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Experts wary over corporate takeover of education in sub-Saharan Africa Corporations and their partner foundations, supported by international organizations, financiers and bankers, as well as individual investors are transforming education across Africa—from a government responsibility and social right to a...

Grassroots initiatives promote changes in livelihoods The people of the Sahel are forging networks and collaborations that will help them contend with the challenges of insecurity and climate change that are besetting Africa’s most vulnerable regions. The Sahel is a vast...

Billionaires Bill Gates, Aliko Dangote come together to fund health care projects In the 2017 World Happiness Report by Gallup, African countries score poorly. Of the 150 countries on the list, the Central African Republic, Tanzania and Burundi rank as...

Facebook says it will give $1 million to the Red Cross in Mexico to help rebuild areas that were decimated by a powerful earthquake this week. The tech giant said in addition to its gift to Cruz Roja Mexicana, a...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, (THEWILL) - A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, has declared the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) a terrorist organization. IPOB is a group that is pushing for the secession of the south east from...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, (THEWILL) - Former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has charged President Muhammadu Buhari to show the world a good example of his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, UNGA, through the way he treats minority...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 20, (THEWILL) - Justice Nnamdi Dimgba-led Federal High Court in Abuja, has thrown out a charge involving former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the trial of her associate – Jide Omokore. The Economic and Financial Crimes...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 19, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions has directed six commercial banks to free accounts operated by former first lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. NAN reports that the committee chaired by Uzoma Nkem-Abonta (Abia-PDP) gave...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 19, (THEWILL) - Nigeria's minister of petroleum resources and the head of Libya's state oil company are likely to attend a joint meeting between OPEC and non-OPEC nations on Friday, two OPEC sources said, to discuss the...

Nina Forgwe, who lives in Bamenda, in the northwest of Cameroon, missed the deadline to submit her doctoral application in March—one of many victims of an Internet shutdown in her town and in the other English-speaking parts of the...