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Reigning double Commonwealth Games sprint queen Blessing Okagbare faces a tough challenge and will need to run faster than her 22.23 seconds personal best to stand a chance of making the 200m final when the semi-final is run at 2am on Wednesday August 17, 2016 . The seven-time Nigerian 100m queen came in first (22.71s) in her first round heat on Monday but faces another heartbreak in the semi-final after she was drawn in the same heat as reigning world champion Dafne Schippers of Holland and Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson who came second behind Schippers in Beijing at the IAAF Worlds last year and only early Sunday morning ran 10.71 seconds to win the 100m gold at the on-going Olympic in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Also drawn in Okagbare’s first semi-final heat are USA’s Deajah Stevens who holds a personal season’s best of 22.25 seconds and Britain’s Dina Asher-Smith who incidentally came second (22.77s) behind Okagbare in the first round heat. Okagbare, it would be recall

Residents in the Ajangbadi area of the Lagos State where shocked to the bones to discover a pair of lifeless twins dumped at a canal beside a filling station in the area. Reports say the bodies of the twins have been recovered as men of the Lagos State Police Command have opened an investigation into the death of the babies (two boys) who were discarded at the canal last Friday. According to a police source, immediately security operatives arrived the scene of the incident, a call was put through to the State Environmental Health Monitoring Unit which later removed the corpse of the babies from the canal. “A resident alerted us to the scene. By the time we got there, the babies were already dead. There was a crowd of onlookers; some of them were taking snapshots. It is probable that the babies were dropped by their mother for reasons best known to her . “We searched all the communities to see if we could find her or anyone who could volunteer any useful infor

Venus may have been habitable –NASA New research from NASA suggests that Venus may have had a shallow liquid-water ocean and habitable surface temperatures for up to 2 billion years of its early history. The findings, published this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, were obtained with a model similar to the type used to predict future climate change on Earth. “Many of the same tools we use to model climate change on Earth can be adapted to study climates on other planets, both past and present,” said Michael Way, a researcher at GISS and the paper’s lead author. “These results show ancient Venus may have been a very different place than it is today.” Venus today is a hellish world. It has a crushing carbon dioxide atmosphere 90 times as thick as Earth’s. There is almost no water vapor. Temperatures reach 864 degrees Fahrenheit (462 degrees Celsius) at its surface. Scientists long have theorized that Venus formed out of ingredients similar to Eart