Africa Eco Race: Ceci wins stage two and assumes control race lead

Organize two of the current year's Africa Eco Race took the contenders more than 393 kilometers from Moulay Domain to Tagounite

in Southwest Morocco.

Italian Paolo Ceci won the phase in the bicycles classification.

The Honda rider likewise moved into the general race lead.

Gev Teddy Sella took after his opening stage triumph with a moment put complete in Tagounite.

The South African KTM rider is currently one moment and 19 seconds off the general pace.

It could have been a considerable measure more terrible for Sella who recuperated well from an over-the-handle-bars spill amid the day's activity.

Russian Vladimir Vasilyev kept up his ideal begin to the current year's version.

The small driver won his second in a row stage to open up a sizeable crevice at the highest point of the auto standings.

He holds a little more than a 25 minute lead on Frenchman Thierry Magnaldi who was fourth on the day.

Crossing the stage complete line in second was Magnaldi's kindred comrade Pascal Thomasse in his Optimus MD.

Thomasse was just shy of 21 minutes off Vasilyev's pace however it move him up 16 places into fourth by and large at 35 minutes.

Andrey Karginov fortified his hold in the Trucks classification with two wins from two.

The Russian Kamaz driver is presently approximately 22 minutes clear of Czech Tatra driver Jaroslav Valtr.

Janet Jackson give birth to an infant kid at 50 years old

Singer Janet Jackson has brought forth her first tyke at 50 years old.

Together with her Qatari agent spouse Wissam Al Mana, the couple are said to be excited to welcome their infant kid who has been named as Eissa Al Mana.

Jackson who is the sister of the late pop symbol, Michael Jackson has not given out any insights about the pregnancy or where the infant was conceived.

She is a seven-time Grammy grant champ and has a sum of 11 collections to her name.

Self-ousted resistance pioneer announces appointment for DRC's 2017 race

A resistance pioneer of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Moise Katumbi, has pronounced his application for the nation's presidential race consented to be held in 2017.

He proclaimed his expectation days after the nation's political performers marked an arrangement intervened by the Catholic Church (CENCO) to hold races in 2017 rather than the past April 2018 date.

"I will keep on fighting towards the ascent of the Rule of Law … This is the reason I will be possibility for the up and coming Presidential race in 2017," Katumbi said in an announcement discharged on Tuesday.

The previous Governor of Katanga Province has been in a deliberate outcast in Belgium after he was indicted and later sentenced in absentia to 36 months in jail and a fine of $6 million in a property allocation case which he portrayed as political diversions.

"I would not like to make my circumstance a barricade to any arrangement, in spite of my out of line judgment and legal procedures. I along these lines acknowledged that my dossier would be taken care of by the diocesans of CENCO, that I trust completely," he was confident.

Moise Katumbi left the DRC to South Africa before he traveled to Europe to look for medicinal treatment in the wake of breathing in nerve gas exhaust let go by police when he showed up before a Lubumbashi prosecutor with his supporters to reply to charges of enlisting soldiers of fortune to topple the administration.

The proprietor of TP Mazembe club expressed gratitude toward the president, political performing artists and CENCO for achieving the comprehensive assention that bars Kabila from staying in office, proposes an administration of national solidarity until the decision this year among others.

"I need additionally to thank the President of the Republic, who has submitted not to stay in his position for a third straight order, as it is disallowed in our constitution. With this comprehensive assention, the President can't endeavor to change our constitution amid tha transitional period including by means of choice," he included.

Burundi bans 6th human rights association in three months

Burundi has banned another human rights association from working in the nation in the wake of banning five others in October.

The most established rights association in the nation, Ligue Iteka, has been banned by Burundi's Ministry of Interior for "sowing disdain and division inside the Burundian people group."

An announcement marked by the inside clergyman Pascal Barandagiye said the rights association's stubbornness required the total boycott chose by a Commission of Inquiry.

Be that as it may, the director of Ligue Iteka, Anshaire Nikoyagize, said the exercises of the association won't be influenced in any capacity by the boycott.

"This suspension won't in any capacity hamper the accomplishment of the affiliation's objectives. We will continue educating the national and worldwide group regardless of the possibility that the dangers against us keep on increasing," he said.

