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President Akio Toyoda has promised $10 billion in U.S. investment. TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is arranging to meet with Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda to discuss how Japan should respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's trade demands ahead of the two leaders' first summit meeting in early February. A government source said the meeting, tentatively scheduled for Friday in Tokyo, will also be attended by Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga. The three men will focus on how Japan should respond to Trump's demand that Japanese carmakers invest and create more jobs in the U.S. The meeting is also aimed at demonstrating to people in Japan and overseas that Japan's government and industry are working closely together to address trade issues with Washington, according to the source. After his inauguration, Trump told manufacturers to invest more in the U.S. to create jobs. He blasted Toyota over its plans to build a new plant in Mexico. Trump ha...

A former Governor of Rivers State, Mr . Rotimi Amaechi, has blamed former President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor Nyesom Wike for the inability of the state to take possession of the two helicopters , which were seized by the Nigeria Customs Service and handed over to the Nigeria Air Force last week . Amaechi, who is now the minister of transportation , was said to have initiated the importation of the helicopters while serving as the governor of the oil- rich state . Wike said in an interview on Saturday that the two helicopters were brought into the country by Amaechi with Rivers State money. He added that “ outrageous import imposed on the two helicopters delayed their clearance ” by the state government . But Amaechi said in a statement in Abuja on Sunday that the state government under his leadership decided to import the armoured helicopters to fight criminals who he said were masquerading as militants, kidnappers and all other elements while he held sway as the governor ...

France’s divided Socialists picked leftwinger Benoit Hamon as their presidential nominee Sunday, in the latest twist of a roller-coaster election race that has seen conservative frontrunner Francois Fillon engulfed in scandal. Near definitive results from a Socialist primary runoff vote Sunday showed Hamon beating his centrist rival Manuel Valls, a former prime minister, with 58.72 percent of the vote in a clear victory for the left-wing of the party. “Our country needs the left but a modern, innovative left turned towards the future,” the 49-year-old Hamon told cheering supporters in a victory speech. His triumph is another upset in the French poll race, with the former education minister and son of a dockworker viewed as an outsider only three weeks ago. His nomination completes the list of major candidates for the two-round election in April and May after five years of unpopular Socialist rule. Hamon’s rivals include rightwing Republicans nominee Fillon, far-right candid...

She is the most popular of the Osinbanjo Family after the Vice President. She is a very beautiful lady and she takes every opportunity to flaunt her prettiness on the internet. She has been engaged in a lot of photo shoots and this is just the latest shoot of the daughter of the VP of Nigeria.

The Police on Thursday arraigned one Joy Amadu in a Wuse Zone 2 Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abuja, for alleged cheating. Amadu , 42, businesswoman of Nyanya, Abuja, was arraigned on a one-count-charge of cheating. Prosecutor George Ayana said that one Ebere Uzendu of Optimal Asset and Loan Microfinance Bank, located at Women Development Centre, Abuja, reported the matter at the Wuse Police Station on Jan. 13. He said that the defendant was given a loan of N400,000 from the said micro finance bank, with an agreement to pay N130,000 monthly into the account of the company.. The prosecutor said that the defendant defaulted and when she was confronted, she issued the company a dud cheque. Ayana said that the offence contravened Section 322 of the Penal Code. The defendant, however, pleaded not guilty to the charge leveled against her. Senior Magistrate Muhammad Tahir, granted the defendant bail in the sum of N100,000 and a surety in like sum and adjourned the case till Feb. 7, for heari...

Islamist Shabaab fighters attacked a Kenyan military base in southern Somalia on Friday in their latest assault on foreign and national army outposts. The attack on the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) base at Kolbiyow, close to the Kenyan border in Somalia’s Lower Juba region, began with suicide truck bombers blasting their way into the camp, followed by militants attacking from different directions. Shabaab claimed in a statement to have overrun the base, captured military vehicles and equipment and to have killed scores of Kenyan soldiers. “Fighters have taken control of the base and the overall Kolbiyow area after massacring the Kenyan infidels,” the statement said. KDF spokesman Paul Njuguna denied the base had been overrun, but gave no casualty figures. “We are engaging the enemy and we have actually repulsed them, but it is ongoing,” Njuguna said. Shabaab frequently overstates the death toll from its attacks while Kenya commonly underplays its losses. In January last yea...

