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Ibrahimovic shares recovery update

Hours after his agent, Mino Raiola dismissed reports that, Manchester United striker, Zlatan Ibrahimovic has suffered a career-ending injury, the ex Sweden international has shared an exciting update on his recovery. The former PSG’s spell on the sidelines is going to be shorter than expected as he has declared himself fixed and stronger after undergoing knee surgery.
Recall that he suffered the injury during a Europa League clash against Anderlecht last month. His agent put out word on Monday that is client, “will make a full recovery AND HAS NOT SUFFERED A CAREER-ENDING INJURY.”

Ibrahimovic is in high spirits and has given Manchester United fans an extra reason to be happy today and all week.An update on his instagram page, Ibrahimovic reads, “Fixed, done and stronger. Once again thank you for the support. We will enjoy my game together soon.”
 

Ogun State Govt to name stadium and street after Anthony Joshua.

In the wake of his new feat, defeating Ukrainian star, Wladimir Klitschko in an epic 11 round battle at Wembley Stadium on Saturday, 27 year-old boxer, Anthony Oluwafemi Olaseni Joshua, is set to be honoured in Ogun State, Nigeria where his parents hail from. Born to a Nigerian mother and a British father of Nigerian and Irish descent, speculation is rife that the Sagamu International Stadium in Ogun State will be renamed ‘The Anthony Joshua Stadium’ and the Cinema Street named ‘Anthony Joshua Street’ by the Ogun State government.
Joshua’s family reportedly own around half of the land and property on one side of the street and the cinema was built by his great-grandfather Omo-Oba Daniel Adebambo Joshua in the 50s.
‘We are proud of what he has achieved as a son of Sagamu, and we will be happy to do our own little bit to show our appreciation and support for him.’ Majority Leader of Ogun State House of Assembly, Asiwaju Adeyinka Mafe reportedly stated.
 
 

Heavyweight boxing superstar, Anthony Joshua's reaches 1.09m Twitter followers

By Lolade Adewuyi
 
The impact of the heavyweight title victory of Anthony Joshua against legend Wladimir Klitschko continues to be felt online as the Nigerian-Brit added about 220,000 new followers in April 2017, the month of his fight, according to figures from analytic website Twitter Counter.
Joshua who is leading a new breed of boxing stars saw his following move into the 1million mark after starting April with 871, 194 followers on Twitter.
His following steadily moved up throughout April and it climaxed with his 11th round stoppage of Klitschko on the night of Saturday, April 29 in front of a 90,000 crowd at Wembley Stadium, London, England.
Joshua added an average daily following of 436 followers from April 1 to April 6 but things picked up afterwards and he reached an average of 1,018 daily followers by April 18.

Things escalated in the week of the fight as he picked up 4,448 followers on Monday April 24 which ballooned up to 26, 668 followers daily from April 25.
His new following of 1,090,000 puts him into a select group of people worldwide who have a million plus followers and he is now ranked in the 1,195th spot which secures celebrity accolade on Twitter.
His victory against Klitschko is leading to global acclaim as he puts the Heavyweight division into the spotlight once more.
While former super featherweight fighter Floyd Mayweather (7.2m) enjoys fame and following on Twitter, the heavies haven’t had such glamour: Tyson Fury (608,000), Klitschko (379,000), Deontay Wilder (174,000) and Tony Bellew (345,000) except David Haye who has 1.2m. Joshua is fast catching up.

And so are his sponsors.
Under Armour dropped a new ad through his social media on Monday, May 1 to celebrate the victory. The 27-year-old extended his deal with the apparel maker in February and is being touted as the next commercially successful sport superstar.
The Drum magazine anticipates that he could become the first billion dollar boxer if he continues to be as marketable and genial as he is.
Ahead of the fight with Klitschko, Joshua had a video call with hip hop producer and entrepreneur Dr. Dre, founder of the headphone brand Beats. It is not often that Dr. Dre is seen or heard these days as the legend endorsed the boxer ahead of the fight with the video posted on his social networks.
Joshua won in the ring, he won a lot of hearts and he is now winning on social.

Opinion: Rewarding labour beyond the monetary | By: Wole Aguda

“The following day on 5 May in Milwaukee Wisconsin, the state militia fired on a crowd of strikers killing seven, including a schoolboy and a man feeding chickens in his yard”.
Human freedom has historically come at a price, and more often than not, expensive. Today, the world celebrates the International Workers Day and while many take the opportunity to reflect on the immense contribution of the Labour Movement in fostering camaraderie amongst workers, I find it as an opportunity to draw attention to the need for Nigerians to begin to reward labour beyond the monetary.

