Tyson Fury enjoyed a happy homecoming as he retained his WBC heavyweight title with a sensational sixth-round stoppage of British rival Dillian Whyte at a packed Wembley Stadium on Saturday.
In his first fight on British soil since August 2018, Fury was treated to a hero’s welcome by a 94,000 capacity crowd in London.
He thereafter largely dictated the tempo before ending proceedings in devastating fashion.
A vicious uppercut caught Whyte flush on the chin before he was pushed over on to his back.
But while the mandatory challenger beat the count, referee Mark Lyson waved off the fight.
Whyte could have few complaints at a halt being called with just one second remaining before the fight reached the midway point.
He was clearly on unsteady legs after the bout’s first significant strike.
Fury (now 32-0-1, 23KOs) was able to use his considerable height and reach advantage to keep Whyte at bay.
Ondo State government, says a total of 34 persons have died of Lassa Fever in the state from January to date.
Prof. Francis Faduyile, Special Adviser to the state governor on Health, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Akure on Sunday.
Faduyile said the state recorded 227 confirmed cases in six Local Government Areas (LGAs) during the period.
According to him, the local governments are Owo, Ose, Akure South, Akoko South-West, Akure North and Ondo West.
Faduyile said there were three confirmed cases among health workers in the state.
Gridlocks have returned to Ekpoma part of the Benin-Auchi-Okene Highway.
The gridlocks result from a failed portion of the highway stretching to more than one kilometre.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that on Sunday, long queues of vehicles, mostly articulated vehicles could be seen on the stretch of the failed portion.
The long queues could be noticed from Opoji Junction to the gate of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, a perennial site whenever the rains set in.
NAN reports that motorists, especially those driving articulated vehicles, spend days on the failed portion of the highway.
Motorists who spoke with NAN said what was required to end their nightmare was a permanent fixing of the road rather than the yearly palliative measure of filling portions with debris.
The Police command in Ondo State on Saturday, foiled an attempted Kidnap of nine passengers on the Lagos/Ore expressway.
This is contained in a statement signed and made available to newsmen by SP Funmilayo Odunlami, Police Public Relations Officer(PPRO), Ondo State Command on Saturday in Akure.
Odunlami said the victims were rescued on Friday, April 22 at about 6:30pm when the Police Rapid Respond Squad of the command were on routine check on the highway.
“Police Rapid Respond Squad of the command on Friday, received a distress call that some People were being whisked into the bush by people suspected to be kidnappers.
“With the joint effort of policemen attached to the Ore Division, all the victims were rescued.
“While a victim who had a matchet cut on his right finger was taken to the hospital for treatment, an Android phone belonging to one of the victims was also recovered in the bush.
“Effort is in top gear to arrest the culprits while the driver and other passengers have been allowed to continue their journey,” Odunlami said.
The PPRO, therefore, assured the commitment of the Commissioner of Police in the state, Oyeyemi Oyediran to all road users in the state of adequate security within its command.
A 100-year-old man from the southern Brazilian metropolis of Brusque has entered the Guinness World Record guide for working the longest within the same company: 84 years.
Despite his extraordinary accomplishment, Walter Orthmann’s recommendation for those trying for a protracted and fulfilling skilled life is surprisingly routine: do what you like and avoid junk meals.
“You have to love to work. I began to work with that willingness and preventing spirit,” he mentioned in an interview this week.
“You can’t simply do any job to say that you’re working. That doesn’t work. You’re not going to have the ability to stand it.
“According to local media, Orthmann began on the manufacturing facility ground of a company now often called RenauxView, which produces materials. Soon after, he moved to administration, finally changing into a gross sales supervisor.
To maintain sharpness, he stretches every day and assiduously watches his food regimen.” I actually keep away from salt and sugar,” he mentioned. “I keep away from things that damage the intestines. I keep away from Coke and different sodas. I only consume things which are good for me. That actually helps your physique to be sturdy perpetually.”
After 34 years hiatus, “Village Headmaster”, the one-time Nigerian first longest-running TV drama series, has now been repackaged and will be shown on three local television stations.
This was disclosed on Friday at the relaunch and private screening of the repackaged drama series in Abuja.
Set in Oja, a fictitious Yoruba village, the series is woven around the lives of the villagers from royalty to the commoners, education, etc.
The Director-General of Nigeria Television Authority, Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, recalled that before the series went off screen decades back, it captivated viewers and was addictive to many in those days.
He said the series was brought back to reenact the characters, bring back the moral values, national unity and cohesion it taught in those days.
Ibn- Mohammed expressed regrets that some of the original cast of the series had passed on and not available to witness the rebirth of the iconic series.
He said prominent among them included late Chief Segun Olusola, former Nigeria Ambassador to Ethiopia, who created the series as a member of staff of the then Western Nigeria Television, Ibadan.
He said the new cast is super-packed with the choicest names in the movie industry including some of the founding members of the series, notably, Dejumo Lewis as Kabiyesi, Alison Ibrahim as Amebo, Dan Imodu as Dagbolu and Dele Osawe as Teacher Fadile.
Other prominent members of the cast included Popular musician 9ice, Mr Latin, Funky Mallam, Jide Kosoko, Okele, Omo Ibadan and Fathia Balogun.
On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky opened an exhibition about defending his country’s freedom at the Venice Biennale festival.
Speaking via video link, he said “art can tell the world things that cannot be shared otherwise”.
His country’s culture is a focus of attention in Venice and artworks have been escorted out of Ukraine by police.
In contrast, the Russian Pavilion stood locked and empty; a sign of the country’s isolation.
