The Management of the Taraba State University (TSU), has prohibited the wearing of miniskirts, face caps, shirts with rolled sleeves, and others, on campus, labelling them indecent attires.
This was stated in a circular issued by the school’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Sunday Paul Bako, ordering lecturers in the institution to start denying students access to lecture halls due to inappropriate clothing.
The VC also stated that the students had consistently disregarded the university’s dress code rules and regulations.
He also advised deans, department heads, and faculty officers to ensure that students dress appropriately within their respective colleges, schools, and faculties.
Henceforth, wearing transparent dresses, mini and skimpy dresses, and other clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body are prohibited and were highlighted in the circular.
Students are also prohibited from wearing tattered and dirty jeans with holes or obscene subliminal messages; shirts without buttons; shirts that are improperly buttoned; rolling of sleeves or flying collar; and wearing of face caps or complete face covering with very dark glasses.”
Others include, “Wearing of tight-fitting apparels; wearing clothes that reveal sensitive parts of the body; wearing shirts and tops with obscene, obnoxious or seductive inscription “baggy, saggy or ass level clothes and any other form of indecent trousers and piercing of body and tattooing.”
Male students were barred from wearing earrings and necklaces, including plaiting, weaving or bonding of hair. Female students were cautioned not to wear, “lousy, unkempt, extremely bogus hair or coloured artificial hair, brightly tinted hair/eyelashes/brown, fixing of long eyelashes, nails and artificial dreadlock.”
Monitoring reactions from social media, while a few people applauded the ban as necessary, others chastised the government for focusing on the wrong things, as our educational institutions still languished behind their peers globally.
Uganda has held their own, sticking to a decision to outlaw LGBTQ practices, making them punishable under the law, despite global lender, World Bank’s decision to halt further loans to the African country.
President Museveni says the country will reduce borrowing and not give in to pressure from foreign institutions.
Museveni criticized the World Bank’s decision to suspend new funding and has promised to find alternative sources of credit.
It is, therefore, unfortunate that the World Bank and other actors dare to want to coerce us into abandoning our faith, culture, principles and sovereignty, using money. They really underestimate all Africans,” he said.
Museveni said that if Uganda needs to borrow, it could tap into other sources and oil production expected to start by 2025 Would provide additional revenues.
Museveni has previously commented on the West’s blatant disrespect for Africa’s sovereignty. He cited the instance where NATO prevented African leaders from landing in Libya on a peacekeeping mission, on African soil.
The World Bank had said that the law contradicted its values and would suspend new funding until it could test measures to prevent discrimination in projects it finances.
“We believe our vision to eradicate poverty on a livable planet can only succeed if it includes everyone irrespective of race, gender, or sexuality. This law undermines those efforts. Inclusion and non-discrimination sit at the heart of our work around the world,” it said in a statement.
The World Bank has an existing portfolio of $5.2bn in Uganda, and these projects will not be affected.
The Ugandan government will ask parliament to vote on a revised budget for July 2023 to June 2024 to reflect the potential financial impact of the lending suspension, junior finance minister Henry Musasizi told parliament on Thursday.
Tensions are escalating in the financial circle as the current administration is determined to bring to book, those found wanting in the past nine years under the leadership of Godwin Emefiele at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Ex-Chief Executive of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC), Jim Obazee, who was appointed “Special Investigator” of the CBN and related entities, now has an expanded team, with members drawn from diverse fields of expertise in the financial sector.
Besides the CBN, the team is also shining its searchlight on other institutions where CBN has substantial interests, particularly Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Company Limited and Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement Systems Plc.
Independent sources privy to the activities of the team said many officials of the Central Bank have been interrogated in the past few days even as the team is spreading its tentacles across the financial system.
The Presidency, through the Obazee-led team, is said to have started combing all relevant agencies for “co-conspirators” of the suspended CBN chief who had enriched themselves at the expense of the common good.
