Opinion

August 03, (THEWILL) — Shouldn’t a pastor's comment exalt Christ rather than detract from His glory? There is hardly a better exemplification of the concept of “false equivalence” than the controversial parallel drawn by the Benin City-based Pastor Charles...

August 03, (THEWILL) — Exactly 24 years ago, I wrote a piece on the then Benue State Governor, Dr George Akume, who was warming up for his second term. Entitled "Benue 2003: It is still George", the opinion was published...

August 03, (THEWILL) — In a country where political convictions often shift with changing tides and where public office is sometimes seen as personal entitlement; consistency has become one of the missing qualities in leadership. It is, therefore, significant...

August 03, (THEWILL) — The drum has sounded next door. On June 20, 2026, Ekiti spoke. And Ekiti did not whisper. Ekiti chose APC. Ekiti chose continuity. Ekiti chose Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji with a landslide that could not be...

August 03, (THEWILL) — The Governor of Plateau State, Caleb Muftwang, recently tendered a heartfelt apology to the Igbo ethnic nationality in Plateau State for the role the state played during the civil war. Even though the war ended 56...

August 03, (THEWILL) — The latest social media outburst by controversial activist Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan (VDM), in which he claimed to be in possession of a "comprehensive investigation report from STATECID PANTI" while demanding the...

August 02, (THEWILL) — Poverty is arguably Nigeria’s biggest nemesis, closely followed by systemic corruption and insecurity. Regrettably, the country’s poverty is self-inflicted. There are countries in the world that do not have the resources in Nigeria, yet they...

August 02, (THEWILL) — To produce one living Nigerian today, biology requires a spectacular ancestral relay race. Two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and so forth, doubling backward until the arithmetic reaches 2,048 ancestors in the eleventh preceding generation....

August 01, (THEWILL) — There is something fundamentally inappropriate about Cardinal John Onaiyekan granting a television interview to offer his own account and interpretation of what transpired during the private meeting between the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria and...

July 27, (THEWILL) — Governor Alex Otti of Abia State deserves commendation for reminding Nigerians of a fundamental democratic and constitutional principle: no governor, regardless of the office he occupies within a regional forum, has the authority to commit...