Money is good for reward undoubtedly but it hardly measures up to requirements for proportionate compensation for labour, which is often determined though profitability assessments of an employer and transferred across different labour dimensions and relationships for reference.
What may be paid to replace lives lost in struggles or deaths occasioned by mismanagement? What is the acceptable cash reward for cases of outright withdrawal of entitlements of workers for long periods of time? The Nigerian case is a sordid tale of suffering and gross disrespect as workers are basically slaves to the men they refer to as ‘Governor’. Our culture of zoning in on money as the one-size-fits-all compensation has left workers gasping for breath to survive. All they have is that money and we know what money does to the Nigerian politician. The existence of other perks are simply paper decorations, a matter deserving urgent attention in my opinion.
I will propose that we begin to adopt a mix of the following for recognizing Labour:
– rewards to family members (scholarships, health insurance, etc)
– recognition for clean records as we are a society that have come to see almost no value in honesty
– recognition from traditional institutions who today have skewed recognition as an exclusive of the affluent
– recognition from our religious institutions especially those with commercial ventures such as schools and whose Honorary awards are focused on other classes of people
– recognition from social media which is today more focused on celebrities and entertainers
– recognition from financial institutions who most times only usually celebrate cases of integrity.
Our banks deploy use of manual labour through casual engagement of ‘labourers’, our churches and mosques have unskilled people manning them day and night, and so do we have labour offered to us in different dimensions on the go. Let us begin to recognize the dignity of labour beyond offers of devalued currencies and begin to adopt symbolic interaction that tells workers that we appreciate them for longer stretches of time.
As responsible citizens, let us celebrate our workers daily. It is the right thing to do.

Bayern Munich win fifth consecutive Bundesliga title

Bayern Munich keep racking up victories with ease!
The German side are champions for the 5th consecutive time. The Ancelotti-led men thrashed Wolfsburg 6-0 to clinch the Bundesliga for a record fifth straight season. Ancelotti is now the first manager to win titles in four of Europe’s top five’ leagues, having won trophies with AC Milan, Chelsea, Paris St-Germain and now Bayern. Goals from David Alaba, Lewandowski, Arjen Robben, Thomas Muller and Joshua Kimmich added more glamour to the night.
No team in the Bundesliga has ever won 5 consecutive titles.

“I’m really happy. I’m lucky to be at this fantastic club with brilliant players and fans. I have such strong support from [Karl-Heinz] Rummenigge and all at the club. That is so important for a manager. I’m very lucky. I feel that this club is a family and I am in this family. The motivation was really high today. Of course the last two weeks were difficult but we used it as motivation. We can really enjoy this moment. We can do better. We could have been luckier in some situations in the Champions League and Pokal. We can learn from this and be better next season. Happy for my first Bundesliga. All thanks to my players, my staff, the club and the support of this fans. Very proud!” coach Ancelotti said

"David Moyes on Sunderland's relegation. from the Premier League

After a 10-year stay, Sunderland have been relegated from the Premier League this season. David Moyes’ men’s run in the competition ended after Bournemouth scored a late winner by Joshua King at the final minutes of the game at the Stadium of Light, the club’s 23rd of the season. The Black Cats have won just five games all season and have been sent down for a joint-record fourth time in Moyes’ first season in charge.
On his commitment to the club, the Scot who has suffered the first relegation of his career said,  “I think it’s a question for two or three weeks’ time. I think we all need to reflect and just look at everything we’ve done and look at everything from top to bottom.”
Club Chairman, Ellis Short apologised to the club’s fans,
“We need to improve both on and off the field, and despite the bitter disappointment there is a strong determination to do so throughout the club. There is significant work to be done over the summer and when the season is concluded, we intend to share our plans to move forward with our supporters.”

 

Cristiano Ronaldo becomes the all-time leading goalscorer in Europe’s top six leagues.

No slowing down for the soccer king!

Cristiano Ronaldo is now the all-time leading goalscorer in Europe’s top six leagues with 367 goals. The Portuguese acheived the feat at the 27th minute of Real Madrid’s clash with Valencia today. 

Ronaldo becomes Europe’s all-time top goalscorer. 367 goals. This is his 8th consecutive season of scoring 20+ league goals.

The 32 year-old  is now ahead of Tottenham legend, Jimmy Greaves, who previously held the record. Earlier this season, he became the first player to score 100 times in the Champions League

The Growing Problem of Untreated Dementia In Our Elders ~ By: Tony Ogunlowo

Just recently a picture of a half-naked elderly woman surrounded by a lynch mob appeared online in one of the many blogs under the caption: “Bird falls from sky and transforms into Woman”.

