The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) has arrested 13 Chinese nationals for allegedly engaging in illegal mining activities in Ilorin, Kwara State. The anti-graft agency disclosed this in a statement on Thursday by its Head of Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren. According to Uwujaren, the 12 male and one female suspects were arrested on July
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‘The Chinese health clinic is situated near the famouse Peshawari Ice-cream shop in Karachi Saddar’ KARACHI: A Chinese killed while two others wounded when gunmen sprayed bullets on a health clinic being run by Chinese in Saddar area, sources said on Wednesday. An official told this scribe that unidentified gunmen broke into the health clinic
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The Chinese Business Community in Nigeria (CBCAN) has reacted to the murder of Ummukulsum Buhari in Kano. The lady, also known as Ummita, was allegedly murdered Friday nightby a Chinese national, Geng Quanrong. A statement on Monday by CBCAN Head, Mike Zhang condemned the gruesome killing. Zhang said the criminal act should be allowed to be
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A court in China has sentenced a citizen journalist identified as Zhang Zhan, 37, to four years in prison for live streaming a report from Wuhan as the COVID-19 outbreak unfolded early this year. Zhan, a former lawyer who was held since the month of May was sentenced to jail on Monday almost a year
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Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech has secured half a billion dollars in extra funding to produce its Covid-19 vaccine, it said Monday, as the country races to roll out a jab for general use. Beijing has largely brought the virus under control, with only 281 active cases still receiving treatment, according to official figures. But
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The police command in Ekiti State on Friday confirmed the killing of a police officer as gunmen allegedly abducted a Chinese expatriate in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital. The abductee simply identified as Wang was one of the engineers working with the Chinese company handling the new Ado-Iyin road network project. The Command Police
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal Office on Tuesday re-arraigned the duo of Meng Wei Kun and Xui Kuoi, both Chinese, before Justice Saleh Kogo Idrissa of the Federal High Court, Sokoto on three-count charges of conspiracy and offering bribe to a public servant to the tune of N50 million. Before their
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A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead . A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’ s students , sickening
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The administration of President Donald Trump of the United States of America has cancelled visas for more than 1,000 Chinese nationals under a May 29 presidential proclamation to suspend entry from China of students and researchers deemed as security risks. This was confirmed in a statement issued on Wednesday by the US Department of State
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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has revealed that the Nigerian government is about to borrow another $3billion from China. This is coming at a time when there are controversies trailing the Federal Government’s planned securement of $500million loan from China. The House of Representatives had raised an alarm over clauses in Article 8 (1)
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…will go to court as well as write world body disassociating the youths from the loans The Prominent Civil Rights Advocacy Group; Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) said the new form of economic colonialism foisted on Nigeria by China, occasioned by her Toxic and Enslaving Loan Agreements with Nigeria will enslave the coming
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President Donald Trump said he will take action as soon as Saturday to ban TikTok, a popular Chinese-owned video app that has been a source of national security and censorship concerns. Trump’s comments came after published reports that the administration is planning to order China’s ByteDance to sell TikTok. There were also reports Friday that
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The Federal Government has closed Haufei Restaurant and Mall, a Chinese eatery in Lagos State, for refusing to serve Nigerians. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, in a tweet on Saturday, said the staff of the restaurant, located on 33 Aboyade Close, Victoria Island, admitted that it was the business policy of the owners.
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The Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for tightened control over online discussion and increased policing to ensure “positive energy” and social stability, state media said Saturday, as the country struggles to contain the deadly new coronavirus. Xi’s remarks were made public as the authorities have faced rare bouts of public anger over the handling
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