool mankind has as a potential way of overcoming difficulties. But in most cases, we have it abandoned and embrace traveling the circumference of chaos before coming...

OPINION: PRESIDENTIAL STATE VISITS AND ALL THE BOJU BOJU

'Boju boju, akara nbo, she kin shi' meaning the masquerade is coming with a (Bean ball) delicacy, do I open it. "...A stifled, caged and gagged populace can only be marginally propensible to positive political interaction. In a similar vein,...

OPINION: INSECURITY AND THE CLAMOUR FOR STATE POLICE: BEYOND SLOGANEERING AND GRANDSTANDING

Whenever the question of restructuring and devolution of powers have been raised by the contending factions and fractions of Nigeria’s prodigal ruling class, one of the issues that have always been brought to the fore is that of State...

THEWILL Editorial: Why The Senate Must Stop The Bill On Hate Speech

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, (THEWILL) - The Bill at the Senate, seeking to introduce death penalty for any one found guilty of hate speech that leads to death, has come as a thought-provoking legislation with far-reaching implications. Senator Aliyu Sabi-Abdullai had sponsored...