Mohamed Salah is available for Liverpool’s game with Leicester City on Thursday but fellow forward Sadio Mane will not be as he celebrates winning the Africa Cup of Nations final.
Mane’s Senegal beat Sala’s Egypt on penalties on Sunday in Cameroon.
Salah is back in Merseyside but Mane is due to fly back on Wednesday night having been allowed to go to Senegal to celebrate their first major trophy.
“Pretty much the first thing Mo told me was ‘I’m ready’,” said Jurgen Klopp.
“He is an experienced player, he is a physical monster. He had a little recovery session on Tuesday and we will see how he feels on Wednesday.”
On Mane, who scored the winning kick in the shootout, the Liverpool manager said: “It means the world to him, it means the world to his people, it means the world to Senegal.
“We respect that a lot and would never consider calling back him from there. Let them do what they do in the moment because they deserve it.”
The pair last played for Liverpool on 2 January in the 2-2 draw with Chelsea.
The club have won two league games, two FA Cup ties and beaten Arsenal over two legs in the Carabao Cup semi-final while they were away.
Liverpool are now well stocked in the forward area, with Salah joining familiar team-mates Roberto Firmino, Diogo Jota and Takumi Minamino in addition to new signing Luis Diaz while Divock Origi is close to returning after injury.
Like the onion, garlic also has a high sulphur content. This is the reason why it is used in traditional hair regrowth medicines.
Just like every other health conditions, hair loss doesn’t happen overnight.
It takes time, coupled with prevalent symptoms. This is why it is believed that it’s possible to minimize or prevent the chances of going bald, because taking note of its early signs, and doing the needful, can make the condition better.
That being said, the symptoms of hair loss include hair fall outs on your pillows when you wake up, an excessive breakage of hair when you comb or brush your hair and a definite change in hairline and thinning of the hair.
Be that as it may, it is important to note that these changes could mean different things; as it could be a sign of a serious medical condition.
Thus, it is advisable to seek a medical opinion whenever hair loss is experienced in other to be on the safe side.
However, if it is hereditary and you’re looking for a treatment that works without the side-effects of chemicals or medications, there are natural remedies to help reverse the condition.
Here are five natural home remedies for hair loss
Onion
Onion for Hair
Studies have shown that sulfur which is one of the vital components in promoting hair growth and preventing hair loss is richly present in onions and eating one to two raw onions every day can help tackle this condition. Also, the condition can be checked by applying the fresh paste of onion juice on the bald areas, as it will help stimulates blood circulation and new hair growth.
Coconut milk
Coconut Milk for Hair
This is a trusted ancient remedy to regrow hair on the bald head. And it can be achieved by combining a mixture of 1/4 cup of coconut milk, two tablespoons of yogurt and one tablespoon of honey. First, open up the hair follicles by washing the hair with warm water and then apply a thick layer of the paste on the scalp. Leave for 15 minutes and then rinse off with cool water.
Garlic
Garlic for Hair
Making use of garlic for hair loss treatment is just by crushing a few cloves of garlic and add coconut oil to it. Boil the mixture for a few minutes and let it cool down a bit before applying it to your scalp. Let it rest on the hair for 30 minutes before washing off with warm water.
Egg
Studies have shown that egg has several ingredients that can help prevent or control hair loss. It is a rich source of sulphur and ahs phosphorous, selenium, iodine, zinc and protein. The combination of these help promote hair growth. However, to tackle hair loss with egg, take the white of one egg and mix in a teaspoon of olive oil. Then beat to give a paste-like consistency and apply to the entire scalp and hair. Keep it on for about 15 to 20 minutes and then rinse with cool water and a mild shampoo.
Nourish hair with protein
Unknown to most people, hair is made of a tough protein called keratin, which goes to say that our hair needs an adequate protein for hair growth and to strengthening the hair follicles as well. Now, you have 5 news way to tackle Hair loss, you need not to worry about Hair loss anymore.
Aliou Cissé pointedly looked around Bamako’s Stade du 26 Mars, then began a long run-up and blasted his penalty kick on to the shins of Boukar Alioum to hand Cameroon the 2002 Africa Cup of Nations.
