CHELSEA CANCEL VICTORY PARADE AFTER MANCHESTER TERROR ATTACK

                        Chelseafc players celebrating their 6th title as a club

The recently crowned Premier League champions have released an official statement saying that the club won’t be having their open top bus victory parade in west London.

The parade, which was meant to take place this Sunday, has been cancelled due to the high-security alert in the UK in the aftermath of the bombing at Manchester Arena on Monday.

The official statement read as follows:

Having consulted with the Metropolitan Police, Hammersmith & Fulham Council and other authorities, we know the emergency services would have been as professional as ever, but we would not want in any way to divert important resources by holding an additional, non-ticketed event on the streets of London

The club was hoping to put on a celebration with the league champions trying to make it a league and cup double in Saturday’s FA Cup final against Arsenal.

As a mark of respect, Chelsea players will be wearing black armbands in the Cup final at Wembley and they will also make a donation to a fund supporting the victims of the attack.

Everyone associated with Chelsea Football Club offers our heartfelt condolences to those affected by Monday’s terror attack in Manchester. Our thoughts go out to all the victims, and their families and friends

After the government’s decision to deploy more forces to the streets due the high alert, the club didn’t want to put any extra strain on them by hosting a celebration.





SOURCE: readchelsea.com

Zimbabwe:President Robert Mugabe

Mugabe's 'undiplomatic angry outbursts against other world leaders killed Zim', says MujuJoice Mujuru

                                 Joice Mujuru

Cape Town – Former Zimbabwean vice president Joice Mujuru has reportedly taken a swipe at her former boss President Robert Mugabe, saying that he was responsible for all the problems currently faced by Zimbabwe.

According to The Standard, Mujuru, who was now the opposition National People's Party (NPP) leader, said that Mugabe's "undiplomatic angry outbursts against other world leaders", had resulted in the southern African country being isolated from the rest of the world.

Mujuru said this during a campaign rally in Gutu over the weekend.

Zimbabwe was set to hold its presidential elections in 2018.

"We have leadership bankruptcy in Zimbabwe. This is the biggest problem in Zimbabwe… The words that you speak will make your neighbours want to come and build with you but if they hear that the words that you say are not for progress they will leave you. They will leave you to where we are now as a country, to where Mugabe and his party Zanu-PF have taken us to," Mujuru was quoted as saying.

Mugabe, 93, has on several occasions blasted the West, accusing its leaders of seeking to provoke "illegal regime change" by crippling his country economically.

The EU imposed sanction on Mugabe more than a decade ago in protest against rights abuses and flawed democratic processes.

The nonagenarian has led Zimbabwe since 1980 when the country attained its independence from Britain.

A New Zimbabwe.com report said that Mujuru also distanced herself from the past atrocities, which she claimed were committed by Mugabe's government and the ruling Zanu-PF that she was once part of. 

Mujuru was kicked out of the ruling party after Mugabe's wife Grace, launched a campaign against her, accusing her of instigating factional fighting and plotting to topple the veteran leader.

Mujuru, however, denied the charges.

                                             President Robert Mugabe

Mugabe's daughter, priest, appointed to censorship board

Harare - President Robert Mugabe’s only daughter Bona has been appointed to the country’s Censorship Board, which determines which parts of steamy films the people of Zimbabwe can watch and which they can’t.

To help her in this task is Mugabe’s longstanding friend and confidante, Father Fidelis Mukonori, who is a Roman Catholic priest, and former education minister Aeneas Chigwedere, who was sued by his son two years ago for allegedly practising witchcraft and “possessing goblins”.

Another well-known name on the board is Charity Charamba, the police spokesperson.

Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo said while Zimbabwe’s constitution guaranteed freedom of expression, the Censorship Act gave powers to the board “to ensure that these freedoms are reasonably limited so that they do not infringe on other people’s rights”.

“In today’s environment where there is heightened scrutiny by members of the public, internet and social media use, you are going to be faced by many challenges in administering the act,” Chombo said, in quotes carried by the official Herald.

The new board will hold office for five years. Chigwedere, the new chairperson, will replace Heyi Malaba who is 96. Malaba’s board famously demanded heavy editing of Fifty Shades of Grey, the movie based on the EL James novel. Some movie theatres refused to screen the edited version.

Zimbabwe’s pole dancers, known for their risqué performances, are also monitored by the board. Probably the most famous of them, Bev Sibanda, was fined $100 three years ago for breaching the Censorship Act after photos of one dance session were deemed by the censorship board to be “indecent”.

But with elections a year way, there will be fears that the new-look Censorship Board will also be used to clamp down on Zimbabwe’s vibrant social media, which doesn’t spare Mugabe and his government from robust criticism.

A report by the state broadcaster, the ZBC, gave a hint of that when it said: “The new board of censors… will have a mammoth task in carrying out its mandate as there has been rampant abuse of social media while also taking into consideration that general elections are set for next year.”

SOURCE:news24.com

Ahmed Musa weds ‘side chick’ after divorcing Jamila

by John Owen Nwachukwu

Super Eagles and Leicester City forward, Ahmed Musa has finally wedded his ‘side chick Juliet’.

The player had few weeks ago dumped his former wife who allegedly opposed his plan to marry a second wife as Islam permits.

Later on, revelations emerged on why the player divorced his ex wife Jamila.

This came after he was arrested for allegedly battering her in their home in England.

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A family had revealed that Jamila was allegedly in opposition of him marrying a second wife as Islam permits.

Some days later Musa displayed pre-wedding photos of him and Juliet.

And just yesterday, the video of the wedding has gone viral on social media.

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South African Doctors Successfully Transplant Penis - World's Third Success

JOHANNESBURG, May 24 (BERNAMA-NNN-AFRICANEWS) -- World's third penis transplant has been successfully performed on a 40-year-old man in South Africa by doctors from Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Tygerberg Academic Hospital in Cape Town.

