News Digest: Buhari returns home from Poland; Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder arrested in Canada
1. Buhari returns home from Poland
President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja from Poland, where he participated in the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Katowice.
While in Poland, the President delivered his national address at the 12-day meeting of COP24, and met with several world leaders . He also visited the impressive Nigerian pavilion at the climate summit.
President Buhari on Tuesday visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, in Oświęcim, Poland where he paid tribute to Holocaust victims.
2.Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of Huawei’s founder arrested in Canada
Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer, Sabrina Meng Wanzhou, in Vancouver on suspicion she violated U.S. sanctions against Iran.
She now faces extradition to the United States, the Globe and Mail newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Meng, who is one of the vice chairs on the Chinese technology company’s board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei, was arrested on Dec. 1.
A court hearing has been set for Friday, a Canadian Justice Department spokesman said, according to the Globe and Mail.
3. Arsenal stretch unbeaten run to 20 games
Arsenal have extended their unbeaten run to 20 games, after they were held 2-2 by Manchester United at Old Trafford on Wednesday.
Arsenal led twice, either half through goals by Shkodran Mustafi and Alexandre Lacazette (Marco Rojo).
But United responded almost instantly. Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard twice quickly levelled to earn a 2-2 draw with Arsenal and offer some rest bite to beleaguered manager Jose Mourinho
4. Plane carrying remains of former President Bush lands in Houston
A plane carrying the body of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush touched down in Houston on Wednesday following a state funeral in Washington where he was remembered as a statesman of uncommon personal kindness.
He occupied the White House from 1989 to 1993, navigating the collapse of the Soviet Union and expelling former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s forces from oil-rich Kuwait.
“George H.W. Bush was America’s last great soldier-statesman,” Jon Meacham, a presidential biographer, said in a eulogy at the service in Washington. “He stood in the breach in the Cold War against totalitarianism. He stood in the breach in Washington against unthinking partisanship.”
5. Liberia's electric crisis: 60% of power ‘stolen’
People steal about 60% of the electricity generated in Liberia annually by making illegal connections to their homes and businesses, the state-owned power utility has said.
The theft caused annual losses of about £35m (£27m), Liberia Electricity Corporation officials told state radio.
This robbed the utility of money needed to extend power supply, they added.
Liberia is trying to rebuild its power sector, destroyed during a civil war which lasted from 1989 to 2003.
But up to now only 12% of Liberians - and less than 20% of residents in the capital, Monrovia - have electricity, one of the lowest access rates in the world.
The government has set itself the target of rolling out electricity to 70% of Monrovia's population by 2030.