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SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (THEWILL) – As the jostle over who emerges the next Governor of Akwa Ibom State in 2015 gathers steam, the incumbent State Governor, Mr. Godswill Akpabio early Thursday sacked the state’s Finance Commissioner, Mr. Bassey...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (THEWILL) – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Wednesday declared extra judicial killings illegal, saying the Federal Government does not support such . The Executive Secretary of the commission, Professor Bem Angwe, who declared this...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 23, (THEWILL) – Tension is mounting in Letugbene community, an Iduwini clan in Ekeremore Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as the community battles Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), over its alleged failure to accord...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 23, (THEWILL) – Senate President Senator David Mark has described the abduction of female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno State as embarrassingly sacrilegious. He nonetheless appealed with their captors to listen to the...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 23, (THEWILL) – President Goodluck Jonathan has commended the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), for his very statesman-like views on terrorism and insecurity in Nigeria as expressed in his article which...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (THEWILL) – The Assistant Secretary, Media and Communications, Akpandem James, said on Wednesday that journalists were never barred from covering the National Conference committee proceedings. He made the clarification following reports that journalists were barred from...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 23, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on Wednesday expressed its readiness to reinvigorate and increase the domestic consumption of the liquefied natural gas otherwise known as cooking gas across the length and breadth...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 23, (THEWILL) – Determined to rescue their abducted children from the Boko Haram gunmen who kidnapped them from the Government Secondary School, Chibok, last week, women in Borno State have expressed their determination to go...

At least 63 people were killed and 80 were seriously injured in Democratic Republic of Congo's Katanga province when a train speeding too fast round a bend derailed, a provincial minister said on Wednesday. Fifty others were trapped inside the...

The security meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and governors of the 36 states of Nigeria, initially scheduled to hold on Wednesday, has been postponed. A source in the presidency said that the meeting, scheduled to review the security situation in...