Opinion

...the towels—innocent, hardworking towels—were being treated like contraband. January 19, (THEWILL) — AFCON has always promised drama, passion, controversy—and occasionally, comedy. But few could have predicted that one of the most talked-about scenes at the just-concluded tournament would involve not...

January 19, (THEWILL) — Recently, the world was reminded of the domineering, totalitarian and imposing status of the United States. The US, led by Donald Trump, invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro with all the trappings of Gestapo...

January 19, (THEWILL) — An average Nigerian hospital operates like a mortuary, just as an average Nigerian ambulance is essentially a casket in motion. The recent tragedy shared by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie—the avoidable loss of her 21-month-old son—has once...

January 16, (THEWILL) — As a country, Nigeria shall be 66 years old come October this year. On January 15, 1966, six years after political independence, the military, led by Major Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogu, seized power from the democratically...

January 14, (THEWILL) — I recently came across a video showing dozens of young women seated on the bare floor of a gimcrack building. They were being interrogated by an unidentified individual who named the location as the "MorningStar...

January 14, (THEWILL) — The recent release of seventy (70) confirmed bandits and jihadist terrorists by the Katsina State Government, under the euphemistic cloak of a so-called “peace accord,” ought to send cold shivers down the spine of every...

January 13, (THEWILL) — The recent America invasion of Venezuela and arrest of the president Nicholas Maduro is totally unacceptable. The action undermines the sovereignty of that country, her territorial integrity, democracy and democratic norms espoused even by...

January 13, (THEWILL) — The phrase “Dabush Kabash”—popularised by the maverick Nigerian preacher, Chukwuemeka Cyril Ohanaemere (Odumeje)—was never meant to be a political theory. It was theatre, prophecy-as-performance, the language of shock and spectacle. Yet, as Nigeria inches...

January 12, (THEWILL) — A striking feature of Nigeria’s current economic debate is the enthusiasm with which huge numbers are circulated—and the casualness with which they are assembled. Tax collections are added to oil receipts; oil receipts are added...

January 12, (THEWILL) — Public debate on government finances in Nigeria is once again clouded by confusion, little knowledge and deliberate misrepresentation. At the centre of the current controversy is a misunderstanding of the distinction between total revenue generated...