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The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has extended the timeline for Nigerian bank customers in the diaspora to enroll for their Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) till January 31, 2016. CBN’s Director, Corporate Communications, Mr. Ibrahim Mu’azu, announced the development in...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 02, (THEWILL) – The Comptroller-General of Customs, retired Col. Hameed Ali, has approved the appointment of six acting Deputy Comptrollers-General (DCGs) and eight Assistant Comptrollers-General (ACGs) in what the service described as ongoing re-organisation exercise. A Monday statement...

BEVERLY HILLS, November 02, (THEWILL) – Former President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, who just returned to Nigeria from Tanzania, after an electoral monitoring assignment to that country at the behest of the Commonwealth of Nations, met Monday afternoon with President...

BEVERLY HILLS, November 02, (THEWILL) – A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered that a 29-year-old blogger, Desmond Ike-Chima, be remanded at the Ikoyi Prisons over alleged malicious publication. Ike-Chima, arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on the...

BEVERLY HILLS, November 02, (THEWILL) – A Federal High Court in Abuja will decide on Tuesday (tomorrow) whether former National Security Adviser, Retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd), who is standing trial on allegations of money laundering and illegal possession...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 02, (THEWILL) – The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has cleared 42 candidates for the forthcoming governorship polls in Kogi and Bayelsa. The Kogi election is billed for Nov. 21, while the Bayelsa poll comes...

Activity in China's colossal factory sector shrank in October as global demand stuttered, reinforcing the case for more stimulus and questioning whether the Federal Reserve can be confident enough to raise U.S. interest rates this year. A crop of industry...

Oil prices fell on Monday as weak Chinese economic data fuelled concerns about demand slowing in one of the world's largest oil-consuming nations, while record-high production in Russia exacerbated the global supply glut. Brent crude futures LCOc1, the global benchmark,...

The first bodies from a plane crash in Egypt in which all 224 passengers, most of them Russians, died over the weekend arrived in St Petersburg early on Monday morning aboard a Russian government plane. The crashed Airbus A321 plane,...

The U.S. and South Korean defense chiefs urged North Korea on Monday to immediately cease all activities related to its nuclear program and said they will have no tolerance for any military provocation by Pyongyang. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter...