Cristiano Ronaldo is not looking for a move away from Juventus this summer, manager Massimiliano Allegri says.Ronaldo, 36, wrote on social media this week that rumours of his departure were “a disrespect for me as a man and as a player”.
In a pre-match interview, Allegri said the Portugal captain was staying.
Juventus travel to Udinese in the opening game of their Serie A campaign on Sunday.
Ethiopia says it plans to develop its own social media platforms after accusing global companies like Facebook of acting against the interests of the country.
The director of the government’s Information Network Security Agency, Shumete Gizaw, told local media that Facebook and Twitter had become instruments for political forces.
He criticised the fact that some accounts had been blocked and content removed.
Ahead of elections in June, Facebook said it had removed a network of fake accounts that were linked to the government agency that is responsible for monitoring telecommunications and the internet.
The Nigerian Army says its troops of Sector 2 Joint Task Force, North East Operation, Hadin Kai (OPHK), have arrested one Yusuf Saleh, a suspected Boko Haram Urea Fertilizer supplier in Yobe.
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Friday, said the suspect was arrested at Bayamari village in Geidam Local Government Area of Yobe.
Nwachukwu said the suspect was nabbed by the vigilant troops with a total of 38 (50Kg) bags of Urea following a tip off.
The Federal Government, yesterday, cautioned against spewing negative and false narratives around Boko Haram members who are surrendering to the Nigerian military in the insurgency-ravaged North East.
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Washington, yesterday, berated those he said were alleging that the surrendered insurgents were not actual Boko Haram fighters and if they were, they should be shot rather than granted amnesty.
He described as “false and demoralising’’ the claim in certain quarters that the surrendered insurgents would be recruited into the Nigerian military.
The Principal, Crown International Secondary School, Odo, Ado Ekiti, Sunday Ojo, has said the school will fill the missing link in provision of international standard education in Ekiti state.
Ojo said the school would also provide second to none vocational training for its pupils in partnership with Crown Polytechnic, saying it would provide the leverage for the smooth running of vocational courses just as engineers and instructors from the polytechnic will provide training and support at all times”.
The principal, who spoke at a press conference to intimate parents and guardians on what he described as “innovative and functional education emerging in Ekiti State,” said the new school was out to facilitate students’ thinking process and develop their potentials and personal value.
He said, “Vocation training forms an essential part of the school curriculum. Students will be trained to acquire entrepreneurial and skills based on their chosen trades. The workshops are equipped with the necessary training facilities.
“The school is aimed at providing classroom instructions blended with practical trainings to enable students develop the mindset of self-independence.
He said that the school based on boarding system with opportunity for day students, which was the first of its kind in Ekiti State would run both Nigeria and British curricula, adding that they were the main feature of international education.
“The school will deliver the syllabus of West African Secondary School Certificate Examination and International General Certificate of Secondary Education,” he said.
The Plateau State government has returned undisclosed number of the surviving victims of the Jos attack to Ondo State on Friday.
About 28 people were reportedly killed in the attack.
The Deputy Governor of Plateau State, Sonni Tiyoden, disclosed this when he accompanied the survivors to the Ondo State government house in Akure.
He said that 25 suspects have been arrested in connection with the incident, while normalcy has been restored in the area as investigations are ongoing to bring the perpetrators to book.
Recall that the victims returned to Ondo are Fulanis, born and brought up in Ondo State, who were returning home after attending the annual Zikr (prayer session) in Bauchi.
The deputy governor condemned the attacks on innocent citizens and described it as a rude shock to the government of Plateau State because it was an unprovoked attack on the victims.
He sympathised with the families of those who lost their loved ones, and those injured as a result of the unfortunate incident.
“We pray for forgiveness on behalf of those who did it as arrests have been made, as of now, we have 25 people under arrest, I can assure you, investigation will go on.
“And I can assure you that due process will be followed, the law will take its course and they will pay for what they have done,” he said.
Tiyoden assured that the Plateau State government is on top of the situation and admonished Nigerians to live in peace with one another as brothers and sisters, irrespective of their religious beliefs and ethnic differences.
Responding, the Ondo State Deputy Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, thanked the government of Plateau State for the response and help in saving the lives of the survivors.
Aiyedatiwa said the victims were not seen as Hausa/Fulani people but as citizens of the state because most of them were born and raised in the state.
The deputy governor commended the quick response of the Plateau state government in rescuing the people.
“The attack was that of mistaken identity, and I want to thank the governor of Plateau State for his quick response.
“And that response actually brought about these survivals. As we mourn those who passed on during the attack, I also want to thank God for those of you that survived the attack,” he said.
