Glasgow - Nigeria teenager Chika Amalaha has been stripped of her
Commonwealth Games weightlifting gold medal after failing a doping
test, the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) said on Friday.
The 16-year-old, who won gold in the women's women's 53kg
competition, provided positive 'A' and 'B' samples that contained
prohibited diuretics and masking agents.
"The Commonwealth Games Federation has determined that Nigerian
weightlifter, Chika Amalaha, has committed an anti-doping rule
violation and has fully suspended her from the Commonwealth Games
in Glasgow," the CGF said in a statement.
"As a result, Ms Amalaha has been disqualified from her event at the
Games, with her result in the Women's Weightlifting 53 kilogram
competition nullified."
Dika Toua from Papua New Guinea has been awarded the gold medal
with Indian duo Santoshi Matsa and Swati Singh claiming silver and
bronze.
Amalaha was Nigeria's first gold medal winner in Glasgow, equalling
the Games snatch record of 82kg with her first attempt before lifting
85kg on her third.
Her combined total of 196kg was also a Games record, and according
to the International Weightlifting Federation she was the youngest
women to win a weightlifting title in Games history.
Friday, 1 August 2014
Happy Friday: Heidi Klum Goes Topless, Designer Zac Posen Covers Her Exposed Breasts With His Hand Because Obvi
Topless, Designer Zac Posen Covers
Her Exposed Breasts With His Hand
Because Obvi
Bringing Sexy Back"
Miley gave her millions of smilers and Instagram followers a
treat when she posed topless, but it was only to show off her
bare back! Justin Timberlake is proud of you, kid.
Kendall Jenner: The "Who
Needs a Bra When You Have
Hands?"
Kim Kardashian 's little sister ditched her undergarments for a
racy shoot for Interview magazine, proving one's own hands can
be just as uplifting as Victoria's.
the New Skinny"
Girl, can you train us, like, stat?
Cara Delevingne: The "Hiding
My Breasts With Things That
Kinda Look Like Breasts"
If you're ever in a storm and the lights go out, make sure you
have the supermodel by your side.
Chrissy Teigen: The"Innocently Covering Up My
Gals With My Arms Technique"
And that's how a pro does it.
Will Even Notice I'm Topless
Because My Ass Should Have
its Own Zip Code"
Clearly what she was thinking when she posted this scandalous
shot on Instagram. Hey, Kanye, we didn't know dinosaurs did
this kinda stuff!
Husband to Good Use"
Forget umbrella holders, hubby breast holders are the new
black! Ryan Sweeting uploaded this image of The Big Bang
Theory actress sunbathing. He strategically placed his right arm
around her naked top half to save her from a social media
wardrobe malfunction. Isn't he just the breast?
Lea Michele: The "Back-and-
White Paradise Move"
The Glee star took the topless route in a recent Instagram pic —
and never turned around. That Lea, what a tease!
Taiwan gas pipeline blasts kill 15, injure 230
Taipei - Gas leaks triggered a series of powerful explosions in the
southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, killing at least 15 people and
injuring more than 230, officials said warning that the death toll was
expected to rise.
The explosions sparked a massive inferno that ripped through the
city's Cianjhen district, with eyewitnesses reporting dead bodies
littered on the streets.
"The gas explosions on Thursday night killed 15 people and injured 233
others," Kaohsiung's mayor Chen Chu told reporters.
The explosions, believed to have been triggered by gas leaks, were
powerful enough to leave the area battered, smashing cars and ripping
open paved roads.
The blasts felt like an "earthquake", the FTV cable news channel
quoted one eyewitness as saying.
Residents were seen carrying the injured on makeshift stretchers as
ambulances rushed to the scene and firefighters in yellow overalls
began removing bodies from the area.
The National Fire Agency said the dead included four firefighters and
put the number of injured at around 240, adding that they were being
rushed to various hospitals in the city.
Premier Jiang Yi-huah earlier told reporters that at least five people,
including a firefighter, were feared dead in the explosions.
The authorities received calls from residents in Kaohsiung's Cianjhen
district about suspected gas leaks late on Thursday, which triggered
multiple explosions.
