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SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, (THEWILL) – The Borno State Governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima has constituted a seven-man committee to within three days ascertain the veracity of the reported fresh abduction of some girls by Boko Haram terrorists in Bam-Buratai,...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 02, (THEWILL) – Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state yesterday declared that the erstwhile ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, must not be allowed to die, as Nigerians are benefiting from its activities. Okorocha, who spoke in a...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 01, (THEWILL) – Senate president, Bukola Saraki has dissociated himself from the N60 billion arms deal involving the immediate past National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki. Saraki in a statement by his special adviser (media and publicity), Yusuph...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 01, (THEWILL) – The financial records of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) showed that N6,501,845,492.52 (85.74%) was remitted by market operators in the 2014 fiscal year out of the N7,583,193,442.25 credit note. The revenue was higher...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 01 (THEWILL) – A fresh crisis could be brewing in Nigeria’s fragile power sector as ex-workers of the privatised Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) are haggling for a showdown with the government and the 18 succession...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 01 (THEWILL) – The Tony Elumelu Foundation said on Tuesday that the second annual round of the $100m Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP) for emerging African entrepreneurs would be launched on January 1, 2016. In 2015, TEEP empowered...

... PDP Reacts BEVERLY HILLS, December 01 (THEWILL) – Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, former governor, Sokoto State, and Chief Raymond Dokpesi, Chairman Emeritus/founder, Africa Independent Television, were Tuesday arrested for questioning by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)...

Some pro-Biafra protesters, seeking the actualisation of Biafra nation, have blocked the Onitsha-Owerri expressway in eastern Nigeria, truncating business activities in one of the nation’s major commercial cities, Onitsha. According to an eyewitness, the protesters, who were agitating for the...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 01, (THEWILL) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday arrested the Chairman emeritus of Daar Communications Plc, owners of AIT and RayPower FM, Chief Raymond Dokpesi. He was arrested over the festering arms purchase...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 01 (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday felicitated with Mr. Roch Marc Kabore of the Movement of People for Progress Party, MPP, on his election as the second civilian President of Burkina Faso. The President, in a...