China to Okonjo-Iweala: US Tariffs Will Inflict Serious Harm on Developing Countries Says Trump’s tariffs bringing enormous uncertainty, instability to the world To file a lawsuit with WTO over the levies
Ejiofor Alike in Lagos and Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja
China's Commerce Minister, Wang
Wentao, has told the Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, that the United States tariffs
will inflict serious harm on the developing countries. This is just as Okonjo-Iweala has said, she remains optimistic about
opportunities in the current global trade crisis. United States President Donald Trump had embarked on the
imposition of what economic analysts called punishing global tariffs on foreign goods, insisting that tariffs would bring manufacturing
back to the United States. However, analysts insist it would Continued on page 5
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In a Reconciliatory Move, PDP Govs Summon Emergency Meeting of All Party Organs Chuks Okocha in Abuja The governors elected on the platform of the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) have summoned an emergency meeting of all the constitutional organs of the party as part of
the efforts to resolve contentious issues in the party. It was gathered that the meeting’s main agenda is the
resolution of the dispute over the position of the national secretary of the party between Senator Samuel Anyanwu and
Hon. Sunday Ude-Okoye. The meeting, which is scheduled to be held in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital
on Monday, April 14, will be hosted by Governor Seyi Continued on page 5
At APC Leaders’ Visit to Buhari, Ganduje Says Atiku, El-Rufai’s Coalition Talks Doomed to Fail John Shiklam in Kaduna
Few hours after former Vice President Atiku Abubakar had led other opposition figures such as former Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai; ex-governor of Sokoto State, Senator Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, and others on a visit to former President Muhammadu Buhari at his Kaduna residence, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Ganduje on Friday led other APC leaders to Buhari's residence where he dismissed the coalition talks by the opposition. Speaking to journalists during the visit, Ganduje described the move by the opposition parties as a futile alliance by strange bedfellows. Ganduje, while fielding questions from journalists shortly after the Friday night meeting with Buhari, said the APC was comfortable and would win not only the presidential election but more governorship seats in the 2027 elections. “We are here to pay Sallah Homage to the former President
and also, we took time to explain to him the achievements of our great party as he left it, because we have promised to brief him from time to time. “Concerning the group (Atiku and others) that came to see him, that is not our business. But I must tell them that history is about to repeat itself; they have a joint venture, which will not work. This is because they are just some kinds of particles that cannot come together. “Well, it’s a game, but we will not reveal our own intrigues and game plan, but I can tell you we are equal to the task. “The progress President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has made is very encouraging, and that has made our party much stronger. I can tell you that, though we have 21 APC states now, I can tell you we are eyeing some more states to come to our fold - either the governors themselves will come or we go into election and we defeat them. “So, we are comfortable ahead Continued on page 5
FG: Security Situation in Nigeria Grossly STRATEGIC CONSULTATION AHEAD OF 2027… President Muhammadu Buhari (left), and National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, when the APC MisrepresentedatUSCongressionalHearing…Page 6 Former chairman led the party’s chieftains on a visit to the former president at his residence in Kaduna…Friday