Month: January 2018

Espanyol hand Barcelona first defeat of the season

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*Atletico Madrid also shocked by Sevilla Espanyol struck in the dying moments to consign Barcelona to their first defeat since August last year. Earlier, Lionel Messi had missed a penalty. The 1-0 loss by the Spanish giants occurred in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals on Wednesday. Oscar Melendo slotted home a neat finish with two minutes remaining of a temperamental derby cup tie, racing onto Marc Navarro’s low cross to punish Messi for missing a 62nd-minute penalty and send the home crowd into raptures. Messi: misses penalty…

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Drogba opens first school in Ivory Coast

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Ivorian footballer Didier Drogba has given back to his country by opening a school that will help no fewer than 350 children in the rural cocoa growing community of Pokou-Kouamekro to gain quality education. The school is the brainchild of the Didier Drogba Foundation. Speaking at the launch, Drogba said the foundation began working on the project two years ago. ” I am very proud to see it completed”, he said. He also told the pupils to make him proud. Pupils of the Didier Drogba school “The belief of my…

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21 US states sue to keep net neutrality

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A group of 21 U.S. state attorneys general filed suit to challenge the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to do away with net neutrality on Tuesday while Democrats said they needed just one more vote in the Senate to repeal the FCC ruling. The state attorneys, including those of California, New York and Virginia as well as the District of Columbia, filed a petition to challenge the action, calling it “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion” and saying that it violated federal laws and regulations. The petition was filed with…

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Manchester United beat Barcelona, Real Madrid in annual revenue

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Manchester United grossed the biggest revenue of any European club in the 2016 financial year after a 32 percent increase propelled them above Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, UEFA say. In an annual report published on Tuesday, UEFA in the European Club Football Landscape report said revenues among Europe’s 700-odd top-flight clubs totalled 18.5 billion euros (£16.5 billion) for 2016. This is in comparison to 16.9 billion euros earned the year before and 2.8 billion euros earned in 1996. However, the report acknowledged that 9.1 million euros, about half of…

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Donald Trump has incredible genes – doctor

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U.S. President Donald Trump could live up to 200 years if he had maintained a healthier diet over the past 20 years, White House physician, Dr Ronny Jackson, said. Jackson said, while presenting the outcome of Trump’s medical fitness, that the president could eat KFC and McDonald’s and still be in great shape because God gave him ‘incredible genes’. The White House physician also declared the president as “very healthy” and his overall health “excellent” in spite of his unhealthy habits, according to the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN. “It’s…

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UN appoints Nigeria’s Chikadibia Obiakor to investigate Burundians’ killings

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The United Nations has appointed retired Lt.-Gen. Chikadibia Obiakor of Nigeria to head a special investigation into the killing of some Burundian refugees in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, announced the appointment. This is contained in a statement issued by Mr Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN Secretary-General in New York. No fewer than 35 Burundian refugees were killed and more than 100 others wounded by security forces in eastern DRC Sept. 15, 2017 at Kamanyola, South Kivu. The special investigation…

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2019: INEC warns politicians against violating guidelines

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Cross River has warned political parties in the state to desist from violating the rules and regulations guiding the conduct of the 2019 general elections in the country. The INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in the state, Dr. Frankland Briyai, gave the warning Tuesday in an interactive meeting with Chairmen and Secretaries of registered political parties held at the Mini Conference Hall of INEC in Calabar. Briyai stated that the warning was imperative to avoid sanctions against erring political parties ahead of the…

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Real Madrid ready to let Cristiano Ronaldo leave

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Real Madrid seem happy to let Cristiano Ronaldo leave the club, but there are doubts over Manchester United’s interest, says Guillem Balague. The five-time Ballon d’Or winner, who will be 33 in February, is reportedly unhappy that promises over a new contract have not been kept and is ready to call time on his glittering nine-year stay in Spain’s capital. Ronaldo has been routinely linked with a move back to United over several years, but Spanish football expert Balague says the Old Trafford club are in a delicate position in…

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Fake medicines flourish in Africa despite killing thousands

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There’s nothing covert about Roxy — a huge market in Abidjan selling counterfeit medicine, the scourge of Africa and the cause of around 100,000 deaths annually on the world’s poorest continent. Located in the bustling Adjame quarter of Ivory Coast’s main city and commercial hub, the haven for fake medicine has been targeted time and again by authorities and stockpiles burnt. But it resurfaces every time. “The police hassle us but they themselves buy these medicines,” said Mariam, one of the many mainly illiterate vendors who hawk everything from painkillers…

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Crackdown fear weakens Bitcoin

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Fears grew of a regulatory crackdown has forced the Bitcoin to slid as much as 14 per cent on Tuesday to hit a four-week low below $12,000. The fear was fuelled with reports that South Korea was planning to ban trading in cryptocurrencies. South Korean news website Yonhap reported that Finance Minister Kim Dong-yeon had told a local radio station that the government would be coming up with a set of measures to clamp down on the “irrational” cryptocurrency investment craze. Bitcoin slid on the news, trading as low as…

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