Ligue Iteka was incidentally suspended together with three others on October 24, 2016 while five others including – Forum for the Strengthening of Civil Society (FORSC), The Forum for Awareness and Development (FOCODE), Christian Action for the Abolition of Torture (ACAT), Association for Protection of the Human Rights and Detained people (APRODH) and Network of Honest Citizens (RCP) were banned totally.

The assents, as per the administration, are because of deviations by the associations from their missions.

"These affiliations are fairly bustling discoloring the picture of their nation and blending up contempt and division between Burundians," Barandagiye said in October.

In November, Ligue Iteka in association with the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) distributed a report blaming the legislature for suppression and state-supported viciousness.

'ASUU Members Are 419'- Unilorin Reacts To Union's Petition To EFCC

Administration of the University of Ilorin, UNILORIN, has precluded claims from securing misrepresentation leveled against its Vice Chancellor (VC), Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali and his forerunner, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

Review that ASUU last Thursday requested of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Ibadan Zonal office, charging over N2 billion misrepresentation against Oloyede and Ambali.

Responding, Oloyede, the present Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), rejected the cases, including that Satan was utilizing ASUU against him.

Ascending with regards to the team, UNILORIN in an announcement yesterday depicted the charges as "puerile untruths, to a great extent purge and just practiced to make it look genuine".

The organization expressed that those behind the request of were "foes of advance who are astounded at the pace of advance being recorded by the college every day".

The announcement by UNILORIN's Head of Corporate Affairs, Kunle Akogun, said there was just the same old thing new in the assertions.

He noticed that,

"similar colleagues made similar charges last August while shamefacedly kicking against the all around justified arrangement of Prof. Oloyede as recorder of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)".

"Furthermore, obviously, nobody considered them important, as even President Muhammadu Buhari is not uninformed of the due determination accreditations of the progressive organizations of the University of Ilorin.

"What the organization of Prof. Oloyede did was what the law and ICPC guided all colleges to do: that rather than the 7.5 for every penny being up to this point deducted from the essential compensation of laborers, the derivation should have been from the gross remittance."
Akogun included that the elucidation had since guided the administration's activity and the conclusions were being credited to the Pension Fund Administrators' (PFA) accounts as and when due, till the legislature began deducting from source.

"It is additionally a deception to affirm that the college's administration did not convey the unions along in all these. In all actuality administration met with the unions on the new advancement and all gatherings concurred that the PFAs ought to be credited the full 7.5 for each penny.

"It was the underlying under-derivation that was spread for installment over a 24-month time span. This had since been closed a few years prior".

Akogun, who named the candidates "displeased components" and "leftovers of the infamous 419," focused on that "their exercises inside the most recent one year had been focused at upsetting the college's continuous scholastic timetable."

He asked the EFCC to disapprove the appeal, noticing that, "we are sure that the counter unite office will appropriately transfer it to where it properly has a place: the junk can."

See Photos of Donald Trump's Daughter, Ivanka When Set To Move To New D.C Home Close To The Obamas

 

As the new first family prepares for the huge move to Washington, D.C., Ivanka Trump and her significant other Jared Kushner may have found another home for their family in the country's capital. The 35-year-old specialist and her land tycoon spouse have finished an arrangement for a delightful home in a world class neighborhood, as per the Washingtonian.

Various land sources say that Ivanka and her family will move to the Kalorama neighborhood of the city, as the 94-year-old as of late redesigned home the couple is said to move into is recently pieces far from the Obamas who are said to move into that range once they go out.

 

Kanye West Takes His Family On A Frist-Ever Trip To His Mother's Grave

Rapper Kanye West surprisingly, took his family: Kim, and the children, North and Saint, to his late mum's grave after the New Year festivity.

TMZ reports that the family flew on a private fly to Oklahoma city where West's mom, Donda was covered.

The rapper who was especially appended to his mom lost her in 2007 after different corrective surgeries.

The rapper had composed melodies 'Hello Mama and 'Just a single' to express his affection for his mom.

This must have be an enthusiastic trek for the family. May she keep on resting in Peace.

President Buhari’s Government To Spend N270b On 50 Bridges

Nigeria government has reported arrangements to spend about N270 billion inside three years for the restoration of 50 extensions, taking after the rot of a hefty portion of the current ones.

Priest of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, talked on Tuesday in Lagos, while reviewing the recovery of Lagos Ring Road Bridge.