The final of the tournament in Mali was the first opportunity for Senegal to lift the continent’s most treasured sporting prize, but their captain botched the script with the final attempt of the shootout following a 0-0 draw adter extra time.
It has taken 20 years – almost to the day – for Cissé to expunge those demons and finally get his, and Senegal’s, hands on the trophy.
At 45 – he will be 46 next month – Cissé is the second-youngest coach to win the title, after Harve Renard with Zambia at 2022. He is also now a poster boy for a growing stable of African coaches at the top of the continent’s game after years of jobs being dominated by European and Latin American imports.
Cissé was in tears, and did jigs of joy, afte Sundau’s final victoryr over Egypt but not before having to go through the gut-churning agony of another penalty shootout before finally being crowned African champions.
It was a first glimpse at the emotions swirling inside a usually stoic-looking coach, whose discourses with the media are clear and precise but rarely give away any hint of what lies behind the man.
That is reserved for the inner sanctum of the team and now, too, the post-match celebrations.
A no-nonsense coach who faced criticism
This was a fifth Nations Cup for Cissé; two as a player in 2000 and 2002 and now three in a row as coach.
It was also a vindication of the Senegalese Football Federation sticking with a man who has had to run a gauntlet of criticism, often from his own former team-mates too, yet has delivered the goods.
Both Khalilou Fadiga, who was in Cameroon on the Confederation of African Football’s technical study group, and El Hadji Diouf – who Cisse allowed to be part of the squad as a mentor for the group – were seen celebrating with him on Sunday, having previously been among his most damning critics.
“This team has the ability to win an Africa Cup of Nations, but that cannot be achieved if Aliou Cissé remains at the helm of the national team,” Diouf said three years ago.
That Cissé was able to see beyond this is testimony to his character.
Cissé was a vocal presence on the touchline during the Nations Cup final against Egypt
The criticism not only motivated Cissé but also the players. “I think this man deserves all the success he gets because he is the most criticised coach I have ever seen in my life, but he never gives up,” said forward Sadio Mane after Senegal beat Burkina Faso 3-1 in last Wednesday’s semi-final.
“We would like to win for our country and for him because he deserves it after everything he has been through as a player and now as a coach.”
Not that Cissé is beloved of his players all the time. They jokingly nicknamed him ‘Jammeh” after Yahwa Jammeh, the long-serving former president of Senegal’s neighbour The Gambia, because of his strict approach.
Cissé is a no-nonsense disciplinarian, insistent on hard work, good time keeping and a focused approach. Frivolity is not one of his strong points.
A ‘workmanlike’ player forged in the Parisian outskirts
Cissé was born in Ziguinchor but moved to France aged nine, growing up ironically a stone’s throw from the home of Djamel Belmadi, the previous Nations Cup-winning coach with Algeria, in Champigny-sur-Marne, in the southern suburbs of Paris.
He said: “As a child, I used to go to the Parc des Princes to see Safet Susic, Valdo… all these great players. My dream was to play for Paris St-Germain. A lot of young people from the suburbs dream of joining the youth academy, but I didn’t have the opportunity.”
Instead Cissé got his break in Lille in their academy and went onto make his professional debut at Sedan. He finally got to join PSG in 1998. “I’ve played alongside great players like Jay-Jay Okocha and Ronaldinho. I learnt a lot because I was a young player and I had the chance to play a few games at a big club,” he said.
Former Senegal coach Bruno Metsu brought Cissé into the national team and he skippered the side that shocked World Cup holders France in the opening game of the 2002 tournament.
Cissé captained Senegal at the Nations Cup and the World Cup in 2002
That squad went all the way to the quarter-finals in Japan and South Korea, becoming only the second African country to progress that far.
Stints at Birmingham City and Portsmouth followed, and soon after his arrival in England he had to deal with the tragic loss of 12 members of his family in a ferry disaster off the West African coast.
Cissé returned to Sedan in 2006 and finished his career in Ligue 2 at Nimes. He was never a star performer, rather described as “workmanlike”.
Taking the reins of the Teranga Lions
Cissé took his coaching badges and joined the Senegal federation as an assistant to Olympic coach Karim Sega Diouf for the London 2012 Olympics.
