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  • Kante ruled out of France’s final qualifier

    Kante ruled out of France’s final qualifier

    Chelsea midfielder N‘Golo Kante has been ruled out of France’s final 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier at home to Belarus on Tuesday due to a muscle injury.

    National team coach Didier Deschamps disclosed this after Kante limped off shortly after half an hour and was replaced by Adrien Rabiot during France’s 1-0 away win over Bulgaria on Saturday.

    The 1998 champions have now moved within touching distance of qualifying for next year’s World Cup in Russia.

    “I can’t count on him for the next game. It’s a muscular problem behind the thigh,“ Deschamps said. ”Kante and Rabiot pretty much swapped. It is fixed for Tuesday.

    “N‘Golo had a crucial part to play, obviously. After N‘Golo’s injury, Adrien Rabiot came on in the same role, maybe not with the same quality as N‘Golo.”

    Les Bleus lead Group A with 20 points, one ahead of Sweden, and will qualify directly for the World Cup if they beat Belarus.

    NAN

  • D’Tigress to face Belarus, South Korea for Rio Olympics ticket

    D’Tigress to face Belarus, South Korea for Rio Olympics ticket

    D’Tigress, the senior national women basketball team, have been drawn in Group C alongside Belarus and South Korea for the 2016 FIBA Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament (WOQT).

    In the competition’s official draw held at the headquarters of world basketball governing body FIBA in Mies, Switzerland on Tuesday, Africa’s other representatives, Cameroon, were drawn in Group B.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the WOQT will hold in Nantes, France from June 13 to June 19.

    The tournament is the final level of qualifiers for the women’s basketball event of the 2016 Olympic Games scheduled for Aug. 5 to Aug. 21 in Rio, Brazil.

    Qualifiers for the tournament were drawn from the continental championships, with Cameroon and Nigeria qualifying on the strength of finishing second and third respectively at the 2015 Afrobasket for Women.

    Group A of the event has Cuba, New Zealand and France, while Group B has Cameroon, Turkey and Argentina. Group C has Belarus, South Korea and Nigeria, while Group D has Venezuela, Spain and China.

    Nigeria will open their challenge against Belarus on June 13, before taking on South Korea on June 14. If they progress, they will take on either the Group D runners-up or winners in the quarter-finals on June 17, where success is a direct qualification for the Rio Games.

    If the D’Tigress succeeds, it will be their first-ever Olympic appearance.

    They will then be emulating their male counterparts, D’Tigers who qualified for their first-ever Olympics in 2012 from the OQT in Venezuela.

    The draw for the men’s version of the tournament, Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT), which will hold in three venues, was also held at the same venue on Tuesday in Switzerland. Nigeria’s D’Tigers have already qualified for the Olympics by virtue of winning the 2015 Afrobasket for Men in Tunisia, and do not need to play in the qualifiers.

    But, Africa has three other representatives seeking Olympics tickets, with Angola in Group A in Serbia, Senegal in Group A in Philippines and Tunisia in Group B in Italy.

    The Serbia event will hold July 4 to July 9 in Belgrade with Group A having Serbia, Angola and Puerto Rico and Group B having Japan, Czech Republic and Latvia. OQT Manila will hold in Philippines from July 5 to July 10, with Turkey, Senegal and Canada in Group A, and France, New Zealand and Philippines in Group B. OQT Turin in Italy will hold from July 4 to July 9, with Greece, Mexico and Iran in Group A, and Tunisia, Croatia and Italy in Group B.

     

  • Nigeria woos Chinese, Belarus IT investors

    Minister of Communications Technology, Adebayo Shittu said his trip to China and the Republic of Belarus was to woo investors to the nation’s information communication technology (ICT) sector.

    According to him, the trip would afford him the opportunity to attend an international conference on space technology in Belarus, a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, with a view to improving the nation’s cyber space and the telecoms sector.

    A statement endorsed by his Special Assistant on Media, Victor Oluwadamilare, explained that the trip also coincided with the award of a Carrier Spectrum Management (CSM) contract to NigComSat by the Republic of Belarus.

    Aside from attending the conference, Shittu would also pay a working visit to the town of Fxichang, where he is expected to meet with leading telecommunications’ players in China.

    He said: “The minister will also attend the launch of Belitersat1 satellite in the country which would afford him the opportunity to sell Nigeria’s vast potentials in the sector to investors all over the world. “

  • Photo: Belarus ambassador visits Osinbanjo

    Photo: Belarus ambassador visits Osinbanjo

    Political officer of Belarus embassy, Mr. Sergei Makarevich ; Belaru Ambassador to Niigeria, Mr. Vyacheslav Beskosty ;Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Director European Affairs , Ministry of Foreign Afairs, Baba Garba during his courtesy call on the Vice President at the Presidential Vila in Abuja
    Political officer of Belarus embassy, Mr. Sergei Makarevich ; Belaru Ambassador to Niigeria, Mr. Vyacheslav Beskosty ;Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Director European Affairs , Ministry of Foreign Afairs, Baba Garba during his courtesy call on the Vice President at the Presidential Vila in Abuja
    Political officer of Belarus embassy, Mr. Sergei Makarevich ; Belaru Ambassador to Niigeria, Mr. Vyacheslav Beskosty ;Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Director European Affairs , Ministry of Foreign Afairs, Baba Garba during his courtesy call on the Vice President at the Presidential Vila in Abuja
    Political officer of Belarus embassy, Mr. Sergei Makarevich ; Belaru Ambassador to Niigeria, Mr. Vyacheslav Beskosty ;Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Director European Affairs , Ministry of Foreign Afairs, Baba Garba during his courtesy call on the Vice President at the Presidential Vila in Abuja
    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with Belarus Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr.Vyacheslav Beskosty during his Courtesy call at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
    Vice President Yemi Osinbajo with Belarus Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr.Vyacheslav Beskosty during his Courtesy call at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
    L-R: Political affairs, officer of Belaru embassy, Sergei Makarevich ; Belarus Amb. to Nigeria, Mr. Vyacheslav Beskosty and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during his Courtesy call on the Vice President at the presidential Villa in Abuja
    L-R: Political affairs, officer of Belaru embassy, Sergei Makarevich ; Belarus Amb. to Nigeria, Mr. Vyacheslav Beskosty and Vice President Yemi Osinbajo during his Courtesy call on the Vice President at the presidential Villa in Abuja