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The lovefest between Africa and China is heating up —trade volume is expected to hit $200 billion this year, and the “West” —Africa’s traditional trade partner, is out in the cold, helplessly engrossed in economic turbulence.  A huge chunk...

General Olusegun Obasanjo in his first stint saw the need to tighten the spending of government. To tackle this, he came up with austerity measures. And in a bid to further protect the economy, his junta made the importation...

Reliance on commodities has to stop, says report Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), often talks about Toblerone, the famous chocolate bar manufactured in Switzerland by Kraft Foods, an $18 billion company....

As a State of hundreds of nationalities with so many fault lines and huge diversification challenges, we have not fared badly in our 100 years of common existence. Our ability to weather the storm and remain a united entity...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, October 06, (THEWILL) –  Two persons - Ahmadu Alabeji, a nurse and Abba Sastawa, a prison guard - were killed early Sunday morning in their homes at the Gadamayo ward near the General Hospital in Gwoza,...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 06, (THEWILL) –  Women of Kokori in Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State trooped out in their hundreds almost naked on Sunday to protest what they described as the army take-over of their town...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, October 06, (THEWILL) –  The Kawu Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan as originally scheduled on Monday to formally seek a postponement of the peace parley aimed a finding a...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 06, (THEWILL) –  The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) Sunday suspended the operations of Dana Air. The suspension was announced on Sunday night (local time) in a two-paragraph text message sent to THEWILL on behalf of the...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 06, (THEWILL) – More chieftains of the Borno State chapter of the Peoples  Democratic Party (PDP) have defected to the ruling All Progressives  Congress (APC) in the state. In the recent defection,which held weekend, the remaining 16...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 06, (THEWILL) –  The Kawu Baraje-led Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Sunday  asked the national chairman of PDP, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, to immediately resign his position, saying he is not a registered and card-carrying member of...