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The African football governing body announced on Tuesday, the 8th of January 2019, that Egypt has now been granted hosting rights to the biggest African football tournament after Cameroon were stripped of the hosting rights December last year. Worries over infrastructure and security culminated in the decision to remove Cameroon from the enviable position of tournament hosts in what CAF perceived as a lack of preparedness for a tournament set to kick-off in June this year. South Africa and Egypt…

Mohamed Salah has won the 2018 African Player of the Year prize ahead of Arsenal rival Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Liverpool team-mate Sadio Mane, claiming the prestigious award at Tuesday’s ceremony in Dakar. It is the Egypt international’s second African Player of the Year title to become the fourth African after El Hadji Diouf, Samuel Eto’o, Yaya Toure to win the award back to back. The feat thwarts Aubameyang’s quest to add to his haul, with the Gabon international last winning…

Nigerian professor, Richard Akindele, popularly known to have been accused of demanding sex from a female student, has been sentenced to prison. Akindele was convicted after pleading guilty to four criminal charges, including demanding gratification from a student and sexual coercion of a student. Akindele had pleaded not guilty to the charges in earlier court appearances at the Federal High Court in Osogbo, southwest Nigeria. However, he changed his plea during his third appearance in court. Akindele was sentenced to two years…

The crowd cheered as he lifted from the ground, two hands on the ball. I was filled with joy as he plucked two points on his way down. Our big man has brought us closer to the opponents with his superb lay technique. We were still down by 2 points as the score now is 44-42 in the opponent favour. “20 seconds to go” the timer shouted and as he started the count down (audibly since we do not have…

Nigeria GDP is about $500billion, making her the richest in Africa, richer than South Africa. But we know matter-of-factly , by all measures our economy is unproductive and one of the worst in the world given our population. With a population of about 200million, our GDP should be in multiple of trillions, just as France with only 67 million people command a GDP of $2.9 trillion. The depraved state of our economy becomes even more humiliating when countries like Sweden…

The twentieth annual B.O Osuntokun memorial lecture held today, 7 January 2019 at Emeritus Professor Theophilus Ogunlesi Hall, University College Hospital, Ibadan. The lecture with the theme, “Brain Paradox: Knowledge about Nothing/ Nothing about Knowledge” was delivered by Dr. Tony Marinho (Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist). A paradox is a premise that contradicts itself. It’s a situation that seems to defy logic by producing an inconsistency that goes against common sense. Most logical paradoxes are known to be invalid arguments. However,…

I’ve always thought I had a thing for mathematics Then I dreamt of being a nuclear physicist Now am studying Medicine Wondering if those dreams were just childish Or that child was not just me I’ve always wanted to cheat nature I’ve always needed to steal time Sometimes I ask if i should Then again I wonder if I could I was taught that education is the way out I was told that success is precipitated by hardwork Yet the…

A US passenger plane travelling from Seattle to Dallas was forced to turn back hours into its flight because a human heart had been left on board. Southwest Airlines says the organ was flown to Seattle from California, where it was to be processed at a hospital to have a valve recovered for future use. But it was never unloaded and its absence was not noticed until the plane was almost half-way to Dallas. The heart itself had not been…