David Oputah, THEWILL

BEVERLY HILLS, December 21, (THEWILL) - A total of N812.762 billion has been distributed as Federal Allocation for the month of November 2018 between the Federal, States and Local Government Councils. This was revealed in a communiqué issued by the Technical...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 21, (THEWILL) - Nigeria’s Senate President Dr. Bukola Saraki has sued workers of the National Assembly for embarking on an industrial action over unpaid allowances. In a an ex-parte motion issued by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 21, (THEWILL) - The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it is fully prepared to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2019. INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, said this while briefing reporters after meeting with the...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 21, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari has warned the police against unprofessional conducts such as illegal detention, extrajudicial killings, torture and violation of fundamental human rights describing those acts as demeaning and insisting that they are...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 21, (THEWILL) - A House of Representatives ad-hoc committee, set up to investigate the legality and modus operandi of the Special Presidential Investigation Panel on Asset Recovery, has called for the prosecution of the Chairman of...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 20, (THEWILL) - Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, says the balance of the Excess Crude Account (ECA) declined by $1.68 billion between November 25 and December 19. He made this known on Wednesday...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 20, (THEWILL) - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) says Nigeria, and West and Central Africa face “disruptive and destabilising” new trends regarding drug trafficking, drug use and other crimes. The Executive Director of UNODC,...

BEVERLY HILLS, December 20, (THEWILL) - The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is set to order mobile operators to refund more than N36bn illegally deducted from mobile telecommunications subscribers through forced subscription to Value Added Services. In a statement made available to...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, (THEWILL) - President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, presented the 2019 Appropriation Bill of N8.83 trillion to a joint session of the Senate, and House of Representatives. Tagged as the ‘Budget of Sustenance’, the proposed budget shows that...

SAN FRANCISCO, December 19, (THEWILL) - The Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Gabriel Olonisakin, has stated that the annual budgetary provisions cannot fund the Armed Forces with its statutory responsibilities of safeguarding the nation. Olonisakin made the statement when...