"The local fire department received calls of gas leaks late Thursday
and then there were a series of blasts around midnight affecting an
area of two to three square kilometres," the fire agency said in a
statement.
Local media reported that emergency rooms in Kaohsiung city hospitals
were packed with casualties and officials warned that the death toll
was expected to rise.
Officials urged people to stay out of the affected areas and local
schools were reopened for people to take shelter.
Thursday's inferno comes just a week after a TransAsia Airways plane
crash in Taiwan left 48 people dead.
In 1996 a gas explosion in Taipei county wounded 12 people and
damaged more than 100 houses.
southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung, killing at least 15 people and
injuring more than 230, officials said warning that the death toll was
expected to rise.
The explosions sparked a massive inferno that ripped through the
city's Cianjhen district, with eyewitnesses reporting dead bodies
littered on the streets.
"The gas explosions on Thursday night killed 15 people and injured 233
others," Kaohsiung's mayor Chen Chu told reporters.
The explosions, believed to have been triggered by gas leaks, were
powerful enough to leave the area battered, smashing cars and ripping
open paved roads.
The blasts felt like an "earthquake", the FTV cable news channel
quoted one eyewitness as saying.
Residents were seen carrying the injured on makeshift stretchers as
ambulances rushed to the scene and firefighters in yellow overalls
began removing bodies from the area.
The National Fire Agency said the dead included four firefighters and
put the number of injured at around 240, adding that they were being
rushed to various hospitals in the city.
Premier Jiang Yi-huah earlier told reporters that at least five people,
including a firefighter, were feared dead in the explosions.
The authorities received calls from residents in Kaohsiung's Cianjhen
district about suspected gas leaks late on Thursday, which triggered
multiple explosions.
"The local fire department received calls of gas leaks late Thursday
and then there were a series of blasts around midnight affecting an
area of two to three square kilometres," the fire agency said in a
statement.
Local media reported that emergency rooms in Kaohsiung city hospitals
were packed with casualties and officials warned that the death toll
was expected to rise.
Officials urged people to stay out of the affected areas and local
schools were reopened for people to take shelter.
Thursday's inferno comes just a week after a TransAsia Airways plane
crash in Taiwan left 48 people dead.
In 1996 a gas explosion in Taipei county wounded 12 people and
damaged more than 100 houses.
Obama welcomes Africa to Washington
Washington - President Barack Obama, whose election in 2008 as the
first black American president sparked huge expectations in Africa,
will at last hold a summit next week for the continent's leaders.
Invitations were sent to 50 heads of state and government for talks
that seem designed as a counterweight to China's decade-long surge
in investment and trade with Africa.
American officials said all the countries invited to send delegations
will do so, most of them headed by presidents but some by vice
presidents, prime ministers or foreign ministers.
Notable absentees will include Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
and Morocco's King Mohammed VI - who will send envoys - but sub-
Saharan Africa will be well represented.
Only four presidents were excluded: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe,
Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, Eritrea's Issaias Afeworki and the Central
African Republic's transitional leader Catherine Samba Panza.
But, even if Obama's gathering marks the greatest ever concentration
of African leadership in Washington, it is not clear what kinds of
results can be expected from the three-day summit.
Obama's foreign policy was first marked by a pivot to Asia and a
failed attempt to "reset" relations with Russia, and he did not make
Africa a priority in his first term.
The agenda will certainly include discussion on current threats facing
the continent - kidnappings and killings by Islamist group Boko Haram
in Nigeria, civil war in South Sudan and deadly attacks by the Somalia
militant group Shebab in Kenya.
And the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa could find itself at
the center of talks.
The leaders of Sierra Leone and Liberia have canceled their summit
trips to Washington over the epidemic, which was first declared at the
beginning of the year in Guinea and has so far claimed more than 725
lives.
The hemorrhagic fever, often fatal, could spread "like a forest fire,"
US health authorities warned this week.
The US-Africa summit will also have a strong economic aspect, with a
programme focused on opportunities for the continent where 60% of
the population is under 35 and where growth rates are higher than
anywhere else in the world.
Currently, the United States is third among Africa's major trading
partners, far behind longtime number one the European Union, and raw
material-hungry China.
