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The Nigeria Prisons Service has confirmed that there was a jailbreak at the maximum prison in Kuje, a few miles from the nation’s capital Abuja on Friday night, but said one of the key persons being held at the...

“THEWILL is constrained to ask what happens when a former governor on life pension emerges as Senate President or Speaker; does it mean such persons will then be entitled to two life pensions afterwards?” Amid growing calls that the immunity...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 21, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Kpotun Idris, as the Acting Inspector-General of Police pending his confirmation by the Police Council, a presidency statement said Tuesday. Idris’ appointment follows...

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Monday fulfilled all backlogged foreign exchange demands in one fell swoop as trading commenced under the new guidelines that was announced by Governor Godwin Emefiele last week Wednesday. At the Nigeria Interbank Foreign Exchange...

Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu has emerged winner of the governorship primary of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Edo State, which was conducted Monday at the lawn tennis court of the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in downtown Benin City. According to...

Update: Judge fixes July 4th as new arraignment date for Omokore, Yakubu, other defendants because did not show up in court as earlier scheduled. BEVERLY HILLS, June 20, (THEWILL) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) will today charge...

Mr. Godwin Obaseki, the preferred candidate of Governor Adams Oshiomhole has won the governorship primary of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) conducted Saturday at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium in Benin City. Obaseki, who heads Oshiomhole’s economic team, won by...

The naira continued its rally on Friday trading at N351 against a dollar at the parallel market in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial hub and nation’s capital, Abuja. The weakened naira has rallied from N375 to N351 in just two days following...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the erstwhile Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Mr. Abdullahi Dikko after several months of successfully evading arrest. Dikko, who voluntarily turned himself in at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja,...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 16, (THEWILL) - The United States Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. James Entwistle, has petitioned the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, accusing some members of the lower chamber of improper conduct, attempted rape...