January 14, 2021
Colombia’s President Ivan Duque is “optimistic” about working with US-President-elect Joe Biden despite strain relations over alleged election meddling by his government.
Duque has every reason to be optimistic as relations haven’t been this bad since 1994 when the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revealed former President Ernesto Samper’s election campaign was financed with drug money.
Colombia’s current president and his far-right party are being investigated on similar charges and could see Washington investigating alleged meddling in the US elections to favor President Donald Trump.
Duque told British news agency Reuters, however, that Biden “has been a great friend of Colombia” and that the president expects the president-elect “will continue to improve this relation.”
Vanguard News
Halt further lopsided appointments, borrowings from China Cleric warns Buhari
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By Chimaobi Nwaiwu, Nnewi
The Founder of Living Christ Mission Incorporated and Founder/Chancellor Daddy Hezekiah University Umudim, Nkwerre, Imo State, Prof. Daddy Hezekiah has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to halt further taking of unwarranted loan, particularly from China.
Describing China as a terrible and desperate country, Prof. Hezekiah warned that “Taking a loan from a terrible and desperate country like China amounts to mortgaging the future of Nigeria, and Nigerians.”
Addressing newsmen in Onitsha, Prof. Hezekiah called on President Mohammed Buhari to stop what he described as a lopsided appointment in his kitchen cabinets, saying is the bane of good government by his All Progressive Congress, APC, government in Nigeria, saying that until things were done the right way, Nigeria would continue to borrow from one country to the other.
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No more the war of the sexes
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By Owei Lakemfa
THE Hungarian Parliament in Central Europe on Tuesday, December 15, 2020 made a startling discovery that: “The mother is a woman, the father is a man.” This is an open secret we in Africa have known for thousands of years. It took 134 Members of the Hungarian Parliament to ratify this despite the determined efforts of five parliamentarians who remain unconvinced.
The victorious parliamentarians say their intention is to protect Hungarian families, children and individuals’ rights to self-identify in accordance with their sex at birth. In giving way to religious intrusion in a secular state, the politicians said under the new law, children will be nurtured and cultured on the basis of the country’s new constitutional identity and Christian values.
Ex-Prez Sirisena on “Shared Values and Democracy in Asia,”
Excellencies, Distinguished Participants, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Good afternoon Let me at the outset congratulate Excellency Suga Yoshihide, the Prime Minister of our cherished friend-Japan. I am extremely happy to address the Symposium on “Shared Values and Democracy in Asia,” following him, and Excellency Shree Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India- our great neighbour and friend.
I am reminded of the San Francisco Conference after the Second World War, where Excellency J R Jayewardene, our then Finance Minister, staunchly stood for Japan. Quoting from Dhammapada, he said, “We extend to Japan a hand of friendship, and trust… her people and ours may march together to enjoy the full dignity of human life in peace and prosperity.” Japan has achieved that wish. I consider the invitation to me echoes that friendship and trust.