China

China reported nearly 13,000 Covid-related deaths in hospitals between January 13 and 19, after a top health official said the vast majority of the population has already been infected by the virus. China a week earlier said nearly…

World Health Organisation (WHO) has met with COVID-19 experts to discuss the current surge in the virus in China and to offer WHO’s expertise and further support on the situation. WHO, in a statement, stated that the experts gathered at…

The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Ifedayo Adetifa, said the COVID-19 emergency operations centre met on Saturday over the increasing COVID-19 cases in China. Adetifa said the centre would continue to…

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, on Sunday, called on the Federal Government to check passengers from China of their COVID-19 status. Falana made this known in a statement made available to our…

China is concerned that Nigerians, many living below the poverty line, continue to grapple with grinding penury. “We have lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty in China, and in Nigeria, there are 200 million with 100 million…

Pan-Asian Human Rights organisation Safeguard Defenders has published a new report accusing Nigeria and other countries of collaborating with China in its transnational policing adventure in violation of the ‘international rules-based…

China is softening its tone on the severity of the COVID-19 and has began easing some coronavirus restrictions even as its daily case toll hovers near record highs, after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fuelled protests across the…

The House of Representatives has commenced investigation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, and the Government of China on an optic fibre…

iPhone producers, Apple, on Monday, warned customers to expect delays in the shipment of iPhones due to COVID-19 restrictions at a manufacturing factory in China. Apple manufacturing partner, Foxconn’s iPhone plant in Zhengzhou, China,…

China has reacted angrily to the United States President Joe Biden’s pledge of support for Taiwan in the event of a Chinese attack. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told the press in Beijing on Monday that the remarks were a…