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President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Nigeria, Faisal Eebraheem Alghamdi, and Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Adamu Bulkachuwa after a visit by the Ambassador to the Senate President on Wednesday. (Nigeria) President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has appealed to the government of Saudi Arabia to assist Nigeria in bringing back over ten thousand citizens held in detention in Saudi Arabia. Lawan made the appeal on Wednesday when the Saudi Arabia Ambassador to Nigeria, Faisal Eebraheem Alghamdi, paid a visit to his office at the National Assembly, Abuja. The Senate President, while underscoring the role of the Ninth Assembly in ensuring compliance to bilateral and multi-lateral agreements entered into by the Nigerian government, disclosed that ongoing efforts were underway to evacuate citizens held back in Saudi Arabia. He said, “This legislative arm of government is always conscious of ensuring that our government plays its role in bilateral ...

Huawei has maintained its leadership in the global wireless infrastructure market, increasing its market share by three per cent to 31 per cent. Analysts at the Dell’Oro for telecommunications infrastructure disclosed this in a report cited by Financial Street on Sunday. According to the analysts, the global wireless infrastructure market grew seven per cent in 2020, its fastest annual growth for a decade. The group said Huawei grew despite the decisions by the United States, and governments of other countries, mostly in Europe, to force their local carriers to exclude the Chinese group. Areas monitored included mobile core and radio access networks, broadband access; microwave and optical transport; SP router and carrier Ethernet switching, the researchers further stated. Commenting on Huawei's achievement, the Vice President and Lead Analyst at Dell’Oro, Stefan Pongratz, was quoted as saying that the rankings remained stable between 2019 and 2020, with Huawei leading th...

(Nigeria) The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has rejected the attempts by the Muhammadu Buhari administration to justify this reprehensible pawning of our sovereignty to a foreign interest. PDP in a statement on Sunday, said, “Nigerians can recall that our party had on May 28, 2020, alerted that the Buhari administration and the All Progressives Congress, APC, had placed our nation on the international auction market with accumulation of foreign loans under nebulous terms. “The PDP declares that the APC agenda offends our corporate existence as a nation and grossly violates the fundamentals of our constitution as a self-governing state, which grant no space for any form of takeover of any of our national interests by   foreigners, under any condition whatsoever. “Moreover, such mortgaging of our sovereignty in a loan agreement is in further violation of the oath of office of the President to protect the interest of the sovereignty of our nation. “This gambling with our sove...

*Chief Willy Ezugwu (Nigeria) The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, CNPP, has demanded that the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi immediately steps aside while the probe of the alleged lethal clauses in Article 8(1) of the commercial loan agreement signed between Nigeria and Export-Import Bank of China which allegedly “wills the sovereignty of Nigeria” in the $400 million loan for the Nigeria National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Infrastructure Backbone Phase II Project, signed in 2018. In a statement by its Secretary General, Chief Willy Ezugwu, the CNPP commended the Chairman of the House Committee on Treaties and Agreements,  Ossai Nicholas Ossai "for observing the anomaly and not succumbing to the Minister's antics aimed at truncating the probe." The CNPP then frowned "at the attempt by the Minister to stop the investigative hearing into some of the agreements signed between Nigeria and China while responding to various quest...

*Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State (Nigeria) A prominent Lagosian,  Chief Adesunbo Onitiri has cautioned Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State not to take any loan from China, describing it as a booby-trap into economic slavery.

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Gbajabiamila (center), Chief Whip, Muhammad Monguno (2nd right), Deputy Leader,  Peter Akpatason (1st right) during a meeting between the leadership of the House and the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehianire (2nd left) and Minister of State, Olorunnimbe Mamora (1st left) on the in-coming 18 Chinese medical personnel at the National Assembly on Monday. (Nigeria) Speaker of the House of Representatives Mr Femi Gbajabiamila on Monday said that the Chinese medical personnel coming to Nigeria to assist in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic must undergo the necessary checks as provided by Nigeria.

Left-: Olakunle Bello Shola and Inda-born Canadian, Santosh Singh, who allegedly defrauded a Nigeria Bank of N100m, after their arraignment on October 28, 2019 (Nigeria) An India-born Canadian, Santosh Singh   and a Nigerian, Olakunle Bello Shola, who were alleged to have defrauded a bank of the sum of N100, 075 million, have been admitted to bail in the sum of N5 million with two sureties by a Federal High Court, Lagos.

*Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN (Nigeria) Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has said that leaders need to speak enough about the common threads and things that bind the people that all human beings regardless of faith or ethnicity, desire much the same things, to be valued, loved, treated with dignity and fairness, to possess at least the basics of life - food, shelter and clothing sufficient for self and family.

*Left: India High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur and EFCC acting chairman, Ibrahim Magu. (Nigeria) The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC and the Indian government have agreed to pull more of their energies together in the fight against corruption and economic crimes in Nigeria and India.

*El-Zakzaky on arrival in Indian hospital  (Nigeria) Facts have just emerged that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky refused treatment from unknown doctors put in place to treat him in India aside those billed and booked to treat him before his departure from Nigeria.

*El-Zakzaky aboard a plane to India for medical treatment  (Nigeria) The leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria, IMN,  Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife have Nigeria for India alongside some family members and security operatives.

*Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky, granted permission by court to travel abroad for medical treatment. (Nigeria) Chairman, Free Zakzaky Campaign Committee, Abdurrahman Yola, has hailed the ruling of a Kaduna State High Court, granting permission to Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenat Ibrahim to seek urgent medical treatment outside the country.

*Bukola Saraki  (Nigeria) Former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki has congratulated the new Senate President, Ahmed Lawan; Speaker, Femi Gbajabiamila; Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege; and Deputy Speaker, Idris Wase as they begin their journey as presiding officers of the 9th National Assembly.

Sahara Energy Resources DMCC Dubai and Brooge Petroleum and Gas Investment Co, BPGIC and have signed a partnership agreement to set up an oil refinery capable of producing bunker fuel with a capacity of up to 250,000 barrel per day (bpd) in the Emirate of Fujairah.

Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi with CEO Mondia Group, Dr Amadeo Rahmann, during the signing of agreement on Mobile Child Health Care in Dubai on Monday. (Nigeria) Ekiti State Government on Monday signed a strategic partnership with a leading mobile technology firm based in Dubai, Momdia Group, for the roll out of a new mobile child health service.

*Late United States Senator, John Sidney Mcain (Nigeria) President of the Senate, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has saluted late United States Senator, John Sidney Mcain as an exemplary legislator who epitomized a bipartisan approach to lawmaking.

*Journalist  Jones Abiri at the Wuse 2 Magistrate Court, Abuja (Nigeria) Following a N200million suit filed by Femi Falana Chambers against the Department of State Services, DSS and the outcry of media stakeholders and human rights groups, the Department for State Security, DSS, on Thursday , again produced Mr. Jones Abiri before  a Magistrate court in Abuja.

*Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland Commonwealth Secretary-General, Patricia Scotland is about to set out on her first official visits to three Commonwealth member countries in South and South East Asia, during an 11-day trip.

China's shift to consumption-led growth will have mixed credit implications for African sovereigns, flattening the trade volumes of oil and ferrous metal exporters, while benefitting some exporters and tourist destinations, Moody's Investors Service said in a report published on Tuesday.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN (middle), with JETRO Chairman/CEO, Hiroyuki Ishige and  Minister of Trade, Industry and Investment, Okechukwu Enelemah. (Nigeria)   The Muhammadu Buhari administration working with the private sector is determined to boost the Nigerian manufacturing sector and will be engaging with international partners and friendly nations to realize that goal, says Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.