UEFA Announces 2017-2018 Champions League Awards Shortlist [Full List] - Sports

UEFA have announced the shortlist of players for the 2017-18 Champions League Awards. UEFA's Best Forward Shortlist: - Cristiano Ronaldo (Juventus) - Mohamed Salah (Liverpool) - Lionel Messi (Barcelona) UEFA's Best Midfielder Shortlist: - Luka Modric (Real Madrid) - Toni Kroos (Real Madrid) - Kevin De Bruyne (Manchester City) UEFA's Best Defender Shortlist: - Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) - Marcelo (Real Madrid) - Rapheal Varane (Real Madrid) UEFA's Best Goalkeeper Shortlist: - Alisson Becker (Liverpool) - Keylor Navas (Real Madrid) - Gianluigi Buffon (PSG) The winners will be announced during the 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League group stage draw in Monaco on August 30. Source:>>>>SPORTDAB.COM.NG http://www.sportdab.com.ng/2018/08/wow-uefa-announce-2017-18-champions.html cc; Lalasticlala, (Quote) (Report) 3 Likes (Like) (Share)

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Can't wait for that day to come. I just hope they are fair in the award, Corruption is everywhere in the world.

Tennessee executes man for 1985 rape, murder of seven-year-old girl he was babysitting

Tennessee on Thursday August 9th, conducted its first execution in nearly a decade, administering a lethal injection to a man convicted of the 1985 rape and murder of a 7-year-old girl he was babysitting.

Billy Irick, 59, who had spent more than three decades on death row, was put to death at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Tylee Tracer said.

Pronounced dead at 7:48 p.m. Central time, he became the 15th inmate executed this year in the United States and the first in Tennessee since 2009.

He was convicted of raping and strangling Paula Dyer in Knoxville. Irick had been a boarder in the home where the girl lived with her mother, stepfather and siblings.

Executions in Tennessee had been put on hold for years due in large part to lawsuits from death row inmates challenging the state's combination of lethal drugs and death chamber protocols.

Hours before the execution, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a petition by Irick's lawyers to spare his life. The lawyers argued that he has suffered from psychosis for his entire life and putting him to death would violate legal norms barring the execution of people with severe mental disorders or disabilities.

Tennessee state prosecutors have said Irick knew what he was doing was wrong, was competent to be executed and did not properly raise the mental illness claim in state court.

Irick and other death row inmates have been part of a lawsuit that seeks to block use of Tennessee's lethal injection mix, which contains the sedative midazolam. The valium-like drug has been used in executions in other states, a few of which were botched.

Midazolam does not achieve the level of unconsciousness required for surgery and is unsuitable for lethal injections, lawyers for the inmates have argued.

Irick's lawyers had argued that his execution should have been halted to give an appeals court time to render a decision on that matter.

Casting the lone dissenting vote in the Supreme Court's decision denying Irick a reprieve, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that if midazolam does not work, an inmate could suffer harm in violation of constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishments.

"If the law permits this execution to go forward in spite of the horrific final minutes that Irick may well experience, then we have stopped being a civilized nation and accepted barbarism," she wrote.

Paula Dyer walked half a mile to school in the rain the day she died. She ate her last meal as a cold supper of canned corn and peas.

She died in her mother's bed, fighting for air against the man she called "Uncle Bill."

"That was her last day on Earth," said Don Wiser, who worked the case as the Knoxville Police Department's lead investigator. "I saw her body at the hospital that night — just a beautiful little girl. You had to wonder who could do something like that to a 7-year-old child."

Billy Irick was 26 when he moved in with Paula's mother and stepfather, Kathy and Kenny Jeffers, already hardened by a life of alcohol, drugs and drifting.

He helped babysit the couple's five children from assorted marriages and relationships, even saved two of their boys the night the family's home caught fire in March 1985. When the couple moved to a new house on Exeter Avenue in Knoxville's Beaumont neighborhood, he followed.

Then at midnight on April 15, 1985, Irick called Kenny Jeffers at work from a neighbor's phone.

"It's Paula," he said. "I can't wake her up."

Jeffers came home to find Irick waiting on the porch and Paula's body lying half-naked on her mother's bed, a puddle of blood between her legs.

She never woke up. Doctors pronounced her dead that morning. By then Irick was gone.