"I see Africa as the world's next major economic success story, and
the United States wants to be a partner in that success," Obama said
last year during his first presidential trip to the continent, with stops
in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
But his national security advisor, Susan Rice, acknowledged on
Wednesday that Americans need to change their "outdated mindset"
of the continent.
"Too many Americans still only see conflict, disease and poverty, and
not the extraordinarily diverse Africa, brimming with innovation," Rice
said, adding "the United States can do more to compete to be a full
partner in Africa's success".
Packed agenda
Some analysts see the Washington summit as a response to Beijing's
campaign of African investment and trade over the last decade.
"It can't help but be seen that way, because we have never done this
before, and the Chinese have," said Deborah Brautigam, who directs
the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University.
Brautigam wondered, however, whether the United States had done
enough to prepare ahead of the summit.
"When the Chinese organised a similar event" in 2006, "they had been
working for about six years," she noted.
Among economic issues to be discussed will be the possible extension
beyond 2015 of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA,
which provides preferential market access for some products from
African countries deemed to be democratic and following good
economic governance.
Likewise, Obama's "Power Africa" initiative, leverages loan guarantees
and private sector finance and aims to double access to electricity in
sub-Saharan Africa.
After a first day, on Monday, dedicated to health challenges and
climate change, a business forum on Tuesday will gather leaders from
both the public and private sector - including former US president Bill
Clinton.
The third and final day will be for political discussions on peace and
regional stability.
There are no bilateral meetings planned between Obama and any of his
African counterparts but a huge White House gala dinner is on the
agenda for Tuesday evening.
Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, said
this summit will be important for relations between Obama and the
continent where his father was born.
But he cautioned that African expectations for Obama's presidency
started out "unreasonably high".
"The fact is nothing in President Obama's history other than the
identity of his father, nothing in his personal history or his political
history, would point to the expectations that were put on his
shoulders," he said.
first black American president sparked huge expectations in Africa,
will at last hold a summit next week for the continent's leaders.
Invitations were sent to 50 heads of state and government for talks
that seem designed as a counterweight to China's decade-long surge
in investment and trade with Africa.
American officials said all the countries invited to send delegations
will do so, most of them headed by presidents but some by vice
presidents, prime ministers or foreign ministers.
Notable absentees will include Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
and Morocco's King Mohammed VI - who will send envoys - but sub-
Saharan Africa will be well represented.
Only four presidents were excluded: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe,
Sudan's Omar al-Bashir, Eritrea's Issaias Afeworki and the Central
African Republic's transitional leader Catherine Samba Panza.
But, even if Obama's gathering marks the greatest ever concentration
of African leadership in Washington, it is not clear what kinds of
results can be expected from the three-day summit.
Obama's foreign policy was first marked by a pivot to Asia and a
failed attempt to "reset" relations with Russia, and he did not make
Africa a priority in his first term.
The agenda will certainly include discussion on current threats facing
the continent - kidnappings and killings by Islamist group Boko Haram
in Nigeria, civil war in South Sudan and deadly attacks by the Somalia
militant group Shebab in Kenya.
And the outbreak of the Ebola virus in West Africa could find itself at
the center of talks.
The leaders of Sierra Leone and Liberia have canceled their summit
trips to Washington over the epidemic, which was first declared at the
beginning of the year in Guinea and has so far claimed more than 725
lives.
The hemorrhagic fever, often fatal, could spread "like a forest fire,"
US health authorities warned this week.
The US-Africa summit will also have a strong economic aspect, with a
programme focused on opportunities for the continent where 60% of
the population is under 35 and where growth rates are higher than
anywhere else in the world.
Currently, the United States is third among Africa's major trading
partners, far behind longtime number one the European Union, and raw
material-hungry China.
"I see Africa as the world's next major economic success story, and
the United States wants to be a partner in that success," Obama said
last year during his first presidential trip to the continent, with stops
in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania.
But his national security advisor, Susan Rice, acknowledged on
Wednesday that Americans need to change their "outdated mindset"
of the continent.
"Too many Americans still only see conflict, disease and poverty, and
not the extraordinarily diverse Africa, brimming with innovation," Rice
said, adding "the United States can do more to compete to be a full
partner in Africa's success".
