The President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping has arrived in San Francisco, U.S., to attend a summit with President Joe Biden. The Summit is also the 30th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Meeting that started on November 14 and will end on November 17. In a statement on Wednesday, Chinese Ambassador to the U.S., Xie Feng, said that Xi arrived on Tuesday afternoon local time. The statement said, “Xi Jinping was warmly greeted by many overseas Chinese, including Chinese students studying abroad, who waved both Chinese and American flags along routes from the airport to welcome the Chinese President. “Cai Qi, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, and Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, also a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, arrived in San Francisco on the same flight.

The carmaker is busy testing the Punch EV, based on its smallest SUV, on roads ahead of the launch. The latest spy video of the Tata Punch EV has revealed several details about the upcoming electric SUV. Like the Nexon EV, Tata Motors is expected to offer the Punch EV in both mid-range and long-range versions. The size of the battery could be the ones used for Tigor EV or the Nexon EV. Tata Punch EV could offer range of more than 300 kms in a single charge in the long-range version.

Headteachers were respected while the primary school teachers did their work honestly and diligently. Recently the government said universities shouldn’t increase school fees? Parents who are not well fed, where do you want them to get enough to pay school fees? Our schools should not hesitate to increase fees, which means parents would be able to pay the school fees. Therefore, the only way they can survive is to introduce school fees because most students going abroad are paying fees there too.

The National Assembly complex in Abuja has been finally shut down by organised labour groups in protest of the manhandling of the national president of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero. The Guardian observed that the entire gates leading to the National Assembly complex was under lock and key as of 9:00 am today. However, the Presidential villa gate which connects the National Assembly complex remained open for security personnel and other essential workers. As at the time of filling in this report, the management of the National Assembly is yet to speak on the matter. On Tuesday the complex witnessed a partial strike with motorists and staff stranded for several hours.

The quiz competition which had various secondary schools from across Ibadan participating, featured topics which bordered on current affairs, child rights and protection, education and health. So girls under this scheme are peer leaders that reach out to other girls on all they have learnt. The main purpose of this quiz competition is for the girls to meet themselves, interact with other girls from other schools going through the goal program and share lessons and we also use the quiz competition to have an idea of what they have learnt during the program. We use it as a tool to monitor and ensure that the girls can share what they already learnt,” she stated. Stylised as…Helen Paul and other bastardy storiesEveryone has a history; how you act and tell your story defines you.

But truly, we are not too distant in spatio-temporal terms from the 1650s political and social alchemy. A man who has great affinities with Machiavelli and Musolini, he is much like the proverbial cat with nine lives. Many people have an excessively-exaggerated view of his ability to weather any situation or to turn stone to bread. This class today can defend any wrong so long as they are positioned to benefit the class or its leading lights. It is such that those who condemned what was wrong yesterday are up in arms to defend that self-same wrong today.

The Central Bank of Nigeria has extended the validity of the old N200, N500 and N1,000 notes indefinitely . “Thus, all banknotes issued by the Central Bank of Nigeria, in accordance with Section 20(5) of the CBN Act 2007, will continue to remain legal tender, ad infinitum. “The Central Bank of Nigeria is working with the relevant authorities to vacate the subsisting court ruling on the same subject. “Accordingly, all CBN branches across the country will continue to issue and accept all denominations of Nigerian banknotes, old and redesigned, to and from deposit money banks. “The general public is enjoined to continue to accept all Naira banknotes (old or redesigned) for day-to-day transactions and handle these banknotes with utmost care, to safeguard and protect the lifecycle of the banknotes.

Ndidi Mbah, TCN’S General Manager Public Affairs, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday. Mbah said that TCN did not make any statement through her office that there would be a national blackout as claimed in some quarters. She said, "The statement is mischievous and baseless as TCN, through the Public Affairs Head, did not make such. "We hereby note that the nation’s grid is intact and supplying bulk electricity to distribution load centers nationwide. ADVERTISEMENT"As at when issuing this statement, the TCN National Control Centre Osogbo which controls bulk power transmission nationwide, is actively operational.

