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BEVERLY HILLS, February 28, (THEWILL) – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested a legal practitioner, Barrister Ayodele Owoka, 47, over allegations of bribery. He was arrested on Thursday, February 27, 2014 at the Commission’s office in Ikoyi, Lagos...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 28, (THEWILL) –The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Friday arraigned the duo of Mr. Apiri Richard Tonye and Mr. Paul Charles before Justice Kate Abiri of the Bayelsa State High Court, Yenegoa, on a 4-count...

Suspected members of the Boko Haram sect, on Wednesday night, attacked some communities in Adamawa State, including Kirchinga district, Michika, Shuwari and Shuwa. The attack was the second in the week, following an attack on a Federal Government College in...

COBHAM ASUQUO SAN FRANCISCO, February 26, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s first professor of music Igwe Laz Ekwueme and music producer Cobham Asuquo have expressed optimism that the best of Nigerian music and drama would be on display when the grand finale...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 25, (THEWILL) - The  Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has finally resolved its impasse, barely few months after 17 members of the group laid claim to the top position of the group. A new executive committee has finally...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 25, (THEWILL) -  The war on quackery appears to be yielding positive results as the Apo Resettlement Division of the Nigeria Police on Monday in Abuja arrested a 57-year-old Indian neurosurgeon, Dr. Raju Bhuvaneswara Basina, at...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 25, (THEWILL) - The Gombe State correspondent of Lagos based Independent Newspaper, Mr. Mike Ogbu, 48, died on Tuesday morning, according to the Gombe State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), which said it...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 25, (THEWILL) -  Borno State Students, under the umbrella of the National Union of Borno State Students (NUBOSS), Tuesday called on President Goodluck Jonathan to stop blaming the state governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, for the escalation...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 25, (THEWILL) - The All Progressives Congress (APC) has condemned President Goodluck Jonathan's comment on  Borno State governor, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, during his media chat Monday night, calling it unwarranted, unpresidential and petty. In a statement issued in...

Gunmen from Islamist group Boko Haram stormed a boarding school in northeast Nigeria overnight and killed 29 pupils, many of whom died in flames as the school was burned to the ground, police and the military said on Tuesday. "Some...