“In the coming weeks, heads will roll across the board. The level of rot seen in the system could not have been perpetrated by one man. If that is the case, those who work with him could not have been angels. I don’t know the scale of sanction that will follow but I can tell you that a lot of people will not go unpunished,” a source said over the weekend.
The source also disclosed that some individuals who consult for the monetary authority had been detained in the past week and released on bail.
Most stakeholders who spoke on the issue said it was not unlikely considering the determination of the President to go the whole block on the subject.
As at 2015, PwC and Ernst & Young (E&Y) served as external auditors to the bank. PwC was replaced by KPMG in 2016. In the past seven years, the duo of E&Y and KPMG have provided the service for the regulator, certifying the financials that are now being reviewed by Obazee and his team.
According to the letter of appointment of Obazee, the Special Investigator reports directly to the Office of the President. But beyond workings of the appointment, a source who is privy to the engagement said the appointee has “reasonably easy” access to the President for regular briefing and that his team is now touted as the arrowhead of the Tinubu’s “commitment to fighting financial fraud”.
An insider source said the President is leaving nothing to chance in bringing those believed to have been involved in the financial system manipulation in recent years to justice and that he has charged the Obazee-led team to go all out against concerned individuals and institutions in its assignment.
Whereas the team does not have persecutory powers, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is said to have been properly briefed on the “importance and urgency” of the team and directed to work with it where necessary.
The Presidency has been reasonably quiet on the ordeal of the suspended CBN governor, Godwin Emefiele, speaking only once, when he described the financial system he supervised as “rotten”.
President Bola Tinubu has assured Nigerian youths of his optimum support towards achieving their full potentials. The president gave this assurance in a statement via his verified X handle on Saturday to mark the 2023 International Youth Day.
Tinubu noted that the entire nation is standing behind the Nigerian as they pursue their various dreams.
He urged Nigerian youths to embrace the numerous challenges they encounter while chasing their dreams, stressing that they possess the capacity to light up Nigeria.
Tinubu stated, “As you celebrate this International Youth Day, know that you are not alone – the entire nation stands behind you, ready to champion your aspirations.
“Embrace the challenges, chase your dreams, be involved, and continue to be the beacon of hope that lights up our nation. Happy International Youth Day!”
The Nigerian stock market last week recorded marginal gain fueled by MTN Nigeria Plc and other banking stocks.
This is coming as investors continued to reposition their portfolios based on the assessment of some companies’ half year 2023, H1’23, earnings report.
Precisely, the Nigeria Exchange Limited, NGX, All- Share Index, ASI, recorded a 0.2% gain to close at 65,325.37 points from 65,198.08 points the previous week.
Another stock market gauge, NGX market capitalization, rose by N93 billion to close at N35.572 trillion from N35.479 trillion the previous week.
Consequently, the Month-to-Date, MtD, and Year-to-Date, YtD, returns were slightly higher at +1.5% and +27.5%, respectively.
Elsewhere, weak activity levels persisted on the bourse, as the trading volume and value decreased by 32.4% Week-on-Week, WoW, and 15.3% WoW, respectively.
From a sectoral viewpoint, the Banking Index went up by 1.3% and Insurance Index, 0.7% while the Consumer Goods Index down by 0.9%, Industrial Goods Index 0.4% and Oil and Gas Index 0.3%.
Reacting on the market performance and outlook, analysts at Cordros Research stated: “We expect market performance to remain mixed in the week ahead as investors rebalance their portfolios based on an assessment of corporate earnings released thus far for H1’23.
‘‘Nevertheless, we expect earnings from the Tier-1 banks in the coming week(s) to spur positive market sentiments, especially given the anticipation of interim dividends.
‘‘Overall, we reiterate the need for positioning in only fundamentally sound stocks as the weak macro environment remains a significant headwind for corporate earnings.”
In their own comment, analysts at Investdata Consulting said: “We expect mixed sentiments on bargain hunting, in the midst of expected positive news, while investors digest corporate earnings ahead of July inflation data and First-tier banks earnings reports.
