The Confédération Africaine de Football has announced that Tanzania will host the 44th CAF Ordinary General Assembly on Wednesday, 10 August 2022.
The 44th General Assembly will be held in beautiful city of Arusha at 11h00 local time (08h00 GMT).
CAF will communicate further details on the Ordinary General Assembly in due course.
Note: Media wishing to attend the 44th Ordinary General Assembly can apply on the CAF media channel from 16 June until 10 July 2022
A bill for the establishment of Federal University of Education (Technical) Bichi, Kano State has passed second reading at the Senate.
The bill was sponsored by Senator Jibrin Barau (APC-Kano) who in his lead debate said that there was the need to have strong system in the educational sector with establishment of more institutions for training of teachers.
According to him, the objectives of the proposed Federal University of Education, Bichi, is to encourage advancement of learning to all persons without distinction of race, creed, sex or political conviction.
Argument For Establishment
To develop and offer academic, technical and professional programmes leading to the award of certificates, first degrees, post graduate research, diploma and higher degrees with emphasis on planning, developmental and adaptive skills in education.
To produce socially mature educational men and women with capabilities not to only understand the educational and technological needs of Nigeria as a nation, but also to exploit existing educational infrastructure and improve on them to develop new ones.
To bring quality change in Technical Education by focusing on teacher education, through teaching and learning innovations.
While addressing parliamentarians, he said the enactment of this bill will go a long way in transforming the decayed educational infrastructure in Nigeria and change the educational fortunes of the country for the better.
The bill was passed for second reading when put to voice votes by the President of the Senate Ahmad Lawan who thereafter referred the bill to the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education and TetFund for more legislative inputs.
A consultant cardiologist, Dr. Ramond Moronkola, on Thursday, cautioned that chronic low blood pressure was dangerous to human health.
Moronkola, who works with the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, disclosed this in an interview with the Newsmen in Lagos.
He said that chronic low blood pressure rarely manifested obvious symptoms.
He also said that many Nigerians were trying to lower their blood pressure and warned against “allowing blood pressure to fall to dangerous levels known in medical science as orthostatic hypotension”.
Orthostatic hypotension, also known as postural hypotension, is a condition of a sudden drop in blood pressure caused by a change in posture, such as when a person stands up quickly.
Moronkola, however, said that the condition was common among people who were 65 years of age or older because the body’s ability to react to drops in blood pressure could slow down as a person ages.
According to him, low blood pressure has no regard for age, gender, weight, cardiovascular, kidney, or diabetic status.
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The cardiologist said that insufficient brain blood flow plays a critical role in the development of low blood pressure.
He said that the problem could occur when blood pressure drops suddenly and the brain was deprived of adequate blood supply which could lead to dizziness or lightheadedness.
“Low blood pressure occurs when blood pressure is much lower than normal.
“This means the heart, brain, and other parts of the body do not get enough blood. Meanwhile, the normal blood pressure is mostly between 90/60 mmHg and 120/80 mmHg.
“Low blood pressure does not usually require treatment. If a person experiences regular symptoms of low blood pressure, however, he/she should see a doctor.
“This will enable the doctor to detect the underlying condition causing the drop in blood pressure and treat it accordingly,” he said.
He listed some possible causes of low blood pressure to include loss of fluid within the blood vessels due to dehydration brought about by diarrhea, vomiting, and the use of medication, such as diuretics or water pills.
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He added that loss of blood, anaemia and other conditions that result in a lower red blood count were also likely causes.
The cardiologist said that a sudden drop in blood pressure occurs more commonly when people rise from lying or sitting positions, to standing, and particularly advised pregnant women to take note of that.
He said that lower blood pressure could lead to stroke, heart attacks, kidney failure, and shock, warning that if not properly managed, death could occur.
Moronkola advised Nigerians to obtain monitors to enable them to check their blood pressure levels regularly, saying that health was the vehicle that carries humans through the journey of life.
The World Health Organisation said on Wednesday that Europe remained the epicentre of the global monkeypox outbreak, which posed a “real risk” with more than 1,500 cases reported in the region.
The UN health body already announced on Tuesday that it would hold an emergency meeting next week to determine whether to classify the outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern.
