Beijing stepped up efforts to re-energise China's economy in June and avert a sharper slowdown, pumping more money into the system and pressing banks to extend more loans, but analysts say more stimulus will be needed to ensure a...
Israel approved an Egyptian-proposed deal that would halt the week-old Gaza shelling war on Tuesday but the Palestinian territory's dominant Hamas Islamists responded suspiciously, saying they had not been consulted by Cairo.
Hamas's armed wing vowed its attacks would "increase...
A militia shelled Tripoli airport, destroying 90 percent of planes parked there, a Libyan government spokesman said, as heavy fighting between armed groups prompted the United Nations to pull its staff out of the North African country.
At least 15...
The last forty eight hours has seen a rash of local and international activities by divergent stakeholders all aimed at addressing the increasing situation of mass killings by the armed insurgents in the North of Nigeria. The United Nations...
In every political society, parties are unavoidable. A difference of interests, real or supposed, is the most natural and fruitful source of them. The great object should be to combat the evil: 1. By establishing a political equality among...
These are the most heart rending times for the bellicose characters of the All Progressives Congress (APC); that so-called opposition party in Nigeria, as the suspicions of its romance with the dreaded Boko Haram continues to grow by the...
All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential aspirant and publisher of the Leadership newspaper, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, does not fail to impress the negative-minded persons when he chooses to deconstruct Nigeria and her present crop of leaders. He is scathing, and...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, (THEWILL) – Sporadic gunshots, Monday, heralded the visit of the former Borno State governor, Senator Ali Modu Sherrif, to Maiduguri, the state capital.
Sherrif had stormed the state in company with his political associates to prepare the...
SAN FRANCISCO, July 14, (THEWILL) – A fresh Boko Haram attack in Borno State has claimed 45 lives. Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents Monday stormed Dille village in a convoy of over 24 vehicles and motorcycles, torching several...
L-R: WATER RESOURCES MINISTER-SERAH OCHEKPE, AGRIC MINISTER DR, ADESINA AKINWUMI, PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN, NASARAWA STATE GOV.-TANKO AL-MAKURA AND THE MANAGING DIRECTOR OF OLAM RICEFARM-MR. SRIVATSAN, CUTTING THE TAPE TO COMMISSION THE OLAM RICE NIGERIA, IN RUKUBI NASARAWA
Remarks by
His Excellency,...