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http://ift.tt/2rLVFW8 Shoemakers in Ariaria Market, Aba, have expressed concern that invitation of a Chinese investor may stifle local entrepreneurs. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN), reports that the Abia Government in April 2017, announced that it had secured a loan of $1.5 billion for a Chinese entrepreneur to set up a shoe industry in Aba. Some shoemakers in separate interviews with NAN on Saturday in Aba, said the arrangement would not work in their favour, as they lacked the capacity to compete with the well established shoe manufacturing company. Mr Ikedi Ohaeto, one of the local entrepreneurs, said it was not proper for Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu who is championing made-in-Aba products to shop for an investor from abroad. He stressed that what the governor ought to do, is to empower local entrepreneurs to acquire machines. “If the Chinese arrives with his machines and coupled with cheap labour, how can we compete with him producing with bare hands? “I am not too sure that ...

http://ift.tt/2pG7iig French President Emmanuel Macron arrives for talks with the German Chancellor, a day after the new French president took office, on May 15, 2017 at the Chancellery in Berlin. France's new President Emmanuel Macron secured backing from key ally Chancellor Angela Merkel for his bid to shake up Europe, despite scepticism in Berlin over his proposed reforms. Travelling to the German capital to meet the veteran leader in his first official trip abroad, Macron used the opportunity to call for a "historic reconstruction" of Europe. / AFP PHOTO / John MACDOUGALL French President Emmanuel Macron is set to unveil his cabinet on Tuesday, a delicate balancing act for the centrist who has promised to include faces from the left and right as well as political newcomers. On Monday, his first day in office, Macron named centre-right MP Edouard Philippe as prime minister and travelled to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on reforming the EU. ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Stockholm – A Danish court on Tuesday found a teenage girl guilty of terrorism over planning to attack two schools, one of them a Jewish school in the capital, Copenhagen. The teen, now aged 17, has been in custody since January 2016. “She converted to Islam a few years ago and was believed to be the first female charged with terrorism in the Scandinavian country,’’ local media reported. The three judges and six jurors at the Holbaek District Court were unanimous that the girl whose name was withheld under Danish law had planned to target the Carolineskolen, a private Jewish school in Copenhagen. The other was her former school near her home in Holbaek, north-west of the capital. She was also convicted of attacking an employee at an institution where she was held on remand. She would be sentenced on Thursday. Prosecutor Kristian Kirk welcomed the court’s decision. The girl and her attorney, Mette Grith Stage, had claimed during the trial that the girl had ...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J A railway worker in China Weng Jianzhong, has received 6000 yuan ($869) about N340,000 for preventing a woman from committing suicide. The railway staff had spotted the woman running into the path of an oncoming train at Putian City in China’s Fujian Province and pulled her back onto the platform. His quick intervention saved the woman from been crushed. According to Fox News, the suicidal woman suddenly made a dash for the tracks as the train was just seconds away from arriving. But 54-year-old Jianzhong reacted immediately, grabbing her arm and saving her from falling over the edge. With both falling to the ground, the train missed the woman’s legs by a second. The woman, in her 20s, burst into tears on the platform after being pulled to safety. She was taken to hospital but had no serious injuries. The post Man gets N.3m for preventing a woman from committing suicide appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2r8Pc8t

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J BY NDAHI MARAMA, MAIDUGURI The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Alhaji Maikanti Baru has said the corporation has concluded arrangement to mobilize heavy and sophisticated equipment to resume the oil exploration in the Lake Chad Basin of Borno state. He said, the resumption which will be done in the next six months was based on the military’s assurance of adequate security, relative peace and the degrading of boko haram sects in the north east sub -region. Baru stated this when he led top management staff of NNPC on a courtesy call on governor Kashim Shettima at the Government House, Maiduguri on Monday. The post NNPC to resume oil exploration in Borno as peace returns appeared first on Vanguard News . Vía Vanguard News http://ift.tt/2rhz8xz

http://ift.tt/2qiUsn5 Christian Kern Austria’s Chancellor Christian Kern said Sunday that he expected early elections this year after his coalition partners pulled the plug on their alliance. “There will with certainty be elections in the autumn this year, I expect,” Kern said during a televised talk show on public broadcaster ORF. “It has to be accepted that the OeVP put an end to this coalition on Friday live on television. They made it quite clear that they don’t want (to be in coalition) any more,” Kern said. Austria’s unhappy “grand coalition” between Kern’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPOe) and the centre-right People’s Party (OeVP) was meant to govern until September 2018. After months of failing to agree much in the way of reforms to boost Austria’s lagging economy, the head of the OeVP, Reinhold Mitterlehner, resigned last Wednesday. Two days later his likely successor, Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz — who is expected to be appointed party leader later Sunday ...

http://ift.tt/2pWUAKU (FILES): This file photo taken on February 01, 2017 shows US National Security Advisor Mike Flynn speaking during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, DC, on February 1, 2017. The White House announced February 13, 2017 that Michael Flynn has resigned as President Donald Trump's national security advisor, amid escalating controversy over his contacts with Moscow. In his formal resignation letter, Flynn acknowledged that in the period leading up to Trump's inauguration: "I inadvertently briefed the vice president-elect and others with incomplete information regarding my phone calls with the Russian ambassador." / AFP PHOTO / NICHOLAS KAMM A Senate panel issued a subpoena for documents from White House national security advisor Michael Flynn Wednesday, taking the sprawling investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russia to a new level. The Senate Intelligence Committee said it made the formal demand after F...