The newly elected leadership of the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) and the Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) held a meeting in Abuja with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Tuesday to resolve the face-off between the government and the resident doctors.
The meeting was held behind closed doors to introduce the new executives of NARD to the minister and to talk about issues prolonging the ongoing industrial action by the resident doctors.
NMA has attributed the ongoing strike by the resident doctors under the umbrella of NARD which has entered its 58th day to the alleged uncooperative attitude of the immediate past leadership of NARD.
The National President, NARD, Dare Ishaya, disclosed that some of the issues have been agreed upon.
A Danish artist who was was given a pile of money by a museum with which to create a piece of artwork, submitted two empty canvases — titled “Take the Money and Run.”
Jens Haaning was given the equivalent of nearly $84,000 in Danish kroner and euro bank notes by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg.
For its exhibition on labor conditions and money, entitled “Work It Out” that opened Sept. 24, the museum commissioned him to recreate two of his earlier pieces, which featured bank notes attached to a canvas representing the average annual wage in Denmark and Austria. As well as lending him the notes, the museum also paid him 25,000 kroner ($3,900) for the work.
But when museum officials received the completed artworks, they were blank.
“The artwork is that I have taken the money,” Haaning told a radio show on the P1 channel that is part of Danish broadcaster DR this week. He declined to say where the money was.
Haaning, who is known as a provocateur, said the artwork represented his current work situation.
“I encourage others who have just as miserable working conditions as I to do the same,” Haaning said. “If they are being asked to give money to go to work, then take the money and run.”
The museum says Haaning has broken the agreement on how to use the money. However, it has not yet decided whether to report Haaning to the police if the money is not returned before the exhibition ends in January.
Haaning, however, denies having committed a crime and insists he did produce a work of art.
“It’s not theft, it is a breach of contract, and the breach of contract is part of the work,”Haaning said.
London finally honored the late Princess Diana Wednesday with a blue plaque at the place she called home in the two years before she married Prince Charles and her life in the goldfish bowl began.
For Diana, 60 Coleherne Court, an apartment near London’s fashionable King’s Road, was the start of a new adventure. Settling in the capital on reaching her 18th birthday, Diana shared the apartment with a number of friends from 1979 to 1981. It was there that she first started to court Charles.
One of her roommates then, Virginia Clarke, helped unveil the English Heritage plaque during Wednesday’s ceremony.
“Those were happy days for all of us and the flat was always full of laughter,” she said. “Diana went off to become so much to so many. It’s wonderful that her legacy will be remembered in this way.”
According to Andrew Morton’s 1992 best-selling book “Diana, In Her Own Words,” Diana described her years at the property as “the happiest time” of her life.
Diana, who died in a car crash in Paris in 1997, is the highest profile former member of the monarchy to be bestowed the honor. She was nominated by the London Assembly in 2019 after the body ran a campaign asking Londoners to suggest women worthy of a blue plaque.
“Diana had, and still has, a very special place in the hearts of Londoners and we are thrilled to see her blue plaque formally placed as a monument to her work for others,” said Andrew Boff, chairman of the London Assembly.
The honor comes in the year when she would have celebrated her 60th birthday.
“Diana was one of the world’s most famous women and she used her fame and influence to raise awareness of issues such as homelessness and landmines,” said Anna Eavis, the curatorial director at English Heritage.
“It is fitting that our blue plaque remembers her at this place where her life in the public eye first began,” she added.
The renowned London blue plaque program began more than 150 years ago. The plaques commemorate people who achieved something worthwhile in their lives and who made London their home at some point. There are more than 900 official plaques in the capital.
Rolls-Royce will produce only electric cars by 2030, the luxury carmaker said on Wednesday, joining other premium brands making the switch such as Volkswagen’s Bentley and Jaguar’s Land Rover.
The BMW-owned brand said in a statement that its first fully electric powered car, named ‘Spectre’, will be on the market in the fourth quarter of 2023, with testing to begin soon.
“With this new product we set out our credentials for the full electrification of our entire product portfolio by 2030, said Torsten Muller-Otvos, CEO of Rolls-Royce, which is based in the south of England.
“By then, Rolls-Royce will no longer be in the business of producing or selling any internal combustion engine products,” Muller-Otvos added.
