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Is Cost Of Running Nigerian Democracy Too Expensive?

In or out of office, Nigerian politicians seem to always be in clover, getting the best of both worlds. From the president and his vice down to governors and their deputies, federal and state legislators, ministers, commissioners and even...

FEATURES: NYSC @ 50: To Go or Not To Go

WAEC. JAMB. NYSC. Those three institutions have pretty much shaped the educational lives of generations of Nigerians for decades. With five credits at a go or combos from two sittings, WAEC eased your way through JAMB to university as...

Grim News From Asia: Indomie Special Chicken Flavour Conundrum

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May 14, (THEWILL) - The grim news from Asia last week left many consumers all around the world sputtering on their favourite noodles. Lab tests conducted on a particular brand of the snappy meal (special chicken flavour) revealed presence...

Bandits Are Back And Bolder

For an appreciable period during the currency swap from February to April, there was a drastic reduction in crime across the country. Pickpockets went on recess. Burglars didn’t dare break into houses because there was nothing to steal. Bandits...

A Season Of Executive Begging

In mid-April during a Ramadan Tafseer in a Kano mosque, Governor Umar Ganduje of the state begged for forgiveness from those he might have offended in the course of carrying out his duties as the state’s number one citizen...

Tony Onyemaechi Elumelu: Homegrown Business Titan

It used to be that business moguls of a certain generation in Nigeria followed the classical route in their rise to top managerial positions. A sound education from a prestigious school - London School of Economics, say, or Harvard...

From Reverend Father To Chief Priest

April 16, (THEWILL) - It takes a certain amount of courage to quit one supposedly respectable profession for another seen as less dignified. In the eyes of many, a priest in a Catholic Church has more social standing and...

Still On 2023 General Election, INEC, Media And Nigeria’s Growing Democracy

The General Election has come and gone, with mixed feelings as expected. Those who won are happy while those who lost are expectedly unhappy. I followed the event closely from the party primaries to the final declaration of winners...

Saratu Umar: Fired Twice From Same Job By Two Presidents

In July 2014, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed a career-oriented woman and investment promotion expert Hajiya Saratu Altine Umar as the new Executive Secretary/ Chief Executive Officer of Nigeria Investment Promotion Commission. It was to last for five years. It...

EMOWAA Pavilion For Arts in City of Arts

Paris has the Louvre, New York MOMA. The London Museum is smack in the centre of England. There are as many museums in Florence and Venice as there are gondolas plying its waterways. Art aficionados and tourists flock to...