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Few days back President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan made a high profile appointment of a new Inspector General of police for Nigeria and ironically, the one who emerged is from almost the same local terrain in the North West of...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – An Overland Airways aircraft with fifty-nine passengers and four crew members was involved in a scary incident on Saturday evening at the Kwara airport. The General Manager Public Affairs, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Mr....

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, 66, Nigeria’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, who served under President Goodluck Jonathan from 2011 to 2013, has died inside a South African hospital where he was receiving treatment for an...

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – Former political appointees as well as loyalists of Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the daughter of former Governor, Chief James Ibori, Saturday clinched the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) tickets in their...

A court in Egypt has dropped charges against former President Hosni Mubarak over the killing of 239 protesters during the 2011 uprising against him. The Cairo courtroom erupted in cheers when the judge concluded Mubarak's retrial by dismissing the case. Charges...

The president of Nigeria has vowed "to leave no stone unturned" in tracking down the perpetrators of a mosque attack that killed at least 81 people. Goodluck Jonathan urged the nation "to confront the common enemy" after the gun and...

Nigeria's naira fell 2.5 percent on Friday, despite central bank intervention, and it briefly touched a record low on concerns OPEC's decision not to cut oil output would put further pressure on Nigeria's shaky finances. The central bank has struggled...

A former Minister of state for works, Engineer Chris Ogiemwonyi Friday,formally decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, with over 2,000 followers.  The one-time President of the Energy Strategy Centre, Abuja also used the opportunity...

Confederation of African Football president Issa Hayatou has admitted he expects an "imperfect" hosting of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations. Equatorial Guinea have only weeks to prepare for the 17 January to 8 February tournament after replacing original hosts...

Marseille extended their lead at the top of Ligue 1 to four points as goals by Florian Thauvin and Rod Fanni saw off Nantes. Thauvin, 21, opened the scoring with a superb left-footed flick following Dimitri Payet's cross. Georges-Kevin Nkoudou was...