“Europe remains the epicentre of this escalating outbreak with 25 countries reporting more than 1,500 cases, or 85 percent of the global total,” Hans Kluge, WHO regional director for Europe, told a press conference Wednesday.
WHO’s European region comprises 53 countries, including several in Central Asia.
“The magnitude of this outbreak poses a real risk. The longer the virus circulates, the more it will extend its reach, and the stronger the disease’s foothold will get in non-endemic countries,” Kluge said.
Until the past few months, monkeypox had generally been confined to Western and Central Africa.
Kluge said that the majority of cases reported in Europe “have been among men who have sex with men”, but also warned against stigmatisation.
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He stressed, “that the monkeypox virus is not in itself attached to any specific group.”
The regional director also warned that the risk was increasing as summer had arrived with “tourism, various Pride events, music festivals and other mass gatherings planned across the region.”
“These events are powerful opportunities to engage with young, sexually active and highly mobile people,” Kluge said, but stressed that “monkeypox is not a reason to cancel events, but an opportunity to leverage them to drive our engagement.”
Speaking next to Kluge, Steve Taylor, director of the European Pride Organisers Association, said that some 750 Pride events were planned across the European region and welcomed the WHO’s recommendation not to cancel these events.
“Sadly, but entirely predictably, some of those who oppose Pride and who oppose equality and human rights have already been attempting to use monkeypox as a justification for calls for Pride to be banned,” Taylor told reporters.
The EU announced Tuesday that it had purchased almost 110,000 vaccine doses to help tackle the outbreak, though the WHO does not recommend mass vaccination against monkeypox.
Britain is moving on with its strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda and is planning further flights despite a last-minute intervention by European judges that grounded the first plane minutes before it was due to depart.
The government was thwarted in its attempt to send a handful of migrants on a charter plane more than 4,000 miles (6,4000 km) to Rwanda after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) stepped in to issue injunctions, meaning the flight was cancelled.
Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel told parliament “We will not be put off by the inevitable legal last minute challenges nor we will allow mobs…to block removals,” saying the government was committed to the policy.
Britain is moving on with its strategy of deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda and is planning further flights despite a last-minute intervention by European judges that grounded the first plane minutes before it was due to depart.
The government was thwarted in its attempt to send a handful of migrants on a charter plane more than 4,000 miles (6,4000 km) to Rwanda after the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) stepped in to issue injunctions, meaning the flight was cancelled.
“We will not be put off by the inevitable legal last minute challenges nor we will allow mobs…to block removals,” Home Secretary (interior minister) Priti Patel told parliament, saying the government was committed to the policy.
London struck a deal with Rwanda in April to send tens of thousands of asylum seekers who arrived illegally in Britain to the East African country to have their claims processed. The British government says the plan will stem the flow of migrants who make dangerous trips across the English Channel from France.
The United Nations refugee chief has called the policy “catastrophic”, the entire leadership of the Church of England denounced it as immoral and shameful, and media reports have said Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, had privately described the plan as “appalling”.
But the government argues the policy will smash the business model of people-smuggling networks, but political opponents say it is a divisive stunt and an expensive shambles.
The European court’s late intervention has also led some in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party to call for Britain to pull out of the European Convention on Human Rights altogether.
One minister said she was not aware of any such plan, but Johnson’s spokesman said nothing was being ruled out.
“We will do whatever it takes to deliver this new approach, including being prepared to explore any and all further legal reforms that may be necessary,” the spokesman said. “We are keeping all options on the table.”
Law experts said Britain would be joining Belarus and Russia in not being part of the convention if it were to opt-out.
While a number of migrants had their removal blocked by British courts on an individual basis in the days leading up to the flight, Patel said the ECHR had intervened to block three deportations, preventing anyone from being on the plane.
Britain hopes the $150 million deal with Rwanda will put a stop to dangerous journeys by migrants in small boats across the English Channel, with more than 28,500 people arriving from Europe last year. On Tuesday alone, another 444 were detected.
Patel said it cost 5 million pounds a day to accommodate the migrants. Polls indicate the British public is evenly split on the issue, with many wanting action on illegal immigration – something which played a major role in the 2016 vote for Brexit – while others say the policy harms Britain’s international reputation.
