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The effort to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse grounds is riding strong momentum. The governor is for it. Nearly all state senators are backing it. And petitioners are collecting signatures by the hundreds of thousands. A final...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 07, (THEWILL) – Sokoto State governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal Tuesday evening met with President Muhammadu Buhari behind closed doors.. Although details of the meeting was not made piblic, it is believed to be in relation to the...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 07, (THEWILL) – Former Jigawa State Governor, Mr. Sule Lamido, and his two sons have been arrested by the EFCC in Abuja on allegations of graft. THEWILL gathered that the trio have been transported to Kano where...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 07, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) Tuesday picketed Thisday Newspaper headquarters in Apapa, Lagos, over nine months salary arrears owed employees. The union officials, who carried placards and barricaded the company’s entrance, condemned the...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 07, (THEWILL)  – A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, Tuesday, adjourned sine die a lawsuit contesting the location of the Deep Seaport, one of the components of the Export Processing Zone (EPZ) project...

Sunday Oliseh is in advanced talks with the Nigerian Football Federation over becoming the new Super Eagles coach, BBC Sport understands. The 40-year-old former midfielder, who captained Nigeria and won 63 caps, is set to be appointed in the coming...

BEVERLY HILLS, July 07, (THEWILL) – Justice Mohammed Yinusa of the Federal High Court, Lagos Tuesday convicted four companies associated with former governor of Enugu State, Chimaroke Nnamani and ordered that their properties be forfeited to the Federal Government. The...

Al Shabaab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians. Many died in their sleep, the Kenya Red Cross...

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday he had sent a delegation to Pakistan to meet Taliban representatives, his first acknowledgement of official talks with insurgents who are fighting to topple the government in Kabul. The tentative step towards full...

Thousands of pilgrims braved wind and rain to camp out overnight for a Mass to be given by Pope Francis on Tuesday in Ecuador's highland capital Quito for an expected million people. Political protests had been rocking the socialist-ruled nation...