‘‘However, pullbacks are creating buying opportunities amidst economic reforms of the government, just as more policy pronouncements and economic managers hit the ground running, a situation expected to offer investment direction eventually.
‘‘Also, more Q2 earnings reports are expected to confirm the real state of the company performance and attract liquidity in the midst of markdown dates and the release of remaining audited accounts.
‘‘We note that discerning investors have continued to target fundamentally sound companies and defensive stocks to protect their portfolios.”
Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has accused President Bola Tinubu and his ruling All Progressives Congress of warmongering. According to the opposition party, the President and his party are trying to plunge the nation into a needless war with a brotherly nation in a desperate bid to cling to power.
National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Debo Ologunagba, who stated this in Abuja yesterday, said the PDP strongly condemned what it called “the desperation by Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress, APC, “ to plunge Nigeria into a state of war by dragging the military into a needless conflict with the Niger Republic.
Ologunagba said: “The PDP observes that the insistence by the APC administration to draft Nigerian soldiers into Niger Republic in defiance to the disapproval by the National Assembly and Nigerians across the board, validates apprehensions in the public domain of ulterior motives by the Tinubu-led APC to import crisis and destabilize our nation for political reasons.
“While the PDP frowns at the unconstitutional change of government in any part of the world, our party holds that the situation in Niger Republic does not warrant any external peace-keeping effort and does not constitute any threats whatsoever to our national interest to justify committing our already overstretched military to harm’s way in a needless war. “The insistence of the APC government to go to war in the Niger Republic is already heightening tension in Nigeria.
“There are insinuations in the public that the APC is only desperate to deploy Nigerian military to Niger Republic so as to provoke possible external aggression from that country, thereby orchestrating a situation for the declaration of a State of Emergency in Nigeria with the tendency to cripple the judicial process on the 2023 Presidential election and divert attention from the hardship the APC has foisted on the nation in the last two months.
“It is apparent that the APC is desperate to orchestrate a situation of ‘imminent danger of invasion or involvement in a state of war’ so as to have the excuse to declare a State of Emergency under Section 305 (3) (a) and (b) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended). “The PDP holds that nothing else can explain why the APC administration is eager to go to war in Niger Republic while it has practically turned a blind eye to the insecurity situation in our country, even with the mindless killing of over 500 innocent Nigerians in Plateau, Benue, Niger, Kaduna and other states of the federation since May 2023.
Leader of the military junta in the Republic of Niger, General Abdourahmane Tchiani, said weekend that the coup in which they overthrew President Mohammad Bazoum was well intended and was carried out to avert an imminent threat that would have affected not only the Niger Republic but also Nigeria.
This came as the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria, CBCN, for the second time in a week, appealed to the Federal Government to take head-on, the corruption, insecurity, and skewed appointments in the country, rather than declaring war on Niger Republic.
Recall that prior to ECOWAS leaders’ decision to adopt a military option against the coup leaders in Niger Republic last weekend, the Catholic Bishops had advised the chairman, President Bola Tinubu, and other West African leaders not to give in to military intervention in the country.
This is even as the presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25, 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi, advised the Federal Government and ECOWAS to prioritize diplomacy, instead of military force to resolve the standoff with the coupists in Niger Republic.
French superstar Kylian Mbappe was reinstated in Paris Saint-Germain’s first team on Sunday after being sidelined for several weeks amid an ongoing contract dispute.
PSG opened their Ligue 1 title defence with a goalless draw at home against Lorient on Saturday as the team’s prize asset watched from the stands.
“After very constructive and positive discussions between Paris Saint-Germain and Kylian Mbappe before the PSG-Lorient match, the player was reinstated in the first training team this morning,” PSG said in a statement.
After a summer of flux at the Parc des Princes filled with new arrivals and Lionel Messi’s departure, it is the Mbappe stand-off that continues to dominate the headlines.
The France captain has refused to sign an extension to his PSG deal, meaning he can leave for free next year, with Real Madrid long seen as his preferred destination.
PSG want to sell him now and bring in a significant transfer fee for a player who cost 180 million euros ($198 million) from Monaco in 2017.
