Roma are considering making an offer for Kelechi Iheanacho if they fail to sign Chelsea’s Tammy Abraham.
Abraham is currently weighing up his Stamford Bridge future after the Serie A side agreed a £34m deal to sign the striker.
The 23-year-old has asked for time to consider the offer from the Italian club, who are managed by former Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho, with Roma general manager Tiago Pinto meeting Abraham for talks in London on Thursday
Fans will not be allowed to attend the US Open qualifying rounds to “ensure the health and safety of all”.
The main tournament will have capacity crowds when it starts on 30 August.
The qualifying week will see “the greatest number” of players and support staff on site, with organisers estimating more than 2,500 people.
The US Open 2020 singles titles were won by Austria’s Dominic Thiem and Japan’s Naomi Osaka, and it is the fourth and final Grand Slam event in the tennis calendar.
President Muhammadu Buhari has met with the national leader of the APC, Bola Tinubu in London.
Both leaders are on medical vacation abroad and took out time to fratanise once again.
There is no official information on the purpose or outcome of the meeting, but the pictures suggest that the President must have visited Asiwaju Tinubu in London home.
Public reactions to the pictures have not been friendly as many say the two leaders are taking care of themselves abroad while resident doctors are on strike in Nigeria.
Association of Resident Doctors are in the second week of the strike they resumed, siting government’s failure to keep an agreement they entered into months ago.
Nigeria’s former army head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar has berated agitators of Biafra Republic and Yoruba Nation agitators.
The retired general who spoke on Thursday at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) legacy Dialogue 2021 submitted that the best option for the country is to remain united.
The former Head of State urged Nigerians to embrace their diversity and work towards maintaining unity, urging them to expose perpetrators of insecurity.
Twenty experts including staff from the National Accreditation and Quality Assurance Authority (NAQAA) have concluded a week-long review and validation of seven curriculums for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programs for The Gambia.
Each curriculum required a day for its review and validation, which prompted the International Trade Center (ITC) in collaboration with NAQAA to invite 20 experts per program including staff from NAQAA for the review and validation.
The development of the seven curriculums was under various sectors including three under the creative industries (film and photography, event planning and management and music production and management), compressed stabilized earth blocks, road maintenance, poultry and permaculture.
The Gambia has adopted a roadmap for educational and training institutions to step up support for youth.
The development of the TVET Roadmap is part of the Jobs, Skills and Finance for women and youth in The Gambia programme funded by the 11th European Development Fund, which aims to stabilize the economic, social and security situation of the Gambia during its democratic transition.
Technical Advisor and Coordinator Job, Skills and Finance at ITC, Yusupha Keita said the day marked another important day in the work of ITC in The Gambia as they concluded the validation and review of seven standards and curricula developed by NAQAA with inputs from curricular experts, educationalists, industry players, and subject specialists.
NAQAA Head of Research and Development, Sambujang Marreh emphasized that NAQAA did not develop but facilitate the initiative, saying all the training standards and the curricula that are developed are industry led.
Nigeria’s Super Eagles are currently 34th in the FIFA ranking released this Thursday. This is a slump from the 32nd position occupied in the 27 May 2021 ranking which is the one preceding the current ratings.
In Africa, Nigeria dropped to the fifth position behind Senegal, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco
In the period under review, Nigeria played only two matches, both against Cameroon in June, but did not win any.
However, the results of the matches played little role in the current ranking which saw an upsurge by teams from Europe, South America and North America which recently held their continental championships.
In all, there are 348 matches involved and the winners of the various continental championships all made significant advances.
Consequently, there has been a considerable amount of movement in the standings, although Belgium managed to retain their top spot despite being eliminated in the quarter-finals of the European Championship.
Their last-eight opponents and eventual winners of the tournament, Italy, (5, +2), moved up into the Top 5, just behind EURO runners-up England (4, no change). Just above that pair, Brazil (2, +1) and France (3, -1) swapped places.
Argentina (6, +2) reaped the benefits of a triumphant Copa America campaign, while the two Gold Cup finalists broke into the Top 10.
Victorious in that tournament and winners of the CONCACAF Nations League as well, United States (10, +10) climbed no fewer than ten places, eight more than Mexico (9, +2), who, despite losing in the final of both competitions, now sit one spot above their continental rivals.
In addition, it is worth noting the impressive progress made by Gold Cup invitees Qatar (42, +16), who reached the semi-finals in the USA, thereby recording the largest climb of the month and equalling their highest-ever position in the Ranking, which dated back to the first edition in 1993.
