Latest MSc, BSc and PhD Scholarship opportunities` around the world

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1. Matching Scholarships at University of Adelaide in Australia, 2018

2. PhD Fellowships at University of Trento in Italy, 2018-19

3. M.Phil Scholarships at University for Development Studies in Ghana, 2018-2019

4. PhD Scholarship at The University College of Cork in Ireland, 2018-2019

5. BSc Scholarship at University of New South Wales, Dubai Campus,2018

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PSG Star Marco Verratti Rejects Barcelona Again

Marco Verratti, 25, who is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain is not interested in moving to Spain.

 

Marco Verratti

 

Marco Verratti says he is relieved he didn’t join Barcelona last season, and wants to stay at PSG.

 

"Barcelona offered something different, but it was always my first priority to stay in Paris,” the Italian told Canal FC.

 

“I wanted to stay in Paris if there was a good project, since there were things I did not understand.

“Now I am happy with my choice to stay and I am more convinced than ever I have chosen well.

“Now I want to stay here, but the decision does not depend only on me, there may be a new coach who says he does not want me.

“I am good here and want to win titles.

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Study: What Three Cups Of Tea, Coffee Per Day Will Do To Your Heart

An expert from the University of Melbourne's Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute has opened up on what some cups of coffee per day does to the human heart.

Drinking up to three cups of tea or coffee per day could protect people from developing irregular heartbeats or arrhythmia, a new study revealed on Tuesday.

Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world and the most common form of cognitive enhancement.

However, more than 80 per cent of clinicians in the United States recommend patients with palpitations or arrhythmia to abstain or reduce caffeine.

But the new study which involved researchers in the University of Melbourne’s Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute along with partners in the United States consistently demonstrated a reduction in atrial fibrillation (irregular heartbeats) with increasing levels of caffeine ingestion.

The research analysed multiple population-based studies which involved 228,465 participants to find the frequency of atrial fibrillation decreased by six per cent in regular coffee drinkers, while a further analysis of 115,993 patients showed a risk reduction of 13 per cent.

“There is a public perception, often based on anecdotal experience, that caffeine is a common acute trigger for heart rhythm problems,’’ lead author Peter Kistler from the Baker Heart and Diabetes Institute said.

“Our extensive review of the medical literature suggests this is not the case.’’

“Caffeinated beverages such as coffee and tea may have long term anti-arrhythmic properties mediated by antioxidant effects and antagonism of adenosine,’’ Kistler concluded.

“In numerous population-based studies, patients who regularly consume coffee and tea at moderate levels have a lower lifetime risk of developing heart rhythm problems and possibly improved survival.’’

However, due to significantly higher concentrations of caffeine, researchers advised that energy drinks should be avoided for people with pre-existing structural heart disease.

(NAN)

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Tropical logging harms downstream water quality

 New research suggests even the most sustainable forms of logging in tropical forests can compromise water quality downstream.

Researchers from the University of Queensland and the Wildlife Conservation Society found commercial logging on the Solomon Islands is triggering large amounts of soil erosion, harming water quality and curbing access to clean drinking water.

The unsustainable rates of erosion, researchers argue, could leave large portions of logged land unable to support agriculture.

Tropical forests on the Solomon Islands are shrinking fast as a result of commercial logging. Ecologists and conservationists have documented the risks posed by forest-clearing. Logging can cause a range of environmental problems, scientists argue -- problems beyond just the loss of habitat and carbon storage.

"When land-clearing extent reached 40 percent in our models, international standards for safe drinking water were exceeded nearly 40 percent of the time, even if best practices for logging were followed," Amelia Wenger, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Queensland, said in a news release. "Loss of the upland forest will compromise local access to clean water essential for drinking, bathing, and household washing."

Researchers are using their findings -- published in the journal Environmental Research Letters -- to inform residents of Kolombangara Island about the risks of continued logging. Conservationists are working with local organizations and government officials on the island to protect a large swath of forest.

