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Prof. Zhang Yong-Peng, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences(CASS), in Beijing, China on Tuesday said that for more Chinese development assistance to be extended to Nigeria, both countries should become active partners. Yong-Peng told a Delegation of visiting Nigerian Journalists in Beijing, while making clarification on "The Belt and Silk Road: Creating New Development in Africa,'' that it was imperative for Nigeria to become more active with China. "China knows Nigeria as a major power in Africa and would continue to create more opportunities to access her development assistance and funds. Let me say that Nigeria can benefit a lot more from the Chinese government. "The Chinese Government's Belt and Road Initiative currently covers 100 countries, including Ethiopia, South Africa and Egypt. "Nigeria should give us good development plans, because China is ready to provide more support to Nigeria. Therefore, Nigeria needs to be more a...

Youths of Igbara-Odo in Ekiti South West Local Government Area of Ekiti State went on rampage on Saturday and by the time the dust settled, two persons ‎lay dead and several others wounded.  The youth under the aegis of Federation of Igbara-odo Students Union‎, which comprises of current students and old students of the community had distributed some pamphlets to residents early Friday morning. In the pamphlet, they had demanded from the community monarch, the Arajaka of Igbara-Odo, to know what happened to money the community realised in the last celebration of the anniversary of the community, demanded inclusion of four of their members in the community's council of chiefs, dmenaded that a new Generation bank, which was about to vacate the town, be asked to stay and also demanded for a police college speculated to be coming to the town. Eye-witnesses said that after the youths distributed the pamphlets, they made for the palace of the monarch, and unleashed terror on it. They van...

The Spain international had an operation last month but had hoped to play again this term. However, United boss Jose Mourinho confirmed the 28-year-old, who  joined from Chelsea  in January 2014, would not be fit until the end of May. Defenders Phil Jones and Chris Smalling will not return until mid-May, Mourinho added. The Premier League season ends on 21 May. Should United progress to the Europa League final, that match would be played in Stockholm on 24 May.

JOSE MOURINHO has branded Chelsea one of the most defensive teams in the country. The table toppers have been brutally efficient in their quest to claim the Premier League crown. But their former boss who faces them with his  Manchester United  side at Old Trafford tomorrow is hardly labelling them the new entertainers. Mourinho  said: "They have a certain style of play, they stick to it, they do it very well. "Not every team defends with 11 players, and they defend with 11 players."Not every team is so objective in their counter attacks. "They are very objective in the counter-attack and they have individual players out of the context of the game that can also resolve the problems. So they are a very strong team." Meanwhile, Mourinho   insists facing Chelsea  brings no extra emotion. "You say that word 'emotion'," the United boss said when asked how his emotions differ after two high-octane meetings in the capital. "For me, it is just a ...

Fernando Torres has told the BBC that his teammate Antoine Griezmann doesn't need to move clubs in order to realise his full potential. In the interview with Football Focus, Torres says: "Where are you going to go to improve what you have in Atletico?" he said. "Not many places in the world. I hope he can stay with us forever." Griezmann scored the equaliser last weekend's derby against Real Madrid, and followed that up with the  winner from the penalty spot against Leicester in the Champions League  in mid-week, meaning his already soaring stock is higher than ever, with rumours of  mega-offers from several clubs, in particular Manchester United, swirling around the French international. But Torres, back at his childhood club, doesn't see the need for Griezmann to take up the possibility of moving. "It's normal when young players become one of the best in the world, everyone wants to sign them, you can go to many other places in the world  but ...

Imo State governor, Chief Rochas Okorocha, has called on Christians to use the opportunity offered by Easter to pray for the nation, the state and the people. He called for special prayers for President Mohammadu Buhari, and for God's control in all situations in Nigeria. Okorocha made the call in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemeodo, in Owerri on Friday. He urged all Christians to be mindful of the import of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, the symbol of Christianity. He also advised them to shun selfishness as demonstrated by Christ through his death. The governor particularly charged Christians in the state to show love to one another during the celebration.

