THEWILL_

BEVERLY HILLS, March 15, (THEWILL) – Eurasia Group, the world's largest political risk consultancy corporation has projected a wide margin victory for General Muhammadu Buhari of the opposition political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), in Nigeria’s presidential election slated...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 15, (THEWILL) – Another bomb blast has been averted in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, northeastern Nigeria. This is as troops of the Nigerian Army Saturday detonated two powerful Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) at an Internally Displaced...

At least 45 villagers were killed in a dawn raid Sunday by suspected herdsmen in Nigeria's central Benue state, a police spokesman and a legislator said. "I confirm that 45 people, including women and children, were killed this morning in...

Lionel Messi scored twice to take his season's goal total to 43 as Barcelona beat Eibar comfortably to open up a four-point lead at the top of La Liga. Messi converted a 31st-minute penalty for Luis Enrique's side, who face...

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger believes his side can still knock Monaco out of the Champions League despite trailing 3-1 in their last-16 tie. They play the Ligue 1 side on Tuesday with no team having recovered from a similar deficit...

BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO) (BBRY.O) on Friday won the dismissal of a U.S. lawsuit accusing it of fraudulently inflating its stock price by painting a misleadingly upbeat picture of the prospects for its BlackBerry 10 smartphone line. U.S. District Judge Thomas...

Venezuela on Saturday staged a military exercise to counter an alleged U.S. threat, deploying soldiers and partisans across the country to march, man shoulder-fired missiles and defend an oil refinery from a simulated attack. Socialist President Nicolas Maduro has framed...

Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Saturday they had evidence that Islamic State had used chlorine gas as a chemical weapon against their peshmerga fighters in northern Iraq in January. The Security Council of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region said in a...

Zambia's new President Edgar Lungu has undergone surgery in a South African hospital to correct a narrowing of the oesophagus which caused him to fall ill a week ago, his spokesman said. Lungu underwent "a medical procedure" on Friday and...

PepsiCo (PEP.N) will invest $500 million in Egypt this year to expand production, its business unit manager for North East Africa said on Saturday. Ahmed El Sheikh told Reuters at an investment conference in Sharm El-Sheikh that the investment comes...