Ukraine’s Dayana Yastremska has reached the semi-finals of the Lyon Open a week after fleeing the Russian bombing of her home city of Odessa.
Yastremska, 21, got past Italian fifth seed Jasmine Paolini 6-4 7-6 (7-3) in the quarter-finals to reach the last four of a WTA event for the first time since the summer.
“That’s another win for Ukraine,” Yastremska said.
“I feel so much support from everybody.”
Compatriot and former world number three Elina Svitolina was defeated in the quarter-finals of the Monterrey Open.
Top seed Svitolina let a 4-1 lead slip in the third set as she lost 1-6 7-5 7-6 (7-5) to Colombia’s Camila Osorio.
Svitolina previously said she would donate all of her prize money from the event in Mexico to the Ukrainian army.
‘FOOTBALL STANDS TOGETHER’ was displayed ahead of last Sunday’s Carabao Cup final.
Chinese rights holders have told the Premier League they will not broadcast English top-flight matches this weekend because of the league’s planned shows of support for Ukraine, the BBC has learnt.
China is a close political ally of Russia, which has invaded Ukraine.
The Premier League has said it “wholeheartedly rejects Russia’s actions” and is set to show solidarity with Ukraine.
“We call for peace and our thoughts are with all those who have been impacted,” it added, when announcing its plans earlier this week.
That will include captains wearing special armbands in Ukrainian colours, while stadium screens will display ‘Football Stands Together’ in front of the country’s blue and yellow flag.
Fans have also been encouraged to join “a moment of reflection and solidarity before kick-off at each game”.
When asked about the Chinese refusal to show matches, the Premier League declined to comment.
The Premier League rights in China are held by iQiyi Sports which took over last year after the collapse of a deal with PPTV.
The row comes with the Premier League reviewing its broadcast contracts in Russia.
This week Premier League chief executive Richard Masters said that, with teams demonstrating their support for Ukraine following Russia’s invasion, he would “like the Russian people to see the strength of feeling in the Premier League and in English football this weekend”.
He added: “But we are looking at them [the contracts] very closely in terms of suspension or termination, given the current circumstances.”
In 2019 China’s state broadcaster CCTV removed an Arsenal
-Manchester City game from its schedule after comments made by then-Gunners midfielder Mesut Ozil.
Grygorii Vovchynskyi is one of the most experienced members of the Ukraine team
Ukraine topped the medal table with three golds on the first day of the Winter Paralympics in Beijing.
Biathlete Grygorii Vovchynskyi triumphed in the men’s sprint standing event to win Ukraine’s first gold at these Games.
Oksana Shyshkova then won the women’s sprint vision impaired, before Vitaliy Lukianenko led a Ukrainian one-two-three in the men’s event.
Ukrainian athletes claimed seven medals in total on the opening day.
There are 20 Ukrainian athletes and nine guides in Beijing.
The delegation travelled to China despite the Russian invasion of their country, which began on 24 February.
“It was difficult for me when the war began. I cried every day,” Vovchynskyi said.
“I didn’t understand what happened.
“What can I do? I can dedicate this race to Ukraine, for peace [for the] people in Ukraine.
“Please stop war, it’s very important for our children.”
Vovchynskyi, who won gold in the long distance event in Sochi in 2014, beat Germany’s Marco Maier by 45.8 seconds to win his event.
He said: “I was thinking before the race, I must try to do everything for Ukraine. I must think about war, about my country, about my people, about my president. I love Ukraine.
“I love sport, but today I ran because I want life in Ukraine to move to the future.”
Shyshkova held off Germany’s Linn Kazmaier to claim Ukraine’s second gold.
Lukianenko added a third in the men’s sprint vision impaired event, with compatriots Oleksandr Kazik and Dmytro Suiarko claiming silver and bronze respectively.
There were also silvers for Liudmyla Liashenko and Taras Rad.
Liashenko, 28, won her fifth Games medal in the women’s sprint standing where China’s Guo Yujie, 17, emerged victorious.
It was a second Paralympic medal for Rad, 23, following his middle distance gold from Pyeongchang, after he finished 17.5secs adrift of China’s Liu Zixu in the men’s sprint seated event.
Before the Games, Valeriy Sushkevych, the Ukrainian Paralympic chief, said his team’s presence at the Games was a “symbol that Ukraine is alive” and that it was a “miracle” they made it to the competition.