Now it beggars belief that in this day and age where everybody has a smartphone, with video recording capability, that nobody has been able to provide video footage of an actual bird changing into a woman. There’s footage of people being lynched, fights, accidents – even women giving birth on the road but never of a bird metamorphing into a witch. Why? Because it’s not true and its hearsay generated by illiterate gossips who need their mouths padlocked! (- I’m not saying witches don’t exist. To be quite honest I know quite a few!).
The poor old woman, and many others like her, is probably suffering from dementia.
Dementia is a mental disorder that affects older people.
A person suffering from dementia will start to go mad, see things that aren’t there, talk to themselves whilst at the same time suffer memory loss and lose the ability to function normally on a day-to-day basis. It’s worth noting at this point that there is no need to cart off a dementia sufferer to the nearest church for ‘spiritual healing’. There are no demons to cast out and any pastor will only make the problem worse.
There is no known cure for dementia, just like with Alzheimer’s disease, even though a healthy diet, being physically active all the time and counselling can help to minimize the condition.
Dementia is not just a ‘White mans’ disease, it can happen to anyone over the age of 65. Instead of stigmatizing the person or alienating them or locking them up at home (- or dumping them on the street to fend for themselves!) every help should be given. Remember it can happen to you! (Don’t say ‘God forbid bad thing O’). Dementia is caused by progressive brain cells dying which can happen to anyone.
People who have advanced stages of the disease will need to be put under 24-hour supervision so that they do not wander off (and risk being accused of being ‘witches’!) or harm themselves. Remember with their brain cells dying their reasoning diminishes making them regress back to acting like children, forgetting things and getting up to general mischief. They are not to be abused or scolded for half the time they are not aware of what they are doing.

In the absence of any official figures detailing how many sufferers there are it is difficult to say to how it has spread throughout the country. But nevertheless people need to be educated on what symptoms to look out for. Again it’s not something that was caused by drugs or curses as lots of people would like to believe. A person with dementia needs a lot of help and support on a day-to-day basis and in the absence of a comprehensive mental health programme this help will have to come from friends and family. Don’t believe in quacks, pastors or babalawos who claim to have cures for the ailment – there is no cure! (- they’ll only con you out of all your money pretending to cure them!). There are organisations like Dementia Nigeria who can offer help and advice and a quick Google search will throw up even more options.

So next time you see an old woman being accused of witchcraft by a lynch mob she might just be suffering from dementia and abandoned by her family.

As we are respectful of our elders the same should be accorded to someone who has dementia.

Try and imagine being in their shoes: your brain isn’t working properly so that you don’t even know who you are let alone the people around you. You don’t know what time of the day it is or even which day of the week. You can’t remember what you had for breakfast let alone lunch. You watch TV and don’t even know what you’re watching. These are some of the things dementia sufferers have to endure on a daily basis. It’s painful for them because they try to get their brains to work and nothing happens. It’s a bit like when your PC or laptop crashes. But your PC or laptop can go into ‘safemode’, restart and repair itself the brain of a dementia sufferer can’t.

All respect and support should be accorded to anyone who has dementia. Remember it can happen to anyone, nobody is immune – doctors, mechanics, teachers, politicians – anyone! As a prevention try and stay healthy: exercise as often as possible, try and eat a healthy diet and keep your brain busy reading, doing puzzles etc.


Tony blogs at http://www.archangel641.blogspot.co.uk

2018 World Cup: FIFA Announces Commencement Of Use of Video Assistant Referee

 FIFA has confirmed that a video assistant referee will be used at the 2018 World Cup.

World football governing body, FIFA, has revealed its plan to commence the use of Video Assistant Referee, VAR at the 2018 World Cup. The announcement was made by FIFA President, Gianni Infantino on Wednesday. “We will use video refereeing at the 2018 World Cup because we’ve had nothing but positive feedback so far.” Infantino was quoted in a statement.

Video assistance was introduced to support referees with “game-changing” decisions. It was tried last December in Japan during the Fifa Club World Cup.

After 7 years, Mascherano finally scores his first goal for Barcelona

Barcelona’s Javier Mascherano is trending right now. The Argentine has scored his first goal for Barca after 7 years at the club and 319 games. He achieved the ‘feat’ today during the Catalans’ 7-1 victory against Osasuna.

Watching Mascherano score his first goal

So a penalty came up during the game and Rakitić offered the penalty to Mascherano so that he could score his first goal for the club, his first league goal since 15th March 2008.
“It is an anecdote that a player like Mascherano had not scored a goal. Mascherano is a top player, his performance is beyond doubt, he is a born competitor who makes his team better.” Coach Luis Enrique stated.
Mascherano said, “The goal is more of a show of affection from the fans and the players than anything else. I’m not worried about not scoring but the insistence of everyone was hard to say no. It wasn’t planned.”

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