BMW has not set an end date for producing fossil fuel burning cars, instead setting a goal of 50% electric vehicle production by 2030, but its subsidiary Mini said in March it would go all-electric by the end of the decade.
The Jaguar brand of Tata Motors’ Jaguar Land Rover will go all-electric by 2025, Volkswagen AG’ luxury unit Bentley Motors by 2030, and Mercedes Benz maker Daimler by the same year, if market conditions allow.
The Joint Health Sector Unions (JOHESU) and the Assembly of Healthcare Professional Associations (AHPA) have called on the Federal Government to address its demands, noting that the 15-day ultimatum it issued on September 17, 2021, will expire in a few days noting that the unions said government action was necessary to avoid a shutdown of health facilities across the country.
This was disclosed in a statement released Tuesday by the JOHESU National Chairman, Biobelemoye Josiah, titled, ‘We are not strike-mongers, act now on our 15-day fresh strike notice before it is too late.’
While noting the appeal by President Muhammadu Buhari and his pledge to pay all the debts owed the medical workers, the unions noted that their demands had not been met.
JOHESU reiterated its demands, asking the Federal Ministry of Health to ensure speedy response to all welfare matters as agreed during the negotiation meetings.
It reminded the government of its demand that new data for the computation of the adjusted Consolidated Health Salary Structure for JOHESU members be completed and submitted to the ‘High Level Body’ of the FG not later than September 22, 2021, as agreed.
The spokesman for Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, said he had no information on the implementation of the demands.
Nigerian film industry veteran Ajoke Silva is celebrating four decades in the industry alongside her 60th birthday.
The screen and stage actress recently released stunning photos on social media to mark the milestone. She wrote:
“Numbers are very important to me, so this year as I turn 60, I also mark 40 years in the industry I love.”
The multiple award-winning actress has featured in over 100 productions since her career kicked off from stage. Joke landed her breakout role starring alongside Colin Firth and Nia Long in the British-Canadian film ‘The Secret Laughter of Women.’
In 2006 and 2008, the actress won the Best Actress in a Leading role and Best Actress in a Supporting role at the Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA). She has also received multiple recognitions for her contribution to arts and culture.
Silva is also one of the few veterans who made a successful transition to what has been described as the ‘new Nollywood’ era.
Lionel Messi scored his first Paris Saint-Germain goal on Tuesday and it was a significant one, helping put Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City to the sword in a 2-0 Champions League win for the French club.
Messi’s goal was both stunning and also so typical of the Argentine, as he burst forward from the right and played a one-two with Kylian Mbappe on the edge of the box, holding off Aymeric Laporte as he sent a first-time strike high into the net.
It raised the roof at the Parc des Princes, as PSG supporters celebrated seeing the six-time Ballon d’Or winner open his account for the club he joined in August.
Idrissa Gana Gueye, arguably PSG’s best player this season, had given the home side an early lead to leave City chasing the game.
Guardiola’s side, who beat the French club in the semi-finals last season before losing the final, dominated large spells of the match in between the two goals, but their finishing let them down.
They will especially rue the moment in the first half when Raheem Sterling and Bernardo Silva each hit the bar in quick succession, but City will still be confident of progressing to the last 16.
PSG and Club Brugge, who won 2-1 at RB Leipzig on Tuesday, are level on four points at the top of Group A, with City on three having beat the Germans 6-3 a fortnight ago.
The Premier League champions will hope to take their revenge on PSG when they meet in the reverse fixture, but this was a night for the Qatar-owned rivals of Abu Dhabi-backed City to bask in the glow of having Messi.
The former Barcelona man had missed PSG’s last two games with a knee knock but the expectation was always that he was being saved for this glamour tie.
He had completed 90 minutes for PSG only once before this game since arriving to team up with Neymar and Mbappe in a dream front line.
– De Bruyne escapes red card –
Naturally all eyes are drawn to him when PSG play now, yet the surprise star for the French side so far this season has been Gueye, the Senegal midfielder who has four goals to his name after opening the scoring eight minutes in.
Neymar failed to properly connect with Mbappe’s cutback from the right but the ball fell to Gueye and he fired high into the net from close range.
Having kept Chelsea at bay in a 1-0 win at Stamford Bridge at the weekend, City were chasing the game already.
Guardiola had made two changes to his line-up from the Chelsea victory, with Gabriel Jesus and Phil Foden dropping out to make way for Sterling and Riyad Mahrez.
