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BEVERLY HILLS, June 12 (THEWILL) – Mr. Jonah Otunla has been removed from office as Nigeria’s Accountant General, a source familiar with the development is telling THEWILL. The source said Otunla was removed from office because he allegedly misappropriated N2.5...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 12 (THEWILL) – The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah, says the war against the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeast will soon be over, with the deployment of more troops to the troubled...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 12, (THEWILL) – Former President Jimmy Carter hopes a $10 million donation to end river blindness in Nigeria where it is most prevalent will help spark a global effort to eliminate the disease. Billionaire philanthropist Emeka Offor...

  SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Friday gave backing to the controversial election of Senator Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate, saying his election was legitimate.   National Chairman of party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun,...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, (THEWILL) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) Friday filed fresh corruption charges against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.   Sylva is charged alongside Francis Okokuro, Gbenga...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, (THEWILL) – The President of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki, Friday hailed the bilateral ties between Nigeria and the United Kingdom assuring that the present administration would continue to push for stronger collaboration.   Saraki spoke when...

    President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja for South Africa on Saturday to attend the 25th African Union Summit in Johannesburg.   President Buhari is scheduled to  undertake his first continental assignment since taking office by chairing  a meeting of the  Peace...

Germany's top public prosecutor closed a year-long investigation into the suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cell phone by U.S. spies, saying there was a lack of evidence that would stand up in court. Dropping its probe in a case...

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter met a top Chinese general on Thursday and repeated a U.S. call for a halt to land reclamation in the South China Sea, while stressing that the Pentagon remained committed to expanding military contacts...

Carlos Tevez is wanted again by Argentina and Europe's top clubs after four lean years in which he nearly gave up the game. The 31-year-old, known as "Apache" after the Buenos Aires slum district where he was brought up, is...