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L-R: (sitting) Representative of China SINOPEC Consortium, Mr Yang Hongtao; Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki; Managing Director, ICMG Securities Limited, Micheal Osime, during the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, for a 5,500bpd modular refinery between Edo State Government and SINOPEC of China, at SINOPEC headquarters in Beijing. L-R: (standing) Tian Tim of China SINOPEC Consortium; Commissioner for Finance, Edo State, Mr. Osagie Inegbedion; Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China in Lagos, Mr. Chao Xiaoliang; Nigerian Ambassador to China, Amb. Usman Bakori; Chairman, Edo State Strategic Planning Team, Prof. Julius Ihonvbere and Majority Leader, Edo State House of Assembly, Mr. Roland Asoro. (Nigeria) Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State on Wednesday in China, expanded the portfolio of foreign investments in the state following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with a Chinese consortium for a 5,500 barrel per day modular refinery in

*Kirikiri Female Prison, Lagos (Nigeria)Justice Hakeem Oshodi of a Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja on Thursday remanded a 47-year-old Chinese woman Zhen Zhen, in Kirikiri Female Prison, Lagos for allegedly setting fire to an hotel and damaging the property.

(Nigeria) Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, and it's leadership worldwide under the command and leadership of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu  on Thursday, clarified its relationship with Mr. Abdulkadir Erkahraman, a Turkish citizen, who is the current President of International Nations Commercial Association based in Turkey, saying he is an adviser to its leader and representative of IPOB on International relations in the Middle East and Asia.

(Nigeria) The Nigerian Government has expresses regret at the desperate human right situation in the Rakhine State of Myanmar, which it noted was reminiscent of what happened in Rwanda in 1994 and in Bosnia Herzegovina in 1995.

*Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (Nigeria) Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Thursday, said that the Muhamadu Buhari administration in its quest to deliver sustainable socio-economic development to Nigerians, will no longer accept excuses that suggest such progress is not attainable.

Homeland Security on Thursday warned that if North Korea was to fire missiles at the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, they would reach the island in 14 minutes.

*President Donald Trump of the U.S President Donald Trump of the United States of America, expressed frustration with China on Wednesday for failing to do more to cut off support to North Korea and exert pressure to curb its nuclear pursuits.

*Kim Jong Un  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed Wednesday his nation will “demonstrate its mettle to the United States,” and never put its weapons programs up for negotiations, a day after successfully testing its first intercontinental ballistic missile.

*The Chinese accused (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday, adjourned till November  9, for continuation of trial of two Chinese, Tao Shen and Jing Yau, charged with importation of sub-standard tyres.

*Rescue workers wait as heavy machinery clears dirt at the site of a landslide in Xinmo     Rescuers recovered 10 bodies and were still searching for 93 missing people on Sunday, a day after a massive landslide buried a picturesque mountain village in southwestern China.

Thousands of South Koreans staged a protest rally in central Seoul on Saturday demanding the withdrawal of the deployment of an American high-tech anti-missile defence system. The protest came as President Moon Jae-in and his United Statescounterpart Donald Trump are set to meet in Washington D.C. next week. “The deployment of THAAD, which is unnecessary for the defence of the Korean Peninsula, should be pulled back,” the protesters said in a rally held in Seoul Plaza at the heart of Seoul. The rally’s organiser put the number of participants at 3,000. The rally came ahead of the first Moon-Trump summit to be held from June 29, which is expected to feature the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, THAAD. After taking office last month, Moon ordered the deployment to be delayed until an environmental impact assessment is carried out at its deployment site. “The South Korea-U.S. summit to come next week should be an avenue where the review of the THAAD deployment s

*President Donald Trump of the US (Nigeria) The Trump administration is considering banning travel by U.S. citizens to North Korea, officials said Tuesday, as outrage grew over the death of American student Otto Warmbier and President Donald Trump declared it a “total disgrace.”

The United States flew two supersonic bombers over the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday in a show of force against North Korea, South Korean officials said.

There was no official comment from North Korea as of Tuesday on the death of American Otto Warmbier. He died on Monday, days after he was returned to the U.S. from North Korea, where he had been held prisoner for 17 months. Warmbier returned with severe brain damage. It’s unknown what caused it. (June 20) A coroner’s office in Ohio is investigating the death of a 22-year-old college student who died less than a week after his return to the U.S. after nearly a year and a half in North Korean detention, a spokesman said Tuesday.

U.N. chief says on Kabul visit. United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres (C) visits a camp for internally displaced people outside Kabul, Wednesday (Reuters) United Nations Secretary-General,  Antonio Guterres has said that there was no military solution to the conflict in Afghanistan that is forcing record numbers of people from their homes.

(Nigeria) The Federal Government on Monday pleaded with the government of Indonesia to commute the death penalty passed on Nigerians in the country’s prison, to life imprisonment.

*Governor Ifeanyi Okowa (right) of Delta State discussing with a Chinese company representative during the tour (Nigeria) Desirous of turning Delta State to a major manufacturing centre and commercial hub in line with the state government economic policies, Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and members of the state delegation to the first Nigeria-China Governors Investment Forum took time off to tour some major manufacturing companies in Beijing, China.

*Abike Dabiri-Erewa (Nigeria) Following multiple distress calls by Nigerian students in India on concerns on their safety as a result of renewed attacks on them, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora has urged Nigerians in India to remain calm, be watchful of their surroundings.

An Afghan police officer opened fire on his colleagues, killing nine of them, at a checkpoint in northern Afghanistan, a police spokesperson Mahfoozullah Akbari said on Thursday.

*Taolung Shen, Xu Jing Yao at the time they were apprehended (Nigeria) A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, on Monday, ordered the prison remand of two Chinese citizens and a Nigerian, who were arraigned before the court her for allegedly importing sub-standard   automobile tyres worth about N5 billions into the country.