Young Nigerian blogger Edward Popoola of JANGBALAJUGBU has won the award of Top ICT Educator in Africa. Unfortunately Eddy could not make it to the award ceremony in Johannesburg due to not having the time to get a visa for South Africa.

I got invited to the award ceremony, but as a result of the lateness of my visa application, I couldn’t make the award night in J’burg. Though it was not a case of visa denial, I was not happy all the same. I was however able to get Titi Akinsanmi, my sister from another mother, who is based in SA to accept the award for me.

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Arsenal’s top brass, David Dein and Keith Edelman signed a £350,000 deal with Israel’s tourist board to advertise tourism on billboards in the new Ashburton Grove Stadium. Although the deal was signed it was decided to delay the advertisements during and following the attack by Israel on Lebanon.

The Israeli tourism ministry has delayed the start of its advertising campaign with English football club Arsenal for fear of receiving negative reactions due to the recent war with Lebanese group Hizbullah.

The 515,000 euros deal was announced amid a mass of publicity in February this year. At a press conference in Tel Aviv, Arsenal’s managing director Keith Edelman said Israel would be the club’s “official and exclusive travel destination.”

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Madonna “adopts an African Child” - Some time ago Mad Kenyan Woman (Interesting that I find myself constantly referring to this post!) wrote

CLEARANCE SALE!!!! EVERY AFRICAN COUNTRY MUST GO!!!! PRICES SLASHED !!! BUY ONE, GET THE GOVERNMENT FREE!!! (POPULATION OPTIONAL)

Too disgusted to say anything more on this……..

WELL DONE GUYS!

Real Madrid 0 - Arsenal 1

Watching the Gunners beat Real Madrid AND in a Spanish bar - the only Gunner in sight has got to be the best thing since winning the FA cup last year. Absolutely brilliant - and here’s the MAN

We should have been 3 up, Henry and Reyes both missed chances  but hey we did it. The icing on the cake will be to watch Barca knock out you know who tonight! The chat is now all about can the Arsenal do a Liverpool blah blah blah. Give the guys a break.  Keep the faith people.