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The Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, Xiaojie Gu has said that the trade volume between Nigeria and China recently hit N2.9 trillion. This was revealed during a courtesy visit to the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu in Abuja. According to the envoy, the latest trade volume...

Zao LingXiang, the Economic and Commercial Counsellor of the Chinese Embassy in Nigeria, said that China would need more crude oil exports from Nigeria, in spite of the recent changes in prices. LingXiang made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja. The total...

Beijing has overtaken New York as the city with the highest number of billionaires for the first time, a new report by China-based firm Hurun says. A total of 100 billionaires are now living in the Chinese capital, compared with 95 in New York, the report said. Shanghai, China’s centre of...

A Chinese baby boy who was declared dead and spent the night in a morgue showed signs of life just as he was about to be cremated, local TV reported. Workers at the crematorium in Pan’an in the eastern province of Zhejiang were preparing to cremate the baby on Friday when he suddenly starting...

Senator Shehu Sani representing Kaduna North Central has adopted 60 children in the Adonai Orphanage Home as his children. The senator said though the children are orphans, they deserve a future like every other child, saying that, “We owe it to them; to support them and make their lives useful...

Nigeria will be the third most populous country in the world by 2050, standing behind just India and China, a United Nations study has projected. Nigeria’s population, currently the seventh largest in the world, is growing most rapidly and is projected to surpass that of the United States by...

The controversial president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe was awarded China's alternative to the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday for what the prize committee called his inspired national leadership and service to pan-Africanism. The 91-year-old Mugabe is the latest in a series of critics of the West...