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Bolivia "chickened out" of a friendly in Nigeria because it feared an attack by the Boko Haram extremist group, the Nigerian Football Federation said on Thursday. In a statement on its website, the NFF said Bolivia's "excuses" for calling off...

A year after pledging jobs to families who lost loved ones during a deadly recruitment by the Nigeria Immigration, President Goodluck Jonathan finally, handed out money and appointment letters to the beneficiaries.   Mr. Jonathan gave N75 million (N5million to each...

The most frightening and most disturbing controversy since the build-up to the 2015 elections had been the rumoured removal of the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Attahiru Jega,  beforeMarch 28 presidential poll. The rumour was like a thunderbolt...

When I was a kid, phone calls were a premium commodity; only the very coolest kids had a phone line of their own, and long-distance phone calls were made after eleven, when the rates went down, unless you were...

I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name "government" is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals to mindlessly loot the resources of the larger collectivity.   This argument has been eloquently...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The last of Reagan Uformba’s colleagues in his faction of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) last Friday formally collapsed their structures into Alex Otti’s gubernatorial campaign at Osisioma on the outskirts of Aba,...

…Alleges Marginalisation Of Yorubas By Jonathan Administration SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The Yoruba Assembly, Thursday, insisted that the general elections scheduled to hold on March 28 and April 11 must hold as scheduled even as it maintained that...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 19, (THEWILL) – The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, Thursday, assured that the Commission is on course and ready to conduct the rescheduled general elections fixed for March 28 and...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – Newly-freed captives from Bama in Borno State, numbering well over 200, including women and children, have been moved to a separate camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – President Goodluck Jonathan said on Thursday in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, that the Federal Government would not concede any part of the country to Boko Haram insurgents. Addressing a Northeast Peoples Democratic Party...