Rwanda, whose own human rights record is under scrutiny, said it also remained fully committed to the plan.
A Professor of Public Health Nutrition at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Beatrice Ogunba, has urged pregnant women not to allow cultural practices to deny them nourishing foods.
According to the nutritionist, some pregnant women run away from certain foods such as snail, and okra on account of cultural practice.
Prof. Ogunba who disclosed this to Newsmen urged pregnant women not to joke with foods containing iron, calcium, and other important nutrients needed for their babies’ growth and development during pregnancy.
The nutritionist said pregnant women should also ensure they consume foods rich in protein especially fruits and vegetables.
Prof. Ogunba, a specialist in maternal and child nutrition, also advised women planning to get pregnant to ensure they have good nutritional status before becoming pregnant.
She explained, “Iron is key when it has to do with pregnancy. When a woman’s nutritional status is poor during pregnancy, it has implications for the development of the baby.
“Vegetables should be more in their foods. They should not run away from any food.
“There is no food that is not good for pregnant women. Most times, we have these taboos that pregnant women should not consume certain foods.
“They should do away with such taboos and ensure they eat well to have enough iron that their babies need for development.”
Prof. Ogunba noted that it is important for women to build up their nutritional status for at least six months before becoming pregnant.
This, she said, is to avoid having babies with low birth weight and its attendant health consequences such as anaemia.
She pointed out that women who were anaemic before pregnancy had higher chances of giving birth to babies with low birth weight.
“So, it is important for women to build up their nutritional status before pregnancy.
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“I will recommend a minimum of six months for women to begin to build their nutritional status before pregnancy by boosting their iron status for the baby to have enough iron when they are pregnant.
“It is important because, in the first three months of pregnancy, most women have food issues.
“Some find it difficult to eat. So, if a woman has enough iron before conception, even if she is finding it difficult to eat, the baby already has enough iron to fall back on,” the nutritionist said.
The nutritionist urged pregnant women to consume a variety of foods, fruits, and vegetables rich in iron.
The World Health Organisation defined low birthweight as weight less than 2,500g at birth, warning that it contributes to a variety of pitiable health outcomes.
It says more than 80 per cent of the world’s 2.5 million newborns who die every year are of low birth weight.
According to WHO, those low birth weight babies who survive have a greater risk of stunting, and developmental and physical ill-health later in life, including diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Serena Williams will make her return to Grand Slam tennis at Wimbledon this month after being given a wildcard entry to the singles.
The 40-year-old American, who is a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion, has not played since injuring herself in the first round at SW19 last year.
She will make her return to tennis playing doubles at Eastbourne alongside Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur in the week before Wimbledon then compete at the All England Club, where she is a seven-time singles champion.
Williams’ elder sister Venus, who has won the singles at Wimbledon five times and the doubles six times alongside Serena, was not in the initial batch of singles wildcards announced on Tuesday.
However, the 41-year-old, who has not played on the WTA Tour since August, could still be given one of the remaining two spots for the tournament, which begins on 27 June.
Serena – who earlier on Tuesday had posted an image of her trainers on grass, captioning it: “SW and SW19. It’s a date” – is currently ranked 1,208 because of her prolonged inactivity.
She won the last of her Wimbledon titles in 2016, but reached the final in 2018 and 2019 after returning from maternity leave. She last won a Grand Slam singles title at the 2017 Australian Open.
The younger Williams first played in the singles event at Wimbledon as a 16-year-old in 1998 and has only missed the tournament three times since, including when pregnant with daughter Olympia in 2017.
She reached the 2018 final, where she lost to Angelique Kerber, in just her fourth tournament back after giving birth.
However, her most recent attempt to equal Margaret Court’s record of 24 Grand Slam singles titles ended in heartbreak on Centre Court last year, when she was forced to retire injured against Aliaksandra Sasnovich after slipping.
The injury kept her out of the US Open and Australian Open that followed and there were doubts that she would return to the WTA Tour at all.
Her long-time coach Patrick Mouratoglou has since started working with 2019 Wimbledon champion Simona Halep, saying in April that he had spoken to the American before taking up the position.
Williams said she was “looking forward” to playing in front of fans at Eastbourne, which is the final grass-court event in the UK before Wimbledon.
