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BEVERLY HILLS, October 07, (THEWILL) – Foremost Ijaw leader and a former federal commissioner, Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clark, says he has quit the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and partisan politics but would remain an elder statesman and father of...

Fifa president Sepp Blatter is facing a 90-day provisional suspension. Members of Fifa's ethics committee have recommended the sanction after the Swiss attorney general opened criminal proceedings against the 79-year-old. He is accused of signing a contract "unfavourable" to football's governing...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 07, (THEWILL) – The Taraba Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday adjourned indefinitely to prepare its judgment in a petition on the April 11 poll in the state. The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 07, (THEWILL) – The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that Nigeria averages about N1.5 billion worth of transactions on the Point Of Sales (POS) terminal daily. Mr. Dipo Fatokun, the Director, Banking and Payment System...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 07, (THEWILL) – Ex-militant leader, General Africa, said Wednesday, that reports about a quarrel between him and the State Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the party’s governorship candidate, Chief Timipre Sylva, are fabricated. Africa accused...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 07, (THEWILL) – As the countdown to the Nov. 21 governorship election in Kogi State begins in earnest, the state governor and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the election, Capt. Idris Wada,...

Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) called on Wednesday for an independent international fact-finding commission to be established to investigate the U.S. bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which it deems a war crime. The medical charity said that the commission,...

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Wednesday banned any further negotiations between Iran and the United States, less than three months after Iran signed a nuclear deal with the West as a result of years of U.S.-led talks. Khamenei has...

Russian air strikes have destroyed the main weapons depots of a U.S.-trained rebel group in Syria, their commander said on Wednesday, in an expansion of Russian attacks on insurgents backed by foreign enemies of President Bashar al-Assad. The Liwa Suqour...

Pakistan's highest court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence for the killer of the governor of the country's wealthiest and most populous province after he had called for reform of the blasphemy law. Killings over blasphemy in Pakistan highlight a...