Opinion

OPINION: Farewell To Democracy In Nigeria

August 27, (THEWILL) - While Nigeria is championing the concerted efforts at restoring democracy in the Niger Republic, democracy is dying off in Nigeria. Ironically, it is not the military, being the conventional enemy of democracy, that is culpable,...

OPINION: Mr President Fight The Nigerian Wars First

August 25, (THEWILL) - It is in the nature or character of embattled American presidents to fight foreign wars whenever they are beset by issues of legitimacy or internal troubles. To wage a war against a perceived enemy of...

OPINION: Why Ilorin Is Yoruba

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August 25, (THEWILL) - Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, has an identity crisis. Although its language and dominant culture is Yoruba, the people insist that they are not Yoruba, but ‘Ilorin,’ an amorphous identity that does not draw...

OPINION: Niger Delta, PANDEF And The Tinubu Presidency

August 25, (THEWILL) - I am quite relieved that the Tinubu administration has abandoned its initial plan to scrap the Niger Delta Ministry and transfer the NDDC to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the...

OPINION: Civil Service Commission And Illegal Recruitment Into The Civil Service

August 23, (THEWILL) - A core mandate of the Civil Service Commission as an agency of the Government is the recruitment and deployment of officers with requisite qualifications into the civil service. A major plank on which the Commission seeks...

OPINION: Back To The Social Welfarist Called “Baba Kekere”, Alhaji Lateef Jakande

August 23, (THEWILL) - Few Nigerian statesmen have, in the country’s history, received the amount of adulation and accolades ace journalist, Alhaji Lateef Jakande, who governed Lagos State, the country's economic nerve centre from 1979 to 1983, received. Often...

OPINION: As Nigeria’s Youngest Governor, Alfred Diette-Spiff Becomes An Old Man

August 23, (THEWILL) - The date, May 27th, 1967, will always remain a landmark in the annals of Nigeria’s history for a number of reasons. First, on that date, the country’s third Head of State and second military ruler,...

OPINION: Tinubunomics: Electricity Act 2023 As Nigeria’s Industrialisation Game-Changer

August 22, (THEWILL) - On the 4th of August, President Tinubu kicked off the Gwagwalada Independent Power Plant, GIPP, to be fired by gas and which will provide about 11% of Nigeria's energy needs. The 1,350 megawatts plant, which is...

OPINION: War In The Sahel: In Whose Interest?

Augus 20, (THEWILL) - The world has returned to the climax of a Cold War and Ukraine and the Sahel region seem to be the operational theatres of the absurd. Although it is a complex and sloppy terrain, only...

OPINION: Ministerial Portfolios: Restructuring The Federal Executive Council

August 18, (THEWILL) - One of my favourite books, Frans Johansson's 'The Medici Effect’, published by Harvard Business School Press, makes a strong case for stepping into the intersections of fields and disciplines to create extraordinary new ideas. After seeing...