New coach Luis Enrique on Friday said he hoped a solution could be found, but Mbappe has not been allowed train with the first team and was left out of the squad to face Lorient.
Instead, he sat alongside fellow 2018 World Cup winner Ousmane Dembele, who completed his transfer from Barcelona earlier in the day, as Luis Enrique handed debuts to six players.
The two knockout matches will be played on August 15 and August 16.
Spain, Sweden, Australia and England have never won the Women’s World Cup before. We make the case for each team going all the way to lift the trophy.
It is now certain that the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup™ will have a first-time winner. All the teams that have previously won the tournament have already been eliminated in the current edition: Germany fell in the group stage, USA and Norway said farewell after the round of 16 and Japan left the competition in the quarter-finals. In other words, a new country will be at the top of the women’s game at the conclusion of Australia & New Zealand 2023.
Spain
FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking: 6
Women’s World Cup appearances: 3 (2015, 2019 and 2023)
Best Women’s World Cup performance: 2023 (Semi-finals)
Spain v Netherlands | Quarter-finals | FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023| Highlights
Watch the highlights from the match between Spain and Netherlands played at Wellington Regional Stadium, Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-tara on Friday, August 11, 2023 at 1:00 PM (local time).
Road to 2023 semi-finals:
Spain 3-0 Costa Rica (Group C)
Spain 5-0 Zambia (Group C)
Japan 4-0 Spain (Group C)
Switzerland 1-5 Spain (Round of 16)
Spain 2-1 Netherlands AET (Quarter-finals)
Spain has been an emerging power in women’s football in recent years. Although they have never qualified for the Olympics, the senior team are in their third Women’s World Cup (their first was in 2015) and have already celebrated winning the U-20 world title in 2022.
At senior level, the trophy is still missing – this is the first time Spain have reached the semi-finals. However, despite never being champions, anyone who thinks that this Spanish team is not star-studded is sorely mistaken.
La Roja can point to having the winner of the 2021 and 2022 The Best FIFA Women’s Player in Alexia Putellas, the UEFA Women’s Champions League player of the season for 2022/23 in Aitana Bonmati and centre-back Irene Paredes – also voted into the team of the season for the latter competition. The list of renowned performers does not stop there, however, with the aforementioned Hermoso, currently playing her club football in Mexico, sparkling at Australia & New Zealand 2023™.
Sweden
FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Cup Ranking: 3
Women’s World Cup appearances: 9 (1991, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019, 2023)
Best Women’s World Cup performance: 2003 (Runners-up)
Japan v Sweden | Quarter-finals | FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ | Highlights
Watch the highlights from the match between Japan and Sweden played at Eden Park, Auckland / Tāmaki Makaurau on Friday, August 11, 2023 at 7:30 PM (local time).
Road to 2023 semi-finals:
Sweden 2-1 South Africa (Group G)
Sweden 5-0 Italy (Group G)
Argentina 0-2 Sweden (Group G)
Sweden 0 (5) -0 USA (4) (Round of 16)
Japan 1-2 Sweden (Quarter-finals)
Of the six teams left in the competition, Sweden are undoubtedly the most traditional. The European side have reached the podium three times; they were runners-up in 2003, when they were beaten by Germany in the final, and have finished third twice, in 1991 and 2011.
Sweden’s history with the Women’s World Cup goes back a long way, having hosted the tournament for the second time in 1995. Curiously they crashed out in the quarter-finals after losing on penalties to China PR – further proof of the curse that often frustrates tournament hosts.
The Swedes’ path to the 2023 semi-finals has been a bright one. They qualified top of Group G and have already knocked out defending champions USA and Japan, who had been flawless up until the point, in the knockout stages. An eventual title would crown a campaign worthy of toppling giants.
Australia
FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking: 10
Women’s World Cup appearances: 8 (1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023)
Best Women’s World Cup performance: 2023 (Semi-finals)
Australia v France | Quarter-finals | FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ | Highlights
Watch the highlights from the match between Australia and France played at Brisbane Stadium, Brisbane / Meaanjin on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 5:00 PM (local time).
