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...
A top investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,EFCC,on June 24,2017 escaped death by the whiskers when gunmen opened fire on him in Port Garcourt,Rivers State.Mr Austin Okwor an operative in the Property Fraud Section of the EFCC Zonal office in Port Harcourt,had closed late for the day and as he left office,he was suddenly accosted by a gang of daredevil hoodlums who opened fire on him.Luckily for him,he was able to shake off his assailants but not without sustaining some bullet wounds as they kept firing at him.He was rushed to a private hospital in Port Harcourt where he is receiving treatment.According to Ishaq Salihu,Head of the Zonal office,the incident has already been reported to the Police in Port Harcourt.Okwor is one of the operatives investigating some sensitives cases including that pertaining to corrupt judicial officials.Before the incident underlines the hazards which operatives of the Commission are daily exposed to in the discharge of their duties.In 2010,precisely September 14,the head of the Commission's Forensic Unit,Abdullahi Muazu was shot and killed by unknown gunmen in Kaduna.Six months earlier a team of prosecutors returning to Enugu after a court appearance in Owerri,Imo state was attacked by gunmen who opened fire on them.Sergeant Eze Edoga the police escort was cut down while a senior counsel with the Commission,Joseph Uzor was critically wounded but survived.
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