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                            The post-Olympics run to the WNBA playoffs was anything but kind to Los Angeles, but those struggles easily could be forgotten it the team achieves success in the postseason. The Sparks begin the playoffs Wednesday at the Walter Pyramid in Long Beach, Calif., with the opener a best-of-five semifinal series against the soaring Chicago Sky. The Sparks, the No. 2 overall seed in the postseason after a 26-8 regular season, went 5-5 after the league took a month-long break for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro but won their final two games. "I think Coach (Brian Agler) understands we have to get better but also prepare our bodies physically," said Los Angeles forward Nneka Ogwumike, who on Tuesday was selected the WNBA's Most Valuable Player. "There's more focus on small things, and I wouldn't say that we're going as hard as we were before." Ogwumike shot a WNBA-best 66.5 percent from the field thi

Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, the wife of the embattled Radio Biafra director, in the interview granted to the IBTimes UK speaks about the detention of her husband.  The woman expressed concern over the continued custody of the Biafra leader. She said: “Nnamdi is just a prisoner of conscience. He has been held nearly for two months already. He’s been held extra-judicially. And that is not right.” Mrs. Okwu-Kanu added that he is afraid of her husband’s well-being and supposed he was being tortured by the Nigerian state security service. “He was obviously dying. And there was no medical attention or anything like this,” Kanu’s wife added. The woman said that she had been able to speak with her husband only once since he was arraigned by the DSS as he travelled to Nigeria from London in the beginning of October. She cautioned that Kanu’s health is worsening as he is no longer able to take medicine for “his life-threatening ulcer”. Okwu-Kanu defended her husband’s struggle for inde

Ahead of December 5 governorship election in Bayelsa state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of plans to arrest some of its members with strong and influential electoral support base. The allegation which was contained in a statement by the director of publicity of the Restoration Campaign Organisation, Jonathan Obuebite, said the APC was planning to destabilize the party and its electoral chances. “We have it on good authority that the APC plans to frame up these individuals by planting weapons and ammunitions around their houses and then invite the police and JTF operatives to search their houses with the clear intention of implicating them in trump up charges of arm running,” he stated. “We have it on good authority that the APC plans to frame up these individuals by planting weapons and ammunitions around their houses and then invite the police and JTF operatives to search their houses with the clear inte

Ghana has been ranked as the second most corrupt African nation behind South Africa which is the most corrupt of the entire continent. Nigeria follows closely behind Ghana making up the top three worst performing nations in the corruption index. For the first time, people reported business executives as highly corrupt. Business ranked as having the second highest levels of corruption in the region, just below the police. According to a report by Transparency International, about 71 percent of people living in Ghana say corruption has increased over the last twelve months. A new opinion poll showed that most governments across Africa are failing in their duty to stop the abuse of power, bribery and secret deals. According to a report put together by Transparency International and Afrobarometer, majority of the African governments are doing really badly in the fight against corruption. In the Africa Survey 2015 which forms part of the global corruption barometer, 43,

After having seven beautiful children both male and female, ace musician 2Face has revealed he does not know if he still wants to make more babies. He spoke with Encomium magazine in a recent interview. The Africa Queen singer said: “More babies? Well, I don’t know. In Africa, you never stop counting babies until you stop, but I’m good, just kidding.” He also spoke about parenting as a father: “My job takes me away most of the time and sometimes I spend only two days in a month in the house, but I try as much as possible to create time for my family, despite my busy schedule.” 2face has seven children from three mothers. Sumbo Ajaba has two boys; Pero Adeniyi has one girl and two boys while Annie Idibia has two daughters for the ace musician who recently celebrated his 40th birthday in September. Next time you want to address 2face Idibia you have to address him as a chief as he now holds a chieftaincy title. On November 24, 2face was given a chieftaincy title in Kaduna

The chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu and Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN) have been asked to tender their resignation by an accredited observer over the inconclusive gubernatorial poll in Kogi state. This call was made by the Coalition of Civil Society Group . The coalition said the (AGF and INEC boss) stance on the election was capable of discrediting the election. According to the coordinator, Abubakar Suleman, at a press conference on Tuesday, December 1 in Abuja, stated that the group has lost confidence in the leadership of the duo, This Day reports. He stressed that the action in a sharp contrast with 1999 constitution as amended and the Electoral Act stating that the group would not turn a blind eye and allow the nation’s democracy to suffer nor neither will it be left in the hands of electoral umpire that cannot exert its independence and sanctity of the electoral