CHELSEA HAVE HAVERTZ! The Blues have completed the signing of our second German international this summer with Kai Havertz putting his signature on a five-year contract. The transfer of the young, highly rated attacking midfielder from Bayer Leverkusen follows on from the purchase of Timo Werner from another Bundesliga club RB Leipzig, and is in addition to the recruitment of Hakim Ziyech, Ben Chilwell and Thiago Silva as Frank Lampard’s squad for the forthcoming season takes shape. We have also signed young French defender Malang Sarr who is going out on loan with a view to gaining more experience before he is involved. Havertz had this to say on becoming a Chelsea player. ‘I am very happy and proud to be here, For me it is a dream come true to play in a big club like Chelsea and I can’t wait to meet all the players and the trainers. Yeah, I am very happy to be here!’ Chelsea director Marina Granovskaia added: ‘Kai is one of the best players of his age in world football, so we a...
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A White professor says she has been pretending to be Black for her entire professional career By Leah Asmelash, CNN Fri September 04, 2020 (CNN) A professor of African and Latin American studies who portrayed herself as Black has now revealed she has been lying. Jessica A. Krug, an associate professor at George Washington University, has written extensively about Africa, Latin America, the diaspora and identity, all while claiming her own Black and Latina heritage. But in an article published on Medium.com on Thursday, Krug revealed the truth: She is White. "To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness," she wrote .Krug acknowledged in her post that she had no right to claim these identities, saying that "doing s...
Man nabbed for attempting to cut off woman’s breast in Anambra motel By Odita Sunday 04 September 2020 41-year-Old Ogbonna Nwankwo has been arrested by operatives of the Anambra State Police Command for allegedly attempting to kill a woman, Bella Joseph, aged 29, and cutting off her breast yesterday. Disclosing this to newsmen, spokesman of the command, Haruna Mohammed, said Ogbonna took Bella to Dollar Inn Motel in Ihite, Orumba South Local Government area, for lodging. He said while they lodged in their hotel room, the suspect allegedly used a knife to stab Bella and was attempting to cut off her right side breast when her cry for help was heard by the motel manager, who came to her rescue. The suspect allegedly thought Bella was dead. Haruna said police operatives attached to Umunze division were invited and they rushed the victim to a specialist hospital in Nnewi, where she is being treated. He added that the suspect, who was seriously manhandled by a mob and beaten to stupor,...
ASUU ties resumption to speedy endorsement of UTAS By Kelvin Ebiri The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has tied resumption to the speedy endorsement of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) by the Federal Government. The union claimed that the alleged non-release of N1.1 trillion revitalisation fund for over six years had rendered scholars impotent in searching for a cure for the novel coronavirus. Coordinator, ASUU Port Harcourt zone, Uzo Onyebinama, told journalists yesterday in the Rivers State capital that following the rejection of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the union developed UTAS as a replacement to sanitise the payroll and accounting processes. He explained that besides other pressing issues that necessitated the ongoing strike, the lecturers would not return to the classroom until government approves the integrity test on UTAS. Onyebinama insisted that UTAS was far better than IPPIS “which does not res...
It’s Time To Run Nigeria’s Tertiary Institutions As Business Ventures , By Olabisi Deji-Folutile 2020-09-03 Opinion Comment Sometimes when you hear certain things about Nigeria’s public tertiary institutions, you cannot help but weep for this country. You just keep asking yourself how things got so degenerated and why helps seem far away. That was exactly the anguish I suffered reading the story of the Dean, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Professor Emeka Obe, and his team that had to contribute N300,000 to fund a research project in the university. Members of the Faculty’s Auto Service Centre led by Engineer Nwakile were able to produce contactless digital hand-cleaning machine that could help in preventing the spread of COVID-19 virus. The machine produced within four weeks, according to the dean, uses sensors to monitor body temperature, dispense hand sanitiser, detergent and water. I could only imagine the level of passion and dedication to duty of this resea...
BREAKING: UNILAG Senate appoints new Acting Vice Chancellor August 24, 2020 Mojeed Alabi Unilag senate house [PHOTO CREDIT: unilag.edu.ng ] The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, has elected the deputy vice-chancellor in charge of development services, Folasade Ogunsola, as the institution’s acting vice-chancellor. She is the first female to be so appointed in the history of the 58-year-old ivory institution. Mrs Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology and first child of Nigeria’s first professor of Geography, Akin Mabogunje, was also the first female provost of the university’s college of medicine, Idi-Araba. She defeated her opponent and a deputy vice-chancellor in charge of management services, Ben Oghojafor, with a wide margin. She scored 135 votes as against Oghojafor’s 31 among the senate members. A total of 167 professors were accredited for voting while one vote was voided, PREMIUM TIMES learnt. This newspaper earlier reported that the s...
UNILAG: Illegalities of Visitation Panel and Its Terms of Reference August 24, 2020 Yunus Abdulsalam The University of Lagos saga began with the removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe on Tuesday, the 12th of August. There was uproar in various sections of the community that due process was not followed in the removal of the said Vice-Chancellor. The allegations made against the Vice-Chancellor were so grave and totally unbecoming of the head of any institution in Nigeria, not to talk of the Vice-Chancellor of a University that is responsible for moulding the character of students in the University. Of very great importance is that the Vice- Chancellor has not made any issue of the allegations by the Governing Council namely: (a) he allegedly withdrew N112million to renovate his house and those of his accomplices, (b) that he allegedly forged documents in the process of appointing the Vice-Chancellor, (c) That he collected security votes in the University of Lagos, or...