Michael Ojuroye Initiative (Ngo)

Suspended  Milwaukee Brewers  outfielder  Ryan Braun  told stars around baseball before spring training 2012 that the man who collected his urine that tested positive for synthetic testosterone was anti-Semitic and a  Chicago Cubs  fan in an effort to gather support throughout the game, three sources familiar with the conversations told Yahoo! Sports. Ryan Braun received a 65-game suspension from MLB for his ties to the Biogenesis clinic. (AP) Braun sought backing from Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp, whom he had beaten out for the National League MVP months earlier, along with Cincinnati Reds  first baseman Joey Votto and  Colorado Rockies  shortstop Troy Tulowitzki, among others, sources said. He reached out to peers in hopes they would publicly stick up for him following an expected suspension. ESPN.com first reported the subject of the conversations. A number of players with whom Braun spoke, including Brewers teammates, believ...

BY: FUNMI OJUROYE The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has condemned the rejection of a critical report on the Nigerian economy by the government of President Goodluck Jonathan.   Dismissing in its mid-term report the false growth profile of the Jonathan government, AfDB said, in reference to the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, ‘Nigeria’s prospect of halving poverty by 2015 seems weak.  The proportion of people living below the national poverty line has worsened from 65.5% in 1996 to 69.0% in 2010.  Poverty is higher in rural area at 73.2% than in urban area at 61.8%’.   The report also said, ‘Malnutrition is widespread. Rural areas and disadvantaged groups are particularly vulnerable to chronic food shortage and unbalanced nutrition. Forty percent of Nigerian children are stunted, nine percent wasted or thin and 23% underweight’.   The quotes from the report are completely contradictory of the claims often made by top Jonatha...