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SAN FRANCISCO, July 01, (THEWILL) – President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Tuesday expressed sadness at the news of the passing away of prominent politician and elder statesman, Alhaji Umaru Dikko. The President, in a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 01, (THEWILL) – Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has described the former Minister of Transport in the Second Republic, Alhaji Umaru Dikko, who died Tuesday morning in a London hospital, as a courageous advocate of rule of...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 01, (THEWILL) – A car wired with explosives Tuesday morning exploded in a Maiduguri market killing many people and wounding several others, according to reports. The bombs, which went off at around 8.13am, were hidden inside a pick...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 01, (THEWILL) – Alhaji Umaru Dikko died Tuesday morning in London, United Kingdom, after suffering a stroke. Dikko, 78, was unarguably one of the most powerful and colourful politicians in the democratic regime of Alhaji Shehu Shagari, where...

Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi has stepped down from his position after the Super Eagles' exit from the World Cup in Brazil. France scored twice in the last 11 minutes in Brasilia on Monday to reach the quarter-finals at their expense. The...

Luis Suarez has promised never to bite a player again after the Uruguayan issued an apology to Italy's Giorgio Chiellini. In a carefully worded statement on his official Facebook page, Suarez, who has been hit by a four-month ban by...

Five Russian Sukhoi fighter jets have arrived in Iraq, the first of 25 warplanes expected to be delivered under a contract between Moscow and Baghdad, the Iraqi Ministry of Defense said in a statement. A video the ministry released Monday...

Since Britain handed back colonial Hong Kong in 1997, retired primary school teacher and Falun Gong devotee Lau Wai-hing has fully exercised the freedoms China promised this city of 7.2 million. Lau and fellow believers regularly staged protests to explain...

Israeli aircraft bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, and troops opened fire and killed a Palestinian during an arrest raid in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medics said. The raid came hours after...

When Washington imposed sanctions in June 2012 on Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau, he dismissed it as an empty gesture. Two years later, Shekau’s skepticism appears well founded: his Islamic militant group is now the biggest security threat to Africa's...