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* Law change could shave more than $50 billion in investments * Royalty added even after hours-long meeting with oil companies * Required review every 5 years injects uncertainty The Nigerian government has fast-tracked a law that would render billions in planned...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, (THEWILL) - Former Vice President and candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 23, 2019 presidential election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, says the judiciary has been undermined and sabotaged following the dismissal of...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 30, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday in Riyadh said new investments and reforms in the agriculture sector in Nigeria hold the key to the target of his government to take 100 million Nigerians out of...

Since Nigeria's return to civilian rule in 1999, Deputy Governors have always tended to have issues with their bosses, that is the Governors, and the Governors in turn have often had problems with their Godfathers. Whatever shape the conflict...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, (THEWILL) - The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has stepped up work on the N6 billion 132KV Transmission Line and 132/33KV Sub Station which it is constructing at Okitipupa in Ondo State, to cover about 2,000...

Nigerian entrepreneur and activist, Dr. Nkiru Balonwu, was named alongside Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex and rap sensation Stormzy at the 2019 Powerlist Black Excellence Awards 2020 Awards in London. The annual awards, which was held on Friday...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 29, (THEWILL) - Two hundred and twenty-eight inmates have escaped from a medium federal correctional centre in Koton Karfe in Kogi after some parts of it collapsed owing to heavy flooding. NAN reports that Jafar Ahmed, comptroller-general of...

''To be passionate about Africa is to believe in Africa, understand Africa'' The above words from Jean Claude Bastos De Morais, the Founding Board member of African Innovation Foundation (AIF) were enough motivation for Justus Nwaoga, the Chief Technologist in...

No event in recent history about the Niger Delta have elicited controversy or gained media attention like the current order by President Muhammadu Buhari calling for a forensic audit of the commission from 2001 to 2019. As at the last...

I know from experience that criticisms, even apparently destructive criticisms, are helpful to government—Lateef Jakande, former governor of Lagos state When Houston energy worker Shawn Baker was laid off in 2015, she opened a new business that quickly became a...