Bombs hit Iraq's capital Baghdad and a village near the northern town of Baquba on Wednesday, killing at least 62 people, police and hospital sources said, as Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki warned that militants were trying to set up...
Western and Gulf Arab nations pledged $1.4 billion on Wednesday for United Nations aid efforts in Syria, where an almost three-year-old civil war has left millions of people hungry, ailing or displaced.
The pledge arose from an appeal for $6.5...
Bank of America Corp, the No.2 U.S. bank, reported a stronger-than-expected quarterly profit, driven by a steep fall in mortgage losses and provisions to cover bad loans.
Fourth-quarter net income applicable to shareholders rose to $3.18 billion, or 29 cents...
U.S. stock index futures rose on Wednesday, indicating the S&P 500 will build on its biggest gain in nearly a month, after earnings from Bank of America and ahead of data on inflation and manufacturing.
Bank of America (BAC.N) shares...
General Motors Co's (GM.N) new executive team expects a slight uptick in pretax profits this year, but said margins likely will remain flat until 2015.
A new management team led by Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra and President Dan Ammann...
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, January 14, (THEWILL) – Nigerian State House official photographer, Mr. Callistus Ewelike has been shot at close range by gunmen just outside his residence in Abuja, THEWILL can report.
The incident occurred late Monday night at the...
During a brief trip to London last week, I discovered that the news buzz was all about Mandamusa’s prediction that Nigeria—along with Malaysia, Indonesia, and Turkey—had prospects of becoming one of the world’s biggest economies over the next three...
Perception, especially when it is erroneous, if not quickly attacked, redressed and rebutted, could become reality and people who are fed on it would relate with it in their minds as the truth. That rebuttal was what the leaders...
In 2007, the politics of Sokoto State was all about who would succeed the former governor, Atahiru Bafrawa, who was coming to the end of his second term in office. Governor Bafrawa’s party, the All Nigerians Peoples Party (ANPP),...
Arsene Wenger warned Arsenal's title rivals that his side have the fight to win the Premier League after the Gunners went back to the top of the table with victory at Aston Villa.
Jack Wilshere and Olivier Giroud gave Arsenal...
Describing the allegations as entirely false, Adedeji said they were the handiwork of individuals determined to discredit him and weaken public confidence in the Tinubu administration.