“I am excited to return to Eastbourne and be back on the grass – a surface that has been so good to me throughout my career,” she said.
“Eastbourne has a unique charm that you don’t see anywhere else on tour.”
Williams and Jabeur are not likely to play their first match before Tuesday, 21 June.
Three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland is one of seven men to have been given a wildcard into the main draw.
Wawrinka, who is competing at Queen’s Club this week, has dropped to 290 in the rankings after struggling with injuries over the past few years.
Nottingham Open quarter-finalist Liam Broady has also been awarded one, alongside fellow Britons Jay Clarke, Alastair Gray, Paul Jubb and Ryan Peniston.
Tim van Rijthoven, who stunned new world number one Daniil Medvedev in the Libema Open final on Sunday, takes the sixth spot.
In the women’s draw, Britons Katie Boulter, Jodie Burrage, Sonay Kartal, Yuriko Miyazaki and Katie Swan will go directly into the main draw.
It will be the first time Kartal, 20, and 26-year-old Miyazaki have appeared in a Grand Slam main draw.
Boulter reached the second round at last year’s Championships, where she lost in three sets to second seed Aryna Sabalenka.
Whispers of a Wimbledon doubles return for Serena Williams have been growing louder in recent weeks, but the singles wildcard is a very happy surprise.
Much nearer her 41st birthday than her 40th, and a year since her last match, it will be extremely difficult even for Williams to be truly competitive.
But if this is to be her last summer, then thank goodness she has made the decision to play.
It appears Williams will be travelling to the UK with Eric Hechtman, the coach of her sister Venus, who was tagged in her Instagram post.
There is currently no defending women’s champion to open Tuesday’s Centre Court programme, following the retirement of Ash Barty.
But I suspect the All England Club now need look no further.
Formula 1 has struck a new contract to race at the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne until 2035.
The deal is a 10-year extension on the existing contract, which had been due to expire in 2025.
It will extend the race’s stay on the calendar to nearly 40 years.
Melbourne faced opposition from rival bids, including Sydney, but won out because of the commercial deal on offer and its status as an established successful event.
Melbourne’s Albert Park track made its debut on the F1 schedule in 1996.
It has become a mainstay of the F1 calendar, and continues to be a major success for Melbourne and the state of Victoria.
This year, as Melbourne returned to the schedule after an absence of three years because of the coronavirus pandemic, 419,000 spectators visited Albert Park – the largest crowd for a weekend sporting event in Australian history.
F1 president and chief executive officer Stefano Domenicali said: “The race has always been a favourite for the fans, drivers and the teams, and Melbourne is an incredible and vibrant international city that is a perfect match for our sport.
“This year we saw huge crowds and passionate fans at the Grand Prix, and we are very excited by the future in Australia as our sport continues to grow.”
Victoria’s minister for tourism, sport and major events, Martin Pakula, said: “The Australian Grand Prix has never been bigger. We know how important this event is to our economy and that’s why we’ve delivered the longest extension for the race since it has been held in Melbourne.”
Melbourne organisers have agreed to upgrade the pits and paddock facilities to future-proof the event for its new deal.
The track was modified for the first time for this year’s event in April in an attempt to increase overtaking possibilities.
From 1996 until 2019, Melbourne was – with the odd exception – typically the opening race of the season.
That position was lost to Bahrain this year, as Australia was moved to the third race of the season because of uncertainties over immigration restrictions in the context of the pandemic when the schedule was being set last year.
In the future, Bahrain and Melbourne are likely to share the opening slot. Bahrain is set to become the de facto first race of the season, but Melbourne will step in when the timing of the Muslim festival of Ramadan makes it impossible to race in the Middle East on the required date.
F1 is still working on the 2023 schedule but insiders say Melbourne is not expected to be the season-opening race next year.
European football is in “danger” unless “state-owned” clubs such as Manchester City and Paris St-Germain can be controlled, the president of Spain’s top league says.
La Liga has filed a complaint to Uefa about what it believes to be Financial Fair Play breaches by the two clubs.
It believes they are effectively run by wealthy countries and circumvent rules designed to keep spending sustainable.
Both clubs have vigorously denied the complaints.
