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IT ANOTHER TGIF WEEKEND
Friday is not just a day on the calendar; it’s a mindset. It’s a reminder to prioritize self-care, to recharge our batteries, and to nourish our souls. It’s a symbol of hope and optimism, reminding us that no matter how challenging the week may have been, a fresh start awaits just around the corner.
U20 WC: Scorpions run out of venom to sting, what next for its stars now?
The Young Scorpions, among the underdogs coming into the competition, cruised through the group stage following victories over Honduras and bookies’ favourite France, before capping off the group with a 0-0 draw against South Korea, but came up short against a well-organised Uruguay who secured a quarter-final place through a left-footed outside-of-the-box stunner from Anderson Duarte.
Despite the loss, and the disappointment that comes with it, coach Abdoulie Bojang and his charges must not sulk too much. By the yardstick with which Gambian football is measured, it has been a generally successful year for the U20s, with a runners-up medal in the U20 African Cup of Nations where they played one of the most thrilling attacking football in the entire tournament — to qualifying for the World Cup and topping a group including France and breaking and setting some national records on the way — these young set of players deserves praise and support.
Backed up by the recent performances of both the senior and U20 sides in the AFCON competition, Gambian football — with evidently talent galore — has been on the right track for at least two years now. In the 2021 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations, which was actually held in 2022 and hosted by Cameroon, Gambia debuted as the lowest-ranked team of the tournament as well as the lowest-ranked team to participate in the tournament, but the team defied the odds and reach the quarterfinals where they were knocked out by host Cameroon.
However, despite the huge strides the country has made in football over the past two years, there are still glaring issues holding back Gambian football, with top football talents sinking into the quicksand of this mess without even ever realising their dreams. Gambian football’s weak and inept leadership, coupled with the lack of serious investment into grassroots football to senior-level football, has been at the forefront of the country’s shortcomings and lack of success in professional football. Can this change? Yes. Will it change? Hopefully.
Back to the U20s, who have been making sports news headlines since their impressive run in the U20 AFCON earlier this year with a couple of talents garnering attention from top European clubs, what next? This squad is littered with talent, and with European scouts hovering, what does the future hold for this crop of talented players? How many of them will make the leap from the U20 to the senior side? How many of them will turn out to be a success story 5 years from now? A handful? More, or even less? TIME WILL TELL.
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U-20 W’Cup: Nigeria beat Argentina 2-0, reach quarter- finals
he Flying Eagles advance to the quarter-final of the ongoing FIFA U-20 World Cup for the first time in 12 years after defeating host Argentina 2-0 at the Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario in the early hours of Thursday, The PUNCH reports.
Second-half goals from Ibrahim Muhammad and Rilwanu Sarki secured a shock win for Ladan Bosso’s team.
They will face either Ecuador or South Korea in the quarter-final of the competition in Santiago del Estero on Sunday.
The Flying Eagles started brightly but as the first half wore on, La Albiceleste dominated play.
Striker Alejo Veliz had two scoring chances to break the deadlock as the break approached but missed those sitters.
First, his glancing header went narrowly wide in the 14th minute while his second attempt before the break was saved by Kingsley Aniagboso who was in goal for Nigeria.
In the 61st minute, The Flying Eagles broke the deadlock through Emmanuel Umeh when he flicked the ball over the top for Muhammad, who slotted home a low shot past goalkeeper Federico Gerth.
The goal saw Argentina pile the pressure in search of an equaliser and in the process they had 20 shots at goal as against Nigeria’s nine.
Javier Mascherano’s boys came agonisingly close when Luka Romero’s low drive from a distance hit the upright of the post for Daniel Bameyi to put the ball to safety.
In additional time, substitute Victor Eletu came off the bench for Ibrahim Muhammad to make an assist for Haliru Sarki to score Nigeria’s second on the night and secure a famous triumph for Nigeria for the first time in the competition since 2005.
Nigeria’s win on Thursday ended a run of 10 straight U-20 World Cup victories for Argentina. The young La Abliceleste had won all seven games when they hosted the tournament in 2001, and their first three at this edition.
Credited to: Punch News Paper
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We present you the wife of the Vice President of Sierra Leone Dr Juldeh Jalloh
She’s the beautiful wife of the Vice President of Sierra Leone 🇸🇱 Dr Juldeh Jalloh
BADEA, Saudi fund and OFID provide $68 million to the Bio led government of Sierra Leone for infrastructural transformation in the educational sector.
