SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Oshoala Wins Record Fifth African Women’s Player Of The Year Award Nigerian forward Asisat Oshoala poses with the trophy after winning the Women’s Player of the Year during the 2022 CAF Awards on July 21, 2022, in the Moroccan capital Rabat. ADVERTISEMENT Super Falcons striker Asisat Oshoala has won a record fifth African Women’s Player of the Year Award. Oshoala, who plays club football for Barcelona, beat Grace Chanda (Zambia/BIIK Kazygurt) and Ajara Nchout Njoya (Cameroon/Inter Milan) to the award. ADVERTISEMENT The win sees her overtake her compatriot Perpetual Nkwocha as the player with the most African Women’s Player of the Year Award. ADVERTISEMENT She was the only Nigerian nominee to make the 2022 CAF awards’ final shortlist. Super Falcons’ coach Randy Waldrum was originally nominated for Coach of The Year but dropped

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Security Council Considers Nationwide Ban On Motorcycles, Mining Activities The National Security Council on Thursday announced that it is considering a nationwide ban on motorcycles and mining activities in the country as part of its strategy to curb terrorist activities, checkmate loopholes and cut off their sources of funding. ADVERTISEMENT This was the outcome of the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja. Addressing state house correspondents after the meeting chaired by the President, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami stated that investigations are still ongoing especially to establish the correlation between mining and motorcycles which they suspect provide funding for the supply of arms to the terrorists. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT

SMACIN GRACEFULL TEAM Drought drives Las Vegas to cap size of home swimming pools A home with a swimming pool abuts the desert on the edge of the Las Vegas valley, Wednesday, July 20, 2022, in Henderson, Nev. Las Vegas area water officials want to cap the size of new swimming pools, citing worries about supplies from the drying-up Lake Mead reservoir on the depleted Colorado River. ADVERTISEMENT Limiting the size of new swimming pools in and around Las Vegas might save a drop in the proverbial bucket amid historic drought and climate change in the West. ADVERTISEMENT Officials are taking the plunge anyway, capping the size of new swimming pools at single-family residential homes to about the size of a three-car garage. Citing worries about dwindling drinking water allocations from the drying-up Lake Mead reservoir on the depleted Colorado River, officials in