The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s (retd.) appointment of service chiefs on Tuesday violated a 2013 judgment of a Federal High Court, Abuja, checks by The PUNCH on Wednesday revealed. The judgment, which was delivered by Justice Adamu Bello on July 2, 2013, stated that it was mandatory for the President toContinue Reading
By Yan Yu, People’s Daily Overseas Edition Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the World Economic Forum (WEF) Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda via video link and delivered a special address entitled “Let the Torch of Multilateralism Light up Humanity’s Way Forward”on Jan. 25. “Yet we remain convinced that winterContinue Reading
By Lu Ya’nan, Ding Yiting, People’s Daily China’s high speed rail lines topped 37,900 kilometers at the end of 2020, nearly doubling the figure five years ago and making China a country that owns the longest tracks for bullet trains. As the first railway designed and built by China, theContinue Reading
By Wang Meihua, People’s Daily Overseas Edition As it promised last year,China is turning its COVID-19 vaccines into a global public good,contributing to ensuring vaccine accessibility and affordability in developing countries. The country has granted conditional marketing authorization for its first self-developed COVID-19 vaccine. Its several other vaccines for COVID-19Continue Reading
By Raphael Oni India’s President Ram Nath Kovind says his country has started providing other countries with its indigenously manufactured Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine as part of its efforts to contain further spread of the virus across the globe. Kovind said this in his remarks at an event to mark India’sContinue Reading
By Raphael Oni Finally President Muhammadu Buhari appoints new service chiefs to pilot the affairs of the Military in Nigeria. You will recall that there has been clamour for replacement of the service chiefs since 2015 in order to inject fresh blood into the system. The new service chiefsContinue Reading
By Li Jie, People’s Daily Overseas Edition Young people in China are becomingthe main consumer group of many popular products, including “mystery” toy boxes, sneakers, designer toys, garage kits, e-sports products, as well as high-end cosmetics and beauty products, injecting fresh impetus into the country’s consumption upgrading trend. “I tryContinue Reading
By Luo Shanshan, People’s Daily China’s paid-in foreign direct investment (FDI) bucked the trend in the past year despite the complicated international situation and severe impacts from COVID-19, registering increase in size, growth margin, and global share. In 2020, paid-in FDI reached a record 999.98 billion yuan ($154.32 billion), upContinue Reading
By Yuan Quan, People’s Daily Southwest China’s Tibet autonomous region is seeing booming cultural and creative industries as a result of a rapid growth in tourism in recent years. At the beginning of the year 2021, manufacturers of cultural and creative products from Tibet autonomous region brought various products toContinue Reading
