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The Senate on Wednesday assured Nigerians that the new Tobacco Bill will not create unemployment or result in the closure of multinational companies that manufacture cigarette in the country. Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, gave...

BEVERLY HILLS, October 15, (THEWILL) - The Senate on Wednesday deferred further consideration of the Constitution review report to Tuesday, next week due to poor attendance by  senators at the plenary session. Senate rules provides that the upper chamber must...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, (THEWILL) – Former military Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, Wednesday formally declared his intention to seek the Presidency in the 2015 general elections under the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Buhari, who addressed...

… Ebola Scares Foreign Witnesses From Nigeria An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday discharged a socialite and businessman, Fred Ajudua, of $1.69m (about N252.8m) fraud charge. Justice Kudirat Jose discharged Ajudua and his co-defendant, Charles Orie, following the withdrawal of the...

MINISTER OF STATE FOR DEFENCE, AMBASSADOR MUSILIU OBANIKORO SAN FRANCISCO, October 15, (THEWILL) – At least seven members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday tendered their letters of resignation to the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)...

A second health-care worker in Texas tested positive for Ebola after caring for a patient with the deadly viral illness, adding to concern that infection controls at U.S. hospitals aren’t strong enough. The worker at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital reported...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, (THEWILL) – Former military head of state, General Yakubu Gowon, Group Managing Director and CEO of United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, Phillips Oduoza, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina were among many other credible...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, (THEWILL) – The Borno State Police Command has paraded a student of University of Maiduguri for alleged car theft. The 29-year-old suspect, Mari Paul Dirkwa, who is a final year student of the Department of Business...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, (THEWILL) – The Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS Delta) on Tuesday said it arrested nine suspected oil thieves on board a self-propelled barge named MV Jochebed, laden with about 200,000 litres of a substance suspected to...

SAN FRANCISCO, October 14, (THEWILL) –Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), Tuesday in Abuja, called for what he described as the moral and spiritual reconstruction of the country, saying though the assets of Nigeria, in men and...