Daily Archives: February 10, 2016

‘Sun will shine for Liverpool youngsters’

Jurgen Klopp predicted brighter days ahead for his Liverpool youngsters after they fell to an Angelo Ogbonna buzzer beater against West Ham United in their FA Cup fourth-round replay on Tuesday. A team featuring two players aged 20, a 21-year-old, two 22-year-olds and 18-year-old midfielder Pedro Chirivella stood toe-to-toe with West Ham at Upton Park until Italian centre-back Ogbonna headed ...

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Death toll in German train crash up to 10

The Latest on a train crash in Germany that has caused deaths and injuries (all times local): Police say the death toll from a head-on train collision in southern Germany has risen to 10 after one of the people injured died in hospital. Regional police spokesman Stefan Sonntag said one person is also still missing after the Tuesday morning crash ...

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Will Smith Talks About Jaden Wearing Women’s Clothing

Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith are all about encouraging their teenage children, Willow, 15, and Jaden, 17, to challenge the norms. Will opened up to BBC Radio 1Xtra about fostering individuality in their house, joking that they may have gone overboard. “That may have been a mistake, we may have gone too far,” he said. When the host asked ...

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Mou tells friends Man Utd job is his

Jose Mourinho has told friends and associates that he will replace Louis van Gaal as Manchester United manager at the end of the season, according to reports in several British newspapers on Wednesday. The Daily Mail, Daily Star, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph all quoted an unnamed source close to the 53-year-old Portuguese as saying his installation at Old Trafford ...

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Who Killed Tupac Shakur? 4 Theories Including the Latest and Most Unexpected Claim

Tupac Shakur’s 1996 death continues to spur several theories as to who killed the legendary East Harlem rapper. The latest unexpected accusation, from Los Angeles Police Department investigator Greg Kading in a forthcoming Netflix documentary Murder Rap on Shakur‘s and Biggie Smalls’ murders, claims rapper Puff Daddy ordered the hit. Kading, who led special task force investigations of Shakur’s and Smalls’ ...

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US election 2016: Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders have shaken up the US presidential race with decisive victories in the New Hampshire primary. Billionaire Mr Trump is likely to get more than twice the number of votes of the next Republican candidate. Senator Bernie Sanders, who beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton by a huge margin, said his victory showed people wanted ...

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Hong Kong to investigate police warning shots at clashes

Hong Kong police will hold an inquiry to determine whether it was appropriate for an officer to fire two warning shots during unrest in Mong Kok. Two handgun shots were fired into the air as hundreds of people clashed with police on Monday night. The unrest began when officials began an operation to clear out unlicensed street food stalls. More ...

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VJ asks govt to adopt ERTC recommendations

Veteran Politician Vernon Mwaanga has called on government to adopt the recommendations of the Electoral Reforms Technical Committee (ERTC) which was appointed under the chairmanship of Lusaka Lawyer Mwangala Zaloumis in order to improve the electoral system in Zambia. Dr. Mwaanga says the committee came up with many useful and progressive recommendations on how to improve the country’s electoral system ...

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ECZ maintains revised nomination fees

The Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) says the revised nomination fees for this year’s elections still stand. ECZ public relations Manager Crispin Akufuna says the revised nominations fees will remain as they are not until the commission decides otherwise. Mr. Akufuna has told QTV in an interview that stakeholders that feel strongly aggrieved over the hiked fees are however; free ...

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FODEP urges ECZ to educate electorates on ‘SMS voter verification exercise’

The Foundation for Democratic process (FODEP) has urged the Electoral Commission of Zambia (ECZ) to quickly sensitize people on how the Short Message System (SMS) facility will work in verifying their details. FODEP Executive Director Macdonald Chipenzi says there is need for civic education considering that not everyone knows how to use the SMS facility. Mr. Chipenzi says there is ...

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