Without using a single drop of paint, Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur has been able to reproduce works by renowned masters.
For his latest exhibition, Eduardo copied Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet and Warhol using shreds of plastic bags from streets and rivers. He said, his work served to draw attention to pollution caused by the accumulation of plastic waste and will remain for centuries in the history of mankind, just like the plastic that we are dumping in nature.
The artist has long worked to raise awareness about the environment, creating enormous installations in public spaces around Sao Paulo, often along the city’s heavily polluted rivers.
The lockdown allowed Srur to returned to the studio, where he swapped paint brushes for tweezers, working colored plastic through holes in a board to form images.
He said “Plastic dominates everything and everyone today, so in this series I create artwork that has no paint or glue, just bits of plastic bags that end up making the image you see,”
The appearance of the Cicadas, a super family of insects along the eastern United States after a 17-year hiatus has inspired professional portrait photographer Oxana Ware to create small-scale art installations, placing the ubiquitous bugs in novel and unexpected settings.
The pictures portray excellent storytelling skills, dedication to a craft and a very active imagination.
The 39-year-old mother of three says she teaches her kids to just be playful and respectful of nature and that’s how the idea was born. “We started with my son’s firetruck and that was just a huge hit.”
Ware collects the cicadas in her yard and places them in dollhouse-sized settings she has made to showcase them. Understandably, it is not an easy task to get the insects in position.
Being a Russian immigrant, Ware finds exciting ways to bring her home country into her cicada portrait art with a picture of one crawling up the façade of St. Basil’s Cathedral.
The photographer admits that what started as a lighthearted way to memorialize the cicadas has helped children become unafraid of the cicadas.
Villarreal have confirmed Samuel Chukwueze had successful surgery on the quadriceps of his left leg.
Chukwueze first picked up the muscle injury during the Yellow Submarines’ Uefa Europa League semi-final clash against Arsenal on May 6.
He was stretchered off in pain during the game and he tried to recover in time for the Europa League final against Manchester United last Wednesday but he failed a late fitness test and the pain reocurred.
Following advice from the club’s medical team, Chukwueze went to Hospital Quironsalud in Barcelona to have his surgery and he has now started his recovery sessions.
“The Nigerian footballer’s quadricep was operated on by Doctor Ramon Cugat,” the club statement read.
“The Nigerian player tried everything possible to accelerate the recovery process to attempt to be available for the final of that competition, in Gdansk. A few days before the game against Manchester United, Chukwueze once more felt problems in that area and the club’s medical services have decided that the best option for him would be surgery.
“Villarreal CF would like to wish the forward a quick and successful recovery. Get well soon, Samu!”
The 22-year-old had a fine season in Unai Emery’s team and he contributed to their European success before his injury.
Thousands celebrate Villarreal’s Europa League triumph
The Europa League crown was Chukwueze’s first major title with Villarreal since joining them from Diamond Football Academy after helping Emmanuel Amuneke’s Nigeria win the 2017 Fifa U17 World Cup in Chile.
The Super Eagles star contributed four goals and two assists in La Liga this term, and he also provided four assists in the Europa League with a goal to his name.
Unfortunately, the injury ruled Chukwueze out of Nigeria’s upcoming friendly matches against Cameroon on June 4 and 8 in Austria, but he will hope to be available for their next international assignment against Mexico in July before the 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers commence in September. Goal
The Argentine has been officially unveiled at Camp Nou, bringing to an end his illustrious 10-year career at Etihad Stadium.
Sergio Aguero will join Barcelona on a free transfer following his departure from Manchester City.
The 32-year-old underwent a medical at Camp Nou on Monday before signing a two-year contract with the Blaugrana.
Barca moved for Aguero after City’s decision to let the striker go at the end of his contract, bringing to an end his trophy-laden ten-year spell in Manchester.
Barca have said in a statement on their official website: “FC Barcelona and Sergio ‘Kun’ Aguero have reached an agreement for the player to join the Club from 1 July when his contract with Manchester City expires.
“The player will sign a contract until the end of the 2022-23 season and his buyout clause is set at 100 million euros.”
Barca took the decision to sell star striker Luis Suarez to Atletico Madrid last summer without signing a replacement, which left Lionel Messi shouldering the main goalscoring burden for the team in 2020-21.
Ronald Koeman’s men were able to achieve success in the Copa del Rey, but fell short in the Champions League and La Liga, with Atletico ultimately clinching their first title since 2013-14 thanks to Suarez’s prolific form in the final third.
