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BEVERLY HILLS, March 08, (THEWILL) – Ghana suffered a nationwide power cut on Sunday, the country’s electricity provider, GRIDCo said, as it struggled to restore power. The Ghana Grid Company Limited (GRIDCo) said it was dealing with “a total system...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 03, (THEWILL) - A strong 6.3-magnitude earthquake hit central Greece on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, prompting residents in the city of Larissa to rush into the streets according to local media. The Institute of Geodynamics...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 03, (THEWILL) - The United Kingdom has nominated Dapo Akande, a Nigerian-born Professor of International Law who had his formative legal qualification in Nigeria, as its candidate for the International Law Commission at the United Nations. Currently...

BEVERLY HILLS, March 01, (THEWILL) – France’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy has landed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris found him guilty on charges of corruption and influence peddling. Sarkozy faced trial for offering to help a...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 27, (THEWILL) - US intelligence agencies have concluded in a newly declassified intelligence report that Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, approved the 2018 murder of the Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The four-page report released on...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 24, (THEWILL) - President Buhari on Wednesday expressed sadness over the death of former Saudi Arabia's longest-serving Oil Minister, Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani. Zamani died in a London hospital at the age of 90 years. Reacting to his...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 23, (THEWILL) - Former Interior Minister, Mohamed Bazoum, the candidate of Niger’s ruling PNDS party, has won the presidential elections with 55.75 per cent of the second-round vote, according to provisional figures published on Tuesday. Opposition candidate...

In a significant defeat for former President Donald Trump, the Supreme Court on Monday declined to step in to halt the turnover of his tax records to a New York state prosecutor. The court’s action is the apparent culmination of...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 22, (THEWILL) - The United Nations (UN) has lamented that 75 per cent of all vaccine doses have been administered in just 10 countries, while more than 130 countries have yet to receive a single...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 18, (THEWILL) - The World Bank has selected former Senegal Finance Minister, Makhtar Diop, to lead the agency responsible for private sector finance at a critical time for the global recovery. He would be the first African to...