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Juan Mata’s decisive strike at Manchester United at the weekend means Chelsea can all but guarantee Champions League qualification by beating fifth-place Tottenham Hotspur at home on Wednesday. The Stamford Bridge showdown looked destined to be a straight shootout for a top-four place until Mata struck with three minutes remaining at Old Trafford on Sunday to give Chelsea a precious 1-0 victory. The Spaniard’s goal, via a telling deflection off Phil Jones, lifted Chelsea three points above Spurs and means they will be virtually guaranteed a place in next season’s Champions League if they defeat their London rivals. The win over United was Chelsea’s 65th game of the season, but with Champions League qualification at stake and a Europa League final against Benfica still to come, Mata says there is simply not enough time for mental fatigue to creep in.

LAGOS — Controversy currently trails the parenthood of  five-month-old twins who were presented at the United States of America’s embassy by their supposed parents for the procurement of visa. This follows result of a DNA test ordered by the embassy which reports showed that the couple were not the biological parents of the twins as claimed. Consequently, the couple have been arrested and are being interrogated at the Special Fraud Unit, SFU Milverton, for alleged child-trafficking.

Amanda Bynes is coming clean -- but not about her behavior. The 27-year-old has taken to Twitter to reveal that she did, in fact, have a nose job several years ago. Bynes says that she hates when media outlets use old photos of her, gushing, "I look so much prettier in my new photos." "Intouch used a photo from years ago on their cover and I hate it! The reason I've asked all magazines and blogs to stop using old photos of me is I don't look like that anymore! I had a nose job to remove skin that was like a webbing in between my eyes. I wasn't going to tell anyone, but I look so much prettier in my new photos that I don't want old photos used anymore!" she tweeted May 5 . "I'm so sick of magazines and blogs using old photos! When will they stop?" Bynes continued. "I will never look like that again! Having surgery was the most amazing thing for my confidence!" The troubled star has been open about her new appearance , twee

The mother-in-law, comes home and finds her son-in-law furious and packing his suitcase."What happened?" "What happened? I'll tell you what happened! I sent an email to my wife, your daughter! saying that I was coming home from my trip today. I got home and guess what I found?...My wife, your daughter, yes my Mariam, with a naked guy on our marital bed! This is the end of our marriage, I will leave forever!" "Calm down!" says mother-in-law. "There is something odd about this story. Mariam would never do such a thing! Wait a minute while I check what happened." Moments later, mother-in-law comes back with a big smile. "You see, I knew there must be a simple explanation....Mariam didn't receive your email"

Mr. Sambo said this on Saturday. The Vice President, Namadi Sambo , on Saturday assured the Canadian Government that Nigeria would remain its largest trading partner in the sub Saharan Africa . A statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant, Media to the Vice President, Umar Sani, said Mr. Sambo gave the assurance at the just concluded Nigeria - Canada Investment Forum in Toronto, Canada. Mr. Sambo said Nigeria and Canada enjoyed excellent bilateral relations with a new chapter of mutually strategic relations. “Nigeria remains Canada’s largest trading partner with a trade volume of more than 3 billion dollars in the sub Saharan Africa,” he said. The vice president also noted the positive contributions of Canada to Nigeria’s successful democratic journey. “Canada recognises Nigeria’s unique role in Africa and global affairs and expressed readiness to take good advantage of the investment friendly environment provided by Nigeria through the economic, social, institutional and politi

A 24-hour curfew has been placed on Wukari town in Taraba state after a communal clash left 39 people dead, 30 injured and about 30 houses burnt. The Taraba state police public relations officer, Mr Joseph Kwaji, who disclosed this, stated that the injured persons are now receiving treatment in various hospitals in the town, while 30 persons had been arrested in connection with the crisis. Mr kwaji explained that the situation has been brought under control and the town is now relatively calm as more security officers have been deployed to the area. Crisis broke out in Wukari on Friday during a funeral procession for a third class chief of the Jukun Traditional Council. The violence reportedly started when the mourners passed through a section of the town, chanting slogans which allegedly angered the residents of the area. The incident comes after a panel was set up to investigate clashes which occurred in the same town in February owing to a football dispute which claimed several l

