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A non-partisan, non-governmental organisation, the Grand Alliance Against Terrorism (GAAT), has called for a national and global consensus in order to overcome the Boko Haram insurgency. In a statement issued Sunday by its Secretary-General, Atoye Ariyo-Dare, GAAT listed its mission...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) – A highway bridge along the Maiduguri-Biu-Gombe road linking Borno to Gombe State was blown up Sunday morning by Boko Haram insurgents, thus dashing the hope of travellers travelling to Gombe through Biu from Maiduguri,...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) –Six suspects have been arraigned before the Federal High Court, Abuja over last year’s abduction of Alhaji Abu Dankure, a Sokoto-based businessman and a friend of the state governor, Aliyu Wammako. Dankure , 70, died...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) – A N2bn suit has been filed by the Borno State Government against a former Commissioner for Information in the state , Mr. Inuwa Bwala and an Abuja-based newspaper, National Trail, in which Bwala has...

SAN FRANCISCO, July 13, (THEWILL) – A right group, the Centre for the Vulnerable and the Underprivileged (CENTREP), has blamed the deadlock at the National Conference over the Consensus Committee's proposal on the decade-long deep rooted animosity, suspicion, distrust and...

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau has claimed responsibility for two explosions on June 25 at a fuel depot in Lagos, Nigeria's commercial hub, AFP reported on Sunday, which, if true, would be the first recorded attack on the city...

Nigerian police have uncovered a plot to bomb the Abuja transport network, they said on Saturday, using suicide bombers and devices concealed in luggage at major bus stations. Abuja has increasingly been targeted by Islamist group Boko Haram, with three...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, July 12, (THEWILL) - President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Saturday hailed Nigeria’s most famous living literary giant and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, as he attains the landmark age of 80 years on Sunday. A statement issued by the...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, July 12, (THEWILL) - Foremost Ijaw youth organisation, the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, has described the proposed five percent revenue to the North as a result of Boko Haram insurgency and additional five percent increase of...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA, July 12, (THEWILL) - The chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega, Friday in Abuja, promised that the electoral body would raise the bar of its performance higher during 2015 general elections. He also...