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How Enyeama lost Caf honor to Toure

How Enyeama lost Caf honor to Toure The voting example for the 2014 African Footballer of the Year has uncovered that Vincent Enyeama completed third behind Yaya Toure and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Ivory Drift and Gabon separately. The 32-year-old LOSC Lille goalkeeper had been tipped as the principle challenger to Toure in the Caf grant preceding its declaration of champs in Lagos on Thursday night. Anyhow rather it was the Nigerian chief and goalkeeper, who completed in third place and 70 focuses behind Yaya Toure, who has now won the African Footballer of the Year recompense for a record fourth progressive time. The voting example discharged by Caf demonstrates that Toure got 175 focuses while 120 went to Aubameyang and Enyeama got 105. Ghana skipper, Asamoah Gyan and Nigerian winger, Ahmed Musa, who made the main five got 94 and 78 focuses separately from the mentors and specialized executives who voted. Votes in favor of Enyeama and Musa Interestingly, numerous s...
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X-Factor's Kingsland Road Booked For Cup Final

The band, who competed in last year’s X Factor series, will perform for supporters ahead of kick off. Arsenal and Manchester City will compete for the trophy at Wycombe Wanderers’ Adams Park stadium on Thursday (7.45pm KO). Arsenal will be looking to retain the Cup for the fourth consecutive season. Soprano Emily Haig will perform the national anthem. She previously sang at this year’s FA Women’s Cup Final in Milton Keynes. The match will be shown live on BT Sport 1 with coverage beginning at 7.30pm. Kingsland Road’s Josh Zaré said: "We're absolutely buzzing to be playing at the FA WSL Continental Cup Final. “Especially for me as I'm a massive Arsenal fan but Matt is cheering for Manchester City so may the best team win!" Before the match children aged 5-16 years old can take part in a free, interactive Fanzone, brought by Continental Tyres. Fans will have the chance to meet, chat, and play with England star Fran Kirby and Reading’s Kirsty McGee, in games...
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Angola set to be largest African oil producer Will overtake Nigeria in 2016

ANGOLA is set to overtake Nigeria as Africa’s largest producer of crude oil within a matter of years, according to a report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). In its Africa Energy Outlook special report, the IEA predicts that Nigeria will lose its top spot in 2016 and won’t recover it until at least the early 2020s. Nigeria is producing around 2.37m bbl/d, but this has fallen by around 6% in the space of a year according to data from the US Energy Information Agency. Angola, meanwhile, is currently the world’s 17th biggest energy producer with an output of around 1.9m bbl/d of oil. The group acknowledges that Nigeria is the richest resource centre of the oil sector,” but says that regulatory uncertainty, militant activity and rampant oil theft in the Niger Delta are deterring investment and production. It claims that the value of the estimated 150,000 bbl/d of oil lost to theft – amounting to more than US$5bn/y – would be sufficient to fund universal access to electricit...
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Poland's New foreign minister: Party Hard

POLAND'S outgoing foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, is a polyglot foreign-policy wonk who helped lead his country to its heftiest international presence in centuries.  Grzegorz Schetyna is a party insider who has evinced little interest in international relations, and who, according to his mother, learned his English from the foreign basketball players on a team he used to help run in his native Silesia. But it was Mr Schetyna who was picked to replaced Mr Sikorski as foreign minister on Friday, when Ewa Kopacz, Poland's new prime minister, presented her cabinet (pictured). At a time when Russia is threatening neighbouring Ukraine, even Mr Schetyna's mother, Danuta, says her son was reluctant to take the job. My son was of the view that in the current international situation, it would be better for Sikorski to steer the [foreign ministry],” Ms Schetyna told the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. I don't know myself what prompted Mrs Kopacz to name him to that position. ...
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Alibaba launches biggest IPO in American history as shares open at $92.70

Sale of Chinese internet giant Alibaba, which controls 80% of online commerce in China, gets off to flying start on New York stock exchange The biggest ever share sale in the US got off to a flying – if delayed – start on Friday as shares in Alibaba, the Chinese internet giant, started trading in the New York Stock Exchange at $92.70 – much higher than their initial $68 price. The sale of China’s biggest online retailer has triggered a frenzy among investors clamouring to buy into the the world’s fastest growing market and a new tech titan. Shares soared to $95 in early trading, more than 40% above the start price. Founded by Jack Ma, a former English teacher who started the site from his one-bedroom apartment in Hangzhou in 1998, Alibaba now controls 80% of online commerce in China. Jack Ma: how much is he worth? Alibaba’s share sale was expected to start at 10:30am but was delayed as officials worked there way through a huge number of orders from retail investors. Over 1...
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Germany, France to start joint airlift to Ebola-affected countries

BERLIN, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Germany and France agreed on Friday to launch a joint airlift to send aid supplies to western African states hit by Ebola, a spokesman for the German defence ministry said, adding the operation might start within 48 hours. Germany's armed forces will send up to 100 soldiers to a joint base in Dakar and from there two German Transall military transport planes will fly supplies to affected countries like Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, the spokesman said. That will enable more than 100 tonnes to be transported per week, he said, adding that France would also provide planes. German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen and her French counterpart agreed on the airlift at a meeting in Paris on Friday. The supplies will include medicines, medical equipment, blankets and tents. The aim was to improve the logistics chain, so Germany's armed forces will also collect goods from countries like Switzerland, Luxembourg and fly them on to West Africa. ...
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Sierra Leone begins three-day Ebola lockdown

A three-day curfew or lockdown to try to stop the spread of the Ebola virus has come into effect in Sierra Leone. The aim of the move is to keep people confined to their homes while health workers isolate new cases and prevent Ebola from spreading further. Critics say the lockdown will destroy trust between doctors and the public. Sierra Leona is one of the countries worst hit by West Africa's Ebola outbreak, which has killed more than 2,600 people. The UN Security Council on Thursday declared the outbreak a threat to international peace and security. The Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling on states to provide more resources to combat it. Even the heavy downpour that deluged Freetown since dawn on Thursday did not stop thousands of people from rushing to supermarkets and vegetable markets to stock up on food ahead of the lockdown declared by the president. The government hopes this drastic action will prove to be the magic bullet in the bat...
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