February 27, 2020

Chinese Swimmer Sun Yang To Learn CAS Fate Over Doping

February 27, 2020 5:17 pm

Chinese Olympic swimming champion Sun Yang will learn on Friday whether he faces a possible eight-year ban for missing a drug test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said.

CAS said it would announce the decision at 0900 GMT on Friday.

The triple Olympic gold medal-winner, who served a doping suspension in 2014, is accused of refusing to provide bllod and urine samples when drug testers visited his home in China in September in 2018.

A vial of his own blood sample was smashed with a hammer during the testing session, but Sun was acquitted by swimming’s ruling body …

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Landmark Man City Win In Madrid Vindicates Guardiola

February 27, 2020 5:17 pm

Manchester City’s European ban means they are under enormous pressure to win the Champions League this season and they are one step closer after arguably their greatest result in the competition at Real Madrid.

Nothing is won yet, not even after City’s 2-1 victory in the first leg of the last-16 tie at the Santiago Bernabeu on Wednesday, as Pep Guardiola was keen to point out.

Real, who been European champions a record 13 times, have a history of dramatic comebacks

However, City’s first-ever victory against one of Europe’s traditional giants in the knockout stages of the Champions League was …

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Virus: US, South Korea Postpone Joint Military Exercises

February 27, 2020 5:17 pm

The US and South Korean militaries on Thursday postponed forthcoming joint exercises as the Asian country announced its biggest increase in coronavirus cases to date.

The decision to delay the training was made after Seoul declared its highest “severe” alert level over the virus, Combined Forces Command said, adding the postponement was “until further notice”.

The United States has 28,500 troops in South Korea to protect it against the nuclear-armed North, many of them based south of Seoul at Camp Humphreys in Pyeongtaek — Washington’s biggest overseas military facility.

The security allies have previously scaled back annual joint military exercises …

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Coronavirus: Chinese Football Transfer Market Collapses

February 27, 2020 5:16 pm

A double blow of the coronavirus and a new salary cap has seen the bottom fall out of Chinese football’s transfer market, while Odion Ighalo led what could become an exodus of foreign stars.

Shanghai SIPG smashed the Asian transfer record when they signed Oscar from Chelsea three years ago for €60 million, with Hulk, Marouane Fellaini, Javier Mascherano and Carlos Tevez all moving to China in recent years.

Their arrivals put Chinese football on the map and provoked consternation in Europe’s major leagues that Chinese clubs were distorting the transfer market with world-leading wages.

But with wages now …

charity

Bullied Australian Boy To Donate $475,000 To Charity

February 27, 2020 5:16 pm

An Australian boy with dwarfism whose distress from bullying became a viral video will donate hundreds-of-thousands of dollars in donations to charity rather than a trip to Disneyland.

The clip of nine-year-old Quaden Bayles showed him crying and repeatedly saying he wanted to die after being bullied at school, sparking an outpouring of support from around the world.

Read Also: Australian Open Winner Kenin Loses To Rybakina On Return

The video was watched millions of times and prompted US comedian Brad Williams to start a GoFundMe page that eventually raised almost US$475,000.

Although the funds were meant to send Bayles …

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Kenya: Government Bans Slaughter Of Donkeys

February 27, 2020 5:16 pm

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries and Cooperatives has banned the slaughter of donkeys in the country.

Cabinet Secretary Peter Munya gave the four existing slaughterhouses a one-month notice and revoked their licences.

He directed them to transform and start handle other animals such as cattle, sheep goat and chicken.

THEFT OF DONKEYS

Mr Munya said the ban comes against backdrop of dwindling of donkey numbers occasioned by rampant theft of donkeys in a syndicate that has benefited slaughterhouse owners at the expense of citizens.

The four operational slaughter houses are Goldox Kenya Limited in Mogotio (Baringo), Star Brilliant

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Africa: Ethiopia To Skip Latest Round Of Nile Talks

February 27, 2020 5:15 pm

Ethiopia says it will not send representatives to the final round of negotiations on the use of the Nile waters, in a move likely to delay a binding agreement.

The deal is to be signed between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.

Hailemariam Desalegn, a former Ethiopian Prime Minister and now Special Envoy for Ethiopia on the Nile talks, said on Tuesday that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wants to sign the agreement to fill and operate the dam after the Ethiopian General Election on August 29.

Hailemariam said this after meeting with the leader of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council,

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Ortom

We Will Prosecute Violators Of Ranching Law – Gov Ortom

February 27, 2020 3:05 pm

The Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has warned that the State will prosecute violators of its ranching law.

Ortom in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, said it became necessary to remind pastoralists moving into Benue State with their livestock that there is a law in force that placed a permanent ban on open grazing of animals.

He reiterated that no individual or group of persons is above the law and whoever wants to do livestock business in Benue State should remember that there is a law in place which regulates animal husbandry.

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ASUU

ASUU Battles Kano University Magt Over Fees Increment

February 27, 2020 3:05 pm
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kano University of Science and Technology Wudil, chapter, has faulted the recent increase of students’ registration fees.

It described the decision as a clear act of insensitivity.

Besides, the academic union insisted that such decision by the Vice-chancellor and the school’s management was not in tandem with the new Kano State policy on Free and Compulsory Education.

ASUU in a statement jointly signed by its Chairman Comrade Muhammad Sani Gaya and Secretary Comrade Murtala Muhammad regretted that the increase was coming at a time the university was expending extravagant resources on exotic cars

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Pope

Pope Francis Falls Sick After Meeting Covid-19 Patients

February 27, 2020 3:04 pm
Catholic Pontiff, Pope Francis has cancelled a Mass as he catches an unspecified illness after meeting with people with Coronavirus on Wednesday.

The clergy has remained in Rome due to the illness.

 

Mirror UK quoted the Vatican as saying that the 83-year-old pontiff, had a ‘slight indisposition’ and would proceed with the rest of his planned work later on Thursday.

It said the pontiff, however, “preferred to stay near Santa Marta”, the Vatican hotel where he uses as his residence.

The Vatican has not disclosed the nature of his illness, but the Pontiff was seen coughing and blowing his

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Diamond Bank Cheques Will Become Invalid From March 1st

February 27, 2020 3:03 pm

Access bank plc has directed that all Diamond Bank cheques will no longer be valid for transaction at the end of this month.

Banks across the country have given notice to customers that as from 27th of Febuary, Diamond bank cheques will not be accepted for clearing at the inter bank market.

One of such notice said “This is to inform you that Access Bank Plc has directed that effective March 1, 2020, Diamond Bank cheques will no longer be valid for clearing.
Consequently, from February 27, 2020, Diamond Bank cheques will not be accepted at any of our branches.

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Another Man Jumps From Cab Into Lagos Lagoon

February 27, 2020 3:03 pm

Another young man, who is yet to be identified, on Wednesday’s mid-night leapt from an Uber car and jumped into the Lagos lagoon.

This is coming barely 10 days after a man alighted from a cab and jumped into the Lagos Lagoon.

The man jumped into the Lagoon from the Third Mainland Bridge at midnight, sources in the Rapid Response Squad told reporters on Thursday.

Reports gathered that he landed on floating logs of wood beneath the Third Mainland Bridge.

Read Also: Boy Who Jumped Into Lagoon Wanted To Go To Canada

The cab driver told officials of the RRS …

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