Afghanistan  President  Hamid Karzai has advised Boko Haram insurgents in Nigeria to sheath their sword. He gave the advice when Nigeria’s Ambassador to Afghanistan, Dauda Danladi presented his letters of credence recently in Kabul. He called on the Boko Haram members  to lay down their arms if they are true  Muslims and embrace peace as offered by Government noting that no  religion perches violence. “Boko Haram, you should stop burning schools, Mosques, Churches in the name of Islam.  You should not destroy your country if you are true Muslims you should protect lives because in Islam if you kill one it is as if you have killed the whole of humanity and if you save life is as if you have save the whole of humanity” He said Afghans have seen the futility of violence and put behind them the ugly past and  have now embrace peace through dialogue. He recalled the activities of the Taliban’s saying it was externally motivated and the people were used by the Taliban’s to commit suicide bo

The three are great handsets and are being loved by users. Samsung Galaxy S4 vs HTC One vs Sony Xperia Z features analysis makes interesting reading It won’t be a gaffe if you say that the Galaxy S4, HTC One and Xperia Z are the world’s finest Android phones in stores today. No one will dare to oppose your claim because these phones have grabbed such an impression even before their official releases. In markets they are already released, Android fans are buying them like hotcakes. What phone of the above lineup is the best for you? Here we bring you the reasons why you should consider buying every model of the S4, HTC One and Xperia Z. All the phones have many things in common under the hood. They share too many features as the same, and it is making no wonder since they all represent the new array of phablets. Common features of the Samsung, Sony and HTC handsets mainly include FullHD support, quad core CPUs, 2GB RAM and a lot more. In screen size, Xperia Z and Galaxy S4 sport 5-inch

10 THINGS about CLOUD COMPUTING (EBOOK) Delivering real-time, carrier-grade cloud services is the next frontier for service providers. Reaching this frontier calls for a better class of cloud — the carrier cloud. The carrier cloud brings the superior performance, availability and reliability of the service provider’s network to the cloud. Service providers’ customers can enjoy all of the business benefits of cloud services, but with the performance, low latency and service level agreement (SLA) guarantees that are lacking in most of today’s public cloud services. Today, most service providers are dealing with complex operations, long lead times to deliver new services and capacity planning challenges that can lead to over-provisioned services. Nothing is simple. Nothing happens quickly. Huge hardware requirements and the need for extensive field support teams make it challenging to keep capital and operational expenditures (CAPEX and OPEX) down. Moving to a carrier cloud allows servic

Former Nigerian Petroleum Minister Shettima Ali Monguno was abducted by gunmen outside a mosque in the northeastern city of Maiduguri, a military official said. Monguno, 87, was petroleum minister when Africa’s biggest oil producer joined OPEC in 1972 and conference president at three meetings in Lagos and Vienna, according to the organization’s website. “We are aware on the incident,” Sagir Musa, a spokesman for the military Joint Task Force in charge of the security in the state, said today by phone from Maiduguri, without giving further details. Boko Haram Islamists active in the city are increasingly relying on kidnapping-for-ransom to fund their violent campaign for Islamic rule, Musa said on April 28. The group group has carried out bomb and gun attacks in which hundreds of people have died in the country’s north and capital, Abuja. Monguno had in the past urged President Goodluck Jonathan to engage Boko Haram in talks and consider giving them amnesty to end the

Vessel dates back to Achaemenid Empire in 4th or 5th century BC Had been owned by British family since 1950s until they decided to sell it Sale shocked auctioneers who expected bowl to go for £30,000-50,000 A 2,500-year-old glass bowl from the ancient Persian Empire has been sold for nearly £2,500 at auction. The extraordinary antique has survived upheavals including the wars of Alexander the Great, the arrival of Islam and a string of colonial conflicts. Amazingly, it has remained intact and apparently in near-mint condition ever since it was made in the 4th or 5th century BC. Sold: This ancient Persian bowl went up for auction in London this week and fetched nearly £500,000 The 8in-wide green bowl had been a treasured keepsake for a British family which acquired it in the 1950s. When they decided to sell the beautiful object, auctioneers Bonhams expected it to fetch between £30,000 and £50,000. But at the auction of antiquities in London yesterday, the bowl was sold to an unnam