"Previously people in Solomon Islands made decisions about logging from a selfish economic perspective," said Ferguson Vaghi, local coordinator with the Kolombangara Island Biodiversity Conservation Association. "This study highlights that we also need to consider the impacts to the downstream environment."

Scientists say future land management plans and other parameters governing sustainable levels of logging must account for the impacts of deforestation on erosion rates and water quality.

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U.S And Allies Launch Strikes On Syria

The US, UK and France have bombed multiple government targets in Syria in an early morning operation targeting alleged chemical weapons sites.

 

President Donald Trump

 

Explosions hit the capital, Damascus, as well as two locations near the city of Homs, the Pentagon said.

 Russia's ambassador to the US responded by saying the attack on its ally "will not be left without consequences".

 "The nations of Britain, France, and the United States of America have marshalled their righteous power against barbarism and brutality," President Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House at about 21:00 local time (02:00 BST).

 "The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread, and use of chemical weapons," he added.

The wave of strikes is the most significant attack against President Bashar al-Assad's government by Western powers in seven years of Syria's civil war.

A 'one-time shot'

 At a Pentagon briefing shortly after Mr Trump's announcement, Gen Joseph Dunford listed three targets that had been struck:

- A scientific research facility in Damascus, allegedly connected to the production of chemical and biological weapons

 - A chemical weapons storage facility west of Homs

 - A chemical weapons equipment storage site and an important command post, also near Homs

Syrian state television said government forces had shot down more than a dozen missiles, and claimed only the research facility in Damascus had been damaged.

 Three civilians had been injured in Homs, it said.

 Reuters news agency cites a pro-Assad militia commander saying other locations were hit, including various sites close to Damascus: a military base in the Dimas area; army depots in the eastern Qalamoun; the Kiswah area, where Iran is believed to have been building a base; and a site in the Qasyoun hills, plus a research centre in Masyaf, further north. These reports are unverified.

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Apply for PhD Scholarship Opportunities in France, Australia, Belgium, UK and Canada

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1. PhD Fellowships at University of Strasbourg in France, 2018

2. PhD Scholarships at University of Wollongong, Australia,2018

3. PhD Position at University of Ghent in Belgium, 2018

4. PhD Fellowship at University of Victoria in Canada, 2018

5. CATS Undergraduate Scholarship at University of Birmingham in UK, 2018




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New in Yaounde: Chop and Carry

Welcome to Chop & Carry Fast Food

We combine energy & style to satisfy the ultimate consumer.

Talk of Innovative entrepreneurship, the first name that comes to mind nowadays is Ndinjo Stanley Awudu, the initiator of "Chop and Carry" fast food. Chop and Carry is making waves. It is a name worth memorizing to anyone who feeds the body that does the work. In short, Chop and Carry has shortened all kitchen huddles and above all, taken the most appropriate measures to ensure that the food you eat gives you the satisfaction. There is nothing better than getting a ready meal on the table. At Chop and Carry everything is 100% natural. African and exotic dishes all (bio) such as Water fofo ad Eru, Achu and yellow soup, Ekwang, Fofo corn, njamama and Kha’ati kha’ati, rice in several forms etc.

Besides Food, Chop and Carry also provides 100% natural juice

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UEFA Champions League Draw: Real Madrid Gets Tough Semi Final Opponent

Real Madrid has been handed a very tough team, as the UEFA Champions League semi-final draw was held today.

UCL Draw

 

The UEFA Champions League semi-final draw has been held. The games will be played on April 24/25 and May 1/2. Liverpool will face Roma as Mohamed Salah squares up to his former club.

 

Spanish giant, Real Madrid will lock horns with Bayern Munich for the 12th time in what has been dubbed a 'European Clasico'.

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Bayern Names Its New Manager

Top German club, Bayern Munich has finally announced a new manager to replace outgoing Jupp Heynckes.

Bayern hire Niko Kovac from Eintracht Frankfurt

 

Eintracht Frankfurt coach Niko Kovac has been announced by Bayern Munich as their new manager and successor  to Jupp Heynckes from 1 July.