President Zelensky described the pain of war as he addressed the world’s oldest and most prestigious contemporary art exhibition earlier this week.
He offered examples of Ukrainian soldiers finding murdered civilians in Bucha, of medics rescuing injured people in Kharkiv, and of a girl writing a letter to her mother who died in Mariopul as experiences that can be best reflected in art, “because this is about something beyond words”.
As he talked of his country’s fight for freedom, he said: “There are no tyrannies that would not try to limit art. Because they can see the power of art. It is art that conveys feelings.”
Ukraine’s art is taking centre stage at the Venice Biennale, which has made a space at the heart of the Giardini for what is effectively a temporary pavilion for Ukraine.
There is a pile of sandbags, mirroring the sandbags being used in Ukraine to protect artworks, and a scorched structure covered in posters of war-related art work.
The official Ukrainian Pavilion in the nearby Arsenale shows a work by artist Pavlo Makov that nearly didn’t make it to Venice.
Called The Fountain of Exhaustion, it’s a series of funnels arranged in a triangle through which water drips and divides. Makov described it to me as a metaphor for “the exhaustion of humanity, the exhaustion of democracy”.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has called on Nigerians, who are calling for the removal of the newly appointed coach of Super Eagles B team, otherwise known as CHAN Eagles and the U-23 Olympic team, Salisu Yusuf, over his involvement in a bribe scandal in 2018, to shelve the idea.
NFF First Vice President, Seyi Akinwunmi, told newsmen at Remo Stadium, Ikenne, venue of the 2022 MTN/NPFL/La Liga U-15 football tournament, that those painting the football house black for bringing Yusuf back to his national coaching job need to have a rethink.
He said; “Yusuf has served his punishment and there is nothing wrong in reappointing him.”
Salisu was banned for collecting bribes as an assistant coach of the Super Eagles after he was caught on camera in August 2018 accepting cash from men who posed as football agents to select two players for his squad to Morocco 2018 African Nations championship.
He was subsequently banned for one year and ordered to pay a fine of $5,000 by the NFF Ethics and Fair Play Committee, which ruled that the coach received $1,000 from the men.
Since his re-appointment last week, many Nigerians have tongue-lashed the Amaju Pinnick-led NFF, saying that Yusuf has no reason whatsoever to come near national coaching job. Some football analysts also carpeted the NFF saying that it is breeding corrupt coaches.
But the NFF first vice president insists there is nothing wrong with the decision to reappoint Yusuf. “There was an issue, not of bribery, but indiscretion,” Akinwunmi explained.
“Yusuf served his term and it has expired.”
Asked if the NFF is not encouraging other coaches to take bribe with the reappointment of Yusuf, Akinwunmi responded: “The fact that he was banned for a while over an offense is enough to serve as deterrent to other coaches.”
On the reappointment of Ladan Bosso as coach of the Flying Eagles despite failing with the same team in recent past, Akinwunmi said; “Bosso was recommended to us by the Technical Committee. They are in a better position to answer such question.
Meanwhile, Akinwunmi has urged players featuring in the 2022 edition of the MTN/NPFL/La Liga U-15 football tournament at Remo Stadium to use the opportunity to make good career for themselves. He also tasked the young lads to make friends because, according to him, outside football, there is life.
Akinwunmi revealed that about five or six players in the present Super Eagles squad are close to their retirement age, and the U-15 football tournament would serve as an avenue to pick replacements for them.
Meroë is an ancient city which is located on the east bank of the River Nile, which is also known as the Island of Meroë, nowadays in the eastern part of the Republic of the Sudan.
It is called the Island of Meroë because in the past an ancient, long-dried river ran around this ancient site.
There are nearly 200 ancient pyramids, many of them tombs of the kings and queens of the Kingdom of Kush which ruled the area for more than 900 years.
The same Kingdom was a major power in the ancient world between 8th century BC and 4th century AD, where Meroë became the principal residence of the rulers.
The Meroë pyramids, smaller than their Egyptian cousins, are considered Nubian pyramids, with narrow bases and steep angles on the sides, built between 2,700 and 2,300 years ago, with decorative elements from the cultures of Pharaonic Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
The entrances of the pyramids are facing usually east, so that they will greet always the rising sun.
In addition to the pyramids, there are also Musawwarat es-Sufra and Naqa, two associated settlements and religious centres. Set against reddish-brown hills and contrasting with the green bushes that cover them, they are the best-preserved relics from the Kingdom of Kush.
Nevertheless, the more recent history marks the malicious human nature, where this time the Italian explorer Giuseppe Ferlini in 1834 came and pillaged the site, together with other overeager archaeologists throughout the 19th century tore off the golden tips of some pyramids and reduced some of them to rubble.
These architectural structures, the applied iconography and evidence of production and trade, including ceramics and iron-works, testify to the wealth and power of the Kingdom of Kush.
In addition, the water reservoirs are giving the archaeologists the image how the palaeoclimate and hydrological regime in the area has been in the centuries of the reign of the Kushite State.
Though the pyramids are one of the main attractions for Sudan’s tourists, the local tourism industry has been devastated by a series of economic sanctions imposed by various Western nations throughout the course of the country’s civil war and the conflict in Darfur.
Since 1989 the Government of the President Omar Al-Bashir, that came to power following a bloodless coup, is still struggling to care for its antiquities, and whether they will be preserved for the future generations is still unknown.
Still there is a hope on the horizon, with UNESCO which inscribed the site on the World Heritage Sites in 2011 with hope that the situation in the country will get better and the Island of Meroë will be visited once again by many tourists.
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