This is the second successful penis transplant performed in South Africa after the first operation in December 2014 by the same team.

The 40-year-old recipient is reported to have lost his penis 17 years ago due to complications after traditional circumcision.

It took the doctors, led by Professor Andr� van der Merwe, nine and a half hours to perform the transplant on April 21, local news portal Health24 reported.

"He is certainly one of the happiest patients we have seen in our ward. He is doing remarkably well � There are no signs of rejection and all the reconnected structures seem to be healing well," Van der Merwe said.

Within six months, the recipient will regain full functions of his new organ which has a colour discrepancy because he is a black man and the donor is white.

"Unfortunately we could not find a donor of the same race. In this case the donor is white and the recipient is black," one of the team members Dr Amir Zarrabi told Health24, adding that the colour discrepancy will be later corrected with medical tattooing.

He expressed confidence that they will perform more successful transplants in the future.

"The loss of a penis from traditional circumcision is big, and we want to create sustainable programmes to help these people," he added.

The second penis transplant in the world was performed in May 2016 on a 64-year-old man at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in the United States.




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'First ever African' to lead World Health Organization'

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia to take charge of UN health agency from July 1

                              FILE PHOTO- Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

By Fatih Erel

GENEVA 

Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus from Ethiopia was elected as the new director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on Tuesday.

Ghebreyesus will be the first African ever to lead the UN health agency. He was Ethiopia’s foreign minister from 2012 to 2016 and also served as the country’s health minister between 2005 and 2012.

He will begin his five-year term as WHO head on July 1.

The delegates chose Ghebreyesus over U.K.'s Dr. David Nabarro, in the final round of election. He received 133 votes while Nabarro got 50, with two abstentions.

The third candidate from Pakistan, Dr. Sania Nishtar, got eliminated in the first round.

The election took place during the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, which will continue until May 31 to discuss global health issues.

Ghebreyesus will succeed Dr. Margaret Chan from China, who has been WHO’s director-general since Jan. 1, 2007.

Ethiopia Foreign Ministry spokesman termed Ghebreyesus’ election to the top post as a “victory for Africa and Ethiopia”.

*Addis Getachew Tadesse from Ethiopia contributed to this report.

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APC lists reasons Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency was “a total disaster”

By John Owen Nwachukwu 

The Rivers State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has agreed with a statement credited to the governor of Bayelsa state, Seriake Dickson that the six years of former President, Goodluck Jonathan was a total waste for Niger Delta people.

The party submitted various reasons why “Jonathan’s Presidency was similarly a total disaster for Rivers State and her people.”

This was part of a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by the State Chairman of the party, Chief (Dr.) Davies Ibiamu Ikanya.

The statement reads in part, “Rivers APC aligned itself also with the historical statement credited to Governor Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa – the home State of former President Jonathan – that his six years in Aso Rock was a waste for the Ijaw Nation.

“The party declared that Jonathan’s Presidency was similarly a total disaster for the Rivers State and her people for the following reasons: Jonathan failed to muster the courage and political will in a PDP-controlled National Assembly to see to the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) in the over six years of his administration to demonstrate his hatred for the Niger Delta region, knowing that communities in Rivers State will benefit from the bill.

“The East/West Road, especially Eleme-Onne axis in Rivers State, was abandoned and became a nightmare to travellers. He refused to refund to the State Government over 110 billion naira used in the dualisation of Ikwerre-Owerri Road approved by late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua and other Federal Roads in the State executed by the State to ease the sufferings of the people of Rivers State.

“He wickedly stopped the Train 7 at NLNG Bonny, resulting in the loss of jobs to Rivers people and revenue to the State Government.

“Refused to implement the UNEP Report on the clean-up of Ogoni land despite all the pleas by our people and the International Community – just to punish the Ogonis and “Rivers State irrespective of their overwhelming support for him during the 2011 elections. Jonathan duly acknowledged that he has no project to point as was executed by his administration for the six years he was Abuja as President.

“Most wickedly, he ceded oil wells belonging to Rivers to Bayelsa and Abia states to ensure that the revenue accruing to the State is reduced to nothing.

“Abandoned construction of the Port Harcourt International Airport after completing other airports started at the same time with it.

“The airport was described as the worst sixth Airports in the world during Jonathan’s administration.

“Posting and encouraging the excesses of the tyrannical Police Commissioner Joseph Mbu during his inglorious days in the State.

“Supporting every imaginable act of impunity in the State, including the plot by five State Assembly members to impeach the Speaker in a House of 31 members.

“Seizing and grounding the planes of the State for no just cause.

“Harassing and intimidating the duly elected Governor of Rivers State then for no just cause and even supporting the splitting of the Governors’ Forum into two just to ensure that former Governor Amaechi, who was duly elected by his colleagues, did not have an easy reign as the Chairman of the Forum.

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“Though what Rivers State suffered in the hands of Jonathan is so enormous we hand over his case and that of Wike to God to handle.”

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SOURCE: dailypost.ng

Nigeria will be out of recession in 3rd quarter of 2017 – CBN

By Freda Okhiria 

The Central Bank Governor, Dr Godwin Emefiele has assured Nigerians that the country would be out of recession in the 3rd quarter of the year following the positive economic indicators.

The governor stated this while briefing newsmen after the conclusion of that apex bank’s Monetary policy meeting in Abuja.

Emefiele noted that the positive indicators such as inflation moving upwards and GDP moving up from negative aggregate are indications that by the third quarter of the year, the country will be out of recession.

The governor, however, noted that the committee voted to keep the MPR at 14%, CRR at 22.5% and the liquidity ratio at 30%.

SOURCE: dailypost.ng