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Presidency Releases Fact Sheet On African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Lists Benefits

SAN FRANCISCO, March 14, (THEWILL) - The media office of the presidency has released a “Fact Sheet” detailing the benefit of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) to Nigeria. A statement Wednesday said: “the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved that the...

OPINION: HOW JOBS, STRONGER ECONOMY CAN UNITE NIGERIANS, STEM SECTARIAN STRIFE

Over the last few months, our nation has had to reopen a fresh chapter in the conversation on internal security, peace and unity in the wake of renewed violence in the North Central and North East of our country....

OPINION: GBOMOGBOMO AS METAPHOR

The Yoruba have a way of describing social deviance and allied deviant behaviours. While growing up in the ancient town of Owo in Ondo state in the late 60s, one or two cases of missing children upped the ante...

THEWILL Editorial: State Police For Nigeria!

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, (THEWILL) - The clamour for the creation of state police in Nigeria has been increasing in recent times. This is not unexpected, given the divergent security challenges that the country has been facing. While previous agitations had been...

Rapper Craig Mack Dead At 46

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13, (THEWILL) - Rapper Craig Mack has died at the age of 46 from heart failure in a hospital near his home in South Carolina on Monday, according to media reports. The hip-hop star and P. Diddy’s protégé released...

Find Lasting Solution To ‘Senseless Killings,’ Obasanjo Tells FG

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Saturday asked the Federal Government to find a lasting solution to the continued attacks by suspected herdsmen in the nation. Describing the incessant killings as ‘senseless,’ the former President said the Federal Government must take...

OPINION: OUR COLO-MENTALITY TOO MUCH WITH NO AFRICAN STANDARD

Africans are advancing no doubt but still at a point in 2018 where we value standards such as “civilized world, saner climes”; preference for foreign workers with less qualifications, foreign miseducation repackaged to us to avoid the label of...

OPINION: THIRD FORCE BLUES

"All this talk about a 3rd force to upend PDP and APC in 2019 is a ruse! It is never going to happen" "People like you are why Nigeria may never achieve its potential. Laidback lots! You are comfortable with creating...

OPINION: HERDSMEN KILLINGS: FAULTING BUHARI’S MANAGEMENT OF SECURITY CHALLENGES

There is something wrong with the way that President Muhammadu Buhari is tackling the security challenges in the country. Something is fundamentally amiss in his security policy and modus operandi. That very thing needs to be expressly pointed out...

OPINION: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS THE CONSTITUTIONAL POWERS TO REORDER SEQUENCE OF ELECTIONS

INTRODUCTION The very renowned and revered Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is reported to have opined at a public lecture delivered recently in Abuja that the National Assembly lacks the constitutional powers to...