Manchester United striker, Odion Ighalo has narrated his ordeal in the hand of a racist player while he was plying his trade in China. Recounting his travails, Ighalo said he was abused by a teammate while he was playing for former club Changchun Yatai. He said the the player in question hurled racist slur … Read more
President Donald Trump threatened Friday to impose tariffs against the European Union and China in retaliation for duties imposed on imports of US lobster. At a meeting with fisheries representatives in Bangor, Maine, Trump instructed his hawkish trade advisor Peter Navarro to look into punitive tariffs on EU cars and on unspecified Chinese products. READ … Read more
Two hundred and eighty six China returnees have have landed in Nigeria. The evacuees landed at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport on Saturday afternoon. Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, made the announcement in a tweet Also read:Tales Of Woe: How Late EX-NNPC GMB, Baru Lost Mum, Sister And Son In A Year She … Read more
President Trump is expected to announce Friday that the U.S. will cancel the visas of some Chinese graduate students and researchers, according to administration officials and others familiar with the matter. The move would target scholars associated with Chinese universities with ties to the People’s Liberation Army, or PLA. It wasn’t known how many people … Read more
The United States on Monday said China must pay more than the two billion dollars it committed to the World Health Organisation. It called the pledge a token to distract from what the Trump administration claims was Beijing’s failure to properly alert the world to the coronavirus outbreak. READ ALSO: Mission Accomplished But We Won’t … Read more
President Donald Trump attacked the United Nations health body as a Chinese “puppet” on Monday and confirmed he is considering slashing or canceling US support. “They’re a puppet of China, they’re China-centric to put it nicer,” he said at the White House. Trump said the United States pays around $450 million annually to the World … Read more
China has acknowledged it destroyed early samples of COVID-19, confirming a claim put forward by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo late last month. On Friday, Liu Dengfeng, a supervisor with China’s National Health Commission, admitted that ‘the Chinese government issued an order on January 3 to dispose of coronavirus samples’ at unauthorized laboratories, according … Read more
Chinese-born Researcher Arrested in US for Spying, Stealing American Scientific Advances A Chinese-born former employee of the Cleveland Clinic was arrested on fraud charges related to $3.6 million in federal grants, the FBI said on Thursday, the latest move in a US crackdown on alleged attempts by China to steal American scientific advances. The FBI … Read more
House of Representatives member, Ben Ibakpa, has accused officials representing the Nigerian government of putting pen to paper on loan documents from China despite their inability to decipher the language the loan terms are written in. Ibakpa said Nigeria dealings with China when it comes to loan are shrouded in secrecy as the house of … Read more
Wuhan plans to conduct coronavirus tests on the Chinese city’s entire population after new cases emerged for the first time in weeks in the cradle of the global pandemic, state media reported Tuesday. Officials have been ordered to submit by noon on Tuesday plans to administer nucleic acid tests on all residents in the city … Read more
China on Tuesday released a list of 79 items from the United States that will be exempted from trade war tariffs, a day after the US ruled out renegotiating their earlier trade deal. The list of goods posted online by the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council, includes medical disinfectant, rare-earth metal ores, and … Read more
A dramatic deterioration in US-China relations in recent days has convinced current and former government advisers on both sides that bilateral ties have plummeted to their lowest point in decades. Over the past week, the Trump administration has threatened to scrap an initial trade deal and increase tariffs on China, backed tough new export controls … Read more
Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan filed back to class on Wednesday, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners. Senior school students in 121 institutions were back in front of chalkboards and digital displays for the first time since their city — the ground zero of the coronavirus pandemic … Read more
The United States President, Donald Trump, has asserted that he is privy to information that corroborated the conspiracy theory that the coronavirus was made in Chinese lab. Trump said the information indicated that the Wuhan Institute of Virology is behind the COVID-19 outbreak. Wuhan is the Chinese city where the COVID-19 outbreak began and, for … Read more
How India Is Leading The Pack In The War Against COVID-19 — Ahead Of UK, US, China India might be seen as a country trying to break from the yoke of the developing country tag largely because of the sheer size of its population among which the majority is still very much poor and living … Read more
China has confiscated over 89 million poor quality face masks, a government official said Sunday, as Beijing faces a slew of complaints about faulty protective gear exported worldwide. Demand for protective equipment has soared as nations across the globe battle the deadly coronavirus, which has infected around 2.9 million people. But a number of countries … Read more
Former Vice President for the Africa region at the World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili has come hard on China for failing to act responsibly in the wake of the Coronavirus outbreak, stressing that the Asian country should atone for this irresponsibility by writing off the debt African countries are owing. In an op-ed first published … Read more
African ambassadors in China have written to the Chinese foreign minister over what they call discrimination against Africans, especially in Guangzhou. Several African countries have separately also demanded that China address their concerns that Africans are being mistreated and harassed. Having brought under control the original outbreak centred on the city of Wuhan, China is … Read more
A new study has revealed details how China effectively contained coronavirus in the middle of February. Published in the Journal of Population Economics on Thursday, it suggests that more than 1.4 million infections and 56,000 deaths were avoided due to national and provincial measures imposed in late January. The study, led by Xi Chen, President of … Read more
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In the wake of a global pandemic called coronavirus, medically termed “COVID-19”, the outbreak of the disease in Wuhan, China, sometimes in December 2019 is taking tolls on the global economy with adverse effects on the well being of all people. Because many countries including the United States of America have been forced to go … Read more