He said government would begin with in regards to N70 billion to N100 billion in year one and that the extremely basic ones were being given need.

Fashola clarified that:

"We now have a three-year arrange influencing more than 50 connects the nation over for upkeep, repairs and reclamation.

"A considerable lot of the extensions we worked in the nation in the course of the last four, five decades have not been under any type of support.

"We now have a three-year arrange influencing more than 50 connects the nation over for support, repairs and rebuilding.''

The clergyman, who deplored that a large number of the scaffolds in Lagos and the nation over had endured disregard and had not been experiencing routine upkeep, guided designers to start work to realign the Apongbon connect

He watched that a few sections and light emissions longest scaffold, Third Mainland, were undermined on account of human exercises, sand filling and biological elements which brought about disintegration.

"The work we have come to assess was granted a few years back when there meant that a few mis-arrangements here on the Lagos Outer Ring Road which is the start of what leads on to the Third Mainland Bridge itself which is just about here.

"Also, it is being brought about by disintegration, sand filling and different exercises.

"This street has moved therefore of some sub-soil removal,''  Fashola said.

He criticized aimless stopping and exchanging exercises in a few sections of Ebute Ero toward the Third Mainland Bridge.

"I need to speak to those individuals who utilize those ranges as auto stops and exchanging to begin moving intentionally in their own best advantage.

"We plan to rest our privilege of way while work is going ahead on the Outer Marina to free movement,''  he said.

Scientist Creates Battery That Can Power Smartphones For 12 Years Without Recharging

A researcher has purportedly outlined a staggering new sort of batteries that can amazingly control cell phones for quite a long while at once.

Vladislav Kiselev is a Ukrainian researcher who has made a dazzling new claim.

The man asserts that he has built up a sort of battery that can control contraptions like cell phones and even autos for up to 12 years, without being revived.

As indicated by Oddity Central, Kiselev, a senior specialist at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry and Petrochemistry in Kiev, and teacher at Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, divulged his captivating battery model amid the 2016 release of Sikorsky Challenge, a prestigious universal rivalry for research ventures.

The matchbox-like gadget looks genuinely unremarkable, however the Ukrainian researcher guarantees that it has been persistently driving electrical gadgets for a year and four months without a solitary energize, and will keep on doing so for the following 11 years. That is on account of his "battery" produces vitality rather than essentially putting away it.

In any case, with for all intents and purposes all the world's battery makers and analysts attempting to concoct a genuine leap forward in battery innovation, how did Kiselev make one that he asserts goes on for a long time?

The senior analyst says he could do it by exploiting a key property of tritium – the capacity to discharge electrons. He includes that American organization City Labs additionally makes utilization of the radioactive isotope of hydrogen, however while they utilize tritium-secured sunlight based cells, he selected an upgraded electrochemical cells, which makes the battery 1,000 circumstances all the more effective.

So while City Labs NanoTritium™ batteries give low energy to gadgets like therapeutic inserts and different sensors, Kiselev's adaptation can be utilized to power expansive electronic gadgets and even autos.

The researcher adds that electrochemical cells like the one he utilizes as a part of his battery have been utilized as a part of Ukraine since the 1930s, yet nobody has ever possessed the capacity to utilize them for vitality era. He and his group could enhance the plan keeping in mind the end goal to accomplish this.

Strikingly enough, Kiselev says that in the wake of neglecting to secure research gifts for the venture, he and his associates supported themselves. Presently, in the wake of displaying the consequences of their work at Sikorsky Challenge, Kiselev says that he is in chats with both Turkish and Chinese business people to create a rendition of his tritium battery that can be utilized as a part of cell phones.

As to radioactive properties of tritium, Vladislav Kiselev accentuated the way that some radioactive substances are not unsafe to people, and tritium is one of them. It is really utilized as a radioluminescent light source in wristwatches.

Kiselev trusts that tritium is the fate of vitality, and cases that the way that 11 of the world's most exceptional nations are wanting to fabricate a universal combination reactor – additionally in light of tritium – to deliver vitality is confirmation of that. In any case, he includes that while such reactors cost several billions of dollars to construct, his tritium batteries are a reasonable approach to create vitality for up to 12 years.

How to permanently delete your Facebook account

Had enough of Facebook? Here's how to permanently remove your profile from the social network

Facebook can be a great tool for staying in touch with friends and family but, for some people, the constant bombardment of updates, messages, likes, pokes and advertisements can all become a bit overwhelming, not to mention highly addictive.

