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…Rolls out six entrepreneurship schemes The Delta State Government Tuesday said it will create 6,000 direct jobs in the next six months as it rolled out six entrepreneurship schemes that would create jobs and wealth as well as diversify the...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 30 (THEWILL) – Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Tuesday in Abuja , assured that there would be no delay in the confirmation of ministerial nominees once the list is sent to the National Assembly by President...

Manchester United have made a £28.6m bid for Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos. The Red Devils believe the 29-year-old wants to leave Real after they failed to offer him an extension to his contract, which expires in 2017. The Spain international...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 30 (THEWILL) – Professor Attahiru Jega has retired as Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) after five years in the saddle where he supervised two general elections – 2011 and 2015. Jega formally bowed out day and...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, (THEWILL) – Professor Ben Ayade, the Governor of Cross River State says his administration inherited “great potentials” rather than an “empty treasury’” from his predecessor, Senator Liyel Imoke. Ayade made this known to journalists in Calabar...

Nigeria's Oando has agreed to sell a 60 percent stake in its downstream business to Vitol and Helios Investment Partners for $276 million, the energy company said on Tuesday. Oando, which is shifting away from being a marketer of refined...

EU authorities made a last-minute offer to salvage a bailout deal that could keep Greece in the euro as the clock ticked down on Tuesday, with Germany warning that time had run out to extend vital credit lines to...

A Taliban suicide car bomb attack on a convoy of NATO troops in Kabul on Tuesday wounded 21 Afghan civilians and killed one, police and witnesses said. Two coalition soldiers suffered light wounds, a U.S. public affairs officer said in...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 30 (THEWILL) –  The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday in Geneva that Liberia has lost its Ebola-free status after a new case of the deadly disease was confirmed. Tarik Jasarevic, WHO Spokesman, said a new case was...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, (THEWILL) – An aircraft belonging to the Indonesian military has crashed a few minutes after take off in the city of Medan, the capital of North Sumatra Province, authorities said Tuesday. At least 38 bodies have...