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BEVERLY HILLS, CA, June 19, (THEWILL) – President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Thursday appointed Mrs. Roli Bode-George as the Director-General of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), a Presidency statement said. Roli is the wife of Chief Bode George, the...

SAN FRANCISCO, June 19, (THEWILL) – Rivers State Governor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi is being held hostage by soldiers in an Ondo town, South West of Nigeria, the state announced on Thursday. Amaechi was travelling to Ekiti State to attend a...

Accounting adjustments enabled BlackBerry, the troubled smartphone maker, to report on Thursday a $23 million, or 4 cents a share, profit for its last quarter. Without those noncash changes, however, the company lost $60 million during the period. But the...

Nigeria international midfielder, John Obi Mikel insists that Monday’s draw with Iran is a “good result” for the Super Eagles. The Super Eagles struggled to break down a well-organized Team Melli side and must now pick up creditable results in...

Cristiano Ronaldo limped out of Portugal training on Wednesday amid concerns that his World Cup participation could be in doubt. The Real Madrid forward, 29, left the field early with an ice pack strapped to his left knee. The world player...

Spain midfielder Xabi Alonso says his country's dominance of world football is over after the defending champions' shock World Cup exit in Brazil. Defeat by Chile after a 5-1 thrashing by the Netherlands means the Euro 2012 winners cannot qualify...

Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak broke his leg on Thursday after falling while walking to the bathroom at a Cairo military hospital where he is being held, a military source at the hospital told Reuters. Mubarak, 86, fractured the top...

Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian separatists were locked in fierce fighting in the east of Ukraine on Thursday after rebels rejected a call to lay down their arms in line with a peace plan proposed by President Petro Poroshenko, government...

Their belongings piled high on buses, rickety donkey carts and tractors, thousands of refugees poured out of Pakistan's North Waziristan on Thursday, terrified by both state troops and Taliban insurgents fighting for control of the troubled region. Pakistan announced the...

Israeli forces traded gunfire with Palestinians on Thursday, the military said, in the fiercest street battles in the occupied West Bank since a search began for three Israeli teenagers missing for a week. Hospital officials said three Palestinians suffered bullet...