Aina Ojonugwa, THEWILL

SAN FRANCISCO, May 06, (THEWILL) - The Senate has set up an Adhoc Committee to probe the alleged financial recklessness by the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The committee of the Senate chaired by...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 05, (THEWILL) -Nigeria is considering further adjusting the crude oil benchmark for the 2020 budget to $20 per barrel barely two weeks after trimming it to $30pb from $57. Finance Minister, Zainab Ahmed made the disclosure Tuesday...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 05, (THEWILL) - The controversial Control of Infectious Diseases Bill, 2020 being debated on the floor of the House of Representatives will be put to public hearing, the Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila, has said. He stated this during...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 05, (THEWILL) - The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has urged Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to “come out clean” on the alleged N5.8 billion National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) scandal in which he was allegedly fingered by...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 05, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has advised medical facilities in the country to stop rejecting patients, especially emergency cases. Osagie Ehanire, Minister of Health, said this on Monday in Abuja, at the Presidential Taskforce (PTF) briefing...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 05, (THEWILL) - The Sokoto State Government has announced the death of the second civilian governor of the state, Dr Garba Nadama. According to a statement by the state, Nadama died at the age of 82 years...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 04, (THEWILL) - Former senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye, has filed a lawsuit at a Federal High Court in Abuja against the infectious diseases bill titled ‘Control of Infectious Diseases Bill 2020’, Defendants in the suit...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 04, (THEWILL) - Rabiu Musa, the chief press secretary to former President Umaru Yar’adua, is dead. Musa, aged 60, was the press secretary to Yar’adua when he was the governor of Katsina State. Before his death he was...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 04, (THEWILL) - Evacuation of Nigerians stranded in the U.S. due to the novel coronavirus pandemic is to begin on May 10, according to the Consulate-General of Nigeria in New York. The consulate-general disclosed this in a...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 04, (THEWILL) - The National Poverty rate of Nigeria currently stands at 40.09 per cent, representing 82.9 million persons, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. According to the 2019 Poverty and Inequality in Nigeria report...