BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 13, (THEWILL) - Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Human Rights, Hon. Beni Lar, Wednesday called for increased funding for the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP).
Lar, who made the call...
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 13, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives Wednesday invited the Service Chiefs to appear before it on Thursday, November 14 to brief lawmakers on the state of security in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States.
The resolution...
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 13, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives Wednesday passed the 2013 budget of N315 billion for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Details of the budget shows that N15 billion was approved for recurrent expenditure, while...
Nigeria's banks are facing a profit squeeze this year as a result of new measures to help the country's economy that are also partly designed to get them to lend more to domestic businesses and consumers.
The banking sector, which...
BEVERLY HILLS, CA, November 13, (THEWILL) - The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts is to investigate allegations of evasion of taxes and non-remittances of taxes to the Federal Inland Revenue Services (FIRS) by the Nigeria Prison Services...
SAN FRANCISCO, November 13, (THEWILL) - The Department of State has announced the designation of Boko Haram and Ansaru as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) under Section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, as amended, and as Specially Designated...
Desperation gripped Philippine islands devastated by Typhoon Haiyan as looting turned deadly on Wednesday and survivors panicked over shortages of food, water and medicine, some digging up underground water pipes and smashing them open.
Five days after one of the...
At least 19 people were killed in bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police and pilgrims on Wednesday, police and medical sources said, just before the end of a Shi'ite Muslim religious festival.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks, which...
Deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said on Wednesday he was kidnapped by the Republican Guard the day before the army announced his removal and was later held at a naval base for four months.
Few details had previously emerged on...
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency said on Wednesday he saw "no radical change" in Iran's nuclear program in the past three months, broadly covering the period since relative moderate Hassan Rouhani became president.
Yukiya Amano, director general of...
