Nigeria’s attorney general has withdrawn a $2 billion tax demand against South African telecoms giant MTN Group, the company and attorney general said on Friday, in a closely watched case that investors say has damaged Nigeria’s appeal.
In a letter...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, (THEWILL) - Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmoud Yakubu, has criticised the way security officers were deployed during the 2019 general elections.
Professor Yakubu who spoke during the expanded inter-agency consultative meeting...
SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, (THEWILL) - Britain’s parliament finally approved Brexit on Thursday, allowing it to become the first country to leave the European Union (EU) later this month, ending years of arguments that toppled two governments and splintered...
The current debate over the Buhari government’s request to borrow additional $30bn (a substantial portion of which is likely to come from China), has revived debates not just about debt overhang in the country but also about whether China...
It's been argued for a very long time that some knowledge of history is useful to the scientist, the economist or the student of literature or philosophy on the grounds that no science or art is static. This argument...
I was lucky a few days ago to meet the new minister of power, Eng. Sale Mamman. I said "lucky" because meeting Nigeria's big men is an issue. But this man is different I noticed. And he has been...
There is no other country in the world where current politicians and their alter ego of crony businessmen steal and sell out the whole House, as they do in African countries. Most African Heads of State cannot differentiate personal...
The situation within the Ministry of Power superintended by the duo of Engineer Sale Mamman and Mr. Goddy Jedy-Agba in the last few weeks undoubtedly calls for concern. This unpleasant development portends danger for every critical sector of the...
“Every free society has a journalist.”- Agba Jalingo
For living up to the responsibility of his vocation and professional calling and for also daring to report the sleaze observed in the five hundred million naira appropriated and approved for Cross River...
A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was likely brought down by an Iranian missile, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said on Thursday, citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources.
The destruction of the airliner,...