Premier League winners Manchester City are majority-owned by Sheikh Mansour of the United Arab Emirates, while the Emir of Qatar owns French champions PSG.
“We’re doing it to defend the football eco-system in Europe,” said La Liga president Javier Tebas.
“We think European football is in danger. [We have] not been able to design a system to control the state-owned clubs.”
He has strongly criticised PSG over the new multi-million pound contract they gave star striker Kylian Mbappe.
Speaking at a European Leagues meeting in Amsterdam, he added: “We’ve made official complaints about PSG for financial doping.
“Uefa have allowed losses because clubs reduced their turnover, but PSG increased their wage bill by an incredible amount during Covid.
“Their wages for 2021-22 were 600m euros. It is impossible. That is without including Mbappe. It is obvious they are not applying FFP [Financial Fair Play] rules. It is endangering the entire financial eco-system in Europe.”
The complaint against PSG was made last week and the one against City in April, although La Liga says it reserves the right to extend these complaints.
In July 2020, the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned a two-year Champions League ban imposed on City by Uefa for FFP breaches.
Tebas added: “At one point, Man City had 68% of their revenue from commercial income. Real Madrid was 54%. That is impossible. Man City as a brand is not worth that much. They were sanctioned but it was reversed. PSG is even more obvious. It is totally impossible. Contracts were inflated.
“The majority of people in football try to control their financial status. It is not a problem they are owned by the state. It is the financial side.”
Champions Manchester City face West Ham away on the opening weekend of a 2022-23 Premier League campaign that will include a mid-season break for the World Cup in Qatar.
There will be no top-flight games after the weekend of 12-13 November until 26 December because of the World Cup.
The first fixture takes place on Friday, 5 August when Crystal Palace host Arsenal.
Liverpool play at promoted Fulham, with Nottingham Forest at Newcastle.
Forest are back in the Premier League for the first time since 1998-99.
The World Cup, which will feature both England and Wales, starts on 21 November. The final is on 18 December, eight days before the Premier League season resumes.
There are no meetings between the Premier League’s so-called ‘big six’ on weekend of 12-13 November – the one before the World Cup – following a request by the Football Association.
England will meet up on 14 November before flying to Qatar the following day.
Special arrangements have been made to allow more time between games played across the three festive match rounds.
This will allow squads greater time to recover. Previously clubs were given a minimum of 48 hours between matches.
After fixtures on 26-27 December, the following match round will be played across 29, 30 and 31 December. The New Year match round will be played on the 2, 3, 4 and 5 January.
The 2022-23 season has been adjusted to accommodate the 2022 World Cup, which takes place in the middle of the domestic calendar.
It starts a week earlier than normal – 75 days after the final day of the 2021-22 campaign – and finishes a week later than usual on 28 May.
Fifa, world football’s governing body, has already stipulated that players must be released on 14 November for the World Cup.
It means the mid-season break will last more than six weeks.
There will be 16 matchdays before Qatar – five in August, three in September, six in October and two in November.https://emp.bbc.com/emp/SMPj/2.44.15/iframe.htmlManchester City celebrate Premier League title with bus parade
Bournemouth v Everton
Brighton v Aston Villa
Fulham v Manchester United
Liverpool v Southampton
Manchester City v Brentford
Newcastle United v Chelsea
Nottingham Forest v Crystal Palace
Tottenham Hotspur v Leeds United
West Ham United v Leicester City
Wolverhampton v Arsenal
Manchester City, crowned 2021-22 champions after a dramatic final-day win over Aston Villa, are favourites to retain their title after signing forward Erling Haaland from Borussia Dortmund for £51.2m.
Haaland, 21, is set to make his Premier League debut at West Ham before City host Bournemouth and then travel to Newcastle.
Liverpool, who finished one point behind the champions in 2021-22, host City on 15 October, with the return fixture at Etihad Stadium on 1 April.
After opening the season at Newcastle, Nottingham Forest host West Ham before travelling to Everton.
The first Manchester derby of the season is on 1 October at Etihad Stadium, with United hosting their neighbours on 14 January.
Arsenal host the first north London derby of the season on 1 October with the return at Tottenham also on 14 January.
The first Merseyside derby of 2022-23 is at Everton on 3 September with Liverpool hosting the Toffees on 11 February.
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