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A Tribute to John!

THEWILL. — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:56:40 +0000

November 24, (THEWILL) – I have always been driven by curiosity, much before I knew I wanted to become an engineer. Growing through adolescence and teenage years, this engineering curiosity led to disassembling many appliances in our home and while I was always very excited to be able to use a screwdriver and decipher the […]

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A Celebration Of Visionary Leadership: A Tribute To Dr Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe On His 57th Birthday

THEWILL. — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 11:40:42 +0000

August 15, (THEWILL) – Celebrations are all about making memories What better way to celebrate a Visionary Leader Than to capture memories in words and make them evergreen. Years ago, I witnessed a moment that changed me, And engraved a valuable lesson in my heart. It was on a trip with the celebrant: We came […]

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Soyinka @ 89: A Life of Writing And Activism

Michael Jimoh, THEWILL — Sun, 16 Jul 2023 16:40:59 +0000

It is not his fault that he is the longest living Nobel laureate in Literature in the world today. The first African bestowed with the most prestigious prize in Literature in 1986, some of his fellow recipients in the continent have since passed on. Harassed endlessly and even stabbed once by Islamic fundamentalists on the […]

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Iron Lady of UNIBEN Alele-Williams

Michael Jimoh, THEWILL — Sun, 03 Apr 2022 10:11:07 +0000

April 03, (THEWILL) – That was the soubriquet by which she was known for much of her time as vice chancellor of University of Benin for seven years from 1985. It was borrowed not by her but by those who saw similarities between her uncompromising leadership style and another tough-fighting, fiercely independent-minded former PM of […]

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Bolaji Akinyemi @80: They Don’t Come This Good Any More

THEWILL_ — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 10:06:47 +0000

Even at 80, Prof Bolaji Akinwande Akinyemi still sparkles. He does so in many ways, especially with the programme that he hosts and broadcasts on YouTube every Thursday, which is aptly titled, ‘ThruMYeyes with Professor Bolaji Akinyemi.’ For the information of those who are yet to become devotees/enthusiasts of the programme, it is an interactive forum […]

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Obadaiah Mailafia: Exit of A Public Servant

Sam Diala, THEWILL — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:08:53 +0000

September 25, (THEWILL) – “When people behave that way, they must know it is just a matter of time. The system cannot hold. The system definitely cannot hold. Five years looks extremely long. No system can survive the kind of pressures that our system is currently undergoing. Something, sooner or later, will have to happen. People […]

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For Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, From NADECO

THEWILL_ — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:48:28 +0000

“A thousand ages in thy sight, are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream Bears all its sons away” – Isaac Watts, 1674 -1748, English Poet and Hymn Writer ……Psalm 90 “Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, […]

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Sir Victor Uwaifo: An Eclectic Man and His Guitar

Michael Jimoh, THEWILL — Sun, 05 Sep 2021 06:06:11 +0000

September 05, (THEWILL) – He could do tricks with his guitar like the legendary Jimi Hendrix except that he never burnt one on stage like the rock star used to. With his signature sideburns connecting a huge Afro, his fancy footwork mirrored that of another legend: James Brown. In his native Bini or English, he […]

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Celebrating Boss Mustapha @ 65

THEWILL. — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 06:53:51 +0000

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to our eyes” — Brooke Foss Westcott In this piece, I will be writing about a man whose sense of patriotism and belief in the unity and progress of Nigeria is unequalled. This is a man who believes in excellence and has demonstrated that […]

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IBB @ 80: A Charmed Life

Michael Jimoh, THEWILL — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 02:03:43 +0000

August 22, (THEWILL) – Military dictators in Africa seldom live up to eighty. If they are lucky enough to survive coup attempts, chances are they invariably end up in exile, far away from countries they once had secure in their pockets like their private property. Idi Amin Dada fled his country Uganda to Saudi Arabia […]

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