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Nigeria: Overland Airways Plane Lands, Veers Off Runway In Kwara

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – An Overland Airways aircraft with fifty-nine passengers and four crew members was involved in a scary incident on Saturday evening at the Kwara airport. The General Manager Public Affairs, Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority, Mr....

Nigeria: Former Foreign Minister, Olugbenga Ashiru Dies In South African Hospital

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, 66, Nigeria’s former Foreign Affairs Minister, who served under President Goodluck Jonathan from 2011 to 2013, has died inside a South African hospital where he was receiving treatment for an...

Uduaghan, Ibori’s Loyalists Win PDP Tickets In Delta Assembly Primaries

SAN FRANCISCO, November 30, (THEWILL) – Former political appointees as well as loyalists of Delta State Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan and the daughter of former Governor, Chief James Ibori, Saturday clinched the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) tickets in their...

President Jonathan Condemns Mosque Attack

The president of Nigeria has vowed "to leave no stone unturned" in tracking down the perpetrators of a mosque attack that killed at least 81 people. Goodluck Jonathan urged the nation "to confront the common enemy" after the gun and...

Nigerian Naira Falls Further, Devalued Level Faces Test

Nigeria's naira fell 2.5 percent on Friday, despite central bank intervention, and it briefly touched a record low on concerns OPEC's decision not to cut oil output would put further pressure on Nigeria's shaky finances. The central bank has struggled...

2000 PDP Members Decamp To APC in Edo As Engr.Chris Ogiemwonyi Declares For Governor 2016

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A former Minister of state for works, Engineer Chris Ogiemwonyi Friday,formally decamped from the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, to the All Progressive Congress, APC, with over 2,000 followers.  The one-time President of the Energy Strategy Centre, Abuja also used the opportunity...

UBA Wins 5 Awards, Dominates At Annual Banker Awards In London

BEVERLY HILLS, November 28, (THEWILL) – United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, one of Africa’s largest financial services institutions, swept the global banking awards in London, Thursday, winning in five categories to become one of the highest single winning...

Panic In Maiduguri As Another Bomb Blast Is Averted

BEVERLY HILLS, November 28, (THEWILL) – The prompt response of the military Friday in Maiduguri saved the Borno State capital from being rocked by another bomb blast. Some residents of the town had woken to see some strange objects around...

2015: Borno Lawmaker Makes Case For Displaced Persons

BEVERLY HILLS, November 28, (THEWILL) – The National Assembly has been urged to fast-track the passage of a Bill seeking to allow Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the country to vote in their various camps during the forthcoming general...

Three Foreign Workers Kidnapped In Nigeria’s Delta Region

Three expatriate construction workers were kidnapped on Friday in Nigeria's Bayelsa state in the delta region, a security forces spokesman said. The men, two Pakistani and one Indian, were seized at Emakalakala town in the Ogbia council area, a few...