He then worked under Alain Giresse with the national team, took over in March 2015 after a horrid Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea, where Senegal were one of the pre-tournament favourites but did not get past the first round.
Cissé has quietly forged his path ever since, winning his first match in charge over Ghana in a friendly in Le Havre and now the veteran of 71 matches.
Senegal have qualified for three successive Nations Cups plus the last World Cup in Russia. His record in charge of the Teranga Lions is 46 wins, 16 draws and only nine defeats.
Having lost to Algeria in the 2019 final and returned to lift the trophy in Cameroon, Cissé praised his squad’s mentality after ending the country’s wait for silverware.
“We dedicate this victory to the Senegalese people, because since independence, until now, we are running after this first star,” he said. “Today, we will also have a star on our shirt.”
But, as the well-worn cliché goes, ‘you are only as good as your next match’. This week’s celebrations, which saw tens of thousands line the streets of Dakar to welcome the victorious side home will quickly turn now to preparations for the World Cup play-off against Egypt late next month.
Cissé (in yellow) stands on top of a coach with the Nations Cup trophy after Senegal returned to Dakar
Ghana’s Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has slapped a fine of $6 Million on Maxam Company Limited, the company at the centre of the deadly explosion at a community called Appiatse in the Western part of the country last month.
The committee that investigated the explosion submitted it report to the Lands and Natural Resources Minister Samuel Abu Jinapor.
At least 900 persons have so far been displaced with 13 deaths according to official figures from the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO).
According to a press statement issued by the Minister, the amount is made up of $1 million fine and $5 million, which the company agreed on with the Ministry, after extensive discussions, to pay to the government.
The statement said the fine was imposed after the committee constituted by the Minister to undertake independent investigations into the matter affirmed some regulatory breaches on the part of the company, in the manufacture, storage and transportation of explosives for mining and other civil works.
The Minister has also set out fourteen (14) conditions to be met by the company before resuming work.
The measures include a ban on the transportation of Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil (ANFO) on a public road to a mine or civil work site unless expressly permitted by the Chief Inspector of Mines.
Other measures include explosives being guarded by two escort vehicles, one in front and one at the back, both having sirens to warn people about the explosives.
Paediatricians have warned new mothers who have difficulty lactating immediately after giving birth to be careful about the kind of breastmilk they procured from other mothers to give their newborns.
The paediatricians urged the new mothers to screen breast milk they receive from other mothers before giving their infants, noting that unscreened breastmilk can lead to infections in newborns.
According to the experts, feeding babies with unscreened breastmilk is dangerous as it can infect the baby with diseases from the donating mother.
The experts stated that while breastmilk is important for a newborn baby, it is essential that mothers are careful so that they do not transmit diseases from the donor to their new child.
Speaking with Newsmen, the experts, Consultant Paediatricians, Prof. Angela Okolo and Dr. Aishat Saka noted that having a breastmilk bank for the newborn is crucial for their health and proper growth.
Prof Angela Okolo who works with the Federal Medical Centre, Asaba also noted that having a breastmilk bank in the country would help to reduce the death rate of preterm babies in the country, adding that it would also assist new moms who have difficulty lactating immediately after birth.
“I don’t think it is quite right for mothers to borrow milk from other mothers in a clandestine manner because the donor has not been tested.
“This is because there are diseases that can be transmitted through breastmilk and if such is found in the donor then we can’t give the breastmilk to babies.
“They should go and get tested so that they are sure of the breastmilk and are sure that the donating mothers are free of diseases. This should be done under medical supervision,” Okolo said.
The professor, however, clarified that the screened and donated breastmilk does not replace the breastmilk from the birth mother as it is only a substitute until the mother starts lactating.
“The mothers are helped to identify a surrogate and that surrogate must be fully screened for the various diseases that can be transmitted through breastmilk and when the surrogate is found successful, then we can accept the breastmilk.
“But it doesn’t replace that woman’s breastmilk. It is to give her time to meet up with the demand of the baby because when babies are born and admitted, we start feeding them within the first four hours because they must have that human breast milk.
“Even when their mothers are not yet producing enough, we must still try to get from them because we need to ensure these babies have a connection with their own mother’s early produced milk called colostrum.
