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http://ift.tt/2sprgy0 South African attacker Vilakazi Sibusiso (L) vies for ball with Nigeria's Shehu Abdullahi during the 2019 African Cup of Nations qualifyer football match between South Africa and Nigeria at Goodswill Akpabio International Stadium in the southern city of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State on June 10, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / PIUS UTOMI EKPEI Tunde Kazeem, the Kwara Director of Sports, says the Super Eagles had no reason losing to Bafana Bafana of South Africa in the 2019 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifiers. The Super Eagles lost 0-2 to Bafana Bafana in the match played at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo on Saturday. It was a win which gave the South Africans their first win over Nigeria in any competitive match at senior level, through second half goals from Tokelo Rantie and Percy Tau help. Reacting to the result, Kazeem told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that there was no excuse for the team to have lost, saying it was a bad Saturday for the country. K...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J By Emeka Aginam The introduction of the All New Gencoool Airconditioner will help consumers save as much as 70% on electricity consumption with an increased cooling capacity of 40% thereby reducing bills., the General Manager Air Conditioning and Energy Solutions, LG Electronics West Africa operations, Mr. Cholyong Park has assured. The new product, he said, has proved the company’s determination to offer Nigerians with cutting edge technological products that addresses their distinctive needs. Park, who spoke recently during the unveiling of the dual Inverter technology in Lagos said that the new product is expected to solve the problem of the current demand of consumers seeking energy efficient products. He said that the new product features a dual inverter compressor with 10 Year Warranty that helps users enjoy benefits of LG air conditioner for a longer period of time. Other unique features of the new product, according to him will include its variable spe...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Uganda’s censorship board has banned a Dutch film, The Dinner Club, after accusing it of “glorifying homosexuality” the Embassy of The Netherlands in Kampala has said. Gay sex is illegal in Uganda. The embassy said in a Facebook post that it “deplored” the decision to ban the film. It then published the full list of objections from the media council which also include using “lurid language”, and “smoking especially by women”. The Uganda Media Council described the film as women forming a “Dinner Club which is in reality a sort of brothel”, and said the film included scenes of “gay men sauntering away drunk”. It said “while glorifying homosexuality two women say marriage (presumably to men) is hard work! This is against Ugandan values.” The council also objected to one man calling another a “hot chick”. In the comments under the embassy’s Facebook post, many people support the media council’s stand. One person said: “People from [the] West should know that ...

http://ift.tt/2qpmakj Sheik Yusuf Amzat-Salam, 35, his wife and four children were killed by hoodlums in the early hours of Tuesday in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun. PHOTO: NAN A Muslim cleric, Sheik Yusuf Amzat-Salam, 35, his wife and four children were killed by hoodlums in the early hours of Tuesday in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the incident occurred at Atiba area of Odogbolu Local Government Area. NAN gathered that the eldest child, a girl, was aged 11, followed by her twin brothers, aged 8 and the last female child, aged 2. All the victims had since been buried accordance to Muslim rites amid wailing. The attackers, whose motive could not be ascertained, butchered the entire household with machetes. NAN gathered that the victims were discovered in the pool of their blood when school bus came to pick the children. A close family friend, Mr Yusuf Oludaisi, described the act as dastardly and wicked, wondering what the victim must have done to warra...

http://ift.tt/2pJBQvo A Ukranian serviceman walks through a destroyed woods along the front line with pro-Russian separatists near the eastern Ukrainian city of Avdiivka on April 5, 2017 (AFP Photo/ANATOLII STEPANOV) A top Ukrainian official said on Saturday that “Russian occupying forces” had killed four civilians in the war-torn east just hours before the Eurovision Song Contest final kicked off in Kiev. The Kiev-appointed head of the conflict-riven Donetsk region said the civilians died when a shell hit an apartment bloc. “The Russian occupying forces attacked a residential area of Avdiivka,” Pavlo Zhebrivskiy wrote on Facebook. “Three women and one man was killed.” Avdiivka is a devastated flashpoint suburb of the Russian-backed insurgents’ de facto capital city of Donetsk. The latest casualties bring the number of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians who have been reported killed by officials this month to 14. Ukraine accuses Russia of plotting and backing the three-yea...

http://ift.tt/2oZMBNd Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi II The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has challenged Nigerian universities to initiate researches that could lead to innovations toward boosting technological growth. “For the country to become competitive at the global stage, it must explore, exploit and utilise science and technological innovations; the universities should spearhead such effortst,” he said in Kano on Saturday. A statement by Lydia Legbo, spokesperson of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, said that Sanusi spoke when he received a delegation from the institution, led by its Vice Chancellor, Prof Musibau Akanji, on a visit to his palace. It quoted Sanusi as urging education managers across the universities to identify challenges peculiar to their system and address them so as to achieve their mandate. The monarch commended the university for its outstanding achievements over the years, noting that it had remained a leading institutio...