Northern Nigeria

Stakeholders from across Northern Nigeria converge in Kaduna, declaring that unity and collective action are critical to ending the region's prolonged security crisis. Organisers identify insurgency, banditry, kidnapping and communal violence as major threats, urging governments, security agencies...

July 26, (THEWILL) — Northern Nigeria, once regarded as the nation's agricultural powerhouse and demographic engine, is facing what may be its deepest socio-economic crisis in decades. The cause: Insecurity. Across the North-East, North-West and parts of the North-Central geo-political...

November 17, (THEWILL) - Recent events in Northern Nigeria have brought into sharp focus the critical need for comprehensive social reforms. The emergence of a new militant organisation known as Lakurawas across Sokoto State marks another chapter in the...

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...

The furore being created, especially in some quarters in Northern Nigeria, over the recent relocation of the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and some departments of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) from Abuja back to Lagos, is...

January 11, (THEWILL) - With about four months to the end of his constitutionally allowed two-term tenure as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, President Muhammadu Buhari and his close associates in the presidential villa, from indications, appear...

After its presidential primary in July, pundits tipped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, to dominate the core North in next year's elections, with 14 out its 21 governors on the party's platform coming from that zone. Earlier, former Vice...

November 22, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Kolmani Development Project, to explore and refine crude oil in Northern Nigeria, which is the first of its kind in the region. The project was inaugurated on Tuesday Morning, at...