Mr Anibe Onuche, Network/Communication Manager, Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, on Wednesday called for an update of the curricula of ICT related courses in Nigerian universities.
Onuche told NAN in an interview in Lagos that the appraisal was essential to improve the quality of ICT graduates from the nation’s universities.
“More than 70 per cent of the computer programming and languages being taught in most Nigerian universities are now outdated compared to modern day technology.
“There are new programmes and languages being introduced every day and we need to update our curricula to keep abreast with the latest developments in the ICT sector.
“For instance, sometime last year, HTMO5 and CSS3 were introduced as web-based technology and the future of mobile technology and these things are not taught in our schools,” he said.
Onuche urged the Federal Government to take proactive measures to make the nation’s universities produce world class ICT graduates.
He said that the current school curricula did not favour innovation and skill acquisition because ICT had gone beyond that level.
“There is a difference between future contributors and future users of ICT; a trader can always buy a laptop and access his mails, he is a user.
“But someone who actually goes to school to learn computer or ICT related courses is a future contributor; if he is adequately taught, he can actually come out with innovative solutions to address national problems,’’ he said.
Onuche said it was worrisome that graduates still had to attend private institutions at huge costs to acquire recent ICT innovations because of outdated facilities in universities. (NAN)
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One of the world’s richest clubs Paris Saint Germain is contemplating easing Cristiano Ronaldo’s alleged ‘sad’ time at the Bernabeu.
However, PSG would undoubtedly need to break the Portuguese international’s world-record transfer of €98m from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2009 if they are to succeed.
French outfit PSG’s spending-power has already seen Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, along with a host of other stars, arrive in Paris for enormous fees last summer.
The main stumbling block in luring the former World Player of the year to Parc de Paris would be his current contract with Spanish giants Real Madrid, who were left reeling earlier in the season when Ronaldo unexpectedly announced he was “sad” with life at the Spanish champions.
SPSG transfer chief and former AC Milan man Leonardo said: “Cristiano Ronaldo? Paris St Germain have become a club where anything is possible.
“However, he still has an ongoing contract with Real Madrid and we have to realise that he will not leave Madrid for just any club.
“When we are discussing a possible transfer for a player like Cristiano Ronaldo, there are only four or five clubs that can be taken into consideration. PSG are one of those.”
PSG are currently top of the French league while Madrid lie in third 16 points behind leaders Barcelona in the Spanish La Liga.
Unrest among the Madrid squad is routinely reported and, with manger Jose Mourihno set to leave, Ronaldo may feel the time is right to find greener pastures elsewhere.
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Manchester City have returned almost a third of their away ticket allocation for Sunday’s clash at Arsenal due to high prices.
The match, which is also being broadcast live in England, comes in the Category A bracket and is therefore given the highest ticket cost for Arsenal’s Premier League games, with away fans needing to pay 62 pounds for entry.
City were given a 3,000 ticket allocation for the match, but have returned 912, and the club’s supporters have hit out at the growing disconnect between clubs and fans.
The general secretary of the Manchester City Supporters Club, Kevin Parker, told The Guardian: “It’s the most expensive amount I can ever remember paying for a ticket in my life, for a Sunday afternoon game which is live on satellite television.
“And it’s not as if finding a television to watch the game on is difficult nowadays. Even if the game wasn’t live, to charge 62 pounds to watch it is ridiculous, but to charge that amount when people can see it live on TV is crazy.
“It just shows that football clubs are out of touch with reality. If City supporters are travelling on a supporters’ club coach it will cost 30 pounds per person. That’s 92 pounds before they have even done anything; add in a programme, food, drink and you are looking at 125-130 pounds per person.
“There are a combination of things at play here. Some people cannot afford the price, especially as it is just after Christmas, and there are some who just refuse to pay 62 pounds.
“This is also the first time in a long while that I remember City fans saying to me they could pay the money but are refusing to do so.
“That is a brave decision to take. Soon, though, fans will vote more strongly with their feet and clubs like Arsenal will have to decide what to do about ticket prices.”
City have not won a league game at Arsenal in 27 attempts and will attempt to claim three points for the first time since 1975.
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BAMAKO – Fighting resumed Thursday in Mali’s central Mopti region between the army and armed Islamists who have occupied the north of the country, a military source said.
