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January 11, (THEWILL) — On a Saturday evening in early January, a wooden passenger boat carrying 52 people capsized on the Yobe River near Garbi town in northern Nigeria. The vessel had been ferrying farmers, traders and fishermen home...

January 04, (THEWILL) — On the morning of December 29, 2025, Anthony Joshua, a two-time unified world heavyweight boxing champion, was involved in a catastrophic road accident on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway near Makun in Ogun State. His vehicle suffered...

December 28, (THEWILL) — On Christmas Day 2025, the United States military launched cruise missile strikes against militant camps in northwest Nigeria, marking the first time a foreign power has conducted direct airstrikes on Nigerian soil. President Donald Trump...

December 21, (THEWILL) — When a Nigerian Air Force C-130 Hercules made an emergency landing in Burkina Faso on December 8, citing mechanical trouble and fuel shortage, the crew of eleven expected a routine technical stopover. Instead, they found...

December 14, (THEWILL) — In a nation where public confidence in government institutions has reached worrying lows, an unexpected source of hope has emerged from within the federal bureaucracy itself. The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, established under the Students...

December 07, (THEWILL) — When President Bola Tinubu forwarded his list of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate on November 29, one name stood out with uncomfortable prominence. Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who had stepped down as chairman of the Independent...

November 30, (THEWILL) — Democratic governance in West Africa is currently suffering a profound crisis of legitimacy. Recent events in Guinea-Bissau, where President Umaro Sissoco Embaló was accused of orchestrating a “Ceremonial Coup” to bypass electoral defeat, mark a...

November 23, (THEWILL) — On November 20, inside the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, a congressional hearing placed Nigeria under harsh international scrutiny that should serve as more than diplomatic embarrassment. The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa...

November 16, (THEWILL) — The discovery of 1,000 kilogrammes of cocaine inside a supposedly empty container at Lagos's Tincan Island Port has thrust Nigeria into the centre of a three-nation investigation that threatens to expose gaps in one of...

November 09, (THEWILL) — President Donald Trump has made it succinctly clear that he intends to intervene militarily in Nigeria to confront criminals and terrorist groups that target Christians. Trump’s threats came after reports of increased violence in the...