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…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...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The United Nations (UN) has expressed concern over the possibility of violence during and after the rescheduled general elections in the country, warning all stakeholders to eschew violence. The UN Under-Secretary-General on Political Affairs,...

A spate of victories against Boko Haram has pushed the militants out of much of the territory they controlled in Nigeria, but that is unlikely to do much to boost President Goodluck Jonathan's bid for re-election by divided voters...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – The Borno State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Mr. Samuel Madaki, Thursday, in Maiduguri, the state capital, advised Nigerians to shun all forms of election violence, saying "the bottom line is that post-election violence...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – Indications emerged on Thursday that the rag-tag Boko Haram army recently sacked from Gamboru, Ngala and Foyi towns in Borno State by Chadian troops may have taken over the towns again. Local sources told...

Dozens of Nigerian women who were forced to marry Boko Haram fighters were reportedly slaughtered by their "husbands" before a battle with troops in the northeast town of Bama, multiple witnesses said Thursday. Five witnesses who recounted the massacres to...

*** This news story has been updated to say the abducted man is a distant relative of Nigeria's Petroleum Resources Minister.  SAN FRANCISCO, March 19, (THEWILL) – Gunmen early Thursday abducted one of the relatives of Nigeria’s Petroleum Resources Minister,...