David Oputah, THEWILL

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - The UN Security Council will meet on Friday in emergency session to discuss the decision by US President Donald Trump to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the council’s leadership announced Wednesday. The US President, on...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has ordered Ibe Kachikwu, the Minister of State for petroleum resources, and Maikanti Baru, Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to ensure the current...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has reaffirmed that prison reforms and decongestion will be pursued with greater vigor by his administration. Speaking on Wednesday at a ceremony in Kurmawa Central Prison Kano, during which 500 inmates were...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - 257 Nigerians have been repartriated from Libya a few hours after 144 Nigerians voluntarily returned from the North African country. The spokesperson for the Lagos Airport Police Command, Mr Joseph Alabi, said the returnees arrived...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - Moses Motoni, a project tracking officer at BudgIT Nigeria, a civic tech organisation, has been granted bail by the Police. Motoni was reportedly arrested under controversial circumstances on Tuesday by SARS operatives in Kaduna while...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has declared that President Muhammadu Buhari did not direct state governors to pay salary arrears before Christmas. It was reported that the President had on November 27, in a meeting...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - The Rochas Okorocha administration has blamed the printer's devil, for the wrong christening of the Ministry of Happiness. Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo said a typographic error led to the naming...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), has decried the arrest of Moses Motoni, Project Tracking Officer of BudgIT, Nigeria’s civic tech organisation, who was arrested by operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). Motoni...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government says it has a record of 2,778 Nigerian migrants registered in accessible detention camps in Libya, ready for repatriation. This was revealed in a statement signed by the Tiwatope Elias-Fatiile, Spokesperson, Federal...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 06, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has attributed the long queue at various filling stations across the country to panic buying. THEWILL reports that long queues have been witnessed in the country with speculations of...