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U.S. stock index futures edged up on Wednesday, with technicals in focus and scant key items on the U.S. economic calendar, following yet another record close on the benchmark S&P 500 index. Investors' appetite for equities continued on the back...

Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.TO) (VRX.N) raised the cash component of its offer for Botox-maker Allergan Inc (AGN.N), valuing the U.S. firm at $49.44 billion. Valeant on Wednesday offered to pay $58.30 per Allergan share in cash, about...

Hong Kong-based Hutchison Whampoa gained European Union regulatory approval on Wednesday for its $1 billion bid for Telefonica's Irish business in a case that could set the tone for Telefonica's bigger German deal. Approval of the Hutchison takeover and Telefonica's...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, (THEWILL) – The move to extradite a Nigerian, Kingsley Edegbe, to The Netherlands has begun at the Federal High Court, Abuja. Based on the request of The Netherlands for the extradition, the Federal Government has asked...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, (THEWILL) – Boko Haram convict, Kabiru Umar, (aka Kabiru Sokoto), who is currently serving a life jail term for masterminding the 2011 Christmas bombing of St Theresa’s Catholic Church , Madalla, Niger State, has asked...

JUSTICE IDRIS KUTIGI (rtd) SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, (THEWILL) – Maryam, the wife of Justice Idris Kutigi (rtd), the Chairman of the National Conference, died in the wee hours of Wednesday. Her passing was announced at the conference this morning. The leadership...

Prior to the establishment of the Children’s Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 1954, the rights of children were almost non-existent in a lot of countries around the world. Children were subjected to different forms of abuse,...

Hashtag online activism has continued to prove critics wrong in the amazingly unique way it amplifies disconsolate unheard minority voices, suppressed or subdued by a repressive and despotic government. It draws attention of millions to a horrific story. It...

Biafra became independent of Nigeria on 30 May, 1967. The country Biafra seceded from the Nigerian union through the now internationally recognized principle of United Nations stipulated and universally accepted rights of nations to self-determination and the UN Declaration...

It was a great relieve to read the rebuttal of Professor Wole Soyinka “kongi” to the wild joke making the rounds on social media about a statement, credited to him wherein he allegedly attributed perceived decision deficit of President...