In a study by researchers at the University of Winchester, ten self-confessed Facebook “addicts” were asked to stop using their accounts for four weeks. Many quickly became isolated from friends and family and reported feeling "cut off from the world".

Ongoing questions over user Facebook's privacy practices – including a class action lawsuit in Austria involving 25,000 users that claim Facebook illegally tracked users’ browsing habits via software installed on other web pages, and participated in “Prism”, the American spy programme – are also making some people reconsider their membership of the social network.

If you've had enough and want to get rid of your account, you have two options. You can either deactivate you account, which means your profile disappears from the social network but all the information in your account is saved on Facebook's servers in case you decide yo go back, or you can permanently delete your account, which means all your data is removed and you will not be able to regain access.

Depending on whether or not you think you might want to return, here's what you need to do:

How to deactivate your account

Deactivating your account temporarily means you have the option to return to Facebook whenever you want.

1. Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page
2. Select "Settings"
3. Click "Security" in the left column
4. Choose "Deactivate your account", then follow the steps to confirm

If you deactivate your account your profile won’t be visible to other people on Facebook and people won’t be able to search for you, but some information, such as messages you sent to friends, may still be visible to others.
If decide you'd like to go back to Facebook, you can reactivate your account at any time by logging in with your email and password. Your profile will be restored in its entirety.

How to permanently delete your account

If you don't think you'll use Facebook again, you can request to have your account permanently deleted. However, after an account has been deleted it won't be possible to reactivate your account or retrieve anything you've shared on your profile.

Before you do this, you may want to download a copy of your information from Facebook:

1. Click the downward arrow at the top right of any Facebook page
2. Select "Settings"
3. Click on the link at the bottom of the main menu that says “Download a copy of your Facebook data”.

Then you need to go to https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account, click on "Delete my account", then follow the steps to confirm.
It may take up to 90 days for Facebook to delete all of the things you've posted, like your photos, status updates or other data stored in backup systems. While Facebook is deleting this information, it is inaccessible to other people using the social network.
Some of the things you do on Facebook aren’t stored in your account. For example, a friend may still have messages from you in their inbox. That information will remain even after you delete your account, so you will need to contact the recipients of you want it removed.

The top tech predictions and trends to watch out for in 2017

The annual exercise of looking forward to all the exciting innovations the next year can reasonably be expected to bring is here once again. Last year at Telegraph tech we predicted 2016 would witness the rise of mobile payments, the creation of smart cities that can think and function autonomously, and the premiere of virtual reality in people’s living rooms.

This year we’ve expanded our horizons somewhat to include moonshot projects, the social ramifications of technology and disaster scenarios. Here are our predictions of the technology events to come in 2017.

Driverless taxis appear in the UK

Self-driving vehicles have arrived more swiftly than anybody thought: Google and Apple have been experimenting with the technology for years, the Autopilot mode on Tesla cars has clocked up over 200 million miles, and every car maker is scrambling to get self-driving software into their vehicles.

Twitter's controversial head of China leaves after eight months

Twitter's manager for China, whose appointment just eight months ago sparked controversy, has announced her resignation.
Kathy Chen, appointed in April as general manager for the China region, which comprises mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, made the announcement on her own Twitter account.

"Now that the Twitter APAC team (Asia-Pacific team in Singapore) is working directly with Chinese advertisers, this is the right time for me to leave the company,"

She said:

"3/12 Great China is one of our fastest growing revenue markets in Asia Pacific for Twitter today and we remain committed to this market".

"4/12 We have grown our Greater China advertiser base nearly 400% over the past 2 years and we thank all of them for their support".

Like other Western platforms such as YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Twitter is inaccessible in mainland China, blocked by the communist regime's vast system of internet censorship.

Unable to reach local users, Twitter has tried to persuade Chinese companies and media to open accounts to reach a global audience.

Large groups such as the telecoms giant Huawei and state media have made their appearance on the platform.

Chen said that over the past two years, Twitter's advertising base in the China region had grown almost 400 per cent.

Her resignation comes two months after the announcement of Twitter cut nine per cent of its global workforce and as the company struggles to attract new users.