The Catholic Diocese of Yola on Friday paid fines of  25 inmates from the Prison, as part of activities to mark the Easter celebration. Speaking at the ceremony, Bishop Stephen Mamza, said the church paid the fine amount and got them released. The church also presented foodstuff to the remaining inmates. Mamza urged Christians to demonstrate love through sharing with the needy and underprivileged such as prisoners and internally displaced persons during such festive periods. Mamza said that the role of the Church as body of Christ is to put smile in the lives of the hopeless one in the society. In his remarks at the occasion, the officer in charge of the prison, Mr Idi Abubakar lauded the church for the gesture and it’s sustain assistance to the inmates during such festive periods. Abubakar tasked those released to reciprocate the gesture by being responsible members of the society. Newsmen report that the church delegation also visited IDPs settlements where they dist...

The President who was expected to chair the Wednesday edition of the Federal Executive Council, FEC meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja failed to turn up. The reasons for the president’s absence have largely remained unknown as there was no official position on that. While speculations were rife that he had fallen sick, the spokesman of the government and Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed after the meeting told State House correspondents that the president was not ill. Mohammed said that the President delegated the power to preside on Osinbajo having considered the agenda of the meeting light. He added that the president was also in the country and was attending to “other issues”. The Information Minister however assured that the president who was at his official residency would resume duties in his office later that Wednesday or Thursday (yesterday). He said: “Clearly when we came in this morning, Mr President was not in the chambers but the Vice ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the levels of trust between Moscow and Washington have deteriorated since U.S. President Donald Trump took office. Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump agree to improve relations of both countries Asked about relations since Trump became president, according to a transcript of the interview released by the Kremlin on Wednesday: Putin said, “One could say that the level of trust on a working level, especially on the military level, has not improved, but rather has deteriorated.” Asked about accusations that Syria’s government launched a chemical weapons attack in Idlib province, Putin said that Damascus had given up its chemical weapons stocks. He said he believed there were two main explanations for the incident in Idlib province: that Syrian government air strikes had hit rebel chemical weapons stocks, releasing poisonous gas, or that the incident was a set-up designed to discredit the Syrian...

The FCT Sector Command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says it is beefing up its presence on highways in the territory ahead of the Easter celebrations. The move, according to the Sector Commander, Mr Sunday Oghenekaro, is to ensure effective management of anticipated rise in traffic volume on the routes within the period. “We are deploying more personnel and logistics on the City Gate, Giri-Gwagwalada and Mararaba-Nyanya axis to effectively handle the expected high volume of traffic. “We are also mobilising to the Dutsen Alhaji-Bwari end because some people will be going through that axis to Kaduna. “So, those areas should be well fortified to ensure that travelers have smooth and safe passage,’’ he said Oghenekaro advised motorists and other road users to obey traffic rules and regulations, and cooperate with traffic management and security agencies. On Tuesday, the national headquarters of the Corps announced the deployment of 25,000 person...

POLITICS is war by another means.  The process of voting to choose leaders and representatives is a battle in the larger front of the war theatre. The means employed are diverse and are either pristine or crude both in concept and execution in the struggle to gain primacy over the opposition.  To many, laws or regulations are either observed in the breach or repudiated to feather a particular nest.  In some cases, counsel for some parties to a contentious petition before an election tribunal adopt belligerent postures and tactics to harass, embarrass and finally mislead witnesses to gain undue advantage and prominence especially when such counsel are bereft of ideas in a particular circumstance. Without dabbling into the core issues before any election petition tribunal for adjudication, one will dwell on those issues that drive elections in the country and that were singularly thrown up in the public court of opinion by the Edo State Governorship Election of September ...

Osita Okechukwu , the Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria, VON, today in Enugu, described the imprisoned leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu as a boy for calling Nigeria a zoo. He allegedly told newsmen that Kalu goes to a radio station to rant and try to separate blessed Nigeria. Okechukwu, who is a Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, APC, while speaking with ‘New Telegraph, noted that he would cherish to see Nnamdi Kalu released. He posits, “This is a boy, who is living in United Kingdom and has little or nothing do to with us here, I don’t know why he needs Biafra as a country. “Has the Supreme Court said he should be released? To me, the Igbos are highly accepted in this country. Forget about the civil war because most countries also passed through the same road, even the United States. ”So, we must forget about the past and move ahead. If you look at it democratically, the Igbos have never at a time said the...

