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China Eastern Crash: Wallets, IDs But No Survivors Found

Angel Gimalo

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March 22, 2022

China Eastern Crash: Wallets, IDs But No Survivors Found

Mud-stained wallets. Bank cards. Official identity cards. Poignant reminders of 132 lives presumed lost were lined up by rescue workers scouring a remote Chinese mountainside Tuesday for the wreckage of a China Eastern flight that one day earlier inexplicably fell from the sky and burst into a huge fireball.

No survivors have been found among the 123 passengers and nine crew members. Video clips posted by China’s state media show small pieces of the Boeing 737-800 plane scattered over a wide forested area, some in green fields, others in burnt-out patches with raw earth exposed after fires burned in the trees.

Each piece of debris has a number next to it, the larger ones marked off by police tape.

Search teams planned to work through the night using their hands, picks, sniffer dogs and other equipment to look for survivors, state broadcaster CCTV reported.

The steep, rough terrain and the huge size of the debris field were complicating the search for the black box, which holds the flight data and cockpit voice recorder, CCTV and the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Pay doctors’ February salaries, NMA tells Kogi governor

Health

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March 22, 2022

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Pay doctors’ February salaries, NMA tells Kogi governor

The Nigerian Medical Association has urged the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to direct the full payment of February salaries of medical doctors working with the Kogi State Government.

The NMA made the call in a communiqué jointly signed by its Chairman, Dr. Omakoji Oyiguh, and Secretary, Dr. Chimezie Udebuani on Tuesday in Lokoja.

It read, “The meeting observed that the salary of the medical doctors working with the Government of Kogi State was in percentage (69.97 per cent).

“The meeting further observed that the payment in percentage was done despite lack of notice or invitation for negotiation to members whose salaries are to be affected.

“The NMA Kogi in a letter to Gov. Bello, dated March 7, drew the attention of the governor to non-invitation to participate in any negotiation and the expectation of NMA for payment of full salary for the month of February 2022,” the statement noted.

In respect of these, the NMA Kogi chapter appealed to gov. Bello to forestall any possibility of industrial action, after the administration’s “two years of peaceful and harmonious” relationship with the medical sector.

“The governor’s handlers on the issue of the percentage salary should be cautioned against doing anything that will cause a breakdown of the much-cherished relationship already developed,” the NMA said.

Ghana’s Education Minister Urges Chartered Institute of Taxation To Demystify Tax Payment

Education

Precious Obazee

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March 22, 2022

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Ghana’s Education Minister Urges Chartered Institute of Taxation To Demystify Tax Payment

Ghana has inaugurated a 12-member governing council of the Chartered Institute of Taxation with a call on the institute to fashion out programmes that will help demystify tax payment in the country.

The council has Emmanuel Obeng Asiedu as the Chairman with George Katia, President of the institute, Ernestina Christiana Appiah, Vice President of the institute as members.

While inaugurating the board, the Minister of Education, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum said the council must come out with short, medium and long term strategies to enhance taxation in the country.

He said the institute would have to work hard to demystify the issue of taxation to encourage people to see tax as something good.

The minister said beyond the negative aspects of taxes, it also had its own opportunities and once people begun to look at tax payment from the positive light, they would be able to also seize the opportunities created within the tax regime.

He said many people did not know the level of tax incentives that was available to them and the institute must see that as a Greenfield for people to take advantage of.

He said no country can do without taxes adding that people must begin to imbibe the spirit of taxation into the children for them to see tax as something good.

On his part, the chairman of the council, Emmanuel Obeng expressed his gratitude for the confidence reposed in them and pledged to serve with excellence.

He said members of the council specifically understood that their charge was to urgently fight for enhanced tax education, study of taxation and related fiscal policies that ensured efficient and effective tax practice.

This he said they would do to enhance tax administration towards improved tax revenue mobilisation to support sustainable socio-economic development, especially beyond aid.

Additionally, he noted that as part of their charge they were required to improve on tax education, which had the impetus to encourage tax conscientiousness, and voluntary tax compliance among the general citizenry.