Road to 2023 semi-finals:
Australia 1-0 Republic of Ireland (Group B)
Australia 2-3 Nigeria (Group B)
Canada 0-4 Australia (Group B)
Australia 2-0 Denmark (Round of 16)
Australia 0 (7)-0 France(6) (Quarter-finals)
With the exception of the first one in 1991, Australia have participated in every other edition of the Women’s World Cup. The Matildas now have some of the world’s top stars and the support of a key 12th player during matches: the fans.
Sam Kerr is the big star of the current squad and is capable of drawing large crowds of young players who dream of being like her. This is not a team suffering from Kerr-dependency, however, as she only recently returned from injury and has seen her team-mates find ways to win largely without her.
By beating France in the quarter-finals, Australia have already achieved their best result in Women’s World Cup history. Until then, the team had collected four quarter-final appearances (2007, 2011, 2015 and 2023).
England
FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking: 4
Women’s World Cup appearances: 6 (1995, 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019 and 2023)
Best Women’s World Cup performance: 2015 (Third place)
England v Colombia | Quarter-finals | FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023™ | Highlights
Watch the highlights from the match between England and Colombia played at Stadium Australia, Sydney / Wangal on Saturday, August 12, 2023 at 8:30 PM (local time).
Road to 2023 semi-finals:
England 1-0 Haiti (Group D)
England 1-0 Denmark (Group D)
China PR 1-6 England (Group D)
England 0 (4) – (2) 0 Nigeria (Round of 16)
England 2-1 Colombia (Quarter-finals)
England are the European champions and have a wall in goal in Mary Earps, one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
A common belief is that one learns the most after a defeat, and England have learned enough from their semi-final exit in 2015. Now, after a hard-fought win over Colombia in the quarter-finals, they are looking to finally win the tournament and put a gold medal alongside the bronze they won that year. The clash with hosts Australia promises plenty of excitement in Sydney.
One obstacle will be doing so without Lauren James, one of England’s key players who will miss the semi-final due to red-card suspension. Sarina Wiegman’s side have proved that they can adapt to setbacks, however, and are tactically flexible, which should serve them well in the face of a partisan crowd.
The World Athletics has disclosed that women’s 100m hurdles world champion and record holder, Tobi Amusan, has not yet been cleared to compete at this year’s World Championships, which begins this weekend in Budapest, Hungary.
This is in the wake of several reports making the rounds that the Nigerian had been given the greenlight to compete to defend her title at the championships.
Amusan was provisionally suspended last month by the AIU for missing three whereabouts tests.
Head of Communications of World Athletics, Nicole Jeffery, in a statement obtained via Nigerian track and field club Making of Champions said, “Please be advised – reports appearing in Nigeria that say Tobi Amusan has been cleared to compete in Budapest are wrong.
“No decision has been made in this case yet. When a decision is made, it will be announced by the Athletics Integrity Unit.”
In the entry list published by World Athletics, the women’s 100m hurdles world record holder was listed among Team Nigeria’s athletes, but her participation is still subject to clearance by the AIU.
With a decision expected to be made before the start of the championships, the Athletics Federation of Nigeria said it was awaiting the AIU’s verdict on the hurdler.
“The condition that the World Athletics put in front of her name says ‘pending AIU process’, so we are still waiting for it. But I’m sure we will have it before the start of the games,” AFN Technical Director Samuel Onikeku said.
The Nigerian made history at the championships last year in Oregon, USA, racing to a new world record time of 12.12secs in the semi-finals, before running 12.06secs in the final to clinch the gold medal and become Nigeria’s first-ever world champion and record holder in athletics.
Before her suspension, the 26-year-old had been in fine form, running a new season’s best of 12.34secs at the Silesia Diamond League meeting in Poland to win her second consecutive race of the season in July, while she also won at the World Athletics Continental Tour Gold in Hungary same month.
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