Opinion

September 10, (THEWILL) — In Nigeria, when life begins to fall apart, when businesses fail, marriages collapse, or promotions evaporate at the brink of confirmation, there’s always a ready culprit: ‘village people’. They are the unseen hands from ancestral...

September 10, (THEWILL) — If a vox pop is carried out on the streets of Kaduna on the most hated politician today, chances are that Nasir el-Rufai, the immediate past governor, is likely to lead the pack. Those who...

September 10, (THEWILL) — On November 10, 1995, Nigeria etched one of the darkest chapters in its history when Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other Ogoni leaders, now remembered as the “Ogoni Nine”, were executed after a sham trial. Their...

September 10, (THEWILL) — Nigeria has become a land where the gap between power and citizens is measured not only in poverty and privilege, but in blood. Nothing illustrates this more blatantly than the tragic killing of 22-year-old Moses...

September 10, (THEWILL) — Since February 2025, local governments in Osun state have been thrown into crisis. The disturbing thing about the crisis is the fact that it was a needless one. Politicians who believed that they had the...

September 10, (THEWILL) — In a Special State Broadcast on Tuesday, Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji of Ekiti State appealed for peace and orderliness ahead of the 2026 governorship election. While condemning recent political thuggery, Oyebanji, popularly known as BAO,...

September 09, (THEWILL) — Nigeria enters the 2027 election cycle at a dangerous crossroads. Our economy has endured a punishing round of reforms, the long-debated fuel subsidy finally removed, exchange rate unification implemented, electricity tariffs rising steeply, and an...

September 08, (THEWILL) — Nigeria is a very complex country due to its ethnic and religious diversity.. However that diversity can be harnessed for national cohesion and development. So, any leader that wants to succeed in running the affairs...

September 08, (THEWILL) — The sentencing of Simon Ekpa by the Päijät-Häme District Court in Finland to six years in prison for terrorism-related offences is both a welcome development and a sobering reminder of the Nigerian government’s chronic failure...

September 03, (THEWILL) — In a Fourth Republic littered with fallen giants and broken alliances, Bola Ahmed Tinubu stands out, not just for surviving, but for building Nigeria’s most enduring political machine. In recent weeks, I stumbled on a thought-provoking...