Glasgow, United Kingdom - When British prime minister Theresa May stood before the cameras to deliver her long-awaited major speech on Britain's exit from the European Union earlier this month, millions across the country and the EU bloc watched in earnest. The speech was billed as a chance to witness May's first detailed statement on Britain's Brexit future seven months after the nation voted by a slender 52-48 percent majority to revoke its decades-long membership of the institution. After months of incessant speculation where discourse centred on whether Britain's departure would constitute a so-called hard or soft Brexit, the Conservative Party leader announced her vision: not only would Britain be heading towards the EU exit door with gusto but it would also be leaving the EU single market and the EU customs union. Even allowing for May's proposal of retaining some kind of associate membership of the customs union, the British premier's speech sign...

Senegal coach Aliou Cisse still looks back at the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations with a sense of unfinished business, so Saturday’s quarter-final against Cameroon offers a chance, partly, to settle an old score. The Lions of Teranga have never won the continental trophy, but they came mighty close 15 years ago in Mali when they reached the final for the first time. The other Lions, the Indomitable ones, stood in their way that day in Bamako and it was the Cameroon of Samuel Eto’o and Marc-Vivien Foe who came out on top in a penalty shoot-out following a goalless 120 minutes. Cisse, the midfielder and captain, missed Senegal’s last penalty that day and both he and the country are still waiting to lift the Cup of Nations. “A sense of unfinished business, a job not yet accomplished,” Cisse told AFP in Franceville when asked for his memories of 2002. “It is true that every day we say to the players: ‘Don’t make the error that we made’. “When you have the possibility to write his...

The senior pastor of omega fire ministries worldwide, Apostle Johnson Suleiman have ask his church members to deal ruthlessly with any fulani herdsman whose mission is to attack him or any member of the church, pastor suleiman is not happy with the way fulani herdsmen have been killing christians in that part of the country, he then reveal to his church members how someone called and told him about a plan by some fulani herdsmen to attack him on the road or in the church

John Brennan, the outgoing Central Intelligence Agency director, rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that he may have leaked the unsubstantiated dossier that claimed Russia had compromising allegations about Trump. “First of all, this is not intelligence community information,” Brennan said Monday. Brennan said he did not read the document and, according to the Wall Street Journal , gave it no particular credence. Trump blasted outgoing director on social media Sunday after Brennan said Trump does not have a “full understanding” of Russia’s power and threat to the world. “I don’t think he has a full understanding of Russian capabilities and the actions they are taking on the world,” Brennan told “Fox News Sunday.” He also suggested that Trump lacks a “full appreciation” of Russia’s aggression or about why President Obama imposed sanctions on the Kremlin for meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “Mr. Trump has to understand that absolving Russia is a road th...

Japanese snack maker Calbee has resumed selling Jagabee and other products in Taiwan. TOKYO -- Japanese snack makers are going on a marketing offensive in Asia to capitalize on the growing popularity of their products. Calbee will boost the production capacity of its plant for Jagabee in Hong Kong by 50% at a cost of 1 billion yen ($8.76 million) in March. While sales of the puffed potato sticks in Hong Kong are increasing, tourists from the territory to Japan often buy them when they return

OPEC's coming output cuts could pull down rate even furtheThe 308,000 DWT crude oil tanker "Yuanteng Lake" berths at a port during the delivery and naming ceremony in Dalian city, northeast China's Liaoning province. TOKYO -- The freight rates that large oil carriers charge on certain routes have plunged about 30% since the beginning of the year. The reason is twofold: There are suddenly more tankers looking for work and less demand for their services because of OPEC's production cut. The benchmark Worldscale rate for very large crude carrier tankers in the 300,000-ton class has sharply fallen to around WS65 at present -- the lowest point since November -- for a voyage from the Middle East to the Far East. Less than three weeks ago, the voyage cost over WS90.

