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A hospital in Nigeria has live-tweeted an operation to repair a hole in the heart of an eight-year-old girl. The National Hospital in the capital, Abuja, is the first in the country to live-tweet an operation, reports the BBC's Nasidi...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 11, (THEWILL) – The federal government will not be sponsoring a high-powered delegation to Saudi Arabia this year to perform the year hajj as it used to do. The move is expected to save taxpayers at least...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 11, (THEWILL) – Mounting suspicions that young Nigerians seeking to travel abroad may end up increasing the ranks of ISIS has forced the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) to block 24,000 school leavers from leaving the country. According...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 11, (THEWILL) – At least 20 persons have been killed in a deadly bomb attack Tuesday at the popular Sabon-Gari market along the Maiduguri-Damboa-Biu highway in Sabon Gari, Borno State, the hotbed of the notorious Boko...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 11, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari has said the prosecution of persons who have stolen national resources will begin in a matter of weeks. Speaking at a meeting with members of the National Peace Committee led by...

SAN FRANCISCO, August 11, (THEWILL) – The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (GMD), Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, has fired more top employees of the corporation including the heads of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS)...

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has alerted the public, especially contractors in the global oil and gas sector, on activities of internet fraudsters peddling phantom contracts. A statement in Abuja by the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division,...

Former President and ex-Chairman of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Monday reiterated his decision to abstain from party politics when he hosted Kogi State Governor, Mr. Idris Wada, in his...

The Obawara of Iwara-Ife, Oba Layi Adereti, on Monday said the official proclamation of the demise of Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuwade, would be made on Wednesday. Oba Adereti disclosed in Ile-Ife while speaking with journalists on the preparations...

BEVERLY HILLS, August 10, (THEWILL) – President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Abuja charged government agencies to harmonize the collection and usage of biometric data in the country, instead of replicating their efforts in this regard. After receiving a briefing on...