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Mohammed Salah Is 2017 CAF Footballer Of The Year

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Mohammed Salah of Egypt and Nigeria’s Azeezat Oshoala have emerged as the winners of African Player of the year award for Men and Women respectively. Both players were announced as the winners in the top categories at Thursday’s ceremony at the Accra International Conference Centre. Salah, 25, has been in top form for both his club and country in the period under review. The Egyptian star at the moment has 17 goals from 21 appearances for his Premier League club, Liverpool, this term. He also played a pivotal role to…

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New Research Reveals That Alcohol Can Cause Deadly Cancer

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Drinking alcohol raises the risk of cancer by damaging DNA, scientists have discovered for the first time, leading health experts to call for people to cut down on their consumption. Alcohol is contributes to more than 12,000 cases of cancer each year in Britain, and can happen in other countries too, but nobody had shown why it was so harmful. Now a new study by the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology at Cambridge University, has found that when the body processes alcohol it produces a chemical called acetaldehyde…

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‘It’s sad, but here you never know’ – Zidane unsure of his Real Madrid future

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Zinedine Zidane is unsure of what his future holds at Real Madrid, acknowledging that “you never know” what can happen at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Madrid club have a reputation for discarding coaches without much thought, with Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti among those to be shown the door in the last five years despite enjoying relative success. And as it stands, Madrid are some way off challenging for the league title this season, as they trail rivals Barcelona by 14 points – though they have a game in hand…

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Etche LGA APC Chairman resigns, joins PDP

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The All Progressive Congress (APC) Chairman of Etche Local Government Area, Chief Musa Elekwa has resigned his membership of the APC with immediate effect. The Etche APC Chairman has also formally joined the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). In a letter to the Rivers State APC Chairman, Chief Davies Ikanya dated January 3, 2017 titled “Resignation of Membership of APC”, Chief Elekwa said he was rejoining PDP because the party has kept faith with the people through projects delivery. The read: “I have decided willingly to renounce my membership of APC…

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Bellerin Strike Earns Arsenal Draw Against Chelsea

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Hector Bellerin’s stunning injury-time strike earned Arsenal a point against Chelsea in one of the most entertaining matches of the Premier League season so far. The two sides shared an incredible 33 chances, with the heroic keeping of Gunners’ Petr Cech and Blues’ Thibaut Courtois ensuring only four goals were conceded. Courtois had made exceptional stops to deny Alexis Sanchez and Alexandre Lacazette before he was finally beaten when Jack Wilshere fired high past him in the 63rd minute. The lead only lasted four minutes, Eden Hazard converting from the…

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Despite Producing Most Oil, Akwa Ibom Has No NNPC, DPR Offices – Governor Udom

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Akwa Ibom Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has accused the federal government of neglecting the state. Mr. Emmanuel said the state, despite being the largest producer of oil in the country, has not seen many development projects from the federal government for years. The governor was speaking on Tuesday during a prayer meeting organised by the state government in Uyo to usher in the New Year. “We are the largest producer of oil in this country,” Governor Emmanuel said. “I want to challenge the minister of petroleum resources, let them show us…

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Hijab Saga: MURIC Submits Memorandum To House Of Reps

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The Muslim rights concern group has submitted a memorandum to the Federal house of Representatives concerning the ‘injustice’ meted out to a Muslim student, Firdaus Amasa. Amasa made headlines late last year after she refused to remove her hijab in order to be called to bar. Below is a statement from MURIC, signed by its leader, Prof. Ishaq Akintola; The Committee on Judiciary and Justice of the House of Representatives was mandated on Wednesday 20th December, 2017 to investigate the circumstances surrounding Law School hijabgate. A law graduate of the…

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PDP Is Dead, Can’t Win Lagos – APC

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) on Wednesday described the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) as “a dead party, not capable of capturing Lagos in 2019.” The Assistant Publicity Secretary of the APC in the state, Mr Abiodun Salami made the remark in a recent statement in Lagos. Salami was reacting to an assertion by the Publicity Secretary of PDP in the state, Mr Taofik Gani, that the opposition party would win Lagos and take over government in 2019. Gani had said that 2019 would be the beginning of the end of…

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Sex therapist, Pamela Udoka, writes for Qed.ng

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Sex therapist and clinical psychologist, Pamela Udoka, has joined Qed.ng as a columnist beginning from Friday, January 5. 2018. Her weekly column, known as Talk with Pamela, will draw from her specialty as a marital conflict, relationship and sex therapist. Mrs Udoka holds a BA (Hons) in theatre arts from the University of Ibadan and an MSc in psychology with emphasis on life-span developmental psychology, childhood disorders and clinical intervention from the University of Lagos. She is undergoing an M.Phil/ Ph.D. in clinical psychology at the University of Ibadan with emphasis on…

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APOSTLE SULEMAN’s Prophecy Fulfilled 24 Hours After

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Barely twenty four hours after the servant of God, Apostle (Prof.) Johnson Suleman, released prophecies for the New Year 2018, the effects are already manifesting as one of the 50 divine messages released by God through him during the 2018 Cross Over service at his ministry,  Omega Fire Ministries (OFM), became fulfilled. That was the New Year eve, Sunday 31st of December, 2017. On number 12 of the prophecies, Apostle Suleman said precisely that “many bloggers will be arrested and detained”. On New Year day, Monday, 1st of January 1st,…

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