They were warmly welcomed into the Bird’s Nest Stadium for Friday’s opening ceremony.
The Russian Paralympic Committee and Belarus were banned from competing.
A minute’s silence was held before Australia men and women’s matches as tributes to continued to pour in for Shane Warne, who died on Friday.
Leg-spinner Warne, one of the greatest cricketers of all time, died of a suspected heart attack aged 52.
A stand at the Melbourne Cricket Ground will be permanently renamed the SK Warne Stand as a tribute.
Australian fast bowler Glenn McGrath described Warne as the “ultimate competitor”.
McGrath, who formed a formidable partnership with Warne for Australia, saod.
“Warnie was larger than life. I thought nothing could ever happen to him.
“He thought the game was never lost, that he could turn it around and bring us to victory, which he did so many times.”
Fans left flowers, beer cans and photographs at Warne’s statue at the MCG.
Warne took his first Test hat-trick at the MCG and also claimed his 700th Test wicket at the ground in 2006.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has offered a state funeral to the family of a man who he said “defined a generation”.
“To us, he was the greatest – but to his family, he was so much more. Our hearts are breaking for Shane’s family and friends,” Andrews said.
“I have offered a state funeral to his family so Victorians can pay tribute to his legacy and contribution to our state, community and country.”
State funerals are held to honour people of national significance.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison has also offered his family a state funeral for Warne.
Photographs were laid at Warne’s statue at the MCGWarne took 708 wickets in 145 Tests for AustraliaA stand will be renamed at the MCG in Warne’s honour
Former Australia batter Ricky Ponting, who captained Warne from 2004-2007, called him “the greatest bowler I ever played with or against”.
“He gave me my nickname [Punter]. We were team-mates for more than a decade, riding all the highs and lows together,” Ponting wrote on Twitter.
“Through it all he was someone you could always count on, someone who loved his family, someone who would be there for you when you needed him and always put his mates first.”
Australia and Pakistan men wore black armbands and held a minute’s silence before play on the second day of the first Test in Lahore.
Australia’s women also wore black armbands in their Women’s World Cup victory against England and observed a silence for both Warne and Rod Marsh, who died on Thursday.
Australia’s men held a minute’s silence and wore black armbands on Saturday
Leg-spinner Alana King touched her armband after dismissing Tammy Beaumont as a mark of respect to Warne.
Cricketers in the Sheffield Shield, Australia’s domestic competition, also wore black armbands and AFL players observed a minute’s silence.
Tom Mitchell, who plays for Victoria-based Hawthorne in the AFL, left a football by Warne’s statue to pay respect to “a guy who just loved sport”.
Warne died in his villa on the Thai island of Koh Samui on Friday of a suspected heart attack.
Thai police told Reuters one of three friends staying with Warne found him unconscious and performed CPR on him before medics arrived.
They added the death was not being treated as suspicious.
“The case is still under investigation, and will need a detailed autopsy result to prove the real cause of death,” Thai police spokesperson Kissana Phathanacharoen said.
‘Bowling, Shane’ was a catchphrase used by players, fans and pundits alikeA silence was also held at the Women’s Cricket World Cup in New Zealand
The second batch of Nigerians from Ukraine have arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Friday evening.
They arrived from Warsaw, Poland at about 6:30pm on Friday.
Their arrival was confirmed by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM).
NIDCOM on its twitter handle said: “BREAKING NEWS 2ND BATCH OF EVACUATION: The Second batch of Nigerians from #Ukraine arrive Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport Abuja at about 6:30 local time from Warsaw, Poland. 04/03/2022.”
The first batch arrived on Friday morning from Romania where they fled to when the Ukraine war escalated.
According to NIDCOM Chairman, Abike Dabiri-Erewa,The first batch comprises 416 evacuees.
She said two more batches were still expected to arrive the country today.
With the arrival from Poland, the batch from Hungary is still being expected.
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced a new strategy in its efforts to eliminate illiteracy and its accompanying malaise among the more than 90-million adult population and the about 13 million out of school children in the country.
Unveiling the new strategy called “Literacy Enroute Economic Empowerment Strategy (LEEDS)” at a one-day Strategic Management Meeting in Mararaba, Nasarawa State, the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Formal Education, Prof. Simon Akpama, said the new strategy will emphasize a juxtaposition of the acquisition of basic and post-literacy skills with vocational skills acquisition for the attainment of economic self-reliance.