A handful of other teams that did not take part in regional tournaments, such as Sierra Leone (106, +8), Eswatini (146, +8), Puerto Rico (171, +7), and Mongolia (185, +7), still managed to gain ground courtesy of positive friendly results.
As Ivorian artist Aristide Kouame combs the beach with a big trash bag to gather discarded flip-flops and other footwear, he is aware that other beachgoers probably take him for a desperate street trader or possibly a madman.
Little do they know that Kouame, 26, transforms the flotsam into artworks valued at up to $1,000 by cutting the rubber and plastic soles into pieces that he assembles into large collages.
“This is the rubbish people have thrown into the sea and the sea brings it back to us because it doesn’t want it,” he said on a beach in Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s commercial capital.
“I make art from used shoes… It’s a way to give life to the objects that litter the beaches.”
Sitting on the floor of a narrow alley, Kouame carves shapes, letters and faces into the rubber soles of what he has salvaged from the beach. He makes his own paint by grinding what scraps remain into piles of technicolour pigment.
His technique is both inexpensive and ecologically aware.
Plastic and other waste – including large quanitities of flip-flops lost or tossed away – is strewn across most urban beaches in West Africa, as rubbish discarded into city canals is carried out to sea, then back to shore with the shifting tides.
In just a few years, Kouame’s original methods have caught the attention of Ivory Coast’s art establishment and his works have hung in galleries at home and abroad.
The management of University of The Gambia has invested forty-three million dalasi in research which is being done by lecturers this year.
Deputy vice chancellor of academics of the University of The Gambia (UTG), Professor Pierre Gomze, revealed this during the official opening ceremony of the UTG Directorate of Research and Consultancy complex at Kanifing.
He said the main goal of establishing the research center is to coordinate research activities of the university through a well-structured governance framework.
Speaking at the ceremony, held at the university research complex, professor Gomze said university is an institution that teaches people and communities and it also serves as a place where people do research.
Gomez said UTG supported lecturers to embark on research which goes with checks and balances adding that the establishment of the directorate of research and consultancy by the university management is a great response that will enable academic research in the Gambia.
Professor Gomze said with regard to consultancy, the university is receiving millions which will be of great support to the school and its lecturers, saying the millions that are generated from the consultancy will be ploughed back in the promotion and development of research in the country.
Director of research and consultancy UTG, Dr Muhammed Sanyang, said their research is not only meant for research’s sake, but for national development through improving livelihoods.
Sanyang called on the government to promote, invest and support university research at all levels as that will contribute to national development.
He argued that if policies are not informed through research but based on predictions, then change and development will not be realized.
Meanwhile, Vice Chancellor of the University of The Gambia Professor Muhammed Faqir Anjum, said research has ever been a central agenda in university, saying this is because no higher institution of learning can be successful in knowledge preservation and transmission without its faculty staff engaging in research.
He added that the importance of research for a university cannot be overemphasized, noting that it is through research new discoveries are made as well as new technologies and ideas are developed for the good of the society.
The Registrar of the National Examination Council (NECO), Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, says no fewer than 1.3 million candidates are currently writing the council’s internal examination nationwide.
Prof. Wushishi said this while speaking withnews men in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
The NECO boss said he was in the state to monitor the conduct of NECO’s ongoing Senior Secondary School Examination nationwide.
He recalled that in 2020, about 1.1 million candidates sat for the examination, adding that the increment of students was a testimony to the recognition and acceptability growth of NECO.
The registrar said the examination body had put in place many mechanisms to protect the integrity and standard of the examination as well as to check the activities of saboteurs and other criminals.
He said the body plans to introduce computer-based examination soon.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have released the results of over 17,000 candidates who sat for the Mop-Up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) last Friday.
The examination was conducted in some select computer-based test centers (CBT) nationwide.
JAMB’s Head of Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the release of the results to newsmen in Abuja.
He directed candidates who wrote the examination to check the board’s website for their results.
Benjamin said the results of the examination have since been released and affected candidates are required to access their results using their registration number on www.jamb.gov.ng.
It was gathered that results belonging to a few candidates who had issues during the examination are being screened.
A JAMB official said the board would withdraw the results of candidates found to have been involved in malpractices during the examination, even after they have been released.
The board had, on July 30, 2021, contacted about 18,000 candidates who were affected by the rescheduling/technical problems at 30 of the 760 centers used for the conduct of the examination on June 19 for the mop-up UTME.
The official said the results are being screened to ensure that they were not involved in malpractice.
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