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Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Investor Pressure

Uber Technologies Inc Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, co-founder of one of the most influential technology companies of its generation, resigned on Tuesday under mounting pressure from investors over his leadership. Kalanick's departure caps a tumultuous period for the world's largest...

Emirates Looking At Saudi Arabia To Make Up For Drop In U.S. Demand

Emirates, the Middle East's largest airline, is looking to the region's biggest economy, Saudi Arabia, to help make up for a drop in demand that has forced it to keep five aircraft grounded. Emirates has redeployed eight aircraft elsewhere after...

PTDF Scholarship Beneficiaries Accuse Fund’s Management Of Abandoning Them For 11 Months

BEVERLY HILLS, June 21, (THEWILL) - Postgraduate students, who were inducted for the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF scholarship last July as 2016/2017 LSS Scholars, have cried out over their abandonment by the PTDF management. Disclosing that some of them...

Evans’ Arrest Was Made Possible By Cooperation Among West African Police – IG of Police

BEVERLY HILLS, June 21, (THEWILL) - The Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, has attributed the arrest of Chukwujeme Onwamadike, the suspected kidnapper better known as Evans, to information sharing and intelligence cooperation among police services in West Africa. “Information...

Etisalat Nigeria Changes Shareholding Structure Over Bank Loan

BEVERLY HILLS, June 20, (THEWILL) - Etisalat Nigeria on Tuesday announced changes to its shareholding at the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange, a move that is said to be the first stage of its restructuring. This is as negotiations with the...

Diezani $115m: EFCC Frees Surety As Ex-FCT Minister, Akinjide Surrenders Self

BEVERLY HILLS, June 20, (THEWILL) - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday withdrew the detention order against Hon. Aliyu Ahman Pategi who stood surety for a former minister of state for the Federal Capital Territory, Ms...

OPINION: NIGERIA AND THE UNEMPLOYMENT MONSTER 

Something very unusual in Abuja happened on Monday June 19th 2017. This incident has to do with a young man in his early thirties who was so well dressed that he successfully mingled with other business executives and government officials...

OPINION: JAMB 2017: MATTERS ARISING

I attended a meeting recently at the headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in Bwari, Abuja: the post-2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination review meeting chaired by the JAMB registrar, Professor Ish-aq Oloyede. Participants included Professor Oloyede and...

OPINION: AFTER FIFTY YEARS OF OCCUPATION, WHAT’S NEXT: AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MAHMOUD ABBAS

Dear President Abbas, Last week I sent an open letter to Prime Minister Netanyahu, criticizing him in the strongest terms for pursuing policies that prolong the occupation of the West Bank rather than searching for ways to end it by...

OPINION: EVALUATING GODWIN OBASEKI’S STIRRING GOVERNANCE 

By Monday, June12, 2017, Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki would have marked seven months or approximately 213 days in office as Governor of Edo State. Still too little a time for proper evaluation of a four-year term, the moment presents an...

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