Prof. Akpama explained that the new policy will be in addition to existing strategies, like the Literacy-by-Radio (LBR), the Rural Facilitators’ Scheme (RFS), Each-One-Teach-One and other initiatives all aimed at facilitating the attainment of the Commission’s mandate of eradicating illiteracy among Nigerians aged 15 years and above.
The Executive Secretary said the strategic meeting was a ‘deliberate introspective innovation aimed at re-jigging, resuscitating, reforming and repositioning the Commission’s extant management style for maximum productivity in synchronization with the Commission’s ‘sacred illiteracy eradication mandate for overall national development’.
According to him, “The introduction of LEEDS is not intended to undermine and emasculate the existing illiteracy eradication methods which have made remarkable impact on the Commission’s literacy delivery trajectory but to integrate the Commission’s major goals, policy thrust, actions and its extant literacy delivery methods into a cohesive whole for improved performance in our service delivery drive’.
When functional, LEEDS will offer graduates from both the basic and post-literacy programmes to be provided with relevant kits and starter packs to establish their own businesses such as salons, fashion designing shops and the like which will in turn lead to reduction in unemployment and increase in income generation.
While commending President Muhammadu Buhari and Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, for funding of the Adult and Non-Formal education sector, the Executive Secretary stated that LEEDS will form the antidote to poverty as it has been empirically proven that mere acquisition of basic and post-literacy skills devoid of economic empowerment tools aggravates poverty with its accompanying deleterious socio-economic consequences.
He said, “Our strategic plan must encapsulate the stated imperatives of the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education and unambiguously outline and reassess our preferred routes meant to accomplish the arduous task of illiteracy eradication which constitutes the synopsis of our mission and vision.”
Prof. Akpama called on the management team to align their capacities, competencies and wealth of experience to ensure the success of the LEEDS strategy.
Recall that the federal government recently unveiled a plan to educate about two million non-literate Nigerians annually to enable them uplift their status and contribute to national development.
The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education was established by Act 17 of June 25, 1990, with a mandate to, among others things, provide basic education to the country’s non-literate adults and youths aged 15 and above through a non-formal approach.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says there may be no extension of the registration deadline for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede dropped disclosed this while monitoring the registration exercise in some centres on Friday, in Lagos.
According to him, feelers reaching the board from states across the country reveal that the exercise has been seamless, hence there may be no room for an extension.
“We are not expecting any extension. I want to say that we are very happy with the way the exercise has been going, two weeks after it started.
“More than 55,000 have already registered today alone and we had expected at least 50,000 to register as of today, nationwide. But for the few disruptions witnessed in some of these centres, it is possible to register even 100,000 candidates in a day.
“Our target is to make sure that about 100,000 can register in a day. So far, I must say I am very satisfied with the registration exercise nationwide.
“It gladdens my heart because it shows that we are on course, despite the few glitches witnessed in the registration exercise in some centres, there has been a huge progress made,” he stated.
Firms and buyers throughout the world are faced with a decision, as they weighed up an offer from Moscow to fast-track their exits from the nation and permit them to hand over holdings to native managers till they return.
The choices were provided by First Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Belousov one week after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and a day after French financial institution Societe Generale warned that it may very well be stripped of its Russian operations.
Belousov outlined three options for foreign corporations.
“The company continues to work fully in Russia,” he mentioned in an announcement. “Foreign shareholders transfer their share to be managed by Russian partners and can return to the market later,” he added, and: “The company permanently terminates operations in Russia, closes production and dismisses employees.”
No route comes without dangers. These staying on may face a backlash in Western markets the place the public have rallied to Ukraine’s trigger, these transferring shares may very well be handing over the keys with few ensures, whereas these quitting could face an enormous loss at greatest, or may need to promote for a nominal sum.
Russia’s invasion has prompted the United States and Europe to impose sweeping sanctions, affecting all the pieces from international funds programs to a variety of hi-tech merchandise, which make doing enterprise in Russia more and more complicated and precarious.
For abnormal Russians, it means deep financial ache.
Some multinationals reminiscent of power majors BP and Shell have already mentioned they’re quitting, whereas others have held off signing off from Russia for now. TotalEnergies has mentioned it could keep however wouldn’t make additional investments.
IKEA introduced plans to shut shops on Thursday however mentioned it could pay its 15,000 Russian employees for no less than three months.