Qatar 2022 Playoff: Eagles begin training for Black Stars in Abuja

Sports

Emenike Agu

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March 22, 2022

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Qatar 2022 Playoff: Eagles begin training for Black Stars in Abuja

. Maduka Okoye out

Nigeria’s army for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 playoff battle with Ghana on Tuesday started their preparations in the Federal Capital, Abuja ahead of departure to Kumasi on Thursday.

Three –time African champions Nigeria and four –time African champions Ghana tango at the 40,000 –capacity Baba Yara Stadium on Friday evening, in the first leg of a potentially –explosive fixture in which both teams will battle for a single ticket to the 22^nd FIFA World Cup finals. The return leg at the Moshood Abiola National Stadium, Abuja is expected to be even pulsating and fiery.

At lunchtime on Tuesday, 18 of the 25 invited players had arrived at The Wells Carlton Hotel and Apartments. Five others were being expected on Tuesday evening, with only Leicester City of England playmaker Ademola Lookman and new invitee John Noble expected on Wednesday morning.

Friday’s encounter in Kumasi will be the 58^th clash between the two countries’ senior teams, with 18 of those matches having ended in draws. The first encounter was on 20^th October 1951, which Nigeria won 5-0.

The last time both teams were involved in a FIFA World Cup qualifying fixture was in 2001, with both seeking a spot at the Korea/Japan 2002 finals. The opening leg at the Accra Sports Stadium was stalemated 0-0, before Nigeria won the return 3-0 inside the Liberation Stadium in Port Harcourt on 29^th July 2001.

Their last meeting, in a friendly match that was staged in London on 11^th October 2011, ended 0-0.

Captain Ahmed Musa and deputy captain William Ekong are among the 18 players who are already in camp for the two big games.

Meanwhile, goalkeeper Maduka Okoye has fallen ill and Coach Augustine Eguavoen has extended invitation to Enyimba FC goalkeeper John Noble to join the squad.

Already in camp: William Ekong, Leon Balogun, Oluwasemilogo Ajayi, Olaoluwa Aina, Frank Onyeka, Odion Ighalo, Daniel Akpeyi, Ahmed Musa, Oghenekaro Etebo, Kelechi Iheanacho, Abdullahi Shehu, Francis Uzoho, Moses Simon, Emmanuel Dennis, Joseph Ayodele-Aribo, Calvin Bassey, Innocent Bonke, Kenneth Omeruo

Expected Tuesday evening: Zaidu Sanusi, Akinkunmi Amoo, Samuel Chukwueze, Victor Osimhen, Sadiq Umar

