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December 20 (THEWILL) - Chile has elected 35-year-old Gabriel Boric as its new president, making him the youngest person elected president in the country's history. Boric, a left-wing legislator rose to prominence during anti-government protests in the country. “I am...

December 20, (THEWILL) - The Kaduna state government has banned all social events, weddings, shows and entertainment on public school premises. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Dr Yusuf Saleh, who made this known during a chat with newsmen in...

December 20, (THEWILL) - Twelve people in Britain have died from the Omicron variant of COVID-19, Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said on Monday. Britain has reported record levels of COVID-19 cases, with officials and ministers warning that the...

December 20, (THEWILL) - Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Fortunatus Nwachukwu as the Permanent Observer of the Holy See (the Vatican) to the United Nations Office and Specialised Institutions in Geneva. Nwachukwu is a Nigerian priest of the Catholic Diocese...

December 20, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) has renewed the revised Offshore Cargo Handling and Operations Stevedoring rates contained in the second schedule of the NIMASA Stevedoring Regulations 2014. The renewal of the rates,...

December 20, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the renewed terrorist killings in Kaduna state. The president in a statement issued on Sunday night by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, said the gruesome nature...

December 19, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after attending the third Turkey-Africa Partnership Summit, hosted by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of Turkey. The president touched down at the presidential wing of Nnamdi Azikiwe International...

December 19, (THEWILL) - A pregnant woman, Eze Joy Chioma, has been arrested with 1,442 kilogrammes of imported skunk during a raid by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos. The 27-year-old was arrested on Friday, December...

December 19, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government is to designate a special day to celebrate senior citizens in the country, the Director-General of the National Senior Citizens Centre (NSCC), Dr Emem Omokaro, announced on Sunday. Omokaro, in chat with newsmen on...

Abia State, in south-eastern Nigeria, was created in 1991 from the eastern half of former Imo state, with Umuahia as the capital. Aba is its largest commercial city. The state is bordered by Enugu and Ebonyi to the north,...