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SAN FRANCISCO, August 08, (THEWILL) – The Presidential Amnesty Office in Abuja on Friday commenced the payment of outstanding stipends to ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region and beneficiaries of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). This followed the approval by...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 08, (THEWILL) – Barring any unexpected changes, President Muhammad Buhari will appoint Kano Emir, Alhaji Muhammadu Sanusi II as the amirul hajj and leader of the Federal Government delegation to the 2015 pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia,...

Growing violence in Burundi is a danger to the entire region and the international community must act to keep the crisis from escalating, the U.N.'s Special Representative for Central Africa said on Thursday. Burundi has been in chaos since late...

A powerful typhoon battered Taiwan on Saturday with strong wind and torrential rain, cutting power to 3.62 million households as the death toll rose to six. Four people were missing and 101 were injured, authorities said. Hundreds of flights were...

A wave of attacks on Afghan army, police and U.S. special forces in Kabul on Friday killed at least 50 people and wounded hundreds, dimming hopes that the Taliban might be weakened by a leadership struggle after their longtime...

Maritime stocks have broadly fallen this year as weak demand for some commodities and goods in Asia and oversupply of ships have hurt much of the industry, with one notable exception: Oil tankers have been doing a booming business...

Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) is nearing a deal to buy a minority stake in U.S. organic juice company Suja Life LLC, people familiar with the matter said on Friday, as the soft drink giant tries to identify the next big...

Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, has directed the Federal Ministry of Defence to strategise for the establishment of a modest Military Industrial Complex for the production of domestic weapons, to meet some of the requirements of the Nigerian Armed Forces. The...

There have been several media comments on the Centenary City Project and we have deliberately refrained from responding to most of them. The reason is quite simple: some are outrightly mischievous, uninformed or speculative, while others, in countering the...

“This is what Jehovah says, Your Re-purchaser, Who formed you since you were in the womb: “I am Jehovah, who made everything. I stretched out the heavens myself, and I spread out the earth. Who was with me? I...