After the World Bank Group said the country would grow by one per cent in 2017, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reduced the growth rate to 0.8 per cent. The differing numbers shows the continuous changes in economic activities, which are used in measuring growth, as well as an affirmation that each forecast is not the end. Nigeria’s growth rebound would be better than that of South Africa, projected at 0.8 per cent in 2017 and 1.6 per cent in 2018, while the sub-Saharan African economy, led by Nigeria, would record 2.8 per cent and 3.7 per cent for 2017 and 2018 respectively. The gradual gains in the foreign exchange reserves may have improved Nigeria’s outlook, as the steady price of crude oil add up the number to $26.96 billion yesterday. The new record represents eight-month record high, as it added no less than $600 million in the last seven trading days. In the last three months, the nation’s foreign exchange reserves have been on the ascendancy, raising the hopes...

A report in the university’s bulletin released on Monday in Ilorin said the exercise was in keeping with the management’s commitment to the provision of effective teaching and learning aids. The management of University of Ilorin says it has commenced the distribution of the outstanding PC tablets to affected students of the institution. A report in the university’s bulletin released on Monday in Ilorin said the exercise was in keeping with the management’s commitment to the provision of effective teaching and learning aids. It said a management committee of the university had a meeting with student leaders and other stakeholders during which a time-table was fashioned out for the distribution exercise. Students of the Faculty of Law, the report said, were the first to receive their PC tablets. It would be recalled that the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdulganiyu Ambali, had shortly before the Christmas and New Year break promised that the distribution exercise would commence in the ...

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President-elect Donald Trump, in remarks likely to rattle US allies, described NATO as “obsolete” in an interview published in Monday editions of two European newspapers. He also hailed Britain’s exit from the EU and backed a speedy trade deal with the UK, but condemned as “catastrophic” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to open Germany’s doors to a flood of refugees. “I said a long time ago that NATO had problems,” Trump said, in remarks carried by The Times of London and Bild, Germany’s biggest-selling daily. “Number one, it was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago,” he said. “Number two, the countries aren’t paying what they’re supposed to pay.” “I took such heat, when I said NATO was obsolete. It’s obsolete because it wasn’t taking care of terror. I took a lot of heat for two days. And then they started saying Trump is right.” He added, though, “NATO is very important to me.” On the campaign trail, Trump said he would think twice about helping NATO alli...

Super Eagles captain John Obi Mikel has hinted that Tianjin Teda will be his final bus stop in football, if all things go on well with him in China. Mikel signed a three-year deal with the Chinese Super League club currently training in Malaga, Spain after being frozen out at Chelsea, where he spent close to eleven years, winning titles. “Of course, I want to stay in a team for a long time, I left Chelsea after eleven years, I hope to stay in TEDA for a long time, not one or two seasons, “ Mikel was quoted as saying by Netease Sports. “If the club will not let me go, I hope to stay until the end of my career; TEDA will be my last bus stop.” Mikel scored his first goal for his new club in their 6-2 loss to German side St. Pauli yesterday. His goal came off a header from a well delivered free kick, which left the goalkeeper of St. Pauli stranded in goal as the ball flew into the net.

Real Madrid’s 40-match unbeaten run ended on Sunday as they lost away to Sevilla in the Spanish La Liga. Real scored first via a penalty by Cristiano Ronaldo in the 67th minute. Sevilla equalised via a Sergio Ramos own goal in the 85th minute. Sevilla scored the winner in the 92nd minute of the entertaining match through Stevan Jovetic. With the victory, Sevilla narrow the point gap between them and Real to one. Real Madrid have 40 points from 17 matches, Sevilla have 39 points from 18 matches while Barcelona have 38 points also from 18 matches.