EME’s star boy Wizkid, is back in full swing with a monster track titled Jaiye Jaiye featuring Africa’s most celebrated icon, Femi Anikolapo Kuti. The multi award winning Grammy nominee, Femi Kuti, gives the track a new school high-life mix as he puts his superb saxophone skills to its full capacity. The track, Jaiye Jaiye produced by Sarz, shows Wizkid talking about his increasingly successful music career. Apart from this historic collaboration, Wizkid has worked with some of the biggest names in the local and international music industry including Akon, The Game, Kardinal Official, Wale, Young Jeezy, M.I, Ice Prince among others. Listen to Wizkid’s Jaiye Jaiye here

THERE was mayhem in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Thursday, as a former governor of Oyo State and national leader of the Accord Party, Senator Rashidi Ladoja, narrowly escaped being lynched by thugs suspected to be from the state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN). Ladoja, who just returned from London where he met with Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala, also a former governor of the state, was attacked by thugs at Olomi area of the state, close to the state headquarters of the NURTW, where he went to welcome defectors from the ACN and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) into the Accord Party in Oluyole Local Government Area of the state.

Chris Kelly died at the age of 34 on May 1, 2013 The case is not yet closed for the late Chris Kelly . On Thursday, May 2 -- one day after the Kris Kross 90s rapper died at age 34 -- an autopsy was completed, but the official cause of death is still pending toxicology results, E! News reports . The Fulton County Medical Examiner's office has determined that there was no indication of foul play in the 34-year-old rapper's untimely death, but officials are still trying to determine whether it was a drug overdose that ultimately killed Kelly.

  Chelsea's Frank Lampard celebrates after winning against FC Basel in their Europa League semi-final second leg soccer match at Stamford Bridge in London May 2, 2013. (Reuters) - Chelsea's rollercoaster of a season could yet end with another night of European glory after they knocked FC Basel out of the semi-finals on Thursday to set up a Europa League final against Benfica. Goals from Fernando Torres, Victor Moses and David Luiz in a nine-minute spell early in the second half gave Chelsea a 3-1 second-leg win over the Swiss champions at Stamford Bridge for a 5-2 aggregate success.

The Governor is currently in Abuja. Police begin search for lady who allegedly posted the death rumour on internet For the second time in five months, the Governor of Enugu State, Sullivan Chime, was rumoured dead on Thursday, causing panic among his relatives, residents of the state and political associates. The rumours reportedly emanated from a “breaking news” story posted on an Internet Website, saying the governor passed away in an Indian Hospital where he was allegedly receiving treatment

  The University of Iowa study of hundreds of people age 50 and older found that those who played a videogame were able to improve a range of cognitive skills, and reverse up to seven years of age-related declines.WASHINGTON, May 2 — Playing videogames can prevent and even reverse deteriorating brain functions such as memory, reasoning and visual processing, according to a study released Wednesday.

Over the past two decades, the mix of diseases and disabilities affecting the health of Ghanaians has transformed. Despite global decreases, infectious diseases like malaria and HIV/AIDS continue to kill thousands, while heart disease and stroke are beginning to take a greater toll on the health of citizens. These are some of the findings from the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), Injuries, and Risk Factors 2010 Study (GBD 2010), a collaborative project led by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. Country-specific findings, including for many countries in East Africa, were announced in March, at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, by IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray and Foundation Co-chair and Trustee Bill Gates.

A new camera is breaking barriers A new digital camera designed by a team of scientists literally sees what bugs see. The camera’s design recreates the structure of insects’ eyes to project a fuller, wider, and more focused view than is possible with even the best conventional digital cameras today. Fire ants and bark beetles were the specific model for this camera, according to a report that the researchers, one of whom is John Rogers, a University of Illinois chemistry and physics professor, published in the May 2 edition of Nature . The report explains that the eye of one of these bugs consists of 200-500 long, cylindrical units called omatidia, each of which includes a cornea connected to a photosensitive organ and surrounded by dark pigment to keep light on one lens from leaking into another lens. All of these omatidia cluster together, with the lens facing outward, to form the bulging multicellular eye shape that we all associate with the insect kingdom. The only key differenc

Skype for Windows 8 gets a video messaging feature SOFTWARE HOUSE Microsoft has updated its Skype application on Windows 8 with a video messaging feature, for those who can't be bothered to type. Unsurprisingly, this new Skype feature, which is available now in Preview form , lets the handful of Windows 8 owners in the wild record a message to send to a friend. Video messages can be sent even if the recipient is unavailable, so you can give your friends a surprise when they return online.