This is interesting considering the near-monopoly that DSTV has on the EPL in many parts of Africa...
CNN Reports: The League hasannouncedan agreement for free-to-air broadcast rights with Econet Media, owned by Zimbabwean tycoon Strive Masiwiya, which will license matches across 50 African countries through its new platform Kwesé Sports starting with the 2016-2017 season.
"Premier League clubs enjoy passionate support across sub-Saharan Africa and these rights are important to ensuring that as many fans as possible can follow and enjoy our competition," English Premier League Chairman Richard Scudamore said in a statement.
The statement released also states: “The matches, along with weekly preview and review shows, will be available in 50 countries across the region.”
Speaking on Kwese and the Econet media deal, Masiyiwa, who is also Zimbabwe’s richest man, said: “Kwesé TV is our new soon-to-be-launched satellite and broadcasting network, wholly owned by Econet Media, a subsidiary of Econet Group.”
The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) through its Twitter handle has apologised to Nigerians over the failure of the Super Eagles to qualify for the Nations Cup holding in Gabon next year. This follows the 0-1 loss to Egypt in Alexandria last night. View tweets below:
We apologize for our inability to qualify for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations. We gave this campaign our best efforts but sadly fell short.
In what looks like a story the great playwright could have conceived himself, there is the news that William Shakespeare's skull is missing from his grave!
It looks like Shakespeare's skull really is missing from his grave.
That's what an archaeologist has concluded after researchers were
allowed to use ground-penetrating radar to scan the Bard's final resting
place, Reutersreports.
"We have Shakespeare's burial with an odd disturbance at the head end
and we have a story that suggests that at some point in history
someone's come in and taken the skull of Shakespeare," says
Staffordshire University archaeologist Kevin Colls, who says the
findings are "very very convincing" that the long-standing rumors of a missing skull are true. He tells Fox News that
analysis shows the "odd, strange" disturbance at the head end of the
grave is a sign "of material being dug out and put back again."
Per
those rumors, grave-robbers took the skull from Shakespeare's grave at
the Church of the Holy Trinity in England's Stratford-upon-Avon in 1794.
At the time, trophy hunters believed a person's genius would be
apparent in his skull.
Rumors also claimed that Shakespeare's
skull might be hidden in a sealed crypt at another church nearby, but
Colls' team investigated and found the skull there was that of a woman
in her 70s.
The team also discovered that Shakespeare was buried
in a simple shroud, not a coffin, and that he and his wife were buried
in shallow graves, not a deeper family vault as had been believed, Newsweek adds.
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The exciting fixtures are Dortmund vs. Liverpool and Athletic Bilbao vs. Sevilla. Braga and Shakhtar should be a fascinating battle while Villareal should be too strong for Sparta Prague
The exciting fixtures are Barcelona vs. Atletico Madrid and PSG vs. Manchester City. Real Madrid will be expected to defeat Wolfsburg while Bayern should be too strong against Benfica. I could be wrong though, football is a funny game.
