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World markets dive as Trump sparks trade, North Korea worries

Global stocks sank Wednesday after US President Donald Trump said he was not satisfied with talks that are aimed at averting a trade war with China. Equities were also dented by poor eurozone economic data, and as Trump cast doubt on a planned summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. “Trump (is) continuing to drive uncertainty over global trade,” said analyst Joshua Mahony at trading firm IG. “European markets are following their Asian counterparts lower, as a pessimistic tone from Trump is compounded by downbeat economic data,” he added. Markets had surged Monday after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said they had agreed to pull back from imposing threatened tariffs on billions of dollars of goods, and continue talks on a variety of trade issues. However, Trump has declared that he was “not satisfied” with the status of the talks, fuelling worries that the world’s top two economies could still slug out an economically pain...

10 Horrifying Stories Of People Killed By Snakes .

Arslan Valeev A young Russian man named Arslan Valeev worked as a zookeeper. In 2017, he accused his wife, Katya, of cheating on him and beat her so badly that she had a concussion. She left him immediately, filed for a divorce, and refused to answer his phone calls. In a desperate last-ditch attempt to get her attention, Valeev started filming live streams on his YouTube channel, saying how sorry he was for beating Katya. In his very last live stream, he said that he would rather die than live without her. He held up a black mamba snake, allowed it to bite his finger, and showed the bloody bite with tears in his eyes. He gave out Katya’s phone number, encouraging viewers to reach out to her so that she could come to his house to see him one last time. He tried to stand up to reach for something in the room, but the venom took hold of his body faster than he had anticipated. His eyes rolled back, and his death was broadcast live. No one called his ex. Only one viewer called an ambula...

Governor Eric Greitens Arrested After Circulating Nude Photos Of Lover -.

The governor of Missouri has been indicted and taken into custody for circulating photographs of his bound and partially nude lover, local media reported Thursday. Governor Eric Greitens was arrested Thursday afternoon on the first floor of Carnahan Courthouse in St Louis, according to an eyewitness report by a journalist from the St Louis Post-Dispatch. Greitens was charged with invasion of privacy which was apparently linked to media reports last month that he had allegedly threatened to transmit photographs of the woman with whom he was having an affair. The governor was charged Thursday after it was alleged that he had followed through on the threat and transmitted the photographs, the Post-Dispatch reported. Missouri law states it is a felony to take a nonconsensual photo and distribute to another person, according to a statement from the office of St Louis Circuit Attorney Kimberley M Gardner. “As I have stated before, it is essential for residents of the city of St Louis and ou...

Microsoft, Sidmach technologies bring 365 education in Nigeria.

Microsoft a multinational technology company has announced the launch of Microsoft 365 Education in Nigeria – a single, affordable technology solution built for education.Microsoft disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the Microsoft ‘Windows in the Classroom’ event, in partnership with Sidmach Technologies, an ICT firm. The solution brings together Office 365, Windows 10, Intune for Education, Minecraft: Education Edition and Enterprise Mobility + Security, in a single cloud-based package.Ms Jordan Belmonte, Education Programme Manager, Microsoft Nigeria, said that Microsoft provided easy and skillful modes of modern teaching. “With mounting pressure on educational institutions to continually improve students’ achievement and prepare them with skills they will need when they enter the workforce, the aim of Microsoft 365 Education is to get schools up and running faster through simplified acquisition and deployment. “This eliminates wasted time and delivers new capabil...

The great but controversial NFF awards.

Last Monday night was great for Nigerian footballers. The Nigerian Football Federation pulled out all the stops to put together an event to celebrate a sprinkle from a sea of great footballers that have represented Nigeria through the ages. Any way which way, the choice of the legends through all the generations is bound to generate some level of controversy.  What blighted the whole exercise, however, was the unjustifiable decision to lump the two sexes together in the choice of legends in every position on the field of play. For some inexplicable and unfortunate reason, that’s exactly what happened. For example, people are now trying to understand the choice of an Anne Chijienne (a legend in her own right amongst the female footballers) ahead of great male goalkeepers like Fregene, Okala, Ogedegbe, Enyeama, Rufai and so on, in the category of goalkeepers. Little wonder Emmanuel Okala was livid with the choice. Just for the records, Okala is the only goalkeep...

Russia’s Sergeyeva kicked out of Olympics for doping.

ussian bobsledder Nadezhda Sergeyeva has been banned from the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics after failing a doping test, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Saturday. The court said that she tested positive for the heart medication trimetazidine and admitted the offense, the fourth doping case to hit the Pyeongchang Olympics and second from Russia. Sergeyeva, who finished 12th in the two-woman bobsleigh, “is excluded from the Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018”, the court said in a statement. It said the results of the women, competing for the Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAS), would be discounted. The ruling came as the International Olympic Committee was debating whether to lift a ban imposed on Russia in December for mass doping. The IOC agreed to allow 168 Russians deemed drug-free to take part as the OAS under a neutral flag. But despite extensive vetting Sergeyeva and another Russian athlete failed tests during the Games. Curler Alexander Krushelnitsky was str...

Soldier Assaults Electric Official While Carrying Out His Duty In Kaduna. Photos.

The Kaduna Electric has accused a soldier of brutalizing and assaulting a staff in the cause of carrying out his legitimate duty. According to reports, the military personnel allegedly assaulted the staff - leaving him with injuries in Wurno Road in Kaduna state. Officials of the Kaduna Electric are set to petition the relevant authorities and pursue this to its conclusion in order to ensure justice to their colleague... Source;  https://www.nationalhelm.co/2018/02/soldier-allegedly-assaults-electric-official-carrying-duty-photos.html

Ex-Trump aide paid Europeans to lobby for pro-Russia Ukraine: papers.

Donald Trump’s ex-campaign chief Paul Manafort secretly paid a group of former senior European politicians more than two million euros ($2.5 million) to lobby for Ukraine’s then-leader backed by Russia, US prosecutors have claimed. The charges, lodged in a Washington federal court by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Friday, said Manafort retained the so-called Hapsburg Group of onetime politicians to “take positions favourable to Ukraine, including by lobbying the United States.” The group, which operated from 2012-2013, was managed by an unnamed “former European chancellor,” who along with other members of the group lobbied US legislators and White House officials, the indictment alleged. They were to “appear to be providing their independent assessments of government of Ukraine actions, when in fact they were paid lobbyists for Ukraine,” according to the indictment. Manafort, 68, has been accused by the team investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 US president...