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*BREAKING NEWS:*
*BADEA, Saudi Fund, and OFID Provide $68 Million to the Maada Bio-Led Government of Sierra Leone for Infrastructural Transformation in the Education Sector*
– Minister David Moinina Sengeh
*Public education on public Education: Investing in schools and universities.*
What a pleasure today to witness and participate in the historic signing event between the Government of Sierra Leone and several contractors as part of an infrastructure transformation in the Ministry of basic and senior secondary education and the ministry of tertiary and higher education. Together, we will transform the infrastructure of public schools and public universities, and the ministerial building in New England. For us as a government, this signifies a major example of great partnership between multilateral institutions and the government of Sierra. Leone. Obviously, 3 weeks to the elections, that credible financial institutions like BADEA, Saudi fund and OFID are disbursing and pushing through is good for the country. As minister of education and alum, I am also happy that the Prince of Wales secondary school gets to benefit from this project. The project is valued at 68 million dollars. We’ve been working to ensure that it’s completed in good time. These are exciting times ahead.
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Elon Musk reclaimed the world’s wealthiest man position
- Elon Musk has reclaimed his position as the world’s wealthiest person.
That’s according to a Bloomberg Billionaires tally, which estimated the Tesla CEO’s net worth is now about $192 billion, compared to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault’s $187 billion.
The two centibillionaires, a term used to refer to people with fortunes of more than $100 billion, have been neck-and-neck for the top spot for months.
This week, Arnault’s wealth slid after a drop in LVMH’s stock Wednesday, according to Bloomberg calculations.
Arnault surpassed Musk in December, as his wealth climbed due to a boom in luxury goods sales that helped drive up LVMH’s stock price. LVMH, one of the world’s biggest conglomerates, is home to brands including Louis Vuitton, Dior and Celine.
Musk, meanwhile, has enjoyed a meteoric rise up the world’s rich lists in recent years as his fortunes are directly linked to those of Tesla, the electric automaker. His biggest asset is the company’s stock, of which he owns about 13%, according to Bloomberg.
Outside of Tesla, Musk is also CEO of SpaceX, the space exploration firm, and the owner of social network Twitter.
LVMH’s shares are up 19.7% this year, while Tesla’s have risen 65.6% in the year to date.
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VP Launches WACA Project ll worth $45M
The ceremony was speaheaded by the ministry of Environment Climate and Natural Resources.
The project is funded by World Bank.
The project is said to provide financial and technical assistance to countries and regional institutions to address coastal resilience using coastal erosion, flooding and pollution at entry points.
In his launching statement VP Jallow described The Gambia as increasingly vulnerable to the effects of climate change and prone to coastal erosion, coastal flooding and pluvial flooding.
“In 2022 alone, over 30,378 people were directly affected by the heavy downpours across the country. Children under 5 affected accounts for 21% and are particularly at risk to water-borne diseases caused by water contamination; while females accounted for 51% of the total affected population, including 3,761 pregnant and breastfeeding women.”
He disclosed that during this period, a total of approximately 9,500 houses were damaged, 13 deaths, and 7,404 persons were internally displaced.
He also harped on the financial and economic instability, threats to human security, and growing environmental degradation.
“This project will support the government to improve the institutional and policy frameworks around disaster risk management, integrated coastal development, natural resources management and urban resilience.“
The project, he stated will provide pollution management that will be covered by pollution control infrastructure reducing land-based waste inputs in the ocean, through small works to improve sanitation, solid waste management NGO/community programme as well as oil spill incident preparedness and management.
“Management of coastal ecosystems will be supported through restoration of degraded ecosystems as well as investments to reduce pressure on the most fragile, through strengthening protected areas as well as
providing alternatives to livelihoods depending on fragile ecosystems,” he said.
He further noted that the project would also pilot a sustainable jobs approach designed to create income sources and livelihoods for people, targeting jobs stemming.
He assured that the government will continue to empower all stakeholder institutions towards the sustainable management of the environment and its natural resources.
He further assured the World Bank Group and other development partners of their continued willingness for partnership in initiating projects, to improve the living standards of the Gambian people in all spheres of work.
Credited to: thepoint.gm
Naira devaluation fake news – CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria has debunked the claim that the it has devalued the naira.
A statement signed by Acting Director, Corporate Communications, Isah AbdulMumin, said the dollar traded at N465/$1 contrary to reports.
The statement partly reads, “We wish to state categorically that thus news report, which in the imagination of the newspaper is exclusive, is replete with outright FALSEHOOD and destabilizing innuendos, reflecting potentially wilful ignorance of the said medium as to the working of the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the exchange rate at the Investors’& Exporters’(I&E) window which traded this morning (June 1, 2023) at N465/US$1 and has been stable around this rate for a while.”
Also a single tweet by the official Twitter handle of the CBN on Thursday morning wrote, ” CBN did not devalue the Naira.”
Daily Trust had reported that the CBN on Wednesday devalued the naira to N630 to $1 from N461.6.
According to the source who spoke to the media house, the dollar was sold at the new rate on the Importers and Exporters Window on Wednesday.
Credited to: punchng.com/
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