He described it as an honour and a sign of friendliness that the deputy governor of Plateau came with the survivors.
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth has honoured Fareedah Oyolola, a secondary school student at Greensprings School, Lagos, as one of the brightest students in the world.
This recognition is a result of her exceptional performance in the advanced School and College Ability Test (SCAT), which every student must undergo in order for the institution to determine their current academic abilities before admitting them into its talent search programme.
Sharing her experience about the test, Fareedah said: “The test was a multiple-choice aptitude test in verbal and quantitative reasoning, and I had to answer 100 questions within 44 minutes! At the end of the test, my score was in the 92nd percentile for verbal reasoning and 87th percentile for quantitative reasoning.
There’s no way I would have gotten these high scores with such a limited time window if not for the great work put in by my teachers, towards developing my comprehension abilities and mathematical reasoning skills. I am very grateful to them.”
In a statement issued by the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Virginia Roach, the Executive Director; congratulated Fareedah and other outstanding students across the world. She said, “We are thrilled to celebrate these students. In a year that was anything but ordinary, their love of learning shined through, and we are excited to help cultivate their growth as scholars and citizens throughout high school, college, and beyond.”
The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth is an initiative of Johns Hopkins University committed to nurturing extraordinary young minds. Its 2020 – 2021 programme draws nearly 19,000 students from 84 countries. Fareedah and other honourees from other countries are expected to attend a summer programme in the United States or Hong Kong
The Abuja Original Youths Empowerment Organisation (AOIYEO), in collaboration with National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), have evacuated over 279 students, who are natives and residents of Abuja from Jos.
The President of AOIYEO,
Isaac David, disclosed this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja.
David said that the evacuation of the students was necessary in order to prevent death of indigenes and residents of Abuja in Jos.
The youth leader revealed that all the buses sent to convey the students from their various schools safely brought them back to Abuja.
He revealed that another round of evacuation would be made on Aug. 21, to ensure that all natives and residents of Abuja were brought back home, pending when normalcy returns to Jos.
“As FCT indigenous people, we have to carry out our civic responsibilities as indigenous organisation, with the little resources at our disposal and achieved major result.
“Although, previous government has made people to believe that the FCT is just the city at the expense of over 868 villages in remote areas.
“Many people should understand that FCT indigenous students studying in Jos are from various local communities that make up the entire FCT.
“Our citizens studying in Plateau state were stranded in the area as a result of the curfew imposed on some local government areas by the state government.
“It was as a measure to curtail the security situation in the state.
“We closely monitored the situation and we collaborated with National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) to ensure the safe evacuation of our citizens and it became achievable,” he said.
The ruling Scottish National Party agreed a power-sharing deal with the Scottish Green Party on Friday that cements a pro-independence majority in the devolved parliament ahead of a looming political battle over the future of the United Kingdom.
The deal between the SNP and the Greens, who will be part of a government for the first time in British history, will increase the pressure on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to allow a second independence referendum.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has vowed to hold another referendum vote by the end of 2023.
If Scotland voted to leave, it would mark the biggest shock to the United Kingdom since Irish independence a century ago.
This deal “makes it harder and, indeed, impossible on any democratic basis for a UK government to resist the right of the Scottish people to choose their own future,” Sturgeon said.
The SNP earlier this year won an unprecedented fourth term in government in elections to the Scottish parliament, but fell one seat short of securing a majority in the 129-seat devolved assembly.
With the support of the Greens, who have seven seats, the SNP will have a clear majority to pass legislation to push ahead with plans for another referendum.
In return for their support in the parliament, the Greens will have two ministers in the government, according to a statement released on Friday.
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to host 5,000 Afghan nationals to be evacuated from their country for 10 days on their way to a third country at the request of the United States, the Gulf Arab state’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
The ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency WAM said the evacuees will travel to the UAE from the Afghan capital of Kabul on U.S. aircraft in the coming days.
The UAE has so far facilitated the evacuation of 8,500 people from Afghanistan on its aircraft and through its airports, it said.
The announcement came after U.S. officials told Reuters Washington was expected to announce that countries in Europe and the Middle East have agreed to temporarily shelter people evacuated from Kabul as its base in Qatar reached capacity.
A Qatari official told Reuters the Gulf Arab state was “continuing our efforts to evacuate people from Afghanistan. Additional flights are scheduled during the upcoming days.”
Also, the Bahraini foreign ministry said in a statement on Friday Bahrain will allow planes carrying evacuees to stop over in the kingdom as part of efforts to assist rescue operations in Afghanistan,.
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