An autopsy found Paula died of asphyxiation — maybe strangled, maybe suffocated by a pillow — after being raped twice, orally and vaginally.

Wiser, now retired, still remembers the burst blood vessels in Paula's face and eyes.

The family buried her with a Cabbage Patch Kids doll beside her in the child-sized casket.

The search for Irick ended the next day when a passerby's phone call led Wiser and other KPD officers to find him at the Baxter Avenue ramp to Interstate 275, trying to thumb a ride out of town. A few hours later, he admitted killing Paula, signed a confession — even made a few edits, Wiser recalls. He still never said why.

"At first he denied it and all, but once he saw we had the evidence, he admitted to it," Wiser said.

"We had the hairs from the bed, the neighbor who let him use the phone. He knew that physical evidence was there. But he didn't want to give us any details. He was ashamed. His statement was just a couple of sentences."

Irick told police Paula woke up in the night with a fever. She'd been complaining of feeling sick ever since walking through the rain that morning to school. Irick said he carried her to her mother's bedroom and lay down with her to help get her back to sleep.

Irick claimed he didn't remember what happened next, that he blacked out from drinking beer and smoking pot.

"When I lost it, it was when I raped her," he said.

Wiser believes Irick killed Paula to get even with her mother — that he was tired of babysitting, angry at the couple, looking for any way to lash out.

Kathy Jeffers had warned her husband she didn't want to leave the children with Irick that night, that she'd seen him muttering to himself in a half-drunk rage on the porch before she left for work.

"He blamed it on drinking beer and smoking marijuana," Wiser said. "Well, I've known a lot of people who drank beer and smoked dope, but they never killed any little girls."

Defense attorneys have since argued Irick's spent a lifetime battling mostly untreated mental illness from childhood abuse. Witnesses have said they overheard him talking to the devil in the days before Paula's death, that he complained of hearing voices. Wiser didn't buy it, then or now.

"Billy Ray knew right from wrong," the detective said. "He didn't stand the test of being retarded. He wasn't a pedophile. He knew what he was doing. Billy Ray was just mean. He was mad, and he wanted to get back at 'em."

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You couldn’t cut the pepper,” man decries his girlfriend’s inability to fry egg properly in Abeokuta, Ogun State After she prepared this. photos

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"Why I Ordered Invasion Of NASS" - Lawal Daura - Politics -

The sacked Director General of the Department of State Security Service, Lawal Musa Daura, has confessed that he deployed hooded operatives of the secret service to the National Assembly on Tuesday based on intelligence report that unauthorised persons were planning to smuggle dangerous weapons and incriminating items into the complex. His confession was disclosed in the interim investigation report submitted by the Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim to the acting president, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo. In the report seen by Daily Trust, IGP Idris argued that Daura carried out the siege on the National Assembly without the approval of the acting president. "The former Director-General, Department of State Security Service, Mr Lawal Musa Daura acted unilaterally without informing the presidency. He did not share or intimate other security agencies on the unlawful operations," Idris said in the report. The IGP said the purported intelligence report by Daura cannot be substantiated as the personnel deployed were not EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) experts or specialist in this regard. Masked and unmasked DSS operatives laid siege to the National Assembly on Tuesday halting lawmakers and staff from gaining entry into the complex. A female member of the House of Representatives, Boma Goodhead from Rivers State (PDP) confronted the DSS men laying siege at the National Assembly, daring them to shoot her. The Acting President, who sacked Daura over the invasion described the unauthorized takeover of the National Assembly complex as a gross violation of constitutional order, rule of law and all acceptable notions of law and order. The leaders of both the Senate and House of Representatives also condemned the siege as a “coup against democracy”. Meanwhile the All Progressives Congress (APC) hailed the invasion in what it called ‘timely intervention’ of the Department of State Services (DSS) in scuttling plot by Senate President Bukola Saraki to cause chaos at the National Assembly on Tuesday. https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/why-i-ordered-invasion-of-national-assembly-sacked-dss-boss-lawal-daura-265186.html (Quote) (Report) (Like) 1 Share (Share)

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Gunmen kill nine people in Benue

Nine persons have been killed by unknown gunmen in Tse Ujoh community in Katsina Alla local government area of Benue State today August 10th.