Sterling was involved as the visitors squandered a chance to equalise in comical fashion as the half-hour mark approached.
The England forward’s header came back off the bar and on its way down brushed Gianluigi Donnarumma, who was making his first ever Champions League appearance after being preferred to Keylor Navas in the Paris goal.
Silva was left with an easy chance to convert the loose ball from barely two metres but somehow also hit the bar.
City were succeeding in cutting off PSG’s front three from the rest of their team although the hosts might have scored again on the break in the 38th minute as an Ander Herrera shot was tipped over by Ederson.
Then came a flashpoint as Kevin De Bruyne escaped with a yellow card after his studs caught Gueye high above his ankle, the referee Carlos del Cerro Grande somewhat surprisingly not reviewing the images.
Despite that moment, this heavyweight showdown between the runners-up from the last two seasons often lacked the intensity that would certainly have been there in a knockout tie.
Donnarumma saved well from De Bruyne in the second half. Messi was largely a peripheral figure until conjured his moment of brilliance to kill off City.
Former boxer Jerry Okorodudu has backed British-born Nigerian boxer, Anthony Joshua, to bounce back after his defeat to Oleksandr Usyk by unanimous decision at the Tottenham Stadium in London on Saturday.
Joshua was outclassed for most of the fight as he lost his IBF, WBA and WBO world champion belts to the Ukrainian after the fight.
However, Joshua is expected to invoke a clause, giving him a rematch.
The former Nigerian boxer, Okorodudu said he believed that the former champion can bounce back and defeat Usyk in a rematch.
“Things like this must happen in sports, it’s only natural for boxers to lose fights but I have that firm belief that he would bounce back, win back his belts.
“This was what happened against Andy Ruiz in 2019 when he lost his belt to the Mexican-American, but he got it back.
“Wherever the rematch bout would take place means nothing, all that matters is that Joshua would go underground, train harder and collect his titles back again.”
Joshua Must Return To Former Style, Says Oboh
FORMER WBA Intercontinental Champion, Peter Oboh, has urged Anthony Joshua’s camp to return him to the style that won him battles against top heavyweight fighters.
Oboh was speaking after Oleksandr Usyk defeated Anthony Joshua to claim the WBA (Super), IBF, WBO and WBO title in front of 68,000 fans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London on Saturday.
He said that it was evident that Joshua had stopped using his strength to his advantage since his loss to Andy Ruiz, which also cost him the fight against Usyk.
Oboh also added that Joshua thrived on his physical attribute to subdue his opportunity.
“I saw the fight and I must say that Joshua style has changed a lot. I didn’t not see him taking on his opponent in the middle of the ring like he use to do. I think the new trainer is trying to model his fight along that of Mohammed Ali,” Oboh said.
“It is too late to change his style. His training team should try to improve on those attributes that stood Joshua out when he dropped the likes of Dylian White and Wladamir Klitschko instead of teaching him a new set of skills. Don’t forget that he started boxing late and those skills and power got him to this level.
“Joshua is just like the taller version of Joe Frazer, one of the fearless boxers of our time. Joshua was brutish but he seems to have lost that which is making him lose fights,”he added.
While commending Usyk for his fighting style and win over Joshua, Oboh stated that the Ukrainian would not have lasted the distance with Tyson Fury or Deontay Wilder.
European football’s governing body UEFA has urged FIFA to stop pushing its plan for a two-year World Cup and instead to engage in “genuine consultation” about reform of the international match calendar.
FIFA, the governing body of world football, is conducting a feasibility study into holding the tournament on a biennial basis, a change from the current four-yearly cycle, but has made no secret of its desire to switch to such a format.
Arsene Wenger, the former Arsenal manager who is now FIFA’s head of Global Football Development, said this month he was “100 percent convinced” of the switch.
“UEFA is disappointed with the methodology adopted, which has so far led to radical reform projects being communicated and openly promoted before having been given, together with other stakeholders, the chance to participate in any consultation meeting,” UEFA said in a statement on Wednesday.
It added there were numerous concerns about the effects of such a switch, including the “dilution” of the World Cup’s value, risks of players being over-worked and women’s football suffering from annual men’s tournaments.
“These are just some of the serious concerns that the FIFA proposal provokes at first glance and they cannot be dispelled simply with unsubstantiated promotional slogans on the supposed benefits of a thicker calendar for final tournaments,” the statement added.
