Month: January 2018

Mo Salah wins African Player of the Year

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Mohamed Salah has won the African Player of the Year award. The Liverpool star has enjoyed an excellent campaign since moving to Anfield in a £36m deal. Salah has scored 22 times already this term and also secured Egypt’s place at this summer’s World Cup. He jetted out to Ghana with teammate Sadio Mane just 24 hours before the FA Cup clash with Everton, pipping him to the award with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang in third. But Salah, who also won the BBC African Player of the Year, won’t be involved at…

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Father Mbaka and the Voice of God

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By Reuben Abati “I do not believe in my mind that the way things are in Nigeria, any Catholic priest has the mandate to decide which of the political contestants should be voted for…I don’t believe a priest should be doing that…If he was in my archdiocese, I will have sanctioned him long ago for the kind of utterances he makes.” – John Cardinal Onaiyekan, Catholic Bishop of Abuja Metropolitan See on Fr. Ejike Mbaka (2015) Prophecies and predictions by Christian pastors often mark the end of a year and the…

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FG targets tech-based economy by 2030- Minister

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The Federal Government says it is fully committed to revamping the nation’s economy from a resource-base to a science and technology- based economy by 2030. Minister of Science and Technology, Dr Ogbonnaya Onu, gave the assurance at the South-South Sensitisation to the National Science, Technology and Innovation Roadmap (NSTIR) 2030 on Friday in Port Harcourt. He said that NSTIR, when fully implemented, would enable Nigeria to become a major exporting nation rather than its dependence on importation of raw materials and finished products. According to him, the Buhari-led administration is…

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North, South Korea in peace talks next week

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As their face-off rages, North and South Korea have agreed to hold talks to broker peace on 9 January , the first in two years. The truce talk was agreed by the two neighbours , hours after Seoul and Washington decided to defer joint military exercises which always infuriated Pyongyang until after the Winter Olympics. The meeting, the first since December 2015, will take place in Panmunjom, the truce village in the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone that divides the peninsula. Tensions have been high after the North carried out multiple…

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Mike Tyson set to open 40-acre Marijuana farm

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Former boxing champion Mike Tyson has broken new ground as he is set  to open a marijuana ranch  in southern California. The U.S state legalized the sale of non-medical marijuana on the first day of 2018. According to The Blast, a U.S. media outlet focusing on celebrities and entertainment news, the former boxer broke ground in California City, about 96 km southwest of Death Valley National Park, for the “Tyson Ranch.” While half of the 40-acre (about 16.2-hectare) ranch is dedicated to producing high-quality marijuana, the rest of the resort…

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Nishikori out, Djokovic and Murray doubtful for Aussie Open

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Injured Japanese star Kei Nishikori pulled out of the Australian Open on Thursday, while Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, both former world number one, are doubtful. Djokovic says he will test his problem elbow at an exhibition before deciding whether to play. Andy Murray, is also struggling and withdrew from this week’s Brisbane International as he works to overcome a right hip injury which has sidelined him since Wimbledon. The Scot raised the prospect this week of surgery, but holds out hope of playing in Melbourne, saying he will decide…

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2019: Omokri attacks Buhari for reportedly appointing Amaechi campaign DG

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Reno Omokri, former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, has blasted President Muhammadu Buhari for reportedly appointing Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation as his 2019 campaign Director General. The former Special Adviser on New Media to Jonathan said rather than appoint Amaechi, Buhari should appoint a general to head “task force to stop killings of Nigerians by herdsmen.” Omokri, a United States, US-based Pastor asked Buhari to reciprocate the love Nigerians showed his family during the accident of his son by ensuring herdsmen who attacked Benue people were brought to justice. The…

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WHO approves new typhoid vaccine with longer-lasting immunity

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The World Health Organisation (WHO) says it has prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid, which makes it eligible for procurement by United Nations agencies. In a statement released on the agency’s website, WHO said the vaccine meets acceptable standards of quality and safety “At the end of December 2017, WHO prequalified the first conjugate vaccine for typhoid, Bharat Biotech’s Typbar-TCV®. “Typhoid conjugate vaccines (TCVs) are innovative products that have longer-lasting immunity than older vaccines, require fewer doses, and can be given to young children through routine childhood immunisation programs.…

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Israel to launch world’s first nanosatellites in 2018

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The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Israel Space Agency on Wednesday said Israel will launch a group of three nanosatellites into space in 2018. The launch, which is the first of its kind in Israel, will be carried out by Dutch company Innovative Solutions In Space, which specialises in launching nanosatellites on India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), as part of the Adelis-SAMSON Project. The project was initiated by a team of researchers led by Pini Gurfil, director of the Asher Space Research Institute and member of the…

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DPR seals 80 petrol stations in Delta

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More than 80 petrol filling stations have been shut in Delta state for selling above official price and hoarding. The stations were sealed by Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office, since fuel scarcity begun in December, 2017. Mr Antai Asuquo, the Warri Zonal Operations Controller, said on Wednesday in Warri that the filling stations were sealed in Warri, Ughelli, Sapele, Isoko and Asaba. Asuquo, who led a group of surveillance team to Asaba, said that aside from selling above the government approved price of N145 per litre and…

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