Expected Wednesday: Ademola Lookman, John Noble

NIGERIA, GHANA IN HISTORY

20 0ct 1951 (Jalco Cup): Nigeria 5 Ghana 0

11 Oct 1953 (Jalco Cup): Ghana 1 Nigeria 0

30 Oct 1954 (Jalco Cup): Nigeria 3 Ghana 0

30 Oct 1955 (Jalco Cup): Ghana 7 Nigeria 0

27 Oct 1956 (Jalco Cup): Nigeria 3 Ghana 0

27 Oct 1957 (Jalco Cup): Ghana 3 Nigeria 3

25 Oct 1958 (Jalco Cup): Nigeria 3 Ghana 2

10 Oct 1959 (Olympics Qualifier): Nigeria 3 Ghana 1

26 Oct 1959 (Olympics Qualifier): Ghana 4 Nigeria 1

22 Nov 1959 (Jalco Cup): Ghana 5 Nigeria 2

28 Aug 1960 (WC Qualifier): Ghana 4 Nigeria 1

10 Sep 1960 (WC Qualifier): Nigeria 2 Ghana 2

9 Oct 1960 (Nkrumah Cup): Nigeria 0 Ghana 3

29 Oct 1960 (Zik Cup): Nigeria 1 Ghana 1

8 Apr 1961 (AFCON Qualifier): Nigeria 0 Ghana 0

30 Apr 1961 (AFCON Qualifier): Ghana 2 Nigeria 2

17 Dec 1961 (Friendly): Ghana 5 Nigeria 1

10 Nov 1962 (Friendly): Nigeria 0 Ghana 0

23 Feb 1963 (Nkrumah Cup); Ghana 5 Nigeria 0

30 Oct 1965 (Zik Cup): Nigeria 0 Ghana 4

7 Nov 1965 (Zik Cup): Ghana 3 Nigeria 0

23 Jan 1967 (Zik Cup): Nigeria 2 Ghana 2

12 Feb 1967 (Zik Cup): Ghana 2 Nigeria 0

22 Oct 1967 (Zik Cup): Ghana 2 Nigeria 1

23 Dec 1967 (Zik Cup): Nigeria 2 Ghana 2

10 May 1969 (WC Qualifier): Nigeria 2 Ghana 1

18 May 1969 (WC Qualifier): Ghana 1 Nigeria 1

8 Jan 1973 (All-Africa Games): Nigeria 4 Ghana 2

10 Feb 1973 (WC Qualifier): Nigeria 2 Ghana 3 – abandoned, match awarded 2-0 to Ghana

25 Feb 1973 (WC Qualifier): Ghana 0 Nigeria 0

11 Aug 1974 (Festival): Nigeria 1 Ghana 0

17 Aug 1974 (Festival): Nigeria 0 Ghana 1

24 Aug 1975 (Festival): Ghana 1 Nigeria 2

30 Aug 1975 (Festival): Ghana 3 Nigeria 0

4 Sep 1977 (Ecowas Cup): Nigeria 2 Ghana 1

8 Mar 1978 (AFCON): Ghana 1 Nigeria 1

21 July 1978 (All-Africa Games): Ghana 0 Nigeria 0

1 May 1983 (ECA Anniversary): Ghana 1 Nigeria 0

15 Oct 1983 (Olympics Qualifier): Nigeria 0 Ghana 0

30 Oct 1983 (Olympics Qualifier): Ghana 1 Nigeria 2

5 Mar 1984 (AFCON): Ghana 1 Nigeria 2

27 July 1986 (Friendly): Ghana 2 Nigeria 0

2 Sep 1990 (AFCON Qualifier): Ghana 1 Nigeria 0

13 Apr 1991 (AFCON Qualifier): Nigeria 0 Ghana 0

23 Jan 1992 (AFCON): Ghana 2 Nigeria 1

9 Mar 1994 (Friendly): Nigeria 0 Ghana 0

28 Aug 1999 (Friendly): Nigeria 0 Ghana 0

11 Mar 2001 (WC Qualifier): Ghana 0 Nigeria 0

29 July 2001 (WC Qualifier): Nigeria 3 Ghana 0

3 Feb 2002 (AFCON): Ghana 0 Nigeria 1

15 Dec 2002 (Friendly): Ghana 0 Nigeria 1

30 May 2003 (LG Cup): Nigeria 3 Ghana 1

23 Jan 2006 (AFCON): Ghana 0 Nigeria 1

6 Feb 2007 (Friendly): Ghana 4 Nigeria 1

3 Feb 2008 (AFCON): Ghana 2 Nigeria 1

28 Jan 2010 (AFCON): Ghana 1 Nigeria 0

11 Oct 2011 (Friendly): Ghana 0 Nigeria 0

Once Upon A Time – March 22 – 1954 – Northland Center, World’s Largest Shopping Mall At The Time, Opens In Oakpark, Michigan

Environment

Angel Gimalo

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March 22, 2022

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1622 First American Indian (Powhatan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed

1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on American colonists, organized by Prime Minister George Grenville

1832 British Parliament, led by Charles Grey, passes the Reform Act, introducing wide-ranging changes to electoral system of England and Wales, increasing electorate from about 500,000 voters to 813,000

1954 Northland Center, the world’s largest shopping mall at the time, opens in Oakpark, Michigan

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

2018 US President Donald Trump imposes $60 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese imports

HISTORICAL EVENTS TODAY

TODAY IN FILM & TV

1895 Auguste & Louis Lumiere show their 1st movie to an invited audience

TODAY IN MUSIC

1963 The Beatles release their 1st album, “Please Please Me”

TODAY IN SPORT

1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 at the Panhellenic Games

WOULD YOU BELIEVE THIS FACT ABOUT TODAY?

