The U.S. has revoked visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals under a presidential measure denying entry to students and researchers deemed security risks, the State Department said on Wednesday. This is a move China called a violation of human rights. The acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Chad Wolf, said earlier that Washington was blocking visas “for certain Chinese graduate students and researchers with ties to China’s military fusion strategy to prevent them from stealing and otherwise appropriating sensitive research.” In a speech, Wolf repeated U.S. charges of unjust business practices and industrial espionage by China,…
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At least three Malian soldiers have been killed and five more injured as a result of the militants’ attack on a military unit in the central part of the country, the army said in a statement. The army is said to have captured two military vehicles left at the site of the attack. The situation in Mali was significantly destabilised in late August over a coup that began on the Kati military base near the capital of Bamako. The rebels detained President Ibrahim Keita, Prime Minister Boubou Cisse and some other senior government officials. Keita then announced his resignation and…
The Sa’adatu Rimi College of Education, Kano, says it accessed about N900 million Tertiary Education Development (TEDfund) intervention fund between 2017 and 2020. Dr Yahaya Bunkure, the Provost of the College said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday in Kano. “The interventions for 2015 and 2016 were not accessed by the college, before I came on board about two and a half years ago,” Bunkure said. He explained that, the funds were not accessed by the previous administration at the college for some years. “But when I became the Provost, I did my…
A 40-year-old truck driver, Olamilekan Onalaja, on Thursday appeared in an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court over alleged thefts of 10 wooden pallets worth N1.4 million. The police charged Onalaja, who resides in Ifo Ibogun, Ogun, with conspiracy and theft. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. Victor Eruada, told the court that the defendant and other persons at large, committed the offence on March 21, at about 2 p.m at Guinness Nigeria Plc, Ashade Agege, Lagos State. Eruada alleged that the defendant, an employee of Guinness Nigeria Plc, stole the pallets from the truck given to him to supply to a customer. He…
A public servant, Mrs Blessing Etim, on Thursday prayed the Customary Court in Jikwoyi, to grant her divorce from her husband on grounds that he treats her like a piece of filthy rag. Etim, who resides in Nasarawa State,made the allegations in a divorce petition to the court. “I am exhausted in this marriage. Since I married my husband I have not known peace. He is always fighting me. The worst of it all is that he harasses me before family members and in public. ”He treats me like a piece of filthy rag,” she alleged. The petitioner told the…
The Federal Government and the Lagos State Government have resolved to address the degeneration of infrastructure in Festac Town – a federal housing estate situated in Amuwo-Odofin area of the state. The resolution followed a meeting held on Wednesday between Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu and the Managing Director of the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Sen Gbenga Ashafa, at Lagos House, Ikeja. Sanwo-Olu said the state government took land administration and property development as critical. He said that his administration’s urban renewal project was being implemented with the objective of opening up remote communities for healthy living and investment drive. The governor…
Prof. Eugene Nweke of the Ebonyi University on Wednesday advised the organisers of the Big Brother Naija (BBN), a reality television show, to include tasks that would enhance national development in its activities. Nweke, Dean, Faculty of Administration and Social Sciences in the state-owned university, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki. The don, who lauded the organisers of the programme, said that the show could offer more to the country and African continent, in terms of national development if properly harnessed. Nweke, therefore, called on the organisers to include tasks that would…
The Comptroller General, Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Mr Muhammad Babandede has warned Nigerians to desist from using fake, altered, invalidated, withdrawn, stolen and lost travel documents. Babandede, who gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja, said that such documents had been automatically made available to 194 member countries of INTERPOL. NAN reports that NIS INTERPOL i-24/7 desk had successfully uploaded 150,000 Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (STLD) to INTERPOL Global System (IPSG) in Lyon, France seamlessly. This was an effort put in place by the service team to rid the world…
The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) extended losing streak on Wednesday for the third consecutive days with the market capitalisation declining further by N38 billion. The market capitalisation dipped N38 billion to close lower at N13.263 trillion compared with N13.301 trillion on Tuesday. Also, NSE All-Share Index shed 72.41 points or 0.28 per cent to close at 25,424.91 points. Similarly, the overall market capitalisation size shed N38 billion to close at N13.264 trillion. The downturn was impacted by loses recorded in large and medium capitalised stocks, amongst which are; Okomu Oil, Unilever, Zenith Bank, C&I Leasing and UACN. The Chief Operating…
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the National Steering Committee to oversee the development of the Nigeria Agenda 2050 and Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP). The National Steering Committee for the development of Successor Plans to Vision 20:2020 and ERGP will be jointly chaired by Mr Atedo Peterside and Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning. Speaking at the event held in Abuja on Wednesday, Buhari said the Agenda 2050 and MTNDP were to succeed Vision 20:2020 and the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) 2017 – 2020. The president expressed the hope that the successor plans would…