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Angola's ruling MPLA party has won the country's parliamentary election, provisional results suggest. The party received 61% of votes cast during Wednesday's ballot, the Angolan electoral commission said on Friday. The opposition Unita party, which received 27%, disputes the commission's count. João...

Nigeria international forward Alhassan Ibrahim has joined Austrian club FK Austria Vienna on a season-long loan from Nigerian side FC Heart Academy. He has the option of a permanent move to the 24-time Austrian champions. The 20-year-old also played for Nigeria...

Government spending in a recession can boost a country’s economy without permanently bloating its public debt, even if the debt is already quite large, researchers told an influential group of central bankers in Jackson, Wyoming, on Saturday. “Expansionary fiscal policies...

U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM.N) on Friday announced 1.9 billion reais ($603 million) of investments in its Joinville factory in southern Brazil and 1.2 billion reais of capital spending in its plant on the outskirts of São Paulo. Together...

The euro jumped more than 1 percent and yields on benchmark U.S. government debt remained at unattractive rates on Friday after the world’s two leading central bankers declined to discuss monetary policy in keynote speeches. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen’s...

President Donald Trump’s name was rarely mentioned as top central bankers and economists spent Friday mulling the fate of the global economy at a mountain lodge here. But his presence loomed large at a Federal Reserve symposium, and even without...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 26, (THEWILL) - The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has threatened to call for the scrapping of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, if it failed to reverse the low cut off points for admission into...

The 2017 policy meeting of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)  has come and gone with complaints and distasteful reactions. Some reacted based on ignorance while some were deliberately mischievous. In the first category are persons that had the wrong...

Scepticism in Africa matters now more than ever. This will be the underlying thesis of my presentation at the next Eurosceptics Congress in Wroclaw, Poland in September 2017. Although the title of my presentation is quite specific – "Robber Goat", "Bird...

When did Nigeria got reduced to this comedy theatre where our pride and integrity as civilized people could be bastardized and traded for a few self seeking individuals' ego to be massaged? That a country where the President had been...