UEFA said it had asked, on September 14, for a meeting with FIFA and the 55 European member associations but has yet to get a reply.
Aleksander Ceferin, UEFA president, warned this month of a potential European boycott of the World Cup if FIFA’s plans went ahead.
“We can decide not to play in it,” Ceferin told The Times newspaper.
“As far as I know, the South Americans are on the same page. So good luck with a World Cup like that. I think it will never happen as it is so much against the basic principles of football.”
Last week, FIFA published an online poll that claimed a majority of football fans support the idea of a “more frequent” World Cup – and of those respondents, a majority preferred a biennial competition.
FIFA later revealed a more detailed summary of the results which showed that while a majority of those surveyed favoured a more frequent tournament, the largest amount of support among all age groups was to maintain the status quo of holding the event every four years.
The only continental confederation whose fans did not place every four years as the most popular answer was in Africa where there was a tie on 35 percent for a time gap of four years and two years.
Numerous national supporters groups have opposed the proposal worldwide, while global players’ union FIFPro has denounced “the absence of a real dialogue” on the subject, pointing out the “natural physiological limits” of footballers.
“Without the agreement of the players, who bring all competitions to life on the pitch, no such reforms will have the required legitimacy,” said Jonas Baer-Hoffmann, FIFPro general secretary.
FC Sheriff Tiraspol, a football club from a pro-Russian separatist enclave of Europe’s poorest country, Moldova, has pulled off one of the biggest shocks in Champions League history by beating Spanish giants Real Madrid.
“We came here to win,” Frank Castaneda, the Sheriff captain, told AFP news agency after his side’s 2-1 victory at Madrid’s Bernabeu stadium.
The estimated value of the entire Sheriff squad is 12 million euros ($14m), about the same as the annual salary of Madrid defender David Alaba
“We didn’t just come here to sit around. We know how good our players are and luckily for us, Madrid weren’t able to take their chances – and we took ours,” Castaneda said.
For Sheriff, this was only a second match in the Champions League group stage.
Real dominated but Sheriff scored two excellent goals and had a third disallowed for offside, and now have six points out of six.
Sebastien Thill, who has a tattoo of himself dreaming of playing in the Champions League, smashed in the winner in the 89th minute.
“It’s the best and most important goal of my career, that’s for sure,” Thill said.
“The side were so brave with how we played and luckily enough I was able to score a bit of a stunner.”
With all the talk – now abandoned – of a breakaway European Super League for the elite, the minnows from the Moldovan league gave a timely reminder of the appeal of open competition.
Breakaway region
The club is owned by a conglomerate, called Sheriff, which effectively runs the pro-Russian separatist state of Transnistria, where the football club is based.
The little-known Transnistria region, of which Tiraspol is the capital, broke away from Moldova in a short civil war in the early 1990s. Russian-backed forces fought a separatist war that killed close to 1,000 people and resulted in the land east of Moldova’s Dniester river forming a self-declared new state.
Transnistria, also referred to as Trans Dniester, remains unrecognised by the international community. Under international law, it belongs to the Republic of Moldova, which was formed in 1991 as the Soviet Union was collapsing.
The territory has a reputation for corruption, organised crime and smuggling and is effectively run by the Sheriff holding company.
Sporting a five-pointed sheriff’s star as its logo, FC Sheriff Tiraspol takes the name from the eponymous company.
The holding company is owned by a former Soviet police officer, Viktor Gushan, who controls businesses ranging from a cognac distillery and caviar farm to supermarket and gas station chains.
“Viktor Gushan is the person with the most influence here, both in politics and economics,” said Anatoly Dirun, director of the Tiraspol School of Political Studies
Dirun, a former member of the ruling Renewal party financed by Sheriff, said Gushan’s people also hold all of the main leadership posts in the breakaway region, from Parliament to the prime minister’s seat to the presidency.
The company founded FC Sheriff in 1997. No club from the Moldovan league had ever qualified for the group stage of the Champions League.
For Sheriff, up next in the Champions League are Inter Milan, with qualification now very achievable in Group D, where they sit top – but the club is not getting carried away.
“We aren’t thinking about the last 16 yet as we still haven’t done anything extraordinary, we’re just going forward step by step,” said Sheriff coach Yuriy Vernydub.
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