Barca will hope that Aguero can have a similar impact next season, despite the fact that the Argentine struggled for form and fitness during his final campaign at Etihad Stadium.
Aguero is set to link up with his international team-mate and close friend Messi at Camp Nou, and they will be expected to strike up a strong partnership as the Blaugrana aim to return to elite level on both domestic and European fronts. Goal
French chef, Laurent Veyet’s tasting menu is not for the faint-hearted.
There is a prawn salad with yellow mealworm, crunchy insects on a bed of vegetables and chocolate-coated grasshoppers
Describing the dishes and preparing a serving of pasta made with mealworm flour, sweet potato and sauteed insect larvae, the Parisian chef said, “It’s the ideal dish for first-timers, There are some really interesting flavours. Not many people could say they don’t like that.”
In January, the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) deemed the mealworm fit for human consumption and in May approved its sale on the market. The agency has fielded more than a dozen other applications for insect-based food products, including crickets and locusts.
It is said that Mealworm and insects at all stages of life are generally a rich source of animal protein and could offer a sustainable and low carbon-emission food source for the future.
Chef Veyet grows his mealworm on site, feeding them porridge oats and vegetables. While the mealworm may look like an unappetizing maggot, it is in fact the larvae of the darkling beetle and is rich in protein, fat and fibre.
For Veyet, the challenge is two-fold: winning over public opinion and learning how to match the insects’ taste with other foods. “You have to find the right flavours, the right accompaniments. All that is fascinating, any chef will tell you the same,” he said.
Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State says there is need to revisit the curriculum of Nigerian universities to give priority to technical education.
Ganduje made the call over the weekend in Kano while receiving the Presidential Visitation Panel of Bayero University Kano (BUK) at the Government House.
He said the number of unemployed graduates keeps increasing adding that there is need to give and shift priority to technical education.
The governor said education is not only about gaining employment, but rather to increase the level of one’s power of reasoning while urging for the inclusion of technical education in the curriculum.
Governor Ganduje also promised to intervene and make sure that the existing cordial relationship between the university and the host communities was stronger.
With regards to the issue of allocating land to villagers around the university, Ganduje said he would definitely look into that with the view to finding amicable solution.
He assured that for the sake of improving security around the university, something concrete and effective will be done.
Earlier, Prof Femi Otubanjo, Chairman of the Panel, disclosed that they were at the Governor’s office to pay a courtesy call.
The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shu’aibu Ibrahim has renewed the Scheme’s commitment to Nigeria’s unity and integration as well as self-improvement through a well-designed Skills Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development Programme (SAED).
The NYSC DG revealed this in a special interview and live programme on British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Hausa service titled “Ra’ayi Riga”.
The DG while acknowledging that security challenges are not peculiar to the NYSC, called on all stakeholders to sustain effective synergy with Government, and support security agencies in ensuring that all citizens, especially Corps Members are protected, and allowed to deploy their potentials in extending the frontiers of development in all the nooks and crannies of this country.
Speaking on the continued relevance of the scheme as a catalyst for national integration and sustainable development in the national economy, Brigadier General Ibrahim emphasised that the NYSC remains a lasting legacy and an institutional framework that promotes national unity and peaceful coexistence.
He refuted the claim of kidnapping and killing of Corps Members, as the basis for the renewed debate on the scrapping of the Scheme, clarifying that apart from the unfortunate incidence of the 2011 electoral violence, no such record exists in NYSC.
He said the NYSC Scheme is more relevant now in addressing the contemporary challenges of national unity in Nigeria, than ever before.
He explained that since the creation of NYSC 48 years ago, Corps Members have been discharging selfless services all over the federation.
He added that they are in schools teaching in the rural areas, they work in hospitals, especially in the rural areas where they treat indigent people and give free drugs and eye-glasses to patients and a host of other interventions in the national economy.
The Director-General while responding to the need for the provisions of post-service employment and sustainable self-reliance packages said the SAED Programme of the Scheme is doing well in empowering Corps Members with the requisite skills, while financial institutions such as Bank of Industry, Central Bank of Nigeria extend credit facilities to them.
He explained that most of these empowered Corps Members do not only own flourishing businesses, but are employing other Nigerians, thus accelerating rapid economic growth.
Brigadier General Ibrahim, however, revealed that the Scheme is approaching the Federal Government on the need for NYSC Trust Fund where resources will be dedicated to improving relevant facilities in the camps and NYSC formations, while also providing grants to Corps Members that will enable them start up their businesses under the SAED programme.
