Nigerians for Enduring Democracy

October 11, (THEWILL) - Nigeria has called for deeper collaboration with the United States in the area of capacity building for legislators and to further deepen democracy in the country. Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, made the call while addressing a...

September 17, (THEWILL) - The main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), recently celebrated its 25th year of existence and declared that the 16 years the party was in power were the golden years for Nigeria and Nigerians. Looking back...

August 29, (THEWILL) - Let me start this essay in this manner…and please, be patient with me, I make good my word that it would be worth reading. A young and pretty lady posted this on a popular forum: Title: What...

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,...

August 26, (THEWILL) - President Bola Tinubu has advised US Presidential Envoy and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Ambassador Molly Phee, to ensure that US policy is intentionally collaborative with independent African democracies at a time when...

August 20, (THEWILL) - A frontline democracy campaign organisation, Coalition for the Protection of Democracy (COPDEM), has condemned the arrest of Chigozie Ifeanyichukwu by security operatives. Ifeanyichukwu is the Convener of "UpNorth Ambassadors for Peter Obi'. In a statement signed...

Nigeria's democratic governance is principally built on the foundation of the rule of law, where adherence to court orders is essential for a functional democratic society. However, the country has witnessed an alarming streak of lawlessness, as successive governments...

July 13,(THEWILL) - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has poured encomiums on Nobel Laureate and elder statesman, Prof. Wole Soyinka, on his 89th birthday. THEWILL reports that Prof. Woke Soyinka, on Thursday, July 13, turned 89. In his tribute to the Octogenarian,...

June 19, (THEWILL) - Birthdays come with their own adequate burdens of celebrations, which the celebrants may not get out of, even after the celebrations may have ended. After the dance in the marketplace, in the forest, and, finally,...

June 12, (THEWILL) - A few years ago, I saw a post on the popular social networking site, Twitter, asking Nigerians what the “Nigerian Dream” means to them. Curious, I checked the comments to see what Nigerians consider the...