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SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – Kano state government has officially abolished the traditional Almajiri system of education in the state after completing arrangements to enroll all repatriated almajirai to Kano from other states into conventional educational system. At a...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Nigeria’s regulatory petroleum agency, has listed 25 companies with valid licenses to operate crude oil refineries as Africa’s most populous nation bids to end its chronic and...

BEVERLY HILLS, May 27, (THEWILL) - Nigeria Wednesday added 389 new cases of the coronavirus with Lagos, the epicenter of the pandemic in the country, recording 256 of the cases to bring the total in the country to 8,...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – US President Donald Trump has threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter labelled two of his tweets “unsubstantiated” and accused him of making false claims. Twitter targeted tweets in which the president...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – The World Bank has approved $346m for two projects aimed at strengthening resilience and livelihoods in the Lake Chad region. The Bank, in a statement, explained that the projects, which are to be financed...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – The board of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has agreed for an independent probe of Akinwumi Adesina, its president, after Steven Mnuchin, US treasury secretary, rejected the investigation and report of the bank’s...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, (THEWILL) – The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reported that coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Africa as at Tuesday, had risen to over 115, 000. The WHO Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, gave the update...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) is to meet on Wednesday to discuss the issue of financial autonomy for the states’ judiciary and legislature, code-named the Executive Order 10, 2020. A statement issued in Abuja...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 27, (THEWILL) – The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) says it will continue chloroquine clinical trials for COVID-19 treatment despite the temporary suspension of the drug test by the World Health...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 26, (THEWILL) – The Nigeria Center for Disease Control, NCDC, Tuesday reported 276 new cases of the coronavirus and sixteen new deaths, bringing the total cases so far to 8, 344 and 249 deaths. According to Tuesday’s...