“Our troops are currently engaged on the ground against the Islamists,” an army officer told AFP. A local representative of a non-governmental organisation confirmed the information, saying “clashes are taking place in the small village of Koko, located between the towns of Konna and Bore.” (AFP)
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The Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion has threatened to breakaway from the Church of England over the decision of the later to drop opposition to gay bishops in civil partnerships.
The announcement, from the Church’s House of Bishops, would allow gay clergy to become bishops if they promise to be celibate. The move that did not go down well with Conservative evangelical Anglicans.
Arising from its 2013 annual retreat, held at the Ibru Centre, Agbarha Otor, Delta State, the Bishops of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) said they heard with dismay, the news of the recent action of the Church of England House of Bishops.
The Primate, Church of Nigeria, the Most Revd Nicholas Okoh said “the decision to permit homosexual clergy in civil partnerships to now be considered for the episcopacy is one step removed from the moral precipice that we have already witnessed in The Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada.
“When the Church of England failed to exercise its legal and moral right to opt out of the civil partnerships legislation in 2005 warnings were given in England and around the Anglican Communion that this was a first step towards the recognition and institutionalization of behaviour contrary to the plain teaching of scripture and reaffirmed for all Anglicans by the 1998 Lambeth Conference in its Resolution 1.10.
“Sadly those warnings were ignored and we now face the next step in a process that could very well shatter whatever hopes we had for healing and reconciliation within our beloved Communion.
“We are also grieved by the timing of this decision coming only days before the retirement of Archbishop Rowan Williams and before Dr. Justin Welby becomes the new Archbishop of Canterbury.
“We urge the House of Bishops to reconsider their decision so as to allow for a full, prayerful and sober reflection on the call on all clergy, especially bishops, to live holy lives and not encourage what are, at best, morally ambiguous partnerships that make it impossible for a bishop to be a wholesome example to the flock. Especially, since the supposed assurances of celibacy, while perhaps well intentioned, are both unworkable and unenforceable.
“As a House of Bishops, while we acknowledge that we all fall short of God’s call to holiness, we dare not compromise the clear teaching of our Lord on faithfulness within Holy Matrimony and chastity outside of it.
“Sadly we must also declare that, if the Church of England continues in this contrary direction we must further separate ourselves from it and we are prepared to take the same actions as those prompted by the decisions of The Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Church of Canada ten years ago.”
The Church of England has dropped its prohibition on gay clergy in civil partnerships becoming bishops.
The issue has split the church since 2003 amid a row over gay cleric Jeffrey John becoming Bishop of Reading.
Mr John, now Dean of St Albans, was forced to withdraw from the role shortly after having initially accepted it, following protests from traditionalists.
He was also a candidate for Bishop of Southwark in 2010 but was rejected. Evidence emerged that this was because of his sexual orientation.
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Anambra State Government is determined to shrug off the nightmare of the abysmal performance of its contingent to the last National Sport Festival in Lagos.
To this end, the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Dr. Edozie Aroh, has said that the state was getting to the grassroots and schools to raise a generation of sportsmen and women that will take the state to sports glory in the near future.
Aroh said the state’s team to the National School Sports Festival in Port Harcourt would move into camp next week. Anambra finished 30th in the national sports festival with three silver and two bronze.
The school sports festival will be hosted by the Rivers Government from Jan. 24 to Feb. 4. The commissioner said the students for the competition would be camped at a venue yet to be determined.
He said the state was yet to receive it’s athletes to the last National Sports Festival because government was still investigating the issues that arose out of the dismal performance of its team to the festival.
He expressed dismay with the unimpressive outing of Team Anambra at the games in Lagos in spite of the attention it got during preparations for it.
He said that precautionary measures would be taken to improve the state’s performance in future games. But he said the athletes who won medals at the festival in Lagos would be reward as soon as investigations into what led to the poor performance were over.
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Cup winners Heartland confirmed their supremacy over champions Pillars with a last-gasp 1-0 win in the Super 4 in Kano on Wednesday.
Pillars filed out with the aim to avenge their 2-0 loss to Heartland in the Super Cup in Port Harcourt, but they could not even in front of their fans.
Both sides played well, but Heartland were the luckier as new signing Happy Akuoka, who scored one of the goals in the Super Cup victory, scored the only goal in added time.
Heartland media officer Cajetan Nwokpara told MTNFootball.com that it was a game that spectator got value for their money as both sides gave good account of themselves.