Italian tire maker Pirelli mentioned on Friday it was consistently monitoring developments by means of a specifically constituted “crisis committee,” including it didn’t count on to halt both of its two Russian crops.
Its rival, Finland’s Nokian Tyres, mentioned final week it was shifting manufacturing of some product strains out of Russia.
However there aren’t any straightforward fixes even for these on the lookout for the exit when there are restricted buying and selling counterparties.
British insurer and asset supervisor Royal London mentioned it deliberate to promote its Russian property, which it mentioned solely accounted for about 0.1% of its portfolio.
As Nigeria implements the U.S.-supported National HIV Clinical Mentorship Program, new evidence from Zambia has shown that clinical mentorship can rapidly accelerate HIV epidemic control in countries implementing the new sustainable approach.
The HIV Clinical mentorship program supports developing a workforce that can lead, manage, and monitor the HIV/AIDS response within its healthcare system.
In Nigeria, the clinical mentorship program modeled from Zambia was also designed to increase Government ownership of the HIV program with a team of highly experienced mentors engaging with health officials to domesticate key HIV guidelines and innovations at the facility level.
In a recently released scientific paper in the journal PLOS, “new evidence has shown that the implementation of Zambia’s national HIV clinical mentorship program aligned with progress toward the UNAIDS 90/90/90 targets in the four selected provinces”.
“Program data from the country indicated that rates of HIV case-finding, index-case testing, HIV testing efficiency, treatment initiation, viral load testing coverage, and viral load suppression significantly improved during the implementation period”.
In her remarks, the Paper’s Lead author, Dr. Mary Adetinuke Boyd, who currently serves as the Nigeria Country Director of US-CDC, said “the results from Zambia has justified continued support for the mentorship program and made a case for the implementation of similar programs in other settings such as Nigeria. In the current phase of the HIV epidemic response, there is a greater focus on ensuring country ownership to promote sustainability, while maintaining epidemic control,” she said.
Nigeria is currently implementing a National HIV Clinical Mentors Program that uses a similar approach to Zambia’s effort to develop local ownership, as it helps to not only establish a capable workforce that can provide quality care for individuals, but also the quality HIV program management at sites, and ultimately a successful national HIV response utilizing tested public health approaches.
The scientific paper is the first published report of a government-led national HIV clinical mentorship program in sub-Saharan Africa that aligned with significant improvement in key HIV programmatic indicators.
The Amphitheater of El Jem is an ancient structure which serves as a great monument to the city of El Djem, which was previously known as the city of Thysdrus, in the central-east part of the Republic of Tunisia.
Considered to be the largest amphitheater in North Africa, El Jem Amphitheater is considered to have been built in 238, or began at that year, for the then Roman province of Africa Proconsulare.
This free-standing structure was built entirely with stone blocks with no foundations, in a smaller size than the great Colosseum in Rome, Italy. Being 149 meters (489 feet) long, 124 meters (407 feet) wide and 36 meters (118 feet) high, the El Jem Amphitheater was built in order to entertain the spectators who would come here and enjoy in the “festivities”.
Estimated that it accommodated up to 35,000 people, it is definitely among the grandest ones from the ancient world.
Since there are no clear sources about the person who instigated the construction, there is a strong belief that the local proconsul Gordian, who later became the Emperor Gordian III began this endeavor.
The amphitheater’s floors consist of series of arches that are formed from composite engaged columns, and this is considered to have been a Roman development which combines elements of Corinthian and Ionic columns.
In 1904, during an archaeological survey, a basement area was discovered that was intact and gave a somewhat good indication about the function of this impressive arena.
With 65 meters (213 feet) length, the basement is divided into two vaulted galleries which contain cells and rooms which once housed wild beasts and gladiators.
Nowadays are still clearly visible the openings which allowed for the wild animals to be raised and lowered from their cells with a very modern for that age, lift system.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the amphitheater was used as a fortress, shelter, factory and also a storage facility, where each and every leader has left some kind of mark on it.
Due to the very long history, its kind and unique architecture that can not be seen at any other place in Africa, the Amphitheater of El Jem was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979.
With the excellent acoustics, the place is an ideal setting for Tunisia’s Symphonic Music Festival to be held here, where the musicians are performing classical music since 2012.
All in all, being one of the most visited and most important monuments of the small nation in Africa, the Amphitheater of El Jem shall continue to be a beacon of Tunisia that will give a bright light to all those who are eager enough to explore the Roman architecture which was spread throughout three continents.
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