The Christian Association of Nigeria on Sunday condemned the economic policies of President Muhamadu Buhari , including the ban on foreign goods and devaluation of the currency, saying they appear to lack human face . The ban on foreign goods by the Federal Government , CAN said , would lead to smuggling and huge revenue loses , adding that the devaluation of the currency , “ led to galloping inflation to the extent that the cost of living has risen and makes life unbearable for people.” The President of CAN , Dr . Samson Ayokunle , was quoted as saying this in a statement by his Special Assistant (Media and Communications ), Adebayo Oladeji , while delivering a sermon entitled ‘It is not beyond God’s control’ at the on - going International General Workers Conference and Ordination Interview of the Nigerian Baptist Convention in Abuja . He said, “ Fowls used to be a common gift to friends during Christmas celebration. During the just - ended celebration, it hardly featured as Chr...

Pegatron revenue slipped 4.6% last year due to lukewarm demand for Apple's iPhone 7 handset. (Photo by Cheng Ting-Fang) TAIPEI -- Tung Tzu-Hsien, the chairman of Taiwanese key iPhone assembler Pegatron, said the company was primed to at least triple its U.S. operations times if necessary, following incoming President Donald Trump's push to expand the U.S. manufacturing sector. Tung told reporters on Sunday evening the company would be able to scale up its manufacturing operations within 12 months.

Father of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, His Royal Majesty, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu, has berated Igbo leaders for not committing themselves to the struggle for Biafra. Recall that Kanu was arrested by operatives of the Department of State Services, DSS, in 2015 in Lagos and has been incarcerated ever since. The IPOB leader is currently facing trial before an Abuja Federal High Court on an 11 count charge bordering on treasonable felony and terrorism. Speaking with The Sun, the Afara Ukwu, Ibeku monarch also frowned at the silence of Igbo leaders over the incarceration of his son. Stressing that his son was fighting a just cause, the monarch expressed surprise that Igbo leaders, especially the Abia state government have abandoned. The monarch, however, applauded former governor of Abia state, Orji Uzor Kalu for paying Kanu a visit in Kuje prison. He said: “When I heard that the former Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu visited my son in pr...

Banjul - West African leaders flew out of Banjul late on Friday with The Gambia's president-elect Adama Barrow, en route to Mali for crisis talks with regional heavyweights in hopes of ending the nation's political impasse. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari led a three-nation delegation to Banjul earlier in the day, which his foreign minister admitted had not succeeded in getting longtime Gambian President Yahya Jammeh to step down. Jammeh has made clear he will not stand aside until the country's Supreme Court decides on his legal challenge seeking to annul the results of last month's polls, which he initially conceded losing. The Economic Community Of West African States (Ecowas), a 15-nation bloc, has repeatedly called on Jammeh to respect the result of the vote that delivered Barrow to victory, and step down after 22 years in power. "The Ecowas team has decided to depart Banjul tonight in the company of president-elect Barrow headed for Bamako, Mali,...

As part of efforts to end the incessant attacks in the southern part of Kaduna State, former Head of State, Abubakar Abdulsalam; Sultan of Sokoto, Sa’ad Abubakar: and the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Hassan Kukah; were on Friday in Kaduna for a peace visit. The leaders had a closed door meeting with Governor Nasir El-Rufai. Addressing journalists after the meeting with the governor, Mr. Abdulsalami said the Kaduna violence “is something that can engulf the country.” “So we want to make sure that peace reigns in Nigeria, to make sure that people know that we are together. “We have to live in peace with each other and we have what it is to give and take. “We are reaching a situation in the country where human live doesn’t mean anything to people and this is wrong.” The former Nigerian leader said he and the religious leaders would within the week meet with leaders in Southern Kaduna. “We will also visit the scene in Southern Kaduna where these problems are and discuss with...

A Nigerian billionaire, Walter Wagbatsoma, has been convicted of fraud by a Lagos court. Adaoha Ugo-Nnadi, convicted alongside Mr. Wagbatsoma for fuel subsidy fraud, fainted in the dock Friday as the judge began to read the sentence for her conviction forcing the proceedings to be rescheduled to Monday. Mrs. Ugo-Nnadi, Mr. Wagbatsoma, and their company, Ontario Oil and Gas, were convicted on an eight-count amended charge of fuel subsidy fraud before the Ikeja Division of the Lagos High Court. The minimum sentence for the crime is seven years while the maximum is 20 years. Mr. Wagbatsoma, the first convict, is currently under house arrest in the United Kingdom where he is accused of money laundering. Justice Lateefat Okunnu, however, discharged and acquitted the third defendant, Babafemi Fakuade, an employee of the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency. “The case of the prosecution against the first, second, and fourth defendants has been proved beyond reasonable doubt an...

