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SAN FRANCISCO, September 25, (THEWILL) – In what has been described as the Sallah Day routing of Boko Haram insurgents from Banki, a Nigeria- Cameroon border town hitherto occupied by the gunmen on Thursday, the military said on Friday...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 25, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari said on Friday that he was deeply saddened by the colossal calamity which occurred Thursday in the Saudi Arabia, claiming the lives of hundreds of pilgrims, including some Nigerians. President Buhari,...

President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in the United States to attend the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York. The President left with a 22-man delegation for the ten-hour-journey just after celebrating Eid-el Kabir in his home town in...

The United Nations said on Friday it could see no easing of the flow of refugees into Europe, with 8,000 arrivals daily, and that problems now facing governments may turn out to be only "the tip of the iceberg". Hungary,...

The Kremlin said on Friday that Washington presented a distorted version of events by saying that President Vladimir Putin had sought to meet U.S. President Barack Obama and said it was the U.S. administration that had proposed the talks. Obama...

At least eight people were killed in an attack on an army camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo late on Thursday that local sources blamed on Rwandan Hutu rebels targeted by a Congolese army operation. Gunmen raided the camp...

Islamist Boko Haram militants operating out of Nigeria raided a village across the border in southern Niger and massacred at least 15 civilians, Niger security sources said on Friday. The overnight attack took place in the village of N'Gourtoua in...

Volkswagen rigged emission tests on about 2.8 million diesel vehicles in Germany, the country's transport minister said on Friday, nearly six times as many as it has admitted to falsifying in the United States. His comments, pointing to cheating on...

The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus hit stores around the world on Friday, at the start of what is expected to be a record weekend for sales of Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) marquee product. Eager buyers - joined by at least...

Smartphone maker BlackBerry Ltd reported weaker-than-expected quarterly results on Friday but forecast higher revenue and said it might replace its operating system with Google Inc's Android platform. The Waterloo, Ontario-based company, which is pursuing a turnaround plan based on selling...