Confirming the attack, the state governor, Samuel Ortom described as unacceptable, the latest attack which left nine persons dead. Speaking through his Chief Press Secretary, Terver Akase, Governor Ortom disclosed that troops had been deployed to the affected area to bring the situation under control.

He assured the people of Katsina-Ala that steps had been taken to prevent further attacks in the area adding that three persons had been arrested in connection with the attack.

''Governor Ortom reassured the people of the state that his administration will not allow armed militia to continue to terrorize communities. He encouraged anyone with information that can lead to the apprehension of the gang members to contact the police, Department of State Service or the military,” the governor said

Also reacting to the incident, the spokesperson of the state police command, DSP Moses Yamu, said police officers have been drafted to the area to forestall any further attacks. 

“We got information that some militia suspected to be of Shitile attacked Tse Ujoh village of Ikyurav-Tiev council ward where nine people were killed” Yamu said

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Manchester United Vs Leicester City Today At 8pm -

Manchester United manager, Jose Mourinho, could be without 10 first-team players for their Premier League opener against Leicester City on Friday, the UK Sun reports. Injuries and lack of match fitness could make United begin the 2018/2019 campaign with a second-string side. World Cup winner, Paul Pogba, is certain to miss out having not yet returned to training following an extended break. Romelu Lukaku, Marouane Fellaini, Jesse Lingard and Ashley Young are still recovering after their tournaments with Belgium and England respectively. Eric Bailly and Ander Herrera both picked up knocks against Bayern, while Antonio Valencia is recovering from a calf problem. Nemanja Matic has been ruled out after undergoing surgery on an abdominal injury and Sergio Romero is still out with the knee problem which ruined his World Cup. (Quote) (Report) 2 Likes (Like) (Share)

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7 Common Mistakes You Probably Make In The Bathroom - Health

The toilet is one of the most used part but least taken care of. Bathroom etiquette is essential for a healthy living space so here are 7 common mistakes you probably make in the bathroom. There are some of the things you thought you were doing right but trust me after going through this list, you'll be surprised. 1. Flushing the toilet while the lid is up According to Charles Gerba, a microbiologist from the University of Arizona, Fecal matter and urine can fly as far as six feet away from the toilet bowl during each flush. Close the lid before you flush to keep those gross particles in your toilet and out of the air. 2. Sitting on the toilet seat too long People tend to use their toilet time to books, magazines or scroll through social media. Sitting on the ceramic throne for too long can cause hemorrhoids because the seated position places a lot of pressure on the veins in your lower rectum which can swell or bulge. The most common symptom of hemorrhoids is rectal bleeding but you may experience itchiness or discomfort around the rectal area. This is just a quick reminder that the toilet isn’t the place for personal time. 3. Keeping your toothbrush too close to the toilet Toothbrushes should be kept about four feet away from the toilet because, as noted earlier fecal matter and urine can fly from the toilet bowl when you flush and live the lid open. It should not also be placed on the sink due to splashes from soap and dirty water. 4. Not washing your hands long enough According to the CDC, all it takes is twenty seconds to give your hands a proper scrubbing with soap and water. 95 percent of people don’t wash their hands long enough to effectively kill germs based on a Michigan state university study with the average hand-washing time of only six seconds. 5. Forgetting to clean your toothbrush Researchers have found that about 10million germs of icky bacteria like E.coli on the average toothbrush. It’s important to rinse your toothbrush well after each use and occasionally soak it in vinegar for about 30 minutes to get rid of any leftover bacteria, making your toothbrush replacements every three months. 6. Overwiping The number one rule of wiping: Less is more. One or two wipes are usually all you need to clean yourself up after using the toilet. But wiping too much can irritate your anus and cause small abrasions that trigger inflammation and itch. If more than one wipe won’t suffice, switch to wet toilet paper or an unscented baby wipe to decrease the irritation and friction from wiping. 7. Placing the toilet brush back into its holder immediately after use Germs and moisture breed and multiply every time you put a toilet brush back into its holder right after each use. Always allow the brush dry completely after you’ve finished cleaning the toilet bowl so you’re not scrubbing the same bacteria back into your toilet the next time you use it. https://www.pulse.ng/lifestyle/beauty-health/7-common-mistakes-you-probably-make-in-the-bathroom-id8704036.html (Quote) (Report) 45 Likes (Like) 6 Shares (Share)

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