President Donald Trump kept up his criticism of Mexico on Friday, saying it "has taken advantage of the U.S. for long enough," as a crisis over border security and trade deepened.
"Massive trade deficits & little help on the very...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande underscored the need for European unity in the face of growing internal and external threats, including the rise of populism across Europe and U.S. threats to abandon free trade.
"Europe faces...
In less than a year, Amazon's combination of the Echo speaker system and the Alexa voice-controlled digital assistant has come close to delivering on the elusive promise of easy-to-use technology that can control gadgets in the home with a...
Donald Trump's first week in charge in the United States was the best for bond funds in four months, a good one for reflation enthusiasts and for emerging markets, fund flow data shows.
Figures from Bank of America Merrill Lynch...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 27, (THEWILL) - United States, U.S President, Donald Trump and Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin will on Saturday hold their first phone conversation since the American leader's inauguration, the Kremlin said.
“I can confirm that a telephone conversation is planned. It will be...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 27, (THEWILL) - Nigeria's central bank has noted that some self-serving individuals, who could not assail the “patriotic” foreign exchange policy being pursued by the bank, have resorted to the sponsorship of serial propaganda to misinform...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, (THEWILL) - The Minority Leader of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, has urged governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to emulate their Ekiti state counterpart, Governor Ayodele Fayose.
While commending Fayose for...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 26, (THEWILL) - The Police has arrested four suspects over their alleged involvement in the abduction of teachers and students of Turkish International School in Ogun state on January 13.
The arrested suspects are – Bekewei Agbojule,...
This piece was inspired by the transcript of a speech given by Princeton Nathan Lyman, former US Ambassador to Nigeria (1986–89) and South Africa (1992–95) at Chinua Achebe Colloquium at Brown University in December 2009. The speech was entitled,...
These are indeed strange times. These are times when the rule of the thumb has become the normal. And nothing we know is as it should be. For the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), you cannot be sure what...