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Mullah Omar, founder of the Afghan Taliban, died of natural causes in Afghanistan, his son said in a statement calling for unity and quashing rumors about his father's mysterious death amid a leadership dispute. The dispute within the Taliban threatens...

Some 400 homes were among the hundreds of structures destroyed as fast-moving wildfires raged through communities in Northern California, leaving at least one person dead and sending residents fleeing along roads where some buildings and vehicles were still in...

German premium carmakers BMW (BMWG.DE), Mercedes-Benz (DAIGn.DE) and Audi (NSUG.DE) are snapping up software experts as tech firms such as Google (GOOGL.O) threaten to outflank them in the race to develop a self-driving car. Software expertise has become a new...

Toshiba Corp (6502.T) is set to report an operating loss of more than 10 billion yen ($83 million) in the April-June quarter hurt by weakness in the consumer electronics business, the Nikkei business daily reported. Toshiba last reported a first-quarter...

Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) is preparing to close all of its Russian operations, except for transaction banking services, a financial source told Reuters on Monday. It was very likely that the group would close 90 percent of its Russian activities, leaving...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 13, (THEWILL) – The Department of State Service (DSS) has reportedly screened a former Presidential candidate and Economist, Professor Patrick Utomi, an ex-Managing Director of Nigerian Breweries Limited, Mr. Festus Odimegwu, a former Governor of Osun...

BEVERLY HILLS, September 13, (THEWILL) – A popular Nigerian business, Alhaji Mohammed Gobir, 55, has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), for allegedly defrauding outdoor advertising firm, Afromedia of at least N1.7 billion, in a...

I am an adopted ‘Lagos boy', a self-styled ‘Buharist’, a fan of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, and a believer in the notion that the APC is the best thing to happen to...

The appointment of new security chiefs by President Muhammadu Buhari came at a time when expectations about the nature of Nigeria’s security challenges are largely distorted by the insurgency being waged by terrorist group, Boko Haram. Even though deadly...

Why are Arabs and Africans not risking ignominy and dear lives to cross into rich Arab, African countries? Are they rejecting them? There is this African saying about a lizard that jumped all the way from the top of...