Packed agenda
Some analysts see the Washington summit as a response to Beijing's
campaign of African investment and trade over the last decade.
"It can't help but be seen that way, because we have never done this
before, and the Chinese have," said Deborah Brautigam, who directs
the China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University.
Brautigam wondered, however, whether the United States had done
enough to prepare ahead of the summit.
"When the Chinese organised a similar event" in 2006, "they had been
working for about six years," she noted.
Among economic issues to be discussed will be the possible extension
beyond 2015 of the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA,
which provides preferential market access for some products from
African countries deemed to be democratic and following good
economic governance.
Likewise, Obama's "Power Africa" initiative, leverages loan guarantees
and private sector finance and aims to double access to electricity in
sub-Saharan Africa.
After a first day, on Monday, dedicated to health challenges and
climate change, a business forum on Tuesday will gather leaders from
both the public and private sector - including former US president Bill
Clinton.
The third and final day will be for political discussions on peace and
regional stability.
There are no bilateral meetings planned between Obama and any of his
African counterparts but a huge White House gala dinner is on the
agenda for Tuesday evening.
Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, said
this summit will be important for relations between Obama and the
continent where his father was born.
But he cautioned that African expectations for Obama's presidency
started out "unreasonably high".
"The fact is nothing in President Obama's history other than the
identity of his father, nothing in his personal history or his political
history, would point to the expectations that were put on his
shoulders," he said.
Abia ASUP threatens fresh strike
Abia - Abia State Polytechnic Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics
(ASUP) on Thursday said it would resume its suspended strike without
notice if its Governing Council did not meet its demands.
This is contained in a letter jointly signed by Precious Nwakodo, and
Kalu Uma, the chapter Chairman and Secretary, respectively.
The letter, dated July 21, 2014 and addressed to the Chairman,
Governing Council of the Polytechnic, was made available to newsmen
in Aba.
"The union at its emergency congress held on Thursday, July 17,
resolved to suspend its strike for three weeks from July 22.
"This decision was largely informed by the confidence members have
in the leadership of the governing council that it will fulfill its promise
to pay additional two months salaries on or before August 11 and also
address the issue of irregular payment of staff salaries.
"It is also the expectation of the union that within this period, council
and management will start meeting the demands of the union.”
According to the letter, the union also demanded for visible
mechanisms to improved management of the polytechnic’s resources.
It called for the provision of a concrete ceiling for expenditure
approved for both management and council.
ASUP further seek a return to due process and extant rules in the
general administration of the polytechnic.
The union also demanded the implementation of the report on Abia
State Polytechnic Staff Certificate Verification as well as the release
of its 2014 staff promotions list.
The union expressed the hope that the council’s strong desire and
commitment to return the polytechnic to the paths of progress would
be realised.
It, however, urged the council to do the needful to forestall a possible
break of activities.
-NAN
(ASUP) on Thursday said it would resume its suspended strike without
notice if its Governing Council did not meet its demands.
This is contained in a letter jointly signed by Precious Nwakodo, and
Kalu Uma, the chapter Chairman and Secretary, respectively.
The letter, dated July 21, 2014 and addressed to the Chairman,
Governing Council of the Polytechnic, was made available to newsmen
in Aba.
"The union at its emergency congress held on Thursday, July 17,
resolved to suspend its strike for three weeks from July 22.
"This decision was largely informed by the confidence members have
in the leadership of the governing council that it will fulfill its promise
to pay additional two months salaries on or before August 11 and also
address the issue of irregular payment of staff salaries.
"It is also the expectation of the union that within this period, council
and management will start meeting the demands of the union.”
According to the letter, the union also demanded for visible
mechanisms to improved management of the polytechnic’s resources.
It called for the provision of a concrete ceiling for expenditure
approved for both management and council.
ASUP further seek a return to due process and extant rules in the
general administration of the polytechnic.
The union also demanded the implementation of the report on Abia
State Polytechnic Staff Certificate Verification as well as the release
of its 2014 staff promotions list.
The union expressed the hope that the council’s strong desire and
commitment to return the polytechnic to the paths of progress would
be realised.
It, however, urged the council to do the needful to forestall a possible
break of activities.
-NAN
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