1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought

Record 6.7 Billion Connect To Global Healing Service With Pastor Chris

Religion

Koko Lawrence

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March 21, 2022

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Record 6.7 Billion Connect To Global Healing Service With Pastor Chris

History was made yet again at the “Healing Streams Live Healing Services” of Loveworld Inc. aka Christ Embassy. The healing power of God was clearly evident, as testimonies poured in from different parts of the world, with videos shown from the various healing centers during the service.

The special 3-day online healing program hosted by the President of LoveWorld Inc., Rev. Dr. Chris Oyakhilome D.Sc, DD, was beamed live to a global audience of more than 6.7 billion people in over 5,142 languages, witnessing an avalanche of miracles, healings and testimonies.

The March Edition of the program, which is the first in the year 2022, was tagged the biggest online healing and miracle crusade on earth at this time, with a reported participation around the world. The man of God, Pastor Chris, said the figure could be higher considering data that was being received.

The globally respected Man of God, Pastor Chris, who demonstrated God’s healing powers on the nights emphasized on the legal authority in the name of Jesus and the power of attorney in the name. He also expounded on the purpose of Jesus’ coming.

Highpoints of the services included interviews of live testifiers of the past “Healing Streams Live Healing Services”. These testifiers from previous physical healing programs and virtually from past editions of “Healing Streams Live Healing Services”, were interviewed by a senior minister of the Healing School, Evang. Dr. Eddy Owase, sharing their experiences. As each of them recounted what they were healed from and what that has done in their lives and for those around them, there was so much excitement.

No one was left out, as the man of God stretched his hands to the screen to pray for all connected, speaking healing and peace to their bodies. The man of God prayed specifically for everyone connected. Special prayers for the nations of the world, were also witnessed on the final night, declaring peace at this time.

The “Healing Streams Live Healing Services” expresses God’s love, unfailing grace, the compassion of Jesus and the healing power in the Name of Jesus.

THE HEALING MINISTRY OF PASTOR CHRIS
The world renowned Healing School of Christ Embassy is the healing ministry of Pastor Chris, committed to taking healing to the nations, and manifesting the healing works of Jesus Christ, in our world today. The healing ministry of Pastor Chris has helped many receive healings through the diverse operations of the gifts of the Spirit, making them well and restoring them to a state of complete soundness.

Ithaca: Artificial Intelligence To Help Historians Unravel Ancient Texts

Angel Gimalo

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March 21, 2022

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For the thousands of ancient texts discovered, scholars must devote countless hours in deciphering faded writing, filling in missing characters and sections of texts and determining the age and origin of the text.

Normally, epigraphers – scholars who study ancient texts written on durable materials such as stone, metal or pottery – use their own knowledge of repositories of information and digital databases performing “string matching” searches to find textual and contextual parallels.

However, differences in the digital-search query that can exclude or conceal relevant results and that the texts often are discovered not in their original context can complicate the work.

In a new research paper published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal Nature, Thea Sommerschield, a historian and Marie Curie fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies, and Yannis Assael, a research scientist at Google’s artificial-intelligence research lab DeepMind, presented their Ithaca state-of-the-art AI technology.

Ithaca is the first deep-neural network meant to improve the task of restoring and attributing ancient texts.

It uses deep learning for geographical and chronological attribution for the very first time and on an unprecedented scale, the researchers said.

An AI deep-learning model is based on a neural network inspired by the biological neural networks we have in our brains, which can discover and utilize complicated statistical patterns in large amounts of data.

Recent increases in computational power have enabled these models to tackle challenges of growing sophistication in many fields, including the study of ancient languages, the researchers said.

