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UBS (UBSN.VX) hiked chief executive Sergio Ermotti's pay by a fifth last year to 10.73 million Swiss francs ($12.30 million), according to the Swiss bank's annual report published on Friday. But UBS's highest paid executive was investment banking chief Andrea...

 ULI HOENESS Germany's center-left deputy chancellor hailed the jail sentence for tax evasion handed to Bayern Munich soccer boss Uli Hoeness and said the directors of Swiss banks that hide such funds should be hauled before the courts. "I hope we...

The Panama Canal Authority has signed a deal to end a major dispute over the multibillion-dollar expansion of the waterway, an official said on Thursday, raising hopes that the consortium behind the project will follow suit before the week...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 14, (THEWILL) – The city of Maiduguri, Borno State is under siege as soldiers push back members of the Boko Haram, who early Friday morning attempted to seize the Giwa Barracks located in the heart of...

The 70-year-old cousin of President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Inengite Nitabai, was yesterday released by his abductors, after spending 17 days in captivity. His release was subsequent to the payment of a ransom, even though the police in the state...

........As Reps order CBN to pay N1.015bn to govt coffers BEVERLY HILLS, March 13, (THEWILL) – The House Representatives Committee on Public Accounts Thursday declared that the Office of the Head of Service of the Federation has failed to account...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 13, (THEWILL) – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, has called for proper upkeep of security men fighting Boko Haram in the Northeast against politicising the security challenge in the country. Tambuwal...

...Senate C'ttee concludes probe, adjourns sine die BEVERLY HILLS, March 13, (THEWILL) – The Group Managing Director, (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Engr. Andrew Yakubu, on Thursday declared that no money is missing from its coffer contrary...

The jinx that has bedeviled the NB2, otherwise called the Second Niger Bridge, is finally broken.  Last Monday (March 10, 2014), President Goodluck Jonathan performed the historic ground-breaking ceremony for the second bridge across the Niger to link the...

As Anambra prepares to ring out the old and ring in the new administration, the stakes and challenges can’t be any higher. The State is at a precipice with a weary population that have suffered and endured so much...