24 persons have died following the outbreak of Lassa Fever between November 2015 and February 2017 across Bauchi State. A data of the Lassa Fever outbreak in Bauchi State, obtained from the Ministry of Health and made available to newsmen, indicated that 37 cases were recorded in seven local government areas of the state. It further indicated that two cases recorded in Plateau State were treated in Bauchi. The local government at areas affected, according to the report, are Tafawa Balewa, Dass, Bauchi, Bogoro, Toro, Alkaleri and Ganjuwa. The report indicated that a total of 18 people died as a result of the outbreak in 2016, while three died in 2015 and in 2017. The recorded cases affected 23 males, between the ages of three and 78, and 14 males, aged between 20 and 70 years.

A country or society with greater productive youths is a wealthy one in deed. This is because, youths are the stronghold of every society; they are the pillars upon which every society solely depends on as they constitute the major workforce, the engine room of a people. However, a society that fails to invest and build upon the youths will eventually turn to a decrepit, unproductive and even, a moribund one without future. Such a society, soon, retire into extinction and oblivion. In Gombe state, Governor Ibrahim Dankwambo fully understands the indispensable place of the youths to nation building and hence, has taken no time to make youth empowerment the crust of his administration. No contemporary leader has done so much in Gombe State in youth empowerment and poverty alleviation within a very short period of time as Governor Ibrahim Hassan Dankwambo has done. His administration also took a very bold developmental step, the first of its kind in the state, as the administration cr...

Genetic. Most black men have razor bumps to white men even after using the best after shave, while some black men have never sighted a bump on their body before, its just the way it is. 2. Hair Type Believe it OR not, your hair type matters a lot when it comes to shaving, curly hair have been known to have bumps mostly than other hair types, after curly hair comes the tough hairs then the straight hair 3. Skin Type Most skin are just sensitive if is not razor bumps then is another irritation entirely. 4. Direction of Shave Start with the sides, then the mustache area and last the chin. The chin hairs are the toughest, so this allows them the most time to soften under the shave cream. Shaving against the direction of hair growth gives a closer shave, but has three drawbacks: A. It’s a good way to donate blood B. It’s the leading cause of razor burn, skin rash & skin irritation, and C. You run a high risk of cutting off a hair below skin level, causing an ingro...

THE leadership of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB and Biafra Independent Movement (BIM) yesterday called on the Inspector-General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris to order the Ebonyi State command to return all its properties that were unlawfully carted away by the command during its raid on the premises of the group in 2013. Addressing newsmen in Abakaliki, the leader of MASSOB (BIM) in Ebonyi state, Mr. Nwifuru John who gave the list of the items with the police to include: MASSOB ID cards, 6 pairs of MASSOB boots, uniforms, 48 plastic chairs and N250,000 accused the police of regular intimidation, harassment and unlawful arrest and detention of members of MASSOB in the state. According to him, “as freedom fighters, no amount of persecution and intimidation would deter the group from pursuing its core objective of actualizing the sovereign state of Biafra in the near future.” The leader of the group further accused the police of ...

The federal road linking the home of the late President of Nigeria and Owelle of Onitsha, Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, has now become impassable due to erosion menace which cut the road into two; few metres to the Onuiyi Haven residence of the late sage. As a result of the development, the house which was easily accessed from Odenigbo Roundabout, Nsukka, is now isolated from the neighbourhood. A visit to the area by South East Voice showed that the road which was taken over by the Federal Government in honour of the former president when he died in 1996 has now deteriorated to the extent that vehicles no longer ply it. The government reconstructed the road from Odenigbo in Nsukka through Obukpa, Ovoko to Obollo Afor to enable mourners visit members of the bereaved family at Nsukka when Zik died. However, although the former President’s widow, Professor Uche Azikiwe still lives at the Onuiyi Haven with some of the family members, the house looked desolate as family friends can no longer visit ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has written the presidency for further action on six of its former personnel involved in the  N23 billion election bribe doled out by Diezani Alison-Madueke, former petroleum minister. They include one of its retired National Commissioner, and five Resident Electoral Commissioners. Malam Mohammed Haruna, INEC’s National Commissioner disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, while giving  newsmen an update about the commission’s investigation. Haruna, who is also a Member, Information and Voter Education Committee, said the Commission has also blacklisted and deleted a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), West African Network of Election Observers (WANEO) found to be involved in the alleged bribery. INEC had in late 2016 received an interim report from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) detailing allegations against 202 serving and retired INEC officials and staff in 16 states of the Federat...

