PUTIN WOOS AFRICAN LEADERS AT SHOWCASE SUMMIT, SAYS RUSSIA IS BETTER PARTNER THAN 'COLONIAL' WEST. (PHOTO).
Putin woos African leaders at showcase summit, says Russia is better partner than 'colonial' West President Vladimir Putin told African leaders on Wednesday that Russia was their best partner, accusing what he cast as a colonial West of still trying to exploit the continent's resources and using debt to hold back development, Reuters reported. The Kremlin chief was speaking at the third Russia-Africa Summit in Moscow, a two-day event attended by African leaders and government delegations from 48 countries, during which he will hold one-on-one talks with many of the 22 individual African leaders attending on everything from trade to security, arms deals and grain supplies. "Africa is increasingly asserting itself as one of the key players in the global economy and politics. However, the emergence of a multipolar world is, of course, no easy task; it faces resistance from countries that are not prepared to accept this reality: those who are accustomed to thinking i...
The EFCC has presented its first witness,PW1, Mukados Mohammed,against former Chairman,Daar Communications Plc,Chief Raymond Dokpesi,before Justice John Tsolo of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama,Abuja.Dokpesi and his firm,Daar investment Holdings Limited,are being prosecuted on charges related to the sum of N2.1bn he allegedly received from the Office of National Security Adviser,ONSA,between October 2014 and Match,2015 for the Peoples Democratic Party's presidential media campaign.Led by the lead prosecuting counsel,Rotimi Jacobs,SAN,Mohammed,a manager in the payment department of the Central Bank of Nigeria,CBN,narrated how the N2.1billion was paid to Dokpesi between January 21,2015 and March 19,2015.
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