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Egypt Orders Retrial In Graft Case Against Mubarak-era Prime Minister

An Egyptian court ordered a second retrial on Wednesday in a long-running graft case against Ahmed Nazif, prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak, judicial sources said. A court sentenced Nazif to five years in jail for graft in July...

CBN Threatens To Sanction Banks Involved In Money Laundering

BEVERLY HILLS, December 02 (THEWILL) – The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Wednesday threatened to blacklist commercial banks used for money laundering, even as it warned that the management and directors of such banks are in for trouble. The bank’s...

Anti-Graft War: Most Nigerians Believe Buhari Is Not Doing Much – TI

BEVERLY HILLS, December 02 (THEWILL) – Despite President Muhammadu Buhari’s famed determination to wrestle corruption, a new study conducted by Transparency International, TI, and Afrobarometre claims that a great majority of Nigerians think corruption is on the rise with...

Several Insurgents Killed As Military Pushes Boko Haram Back From Gulak

BEVERLY HILLS, December 02 (THEWILL) – A counter-offensive by the military, lasting well over six hours, has led to the killing of several insurgents in Gulak, a town in Madagali Local Government Area of Adamawa State. The village head of...

Fulani Herdsmen Sack Gombe Village

BEVERLY HILLS, December 02 (THEWILL) – Rampaging Fulani herdsmen, armed with machetes, bows and arrows, Sunday afternoon, sacked Polido village in Billiri local government area of Gombe State as they killed a man and injured four others before setting...

U.S. Debt Limit Threat Defanged On Wall Street

Wall Street trembled when Republicans first began threatening to force the United States into default by not raising the federal debt limit, but after four years of fiscal standoffs, the threat looks increasingly like a bluff and the markets...

Facebook’s CEO And Wife To Give 99 Percent Of Shares To Their New Foundation

Mark Zuckerberg will put 99 percent of his Facebook Inc (FB.O) shares, currently worth about $45 billion, into a new philanthropy project focusing on human potential and equality, he and his wife said Tuesday in a letter to their...

INEC’s Decisions On Kogi Election A Height Of Mischief – Wada

SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, (THEWILL) –The Kogi State Governor, Capt. Idris Wada yesterday kicked against the decisions of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on the November 21 governorship election in the state, describing such as the height of...

Borno Govt Sets Up Committee To Ascertain Claims Of Fresh Abduction Of Girls

SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, (THEWILL) – The Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has constituted a seven-man committee to within three days ascertain the veracity of the reported fresh abduction of some girls by Boko Haram terrorists in Bam-Buratai,...

We Are Benefiting From PDP, It Must Not Die – Okorocha

SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, (THEWILL) – Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state yesterday declared that the erstwhile ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, must not be allowed to die, as Nigerians are benefiting from its activities. Okorocha, who spoke in a...

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