THEWILL_

A 100-year-old woman, Hawwau Amarea, who was kidnapped by gunmen at Kudin village of Mahuta Local Government Area of Kebbi, has regained her freedom. The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG) in charge of Zone 10, Sokoto, Alhaji Bala Hassan, disclosed...

Armed robbers shot and hacked to death a French tourist camping with his wife in the bush of southeast Nigeria, police said Thursday. A band of men surprised the couple as they were sleeping to spend the night in their...

BEVERLY HILLS, June 04, (THEWILL) –The shortage of petroleum products in Nigeria is not abating anytime soon because imports of the products into Nigeria are very low despite a deal between marketers and the federal government under former president,...

More than 90 people have died in a fire at a petrol station in Ghana's capital, Accra, the fire service says. The fire started as people in the city are trying to cope with two days of heavy rain, which...

Rescuers have pulled dozens of bodies from a capsized cruise ship in China's Yangtze River, as authorities promised "no cover-up" over the disaster Hundreds of people are thought to have died, with only 14 of the 456 passengers known to...

Burundi has announced it is postponing both parliamentary and presidential elections that were due this month. The move follows weeks of political turmoil that saw a failed coup attempt against President Pierre Nkurunziza after he bid for a third term. East...

Former top Fifa official Chuck Blazer has admitted that he and others on the executive committee agreed to accept bribes in connection with the choice of South Africa as 2010 World Cup hosts. The American said he also facilitated bribes...

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak will face a second and final retrial over the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising which forced him from power, the high court said on Thursday The judge accepted the public prosecution's appeal against...

A persistent sell-off in bond markets left financial market confidence in short supply on Thursday, with stocks lower globally and not even traditional safe havens like gold and the Swiss franc providing much of a refuge German 10-year Bund yields...

Dish Network Corp (DISH.O) is in talks to merge with T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.N), in a deal that would combine the second-largest satellite TV operator in the United States with the fourth-largest wireless carrier, the Wall Street Journal reported. The...