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UBONG FRIDAY GOOD ENOUGH FOR CHAN EAGLES

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By Gigi The CHAN is a football tournament which was first announced on 11 September 2007. It is administered by CAF and is played between the best national teams of Africa, exclusively featuring players who are active in the national championships and qualified to play in the ongoing season. Over the years, CHAN Super Eagles is a collection of players in the NPFL with outstanding performances for their respective clubs. Ekene Ezenwa(FCIU), Mfon Udoh(Enyimba), Stephen Eze(FCIU) and Ifeanyi Ifeanyi(Akwa Utd) are the various outstanding players called up by Coach Salisu for this year's CHAN tournament Other notable names who have also been called up are Alhassan Ibrahim, Elisha Golbe and Rabiu Ali, from Akwa United, Plateau United and Kano Pillars respectively. Ubong Friday of Akwa United is another active and outstanding performer in the NPFL this seasons that has been ignored by the Coach Salisu Yusuf led coaching crew. The Akwa United star player, who was Federation...

AKWA STARLETS APPOINT NEW TECHNICAL ADVISER

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By Asuquo The management of Akwa Starlets Football Club of Uyo, in the early hours of today unveil Mr. Lawrence Kingsley as the new Technical Adviser to head the already existing coaching crew. The Uyo based Club has been without a Technical Adviser since the commencement of the 2016/17 NNL season. The Head Coach, Mr. Emmanuel Ntuk, was saddle with responsibility of recruiting, training and managing the technicality of the team until now. Coach Lawrence Kingsley before his latest appointment was incharge of another Akwa Ibom State owned club, Ibom Youth FC which is currently playing in the Nationwide League, a 3rd cadre league in Nigeria. He also had a stint with Gabros FC as the Technical Adviser, and between 2013-2015 had his first experience incharge of Akwa Starlets. While unveiling the New Technical Adviser to the player, the General Manager of the Club, Mr. Jimmy Joshua explained the need for fortifying the technical crew of the team, citing the rigours of both the ...

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

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Japan plans to put a man on the moon by 2030 This would be the first time that a Japanese astronaut had gone beyond the international space station Image: REUTERS 21 Jul 2017 The Asian space race is intensifying as Japan  releases plans  to put a man on the moon by 2030. Japan plans to join a mission to build a space station in the moon’s orbit in 2025, as part of a wider ambition by NASA to send a mission to Mars. Image: REUTERS By investing in the project, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA , hopes that it will win a space on the station, from which it would eventually send an astronaut to the moon. It would be the first time that a Japanese astronaut had gone beyond the international space station.