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Benjamin Lawsky, New York's financial services superintendent, has sought documents from Credit Suisse to examine whether Switzerland's second-biggest bank lied to New York authorities about engineering tax shelters, said a source familiar with the matter. Switzerland's private banking model has...

The World Bank trimmed its 2014 growth forecast for developing East Asia but said the region's economies were likely to see steady growth in the next couple of years, helped by a pick-up in global growth and trade. The Washington-based...

India's Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (SUN.NS) said it will buy Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd (RANB.NS) in a $3.2 billion all-share deal, creating the world's fifth-largest generic drug maker from two firms struggling with quality issues in the lucrative United States...

Whenever the President of Nigeria travels overseas to ‘represent’ the nation, its people hold on to their seats fearful of what the outcome will be. So far it has been one of two things; a. President Jonathan gets drunk...

Recently, the President of the Senate, Senator David Bonaventure Mark spoke overtly in unmistaken terms, endorsing the transparent leadership of the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Mr. John Kennedy Opara. Precisely on 27th March, 2014,...

At the national conference, it was week two and the drama continued, from where it stopped in the first week. We had been treated to the dramatics of language of debate and women had protested marginalization, so with the ball...

It seems that women are held up to different standards in this country. A woman in any position of power is judged not just by her competence or her contributions but by some other less palatable standards. And when...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 06, (THEWILL) – Boko Haram gunmen on Saturday struck along the Maiduguri-Biu Highway in Borno State, killing seven persons. The gunmen were said to have laid siege on the road before killing seven passengers in a vehicle...

SAN FRANCISCO, April 06, (THEWILL) – Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, said on Sunday that there was no rift between him and his predecessor, Senator Alli Modu Sherrif as being insinuated in the state. Shettima stated this against the...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, April 06, (THEWILL) – The Afenifere Renewal Group (ARG) has raised the alarm over the move to enable the Nigerian president call for a new Constitution. In a statement signed by its publicity secretary, Kunle Famoriyo, on...