 

“Niko was a player at Bayern, he is very familiar with the people involved as well as the structure and the DNA of the club,” said Bayern sporting director Hasan Salihamidzic.

“We are convinced that he is the right coach for the future of Bayern.”

 

The 46-year-old Croatian will start a three-year contract from July 1, the club announced just minutes before Friday’s Champions League semi-finals draw which left the Bundesliga champions pitted against holders Real Madrid.

 

A close friend of Salihamidzic, Kovac will also bring his 44-year-old brother Robert Kovac from Frankfurt as assistant coach.

 

Born in Berlin to Croatian parents, both brothers played for the Croatian national team as well as Bayern.

 

The elder Kovac was also coach of the Croatian team with his brother as assistant manager.

 

Bayern did not reveal the cost of poaching Kovac, but both Bild and Sport Bild claimed that his departure before the end of his Frankfurt contract in 2019 would cost Bayern 2.2 million euros ($2.7 million).

 

Both Frankfurt and Bayern last week denied that Kovac was on his way to Munich.

 

Kovac himself also said that “there is no reason to doubt that I will be the coach of Frankfurt next season”.

 

-NAN

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How Many More People Must Die for this War to End?

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This reflection is provoked by the fact that although everybody seem to be calling for dialogue as the surest way to end the now bloody Anglophone crisis, the situation on the ground seems to be moving from bad to worse. The cliff hanger situation has reached a level where whole neighborhoods and streets of our villagers and semi urban areas are all painted with blood, pain and wailing. No one family seems to be spared. The reflection is also inspired by the fact even a once little known locality like Sowi, situated off the jaws of Anyajua in Belo Sub Division, has only in the last few weeks, become a veritable symbol of Anglophone Far-Right extremists resistance. It is the more informed by the fact that although all of humanity is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the death and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., the father of non violent resistance, Cameroonians who have hitherto been reputed for being
gentlemanly, have rather indulged themselves in the worst form of beastiality that rubbishes the sacrosanct principle of the sanctity of human blood. This reflection, to say the least, is a cry for our beloved nation. If after the passion, crucifixion, death and resurrection of Christ, Cameroonians are fighting and spilling human blood, it means they are re-nailing Christ on the cross.
Truth is, those who are standing on the shadows of Martin Luther King and spilling human blood are to say the least, anathema. In the same light, all those trigger happy security operatives spilling innocent blood are also anathema. No responsible government can pride itself, the way Cameroon government is doing, of successfully and professionally killing its citizens, however extremists they have become. The President of the Republic and all the government officials may send as many congratulatory messages to Forces of Law and Order for what it calls their professionalism.  When the chips are down
and the costs are counted, it would be known who  professional and who was not. When the military shoots and wounds innocent civilians in Belo and Anyajua and block their being transported to hospital so they die of gun wounds, it is easy to know who is professional and who is not. Never in the history of war faring have the wounded been denied access to hospitals. In the South west, news abound to the effect that the wounded, even when they succeed to access a medical facility, are sometimes pulled out from hospital by rampaging soldiers and allowed to bleed to death. Oh, the sanctity of human blood. As Belo came under siege, eyewitnesses report of the military shooting at close range at a bike transporting a patient and caregiver to Mbingo hospital. The patient and caregiver later died. Call it collateral damage and you would have to explain why Amba boys are lodged at distant Sowi but Belo is paying the price.
 As we celebrate the 50th anniversary
the assassination of Martin Luther King, the father of non violent direct action, we are naturally tempted to ask why this sudden rise in extreme radicalism in Anglophone Cameroon. We are all agreed to the fact that injustices that have been meted on Anglophones since independence are to say the least, heartrending. Facts and figures to support the point have been demonstrated in triumphant detail. But if we were truly walking on the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr, we would have known as he put it that: 'When you are right you cannot be too radical, when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative'. 
According to Martin Luther, the man on whose shadow the suffering and marginalised Anglophones work today, '...darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that'. He was also of the opinion that 'hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that'. One of his most quotable quotes: 'Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique
in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it'. Some of the speeches and reflections of Martin Luther, as reproduced in last Thursday's edition of The Guardian Post, directly address themselves to the current situation in Anglophone Cameroon. Hear him: ' Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love'. And for him to enthuse that 'wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows'.
So, how many more people would have to die for this war to end? Both the government in Yaoundé and the Ambazonian interim governing council would have to provide answers. The highest I can do at my level is to ask the tough questions on purpose. I belong to the tiny minority that believes that there is nothing wrong with Cameroon that cannot be corrected by what is right with Cameroon and that the starting point could be a return to the 1961 arrangement. For those who bask in their ignorance by claiming that leads to secession,
I urge them to read emerging literature pointing to the fact that federalism did not lead to secession in Cameroon. It was rather the abolishment of federalism that led to the nursing of the germs of secession. That's one of the messages that the Northwest clergy, trade unions and civil society handed down to the visiting French diplomat the other week in Bamenda. We have heard and seen government ministers file past here in Bamenda claiming and/ or shouting about how government is out for peace and dialogue. But they ignore the reasoned advice of Martin Luther King to the effect that ' It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it'.
I ask again: How many more people must die for this war to end? Killing, either by Far Right extremist Amba Forces or by regular government forces, is evil. It is but tampering with the sanctity of human blood. It is evil and should be condemned by all right thinking people. Martin Luther King whom this reflection is dedicated to, once declared that: 'He who passively accepts evil is as much involved as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it'.
For the past two years,Anglophones have been so restless in their attempt to drink from the riverof freedom and liberty that they, like the two men in the Easter story of the journey to Emmaus who were unable to recognize the risen Jesus, are unable to realize that God has been journeying with them. Like Jesus who refused to reveal himself to Claupas and his companion on that journey, God may be refusing the quick solutions we propose to the Anglophone crisis because he has a better plan for Cameroonian. A plan which  maybe that in trying to free themselves, they also open the eyes of francophones and free them from the bondage of always thinking that government is always right and the giver of freedoms.
Once again, how many more people must die for this war to end? As you
put in your effort at your level to genuinely answer the question in memory of Martin Luther King's legacy, I, on my part, proposes a March for Peace with placards carrying the names of those who have been killed, both civilian and military that we know, as well as chain prayers for Cameroon.
That was the Muteff Boy's Take.