Smart bed can adjust sleepers' bodies to stop snoring

It's an ordeal a large portion of us are very acquainted with: being impolitely woken by substantial wheezing on the opposite side of the bed, while the culprit rests on dead to the world.

In any case, those days could soon be behind us after the innovation of a bed that naturally moves to modifies a sleeper's position when it identifies a wheezing fit, sparing their accomplice from deserting to the couch trying to get a decent night's rest.

The 360 Smart Bed, which can modify its bedding to fit distinctive body positions, track its proprietor's resting propensities and wake them at the ideal time, can recognize the sound of wheezing and accordingly raises the sleeper's head by a couple of degrees to clear the wireless transmissions.

Created by bedding organization Sleep Number and due to be put discounted for the current year, it can likewise warm up proprietors' feet and send information about their resting examples to an application.

The bed comes in the midst of another development in rest tech - contraptions which are intended to time-starved purchasers get the most ideal rest in the midst of their inexorably bustling lives. It was revealed among a heap of different gadgets went for enhancing rest at Las Vegas' Consumer Electronics Show, the innovation business' yearly showcase for the most recent contraptions, with specialists foreseeing a blast in deals in the following year.

Without precedent for the show's 50 years it has a "rest tech commercial center", devoted to devices, for example, quiet cautions that tenderly stir their client, savvy lights that copy the sun's steady ascent, and wellness trackers that can tally how often their wearers wake up amidst the night.

Among the gadgets uncovered for this present week incorporate the Nightingale, a speaker that showers the room in surrounding commotion to counterbalance clamors from outside or from different rooms, and a Bluetooth mid-section sensor that vibrates to urge its wearer into moderating their relaxing.

Gary Shapiro, CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, which sorts out the occasion, said it was seeing "enormous development" in wearable gadgets that are gone for enhancing rest.

The current week's show has 55 British organizations among the thousands going to and will this week be gone by Matt Hancock, the clergyman for Digital and Culture.

Samsung's chip, screen sales to drive Q4 profit to 3-year high -analysts

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is probably going to conjecture its best quarterly benefit in almost three years on Friday, examiners said, with powerful memory chip deals facilitating the torment of the expensive disappointment of a lead cell phone.

The South Korean firm suspended offers of the Galaxy Note 7 telephones after a portion of the gadgets discovered fire, cautioning of a $2.1 billion hit to its benefit in the final quarter of 2016 because of costs attached to a continuous worldwide review and lost deals.

In any case, speculators are wagering a surge in offers of memory chips and natural light-emanating diode screens for cell phones will mean solid income development for the October-December period and through 2017.

Samsung's working benefit likely rose for a moment straight quarter to 8.4 trillion won ($7 billion) over October-December, as per a Thomson Reuters StarMine SmartEstimate got from a study of 15 examiners, up 37 percent from a year prior and the most noteworthy since the principal quarter of 2014.

"We search for the memory business to post a major income change and contribute 50 percent of its (Samsung's) add up to working benefit for Q416," Daiwa said in a report.

Memory chip costs have spiked as of late on interest for more capability on cell phones. However, it is the offers of the higher-end 3D NAND chips which have mobilized altogether, helping Samsung rake in benefits given it is in front of its adversaries, for example, Toshiba Corp and SK Hynix in the large scale manufacturing of these chips, experts said.

Samsung's semiconductor benefit likely surged to a record 4.5 trillion won for the final quarter and 13.1 trillion won for 2016, Eugene Investment said in a report, including chip income will develop promote this year on firm request.

HDC Asset Management's reserve supervisor Park Jung-hoon concurred that the segments business standpoint seemed "quite strong".

"We'll need to perceive how the portable business does ... be that as it may, I believe Samsung's working benefit ought to have the capacity to come in some place around mid-30 trillion won range (this year)."

For the as of late finished quarter, Samsung's portable profit likely bounced back from the horrid second from last quarter on sound offers of the Galaxy S7 and S7 edge cell phones, experts said.

Hyundai Securities expects Samsung's portable division's working benefit at 2.2 trillion won, in accordance with a year prior and up pointedly from 99 billion won in July-September.

The organization's shares hit a record 1.831 million won on Tuesday this week in front of the income figure on Friday.

They surged 43 percent in 2016 - the most since 2012 - proposing financial specialists did not expect a genuine business affect from Samsung's name being dragged into a developing political outrage in the nation.