The Gambia’s presidential election crisis has been of particular personal interest for me. Between 2013 and 2014 I lived in the country as a law lecturer at the University of The Gambia. The experience was a fantastic one and helped me to understand why the country and its inhabitants are affectionately referred to as the “smiling face of Africa”. It was a year that moulded and shaped me, but also in some respects shocked me. During one of my lectures I looked up to see an unfamiliar face. Students later informed me that the individual was a member of the national intelligence agency detailed to monitor anti-government sentiment. This, however, is barely the tip of the iceberg of the ways in which Yahya Jammeh, defeated finally in the December 2016 presidential elections, behaved towards The Gambia and its citizens. Since YahyJammeh came into power in 1994, human rights violations have become a commonplace tool the regime uses to stay in power. Violations highlighted by internati...

THIS IS A GREAT LOVE......                             Anthonia Robles Saouda, Has Been Arrested In Venezuela, After She Tried To Speak Her Boyfriend, Out Of Jail In A Suitcase,The Central European News Agency, revealed that the young lady had gone to see her boyfriend in company of her 6-year-old daughter at the Jose Antonio Anzoategui prison, with the plan of smuggling him out of the facility However, she succeeded in stuffing him into the suitcase but unfortunately for her she did not have the strength to wheel him out of the prison. The prison guards took notice of her struggle with the suitcase and she was asked to open it for inspection and her boyfriend was found inside. The guy was immediately taken back to his cell; the lady was arrested while her daughter was taken into temporary custody by the Venezuelan social service workers.

Governor Sani Bello called for peace in Niger srare - He noted that Fulani and Gbagyi people used to live in peace in the past - The governor vowed to deal with the bad eggs in the state Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello who is the governor Niger state has ordered the arrest of perpetrators of violence among the Fulani and Gbagyi people in the communities. Daily Post reports that the governor warned the people in the state not to take laws into their hands in order for peace to be sustained.  Niger governor vows to deal with perpetrators of violence Bello spoke on Thursday, January 12 when he visited Yadna village Garatu ward in Bosso Local government area of the state. He made an assessment of communities affected by clashes and said those behind them will be dealt with. He urged the people to continue to live in peace and harmony and urged village heads to collaborate with security operatives. He said: “It is unfortunate that people are taking laws into their hands, t...

The group said its agitation for the freedom of Biafra cannot be a fraud as claimed by many due the mystery behind its leader In a statement released by its spokesperson Powerful Emma, the IPOB referring to a map said there is a divine force behind the group motive and its leader. Below are the eight mysterious highlights revealed by IPOB: 1. "Can you notice the beloved country Biafra was originally called BI-AFARA, yes you read it right and Nnamdi Kanu was born in AFARA his village in Ibeku Umuahia." 2. "Do you know where the Biafra war ended, the place OJUKWU took off from to Ivory Coast? Yes you have guessed it right, the same Nnamdi Kanu's village Afara."                                                             3. "Do you know the location of the last Biafra capital and headquarters? Yes, you guessed it right, in the same A...

Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, on Thursday said he was waiting on God for the choice of the candidate who would succeed him as governor in 2018. The governor made this known in Ikere-Ekiti while flagging off the last phase of the dualisation of the town’s roads, according to a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Idowu Adelusi , in Ado Ekiti. The statement said that the governor, who was responding to Ikere-Ekiti people’s demand that they should produce his successor, said he had taken the matter to God in prayers and was waiting for His directive. “While saying that Ikere-Ekiti, like any other town in the state, could prod their children to seek election into office of the governor, he urged them to also help him take the matter before God. “With God all things are possible; I will advise you to take the matter to the Lord in prayers since you are legitimately qualified like any other town in the state. “As a leader of the party, I must create a level-playing groun...