“It was a fantastic game, both sides played well, in fact it was fireworks, Pillars came out to avenge the Super Cup loss but we won again. They played well but were not lucky. Our goal came very late and they couldn’t do anything to salvage at least a point,” Nwokpara said.
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Argentina international and Barcelona ace, Lionel Messi, deserves the fourth Ballon d’Or award, says FIFA tactician, Chief Adegboye Onigbinde.
Onigbinde said in a telephone interview with our correspondent, on Tuesday that Messi had been in consistent form since the beginning of the season.
According to the former coach of the Super Eagles, psychological, physiological, technical and tactical abilities were among the parameters used by FIFA in selecting Ballon d’Or winners.
He explained that Messi’s personal comportment on and off the pitch is commendable and added that that some people had mistaken the player’s reserved nature for arrogance.
Onigbinde said physiological ability entails speed, strength, agility, stamina and flexibility.
He said, “If you take two players, one may be very good in three of the physiological aspect. Such a player might score 8 each in three areas of physiological ability, leaving him with 24 marks over 50.”
“Another player might score six marks in each of the five areas of physiological ability. Such a player would be left with 30 marks. There is a difference between performance and result in football just as it is in day to day activities.
“Some other players might be good at creating scoring chances. Players could be assessed along this line too. This is why I said it is not good to assess games by viewing matches on the television.
“The camera’s angle the television gives you is limited. The creator of the goal might not be shown at all on the television.”
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Coach Ogoh Odaudu of Royal Hoopers of Port Harcourt, on Wednesday, expressed concern about developments at the basketball club, saying that the non-payment of their remunerations for 2012 was heart breaking.
Odaudu, whose team won the 2012 Nigeria Basketball Premiere League for the second year running, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria in a telephone interview in Lagos. The coach noted that the non-payment of the remunerations for the team last year was a big threat to its future.
He said, “We are worried about the present development for players and club officials not to be able to receive their allowances. This does not speak well for the future of the club. We have been told to be patient by the Rivers State Government, but how long will this be.
“We are talking about salaries for the season that ended last July. At present, we do not have a formal assurance of going into the 2013 season. We hope the authorities at the state level will call us for a round table discussion where every other issue will be settled.’’
Last season, the club defeated Kano Pillars 65-52 to retain the trophy for the DStv-sponsored league. However, the Port
Harcourt team could not go for the African Champions Cup due to non release of funds by the state government.
“We could not be at the African Cup because there was no cash. It will be a sad moment for me and my team, having worked so hard to retain the national title in 2012 and would not be able to defend it this year. I hope such would not be our fate come 2013 season.”
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China’s Li Na has come closer than any Asian to winning the Australian Open singles crown and, if she can avoid a Melbourne Park meltdown, is a good outside bet to add another to her lengthy list of tennis “firsts” next week.
The 30-year-old has a good recent track record at Melbourne Park, reaching the 2010 semi-finals, losing the 2011 final to Kim Clijsters and then crashing out to the Belgian in the fourth round last year having given up four match points.
Critics of the world number six, and there have been many in China over the years, would point to last year’s defeat as an example of the mental fragility that has dogged Li throughout her career.
At times she can be an all-conquering superwoman pounding her opponents into submission with her raking groundstrokes. Just as easily, Li can suddenly fall apart and, apparently unable to string two serves together, plummet to defeat.
There was just a hint of that fragility in her victory over American qualifier Madison Keys at the Sydney International warm-up event on Wednesday, where she lost the first set before reaching the semi-finals with a 4-6 7-6 6-2 victory.
“I was a little bit nervous at the beginning of the match. If you play the young player, you never know what might happen, what they might do on the court,” she said after tackling the big-serving teenager for the first time.
“It’s very good I could have (a tough) match before Australian Open to see how strong I am on the court though.”
Li stood down her coach and husband Jiang Shan after last season and has been working with Justine Henin’s former mentor Carlos Rodriguez.
“He gave me a lot of tough times when I was training with him,” Li said.
“First three days, my husband didn’t come with me. After three days, I was calling him saying, ‘Please come with me’. I was thinking about retiring after three days, because he’s really, really tough.”
The result has been a more attacking Li, even if she is not yet delivering everything Rodriguez wants.
“He feels I can still do even more,” she said.
“You know, it’s very tough if you’ve got new thing. You need time to recover. You need time to get used to it. So where once you needed time to think about it, maybe you can do it automatically.”
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