“You get the mother’s colostrum and put it in the baby’s mouth and that becomes the baby’s first vaccination because it is every baby’s right to receive his own mother’s vaccination,” Okolo said.
She also urged the country to work towards creating a breastmilk bank, noting that such a bank would be essential in providing breastmilk for newborn babies whose mothers are not able to produce breastmilk immediately and also those whose mothers are dead.
Corroborating the position of Okolo, Dr. Saka, who is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterology with the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, said that there are specifications that need to be met before a donor’s breastmilk or a surrogate is accepted.
This, she said, is to ensure that breastmilk is free of diseases like HIV and others.
Speaking further she said, “In settings where breastfeeding is impossible, we have what we call breastmilk banks.
“When you are a mother and you have very good expression, if you are expressing so much, you could express and donate to the bank provided you have been screened of all these diseases and found to be healthy. This is stored in the bank and given to other babies.
“Babies in this category that can benefit are babies that have lost their mothers and would still want to ensure that they get the benefit of breastmilk because breast milk cannot be substituted with other milk; it has its peculiarity.
“Once it is ascertained that the mother is healthy, she could donate.
“Apart from the breastmilk bank, the other component is surrogacy, when the child loses the mother.
“You can have another breastfeeding mother free from diseases that would be willing to also breastfeed that baby along with her baby. That is also acceptable”
Lewis Hamilton has been at the Mercedes factory this week as the team builds up to the new Formula 1 season.
Hamilton’s participation this year remains in some doubt following the controversial end to the 2021 campaign.
But the seven-time champion has been at the Mercedes F1 factory on Monday and Tuesday this week completing pre-season tasks required if he does race.
He also shared some videos of himself doing physical training and preparation.
Hamilton’s movements in recent days show that he is preparing for the F1 season as he would any other – but that should not be interpreted as a confirmation that he will race this year.
The 37-year-old is waiting on the outcome of the inqiry into last season’s final race before making a final decision on his commitment to F1 this year.
Race director Michael Masi failed to follow the rules correctly in administering a late-race safety-car period, and his actions led directly to Hamilton losing the championship to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.
Hamilton has not spoken publicly since the race, other than a brief message on social media last weekend in which he said: “I’ve been gone. Now I’m back.”
But the events of Abu Dhabi are known to have disillusioned Hamilton and cause him to lose trust in the FIA.
The F1 drivers are due to speak to representatives of the governing body this week to discuss the events of Abu Dhabi and what can be learned from Masi’s mistakes there, as part of the inquiry into the events of the race.
FIA single-seaters boss Peter Bayer will then discuss the inquiry’s findings with president Mohammed Ben Sulayem before the pair present their recommendations to F1 president Stefano Domencali and the teams at a meeting of the F1 Commission early next week, on Monday 14 February.
It is expected that Hamilton will not finally decide whether to return to F1 this year until those findings are revealed.
One key issue for all of F1 is the future of Masi.
Bayer hinted in an interview last month that Masi might not remain as race director this year.
The responsibilities of the role are likely to be split between a number of different people and many senior figures within F1 consider that retaining Masi as race director is not a credible option in the wake of Abu Dhabi.
Whoever is in the role, a new structure will be put in place around them to ensure the race director has more support and is able to make decisions in a calmer and less pressured environment.
Nigeria and Ghana will face off in a pitched battle at the MKO Abiola National Stadium, Abuja on Sunday, 27th March in what is the final leg of a potentially –explosive FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 play-off round.
The Nigeria Football Federation on Tuesday confirmed the date of the reverse leg to the Confederation of African Football, with the Ghana Football Association now to confirm whether the first leg inside the Cape Coast Stadium will be on Wednesday, 23rd March or Thursday, 24th March.
The final leg encounter will be the 59th clash at senior level between both West African giants in a chequered 71 –year rivalry, and will also be the first game involving the Super Eagles at the country’s premium sporting arena since the Eagles defeated Sudan’s Falcons of Jediane 3-1 in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match on 15th October 2014.
Nigeria reached the play-off round after topping a qualifying pool that included Cape Verde, Liberia and the Central African Republic while Ghana emerged from the section that had South Africa, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia.
