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SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, (THEWILL) – The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Muhammad Sanusi II, Thursday paid President Goodluck Jonathan a courtesy visit at the Presidential villa, suggesting that the estranged relations between both men have been mended. The Emir was...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, (THEWILL) – Osiyo Agama, the abducted sister of Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Deziani Alison-Madueke, has been rescued from her captors, Rivers State Police said Thursday. Osiyo, 52, was abducted in Port Harcourt, Rivers State,...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian Police Force says it has withdrawn security personnel attached to Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, saying it based its action on the defection of the Speaker...

Thousands of protesters stormed Burkina Faso's parliament and ransacked state television on Thursday, forcing it off the air ahead of a planned vote on a motion to allow the veteran president to extend his 27-year rule. Black smoke swirled in...

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Thursday he was a victim of a conspiracy but was hopeful of winning an appeal against a sodomy conviction and five-year prison term that could stymie his political ambitions for good. Anwar was...

Britain is confident it can get its 2.1 billion euro ($2.6 billion) bill from the European Union reduced, finance minister George Osborne said. European finance ministers are due to discuss the bill, which Britain has called "unacceptable," at a meeting...

China and the United States agreed at a meeting earlier this month in Washington to speed up talks on a mutual reporting mechanism on major military operations and a code of safe conduct, China's Defense Ministry said on Thursday. Ministry...

A first group of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga fighters entered the besieged Syrian town of Kobani on Thursday to help push back Islamic State militants who have defied U.S. air strikes and threatened to massacre its Kurdish defenders. Kobani, on the...

ConocoPhillips, the largest U.S. independent oil company, on Thursday reported a higher third-quarter profit as results were lifted by the sale of its Nigerian business. Profit was $2.7 billion, or $2.17 per share, compared with $2.5 billion, or $2.00 per...

U.S.-listed shares of major European banks were among the biggest movers of the premarket session on Thursday, continuing to see weakness ever since the results of the European Central Bank's stress tests were published over the weekend. The Euro STOXX...