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Malaysia’s Anwar Jailed For Five Years After Losing Appeal In Sodomy Trial

Malaysia's highest court rejected on Tuesday an appeal by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim against a sodomy conviction, sending the politician who poses the greatest threat to the long-ruling coalition back to prison for five years. The U.N. Human Rights office...

Dollar Drifts Up As Greek Worries Weigh On Europe

Nerves over Greece's future in the euro and the conflict in Ukraine dragged on European markets on Tuesday, while bets on the likelihood of a U.S. interest rate hike nudged the dollar higher and oil prices held steady after...

U.S. Warns G20 Against Using Exchange Rates To Boost Exports

The United States urged a meeting of the Group of 20 leading economies not to resort to currency devaluations to boost exports, while a draft communique gave a gloomy assessment on Tuesday of the outlook for global growth. The meeting...

Samsung Electronics 2015 Dividend Likely Less Than 2014: Source

South Korean tech firm Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will likely pay out a smaller amount in dividends this year compared with that of 2014, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Tuesday. The person, who declined...

Canon To Buy Video Surveillance Leader Axis For $2.8 Billion

Canon Inc (7751.T) plans to buy network video surveillance leader Axis AB (AXIS.ST) for about 23.6 billion Swedish crowns ($2.83 billion), the biggest purchase ever for the Japanese company that is trying to expand beyond the shrinking camera market. Canon...

RE: SOLUDO AND OKONJO-IWEALA: 30 TRILLION MISMANAGEMENT CLAIM

I am really saddened and deeply troubled by the turn of events over the last few days by the tone of the debate on the economy and the personalities involved. The two principal actors are people who are not...

OPINION: JONATHAN: A NORTHERNER IN ACTIONS, ACHIEVEMENTS!

Since the President came on board, the opposition party has done so much to taint and paint the present administration negatively as if it has not done anything with regard to the North, but this piece is intended to...

OPINION: THE FORMATION OF BIAFRA SHADOW GOVERNMENT

In October 2014 a meeting of Biafra freedom movement activists was called by Festus Afamefule in Barcelona, Spain. The venue of the meeting was in the hall which was made available to the Biafrans by the Catalonians with whom...

OPINION: FASHOLA’S MISRULE OF LAGOS STATE

If there was one aspect of Gov. Babatunde Raji Fashola’s life that Lagosians and indeed Nigerians did not know, it was his vituperative and cantankerous nature which recently came to the fore. Gov. Fashola became suddenly very rude, combustive...

PDP-Induced Polls Postponement Coming At Huge Cost To Nigerians – Odigie-Oyegun

SAN FRANCISCO, February 09, (THEWILL) – The All Progressives Congress (APC) Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, said on Monday that the  postponement of the February elections comes with a huge cost to all Nigerians and every one involved, directly or...

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