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This Week Latest Scholarships in China, UK

Find below Fresh Scholarship opportunities around the world. Apply for them now.

1. Chinese Government Scholarships at TUTCM in China, 2018

2. Human Geography Scholarship at University of Kent in UK, 2018

3. Interdisciplinary Scholarships at PSL University, 2018

4. Undergraduate Degree Award at University of London in UK, 2018

 

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How Facebook's growth banked on users opening doors to their data

Whenever you log into your Facebook account, you voluntarily share hoards of personal data with the company -- which is collected, packaged and sold to other companies for profit.

Selling information about the personal habits of its 1 billion users has been the business practice of Facebook for several years, but it has come under scrutiny in recent weeks, leading to CEO Mark Zuckerberg to appear before House and Senate committees this week.

Commonwealth Games: Eight Cameroon Athletes "Dans le Sosongho"

 Eight Cameroon athletes competing at the Commonwealth Games in Australia have gone missing.

The World's Oldest Man Is 112 Years

A 112-year-old Japanese national has been recognized as the world's oldest living man according to the Guinness World Records.

Masazo Nonaka

Miracles Show: Prophet Reportedly 'Turns Water Into Petrol'

 A popular prophet has reportedly turned water into petrol inside church during a service as the worshipers watch on.

 

The bottles of water reportedly caught fire

Climate Change: China Introduces Technology To Force Rainfall

China has proved it mettle in technology and research as it moves to alter the weather condition to cause heavy rainfall.

 

File Photo

Since 2013 China has been creating 55 billion tons of artificial rain a year.