After scrapping its one child policy in 2016, the Chinese government has again announced that couples can now have up to three children.
China made the announcement this week, in a major shift from the existing limit of two after recent data showed a dramatic decline in births in the world’s most populous country.
The government has said that this new policy will come with supportive measures, which will be conducive to improving our country’s population structure as the cost of raising children in cities has deterred many Chinese couples.
The policy and everything that comes with it are measures to help the country with its strategy of actively coping with an ageing population and maintaining the advantage, endowment of human resources.
Some experts are however sceptical of the policies impact. According to Hao Zhou, a senior economist at Commerzbank “If relaxing the birth policy was effective, the current two-child policy should have proven to be effective too”.
He is of the opinion that young people will have 2 children at the most. “The fundamental issue is living costs are too high and life pressures are too huge.”
Many young Chinese today were born into the one-child policy, which means that they will ultimately be the sole carers for their parents as they near retirement. As this generation retires, the labour market has began to shrink, meaning that Chinese youths today accept that they have to work longer hours and possibly more hours.
In China today there are millions more men than women due to historic femicide – with many families preferring a son in order to continue the family line – some young men accept that they will potentially never meet a partner in their lifetime. Meanwhile statistics show more women choosing to pursue further education and employment, rather than settle down early to start a family.
A professor of Soil Science at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike (MOUA), Victor Emmanuel Osodeke, has been elected new Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) president.
The immediate past vice president of the union got the approval over the weekend during the body’s three-day conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
He succeeds Biodun Ogunyemi, a professor of Education at the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye.
Other members of the new executive committee include the vice president, Chris Piwuna of the University of Jos; Olusiji Sowande of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Ogun State (treasurer) and Prof. Ade Adejumo of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso as financial secretary.
Austen Sado of the University of Port Harcourt was elected investment secretary; Adamu Babayo from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi is internal auditor, while Stella-Maris Oke of the Cross Rivers State University of Science and Technology (CRSUST) clinched the seat of welfare secretary.
Ogunyemi is to serve the new executive committee as an ex-officio.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will no longer extend the closing date for candidates registering for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the Direct Entry (DE) applications.
The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin, published by the office of the Registrar and made available to the journalists on Monday in Abuja.
The board had earlier extended the exercise from the initial closing date of May 15 to Saturday, May 29, to avail candidates who are unable to register within this period the opportunity to carry out a seamless exercise.
The new closing date ended on Saturday May 29.
According to JAMB, in spite of the two-week date extension, complaints of candidates’ inability to register persisted.
The complaints received, the board stated, were lateness or non-delivery of National Identity Number (NIN) verification code; inability to obtain NIN; mismatch or wrong names originally submitted to National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
The board said while few of such excuses have been found to be genuine, a large number were traceable to fraudsters whom it alleged, were determined on subverting the system.
JAMB said, however, that it will give another opportunity to those who have genuinely tried to register but failed, due to some of the challenges mentioned.
Consequently, all prospective candidates with genuine proof(s) of failed efforts to register before the closing date, should visit any of JAMB’s offices for reconciliation between Monday, May 31, and June 15.
These offices also include JAMB-owned Professional Test Centers across the country.
Candidates with genuine reasons for missing the registration are to obtain and complete a form, at no cost.
They are to submit, for the Reading Test and the Application, a certified Bank Draft of N4,000 only in favour of JAMB and obtain a signed duplicate copy from the office.
They will also submit the completed form with a recent passport photograph at the same office of collection and collect a copy of the Reading Test.
Candidates are to wait for further directives through the registered phone number and Public Service Announcement through the NTA Network News as soon as screening is completed.
JAMB said, however, that 1,383,420 candidates procured the Pin for registration as at May 29, while 1,375,694 have completed their registration.
It reiterated that there will be no registration for 2021 UTME/DE without a properly obtained NIN which had to be verified or validated by the NIMC.
The board added that any candidate who submits another application after having successfully registered during the earlier registration period will have the two attempts disqualified.
Any false claim will attract severe sanctions, including forfeiture of the deposited Bank Draft, cancellation of application(s) and prosecution.
The board advised that each candidate should personally go through the process due to the fact that some parents and school proprietors have been found to mislead candidates for illicit gains and personal aggrandizement.
The board warned that it would not tolerate the involvement of any third party or group in the registration process.
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