Nigerian former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has appealed to the government of Zambia to adhere to the rule of law and human rights principles in dealing with the opposition in the Southern African country of Zambia. The appeal is coming on the heels of the report, which broke early Tuesday that the house of the main opposition leader, Hakainde Hichilema, was allegedly broken into by the government police and other para-military agencies with the purpose of arresting him without any warrant. Obasanjo, in a statement signed by his Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, said it was in the best interest of the country to maintain the rule of law and human rights principles, which he said are recipe for peace, stability and development not only in the Southern African country, but the entire African continent. According to Obasanjo: “Early this morning, the news broke that the Zambian government police and other para-military agencies broke into the house of the opposition leader, Ha...

THE House of Representatives Tuesday told the Kaduna State Governor, Mallam Nasir Ahmed El-Rufa’i not to deceive the public with his alleged published security vote, claiming that what the governor published was his security budget and not security vote. The House also advised governor El-Rufa’i that as he was preaching transparency which was normal, he should also be aware of his past and how the company he had interest in, the Pentascope, allegedly operating from an abandoned Church in the Netherlands, ruined the Nigeria Telecommunications, NITEL Recall that the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, had on Friday April 7, 2017 in response to calls by Kaduna State Governor Mallam Nasir El-Rufai disclosed that the leadership of the National Assembly had directed the bureaucracy and all other agencies under the National Assembly to make available details of their annual budgets beginning from 2017 budget which is still under consideration in the parliament. Besides, Dogara had requested...

Borussia Dortmund’s Champions League quarter-final with Monaco has been postponed after the Dortmund team bus was damaged by an explosion. The German team confirmed that one person was injured in an incident near their hotel but said there was “no danger inside the stadium”. The match will now be played at Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion at 17:45 BST on Wednesday. Police confirmed there had been three explosions in the area of the team bus. Dortmund tweeted that: “A bomb exploded at the team bus next to the hotel. “The players are safe. There is no danger at the stadium.” Dortmund police also said that windows were broken and one person had been injured.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday cautioned a pro-democracy advocacy group, Nigerian Wailers, over an allegation on Twitter. The group had alleged in a tweet that the commission had assisted a popular lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), to acquire a N1 billion home in Abuja. “Falana Acquires 1 Billion Naira Maitama Home With Help of EFCC,’’ it said via its handle @NGRWailers. The commission responded almost immediately through its handle @officialEFCC, urging the Nigerian Wailers to tread with caution. It said, “When you are invited to substantiate your claims, you will scream blue murder and then behave like your name. Please exercise caution.’’ The exchanges generated hilarious comments from other Twitter users, some of whom urged the EFCC to hold the group accountable for the “falsehood’’. One Uche Jegbefume‏ reacted via @jaustinuche with the photograph of a man in tears accompanied with the ques...

Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Tuesday said that there was no judicial gang-up against the Federal Government’s corruption campaign in the country. Onnoghen, who disclosed this after a closed door meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari in the Presidential Villa, described the assertion as mere speculations. The CJN also said that the judiciary was behind the fight with all sense of responsibility. “If there was steam then it wouldn’t happen without the participation of the judiciary. So, if there is losing of steam you should not only equate it to the judiciary. “The fight against corruption has lost no steam. It is not correct. Now, you should know one thing: two people will always have a quarrel. ‘’They may be three or four or one hundred. All the parties to that quarrel will always have different stories to tell. “By the way our system is fashioned and designed and operated, when you go to a court of law, y...