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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a come-from-behind victory in Israel's election after tacking hard to the right in the final days of campaigning, including abandoning a commitment to negotiate a Palestinian state. In a pre-election blitz, Netanyahu made a series...

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will raise the country's deepening cash crunch in talks with EU leaders at this week's summit in Brussels, the government's spokesman said on Wednesday, as Athens faces running out of cash in weeks. Greece agreed...

As Alibaba (BABA.N) was preparing to sell shares to U.S. investors for the first time, Jerry Verseput tried to persuade his clients not to throw money at the giant China-based e-commerce company because he thinks IPOs are a gamble,...

General Motors Co (GM.N) said on Wednesday it would idle its car plant in St Petersburg and wind down its Opel brand, reducing its presence on the Russian mass market and resulting in around $600 million in special charges. The...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, (THEWILL) –  President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday approved the appointment of Mr. Samuel Ogungbesan as Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), with immediate effect. A presidential statement said, “Ogungbesan, a Coordinating Director at...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, (THEWILL) –  With barely two months to the end of the current administration, President Goodluck Jonathan Wednesday swore in eight ministers that were recently cleared by the Senate and assigned them portfolios. The swearing-in ceremony was...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 18, (THEWILL) –  Apparently learning from the experience of their Christian counterparts who were recently enmeshed in an alleged N7 billion Presidency bribery scandal that has caused a crack among Christians in the country, South West...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 18, (THEWILL) – Despite the recent liberation by the military of some of the seized Borno communities from Boko Haram, internally displaced persons (IDPs) from such communities cannot return now just because of the elections. The State...

… Holds Town Hall Meetings BEVERLY HILLS, March 18, (THEWILL) – Ahead of the March 28 general elections, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has again expressed his commitment to the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan as he embarked on...

Rather than cast this discourse in the mould of a ‘rejoinder’ to Dele Momodu’s BUHARI AND THE BURDEN OF EXPECTATIONS in his PENDULUM Column in Saturday, March 14, 2015 edition of Thisday newspaper, this piece should be read from the perspective of a ‘reminder’ of...