Opinion

April 15, (THEWILL) - Nigeria, is a nation, with a long history of perennial challenges to public power supply. The country seems to have unfortunately accepted the anomaly as part of its national life. Since one came of age,...

April 15, (THEWILL) - "When a people have suffered for too long, they will drink fairytales on fairylands with insatiable gullibility." (Hamilton Ayuk). I will start this admonishment with a guest in whom many have found love. When we...

April 14, (THEWILL)- The recent gathering of the All Progressives Congress (APC) stakeholders in Owerri directly reminds me of my Church’s national convention in those days. During that religious programme, we exchanged a great degree of pleasantries with Pastors...

April 14, (THEWILL)- Certainly, this is not the best of times for Nigeria.  Every socio-economic index is a pointer that Nigeria is at its lowest level. Government at all levels and citizens across religious, ethnic and political divides are...

April 14, (THEWILL)- I was in a conversation with a friend a few days ago. The fellow asked angrily, “Is Nigeria cursed? Why is it that Nigeria is so rich, yet her people are so poor and suffering?” I...

I was in a conversation with a friend a few days ago. The fellow asked angrily, ‘Is Nigeria cursed? Why is it that Nigeria is so rich yet our people are so poor and suffering?’ I responded, corruption and...

April 9, (THEWILL) - Nigeria recently spent as much as N2.34 trillion in six months to service a humongous public debt that is currently in excess of N107 trillion that she is saddled with. That is why the...

April 8, (THEWILL) - When sometime in 2008, the late Yinka Odumakin invited me to his 23, Sylvia Crescent, Anthony Village office in Lagos, little did I know that a big surprise was waiting for me. A fine...

April 7, (THEWILL)- On the average, Nigeria is good, her people are a bunch of good Bananas. Only a few rotten ones give the whole bunch a bad look and a rotten smell. Nigeria, ideally is one of the...

April 7, (THEWILL)- When in 1814, Europe’s leading statesman, Count Metternich, said that Italy is “only a geographical expression,” the former Deputy of the Kingdom of Italy and the Father of Modern Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi, didn’t take it as...