Tata Motors is one of the largest automobile manufacturers in India, recently launched the Tata Nexon.ev for the Indian market. It is known that Tata is also planning to launch the EV iteration of its popular compact SUV, Tata Punch soon. ALSO READ: Tata Punch EV Spotted With Fake Exhaust, Front Bumper Mounted Charging Port And Harrier-Inspired Front Fascia; DeetsPunch EV - DesignRecent spy pictures of the Tata Punch EV have revealed that it will get new LED headlights that look similar to those on the Nexon EV. Punch EV - InteriorThe interior details of the Punch EV aren’t visible but it is expected that the Punch EV will get a new two-spoke steering wheel with an illuminated Tata logo, similar to the one in the new Nexon. Punch EV - LaunchPost its launch, the Tata Punch EV will be the fourth EV from the manufacturer after the Tigor.ev, Tiago.ev and Nexon.ev.

The state Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the development to our correspondent on Tuesday. He said, “The owner of the Honda Saloon car turned himself in yesterday (Monday) night and he will be taken to court today for manslaughter. “It was not murder, it was an accident and was not deliberate, so he will be charged with manslaughter.”It was earlier reported that the driver after crushing the two LAWMA sweepers took off leaving his car. He was reported to have rammed into the sweepers while allegedly trying to escape from officials of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority. The statement partly read, “Immediate investigation revealed that no LASTMA officer was involved in the unfortunate incident.

French shipping company, CMA CGM, has reported a 94.5 per cent drop in net income in the third quarter of 2023. The shipping company in its recent report on Monday, titled, ‘Third quarter 2023 financial report’, sighted by The PUNCH, said that it revenue within the period under review, stood at $11.4bn. CMA CGM is the third largest container shipping company in the world, and it also brings goods to Nigeria. The company recorded a net income of $7,039bn while in the same period in 2023; the company had $388m. CMA CGM said it is undergoing a gradual rebalancing of contributions from the group’s maritime shipping and logistics businesses.

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Justice Abiola Sholadoye of the Ikeja Special Offences and Domestic Vilence Court on Monday arraigned and sentenced a 32-year-old street sweeper, Damilola Omojolowo, to life imprisonment for defiling a 14-year-old girl. Omojolowo was convicted on one count of defilement of the girl, whom he claimed was his girlfriend. According to the prosecution, the convict defiled the victim by having unlawful sexual intercourse with her. Abolade, the convict committed the offence between June 2022 and July 2022 at No. “The defendant, Damilola Omojolowo, male, is to have his name registered in the sex offenders registry as maintained by Lagos State Government.”

Nigeria table tennis star, Quadri Aruna, has been listed as the 15th player to qualify for the season-ending World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals Championship, which features the top 16 players in the world. The event will hold from January 3 to 5, 2024 in Doha, Qatar. The Nigerian will be making his third appearance at the WTT Finals. Aruna remains the only African player to have featured in the WTT Finals having competed at the maiden edition in Singapore, as well as the 2022 edition in China. At the 2022 edition in China, he exited in the first round after losing 3-1 to world number eight, Chinese Taipei’s Lin Yun-Ju.

A brutal attack on an elderly store employee in Riverside County that was captured on surveillance footage last month has left the victim seriously injured and hospitalized. The violent assault happened on Oct. 27 outside Sun Valley Market and Liquor on Simpson Road in Winchester where the victim, 68-year-old Carlos Munguia, has worked for four years. Surveillance footage captured a violent assault that left a 68-year-old man seriously injured in Riverside County on Oct. 27, 2023. Surveillance footage captured a violent assault that left a 68-year-old man seriously injured in Riverside County on Oct. 27, 2023. Carlos Munguia seen with his family in this undated photo provided by his family.