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SAN FRANCISCO, December 11, (THEWILL) - Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor, is dead. He died Thursday night at 85. A retired justice of Nigeria’s Court of Appeal, Nsofor assumed office as Nigeria’s ambassador to the United States...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 11, (THEWILL) - The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has sold N4.1 trillion worth of the instrument in the money market following last week’s introduction of 90-day special bills. The instrument is expected to avail the monetary authority...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 11, (THEWILL) - The Naira exchanged to the Dollar in the parallel market at N474/$ on Thursday. The naira which recorded slight improvement in recent days maintained stability as it closed at the Importer & Exporter forex window...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) - The World Health Organisation, WHO, says Africa will need at least $9bn to procure and distribute 1.4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. This was disclosed on Thursday during a virtual press briefing by the...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) - Nigerian employees of the Anglo-Dutch oil company, Shell ordered the deliberate vandalisation of oil pipelines for personal gain, a documentary in the Netherlands has reported. Dutch television documentary programme Zembla, together with Dutch environmentalist...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) - The former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina collapsed during his prosecution at a Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday. Maina is being prosecuted by the Federal Government on a...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) - Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, has assured Nigeria and other African countries of access to COVID-19 vaccines as from the end of January through the first quarter of 2021. This was...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) - The Federal Government has given a directive to the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to slash the price of data by more than 50%. Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ibrahim Pantami who disclosed this...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 10, (THEWILL) - Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo has won a second term after a tightly contested presidential election, defeating long-time opponent, John Mahama. Akufo-Addo of the centre-right New Patriotic Party (NPP) received 6,730,413 or 51.59% of votes...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 09, (THEWILL) - The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, says the National Assembly (NASS) lacks the power to invite President Buhari to speak on security matters. The House of Representatives led by the...