Ithaca is trained on the largest dataset of ancient Greek inscriptions and across the ancient Mediterranean world between the seventh century BCE and the fifth century CE, the researchers said.

These texts were chosen because of the varied contents and context already existing for them and because of the available digitized database for ancient Greek, they said.

Ithaca is meant to be a collaborative technology, focusing on collaboration, decision support and interpretability, the researchers said.

While Ithaca alone achieves 62% accuracy when restoring damaged texts, combining it with the use by historians improved the results’ accuracy from 25% to 72%, they said.

Ithaca includes different visualization aids to increase the ability of researchers to interpret the results, allowing them to evaluate multiple possibilities.

This could help historians increase precision by narrowing the wide or vague date brackets they must sometimes resort to, the researchers said.

They added that their research shows how models such as Ithaca can “unlock the cooperative potential between artificial intelligence and historians,” impacting the way one of the most important periods in human history is studied and written about,

Czech Republic-Based Energy Provider Launches Tender For New Nuclear Plant In Dukovany

Environment

Angel Gimalo

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March 21, 2022

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Czech Republic-based energy provider ČEZ has launched a tender for the construction of a new nuclear power plant in Dukovany.

The new Dukovany unit will be built next to the existing power plant and will eventually replace some of the power being generated.

After completing the security assessments, the Czech Ministry of Industry and Trade gave consent to the three bidders; namely American Westinghouse, the French EDF and the Korean company KHNP.

Bidders must submit introductory bids by the end of November this year. ČEZ will then process and assess the bids and submit an evaluation report to the state for approval.

The contracts will be finalized in 2024.

Reko Diq Project: Development Of Copper, Gold Mines To Create 8000 New Jobs

Environment

Angel Gimalo

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March 21, 2022

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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has witnessed the signing ceremony between the Government of Pakistan, the Government of Balochistan and Barrick Gold Corporation of Canada after successfully resolving the longstanding dispute with Tethyan Copper Company (TCC) concerning the development of copper and gold mines in Chagai, popularly known as the Reko Diq dispute.

A new agreement was signed by representatives of the Federal and Balochistan Governments with a delegation of Barrick Gold, led by Chief Executive Dr. Mark Bristow.

As per the terms of the new agreement, the Reko Diq project shall be revived and developed by Barrick gold in partnership with Pakistani entities.

The new project company shall be owned 50 percent by Barrick Gold.

The remaining 50 percent shareholding shall be owned by Pakistan, divided equally between Federal Government and the provincial government of Balochistan.

Federal Government’s 25 percent shareholding shall be divided equally amongst three state-owned-entities (SOEs) of the Federal Government, namely Oil and Gas Development Corporation Limited (OGDCL), Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) and Government Holdings Pakistan Limited (GHPL). Balochistan’s share shall be held by a company wholly-owned and controlled by the Government of Balochistan.

As part of the Prime Minister’s vision for Balochistan, the Government of Balochistan’s share of capital and operating expenses for the project shall be borne by the Federal Government.

In developing the project, nearly USD 10 billion shall be invested in Balochistan, including USD one billion that shall be invested in social uplift projects such as roads, schools, hospitals and creation of a technical training institute for mining.

The investment shall create over 8000 new jobs.

India Rupee Hits New Historic Low Of 181.35 Against US Dollar

Money

Angel Gimalo

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March 21, 2022

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There was no respite from the declining rupee trend on Monday as the currency dropped to a new all-time low of Rs181.35 against the US dollar in the inter-bank market during intra-day trade despite a decrease in the current account deficit.

The movement of the local currency against the greenback is being driven by sentiments, besides the demand and supply.

According to data released by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), rupee closed at Rs180.57 on Friday.

Moreover, the looming political crisis and worries about the next tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan kept the currency under pressure.

There has been no progress on Pakistan and the IMF’s seventh review talks for the release of the next loan tranche following the breaches committed by the government on different fronts.

The IMF showed concerns about the PM’s relief package.

Contrary to the expectations of the market, the declining current account deficit failed to entice investors and the currency continued to drop to new lows.