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Last week, anyone anywhere in the world, who was online to get news about Nigeria, would have stumbled on the very grim revelation that was splashed across the front pages of newspapers where the current vice presidential candidate of...

There is no avoiding the phenomenon that the Peter Obi candidacy has engendered in the current political cycle. The current presidential campaign of the former Governor of Anambra State and former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Vice Presidential candidate in...

June 21, (THEWILL) - The benefit of democratic practices, such as all the accoutrements of the electioneering system like intra-party politics, party conventions, congresses and primaries, is that it brings to the fore an assortment of pros and cons...

June 12, (THEWILL) - Before the major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), held the conventions that produced their flag bearers for next year’s presidential election, I had cause to write...

June 06, (THEWILL) - In the text of its mission statement, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) unambiguously described its goal as "to serve as an independent and effective Election Management Body (EMB) committed to the conduct of free,...

May 29, (THEWILL) - There is a clear danger in Nigeria’s primary electoral process that could deprive the country of quality leaders, if not checked. Millions of people have seen videos circulating on social media or read about how...

May 22, (THEWILL) - A couple of violent outbursts in the country recently and, for the umpteenth time, threatened to rip the feeble shred of fabric keeping the nation from degenerating into an all-out war of attrition across tribal...

May 15, (THEWILL) - Between 1992 and 1993, I was a victim of two strikes, which were called by the Academic Staff Union of Universities over a pay structure dispute with the military regime of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida...

May 08, (THEWILL) – Most countries operating a form of representative government codify their fundamental political principles into a Constitution. It is through this document they operate their governments with regular amendments making it relevant and modern, for whichever...

May 01, (THEWILL) - In 2008, at the 56th quadrennial presidential election of the United States of America, the unlikeliest candidate, a young, black junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, did the improbable. He beat frontline aspirants in the...