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2019 Elections: INEC Chairman Not Pleased With Deployment Of Security Officers

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...

Bribery Allegation Against Me Is To Silence Me – Shehu Sani

SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, (THEWILL) - Shehu Sani, former senator representing Kaduna central, says the bribery allegation against him is an imaginative work of fiction crafted to silence him. The senator was arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...

Air Strike Kills Eight Iraq Paramilitaries In East Syria

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SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, (THEWILL) - An airstrike in eastern Syria killed eight fighters of Iraq’s Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force overnight, a war monitor said on Friday. “Unidentified aircraft targeted vehicles and arms depots in the Albu Kamal area, causing a...

Nigerians Get Eviction Threat In Local South African Province

SAN FRANCISCO, January 10, (THEWILL) - Some indigenes of Keimoes and Upington areas of northern cape province in South Africa, on Thursday morning, gave Nigerians and other foreign national a 12-hour ultimatum to vacate their communities. Adetola Olubajo, president of Nigeria...

Iran Likely Downed Ukraine Airliner With Missiles, Canada’s Trudeau Says, Citing Intelligence

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,...

FAAN Blames British Airways For Flight Diversion To Accra Airport

SAN FRANCISCO, January 9, (THEWILL) - The Managing Director of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, Captain Rabiu Yadudu Thursday said British Airways was to blame for this week’s diversion of a Lagos-bound BA flight to Accra, Ghana,...

FG Appoints New CAC Registrar-General

The Federal Government on Thursday appointed Alhaji Garba Abubakar as the new Registrar-General of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC). Mr Moses Adaguusu, the Head of Public Affairs of the commission made this know in a statement in Abuja. Adaguusu said Abubakar...

Judge Orders D-G, National Council for Arts and Culture, Runsewe’s Arrest

SAN FRANCISCO, January 9, (THEWILL) - The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Maitama, Abuja Thursday ordered the arrest of the Director-General, National Council for Arts and Culture, Olusegun Runsewe, for contempt of court. Justice Jude Okeke in a...

Buhari Overrules Power Minister Again, Recalls Sacked NBET MD

BEVERLY HILLS, January 09, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has reversed the dismissal of Marilyn Amobi as the managing director of the Nigerian Bulk Electricity Trading Company Limited (NBET). The directive issued in a memo released by the office of...

Governorship Elections: Okowa, Ikpeazu, Bello, Ishaku Win At Supreme Court

BEVERLY HILLS, January 09, (THEWILL) - The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed an appeal filed by candidate of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in the 2019 governorship election in Abia State, Alex Otti, which sought to unseat Governor...