A Consultant Physician and Endocrinologist, Dr. Nasir Sanni, has advised Nigerians to cultivate the habit of routine medical checks to curb diabetes.
The physician who is with the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital stated this in an interview with newsmen in Ilorin.
He explained that this would help to check the rising cases of diabetes, particularly Type 2 diabetes, in the country.
“It is important for everybody from the age of 45, to ensure that they engage in, at least, yearly medical check-up, to evaluate their blood sugar level.
“While those with either parent as a diabetic, should begin the regular medical check as a necessity, even from a young age,” he said.
He added that it was important for people not to wait to develop symptoms of the disease, or any other, before going for regular medical checks.
According to him having regular medical examinations would save many from developing preventable medical conditions.
The physician explained that Type 1 diabetes was still unpreventable as it was hereditary, while Type 2 diabetes normally developed through poor dietary habits, and so could be effectively checked.
He expressed concerns over the alarming rate of people currently suffering from diabetes, noting that early detection remained the most effective means of overcoming the ailment.
Sanni encouraged staff and students of the university, particularly those susceptible to the disease, to avoid sedentary lifestyles and engage in constant physical exercises.
He recommended constant walks as one of the best forms of exercising and keeping fit.
Dodoma Region in Tanzania has initiated a platform to recognise and award education stakeholders including teachers and pupils and students.
The main motive behind the award is to appreciate all education stakeholders for their continued effort that is ensuring the development of the education sector in the region.
Speaking during the launching of the incentive, Dodoma Region Commissioner, Anthony Mtaka said that the campaign will push forward the sector.
Mtaka said that the initiative will be providing financial incentives and certificates to primary and secondary schools teachers and students, who passed last year’s examinations.
During the first campaign over the last weekend, RC Mtaka awarded a cash prize to teachers whose students passed 42 with an A mark in the last Form Four examination for 7 points for boys and 7 to 8 points for girls who graduated last year.
He also presented prizes to 374 teachers by giving them 5,000/- for each subject whose students scored an A mark.
He also presented a gift of 100,000/- and a certificate of recognition to each advanced school that qualified students for A grade with the aim of recognising his contribution to uplift education in the region.
Mtaka promised that next year, the prize will be doubled for students, teachers and schools that will excel. The goal is to ensure the region gets the highest performance and be among the top 10 regions in the country.
Mtaka urged education stakeholders at all levels in the region to work together to raise education standards by developing new methods to help students study hard and teachers to use various techniques to help students succeed.
Dodoma Regional Administrative Secretary, Fatma Maganga, said the regional plan is to ensure performance continues to rise year by year to achieve the goal of being among the top 10 regions academically.
Dodoma District Commissioner, Jabir Shekimweri, urged other staff to respect teachers and ensure that they are given their dignity and that it is not desirable to be humiliated in front of their students.
French President Emmanuel Macron has told reporters that President Vladimir Putin assured him that Russian forces would not ramp up the crisis near Ukraine’s borders.
“I secured an assurance there would be no deterioration or escalation,” he said before meeting Ukraine’s leader.
However, Russia said any suggestion of a guarantee was “not right”.
Russia has denied any plans to invade Ukraine, but it has assembled more than 100,000 troops near its borders.
US officials believe Russia has assembled 70% of military forces needed for a full-scale invasion.
President Macron arrived in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Tuesday after almost six hours of talks with Putin. He said after Monday’s meeting that the coming days would be “decisive” and there would have to be “intensive discussions which we will pursue together”.
Putin hinted progress had been made and that some of Macron’s proposals “could form the basis of further joint steps”, although they were “probably still too early to talk about”.
A source at the Elysée Palace in Paris said that a broader dialogue would be initiated, focusing on Russia’s military units and future talks both with Ukraine and on strategic issues involving “collective security”.
The source also said that the two leaders had agreed that Russia would pull troops out of Belarus at the end of exercises taking place near Ukraine’s northern borders. However, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said no such undertaking had been given, although the troops were expected to return to Russia at some point.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba reiterated that Kyiv would not “cross our red lines and no-one will be able to force us to cross them”.
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