5 LINES OF THOUGHT

Joseph Parker will fight Anthony Joshua on March 31st (UK Time), with the fight being confirmed overnight by Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn. Hearn tweeted the confirmation of the much-anticipated world heavyweight fight, which will be held at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=11975131

Real Madrid manager, Zinedine Zidane, has been left fighting for his job in the second half of the LaLiga season, after his team were shocked 1-0 at home by Villarreal on Saturday. If their rivals and table toppers Barcelona beat Real Sociedad on Sunday, they could open a 19-point gap, although Zidane’s men have one outstanding game. There is also no guarantee that the champions will finish in the top four either as things stand, given Villarreal are now just one point behind them in fifth. Zidane’s side have now failed to beat Valencia, Levante, Betis, Tottenham, Fuenlabrada, Barcelona and Numancia at home this campaign. http://dailypost.ng/2018/01/14/laliga-zidane-faces-sack-real-madrid-manager-defeat-villarreal/

Chelsea 0 Leicester City 0 Saturday 13th January 2018 15:00 When your best mate is so excited about making it into the ground for kick off that he almost punches David Luiz’s mum in the face... Mama Luiz just laughed at him, but he might as well have stayed in the pub. In the News: Chequebook Pulis says that his row with Conte is now over because he intends to show him contempt. What has he been showing him up till now? Affection? My Virtual A*sehole Rage continues. I agree with Conte Re the lack of sufficient injury time. If it has to be ten minutes, it has to be ten minutes. I agree with Whinger too. This has never happened before. He says it looks f*cking bizarre and is nonsensical at the stadium to sit and watch the referee talking to himself with his finger in his ear while nobody present knows what’s going on. Okay, kinks will be ironed out, but fundamentally this VAR sh*t is the straw that broke the camels back in terms of treating the TV audience better than the peopl...

Alexis Sánchez will not play for Arsenal at Bournemouth on Sunday – the forward has not travelled to the south coast – and the latest indication is that he has come to favour a move to Manchester United over Manchester City. Arsène Wenger finally admitted last Friday that Sánchez would not sign a new contract at Arsenal; his deal is set to expire in the summer. And, with Sánchez’s agent due in England for talks, the saga has now entered its end game. City ready to walk away from Alexis Sánchez deal amid United interest  Read more Sánchez had looked certain to join City and enjoy a reunion with Pep Guardiola, the manager under whom he played for one season at Barcelona. City almost got him for £60m last summer and they have indicated a willingness to pay £20m for him this month. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/14/alexis-sanchez-arsenal-manchester-united-bournemouth-city-transfer

Wireless chip giant Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM) is the leading vendor of smartphone applications processors and cellular baseband processors (these components are often -- though not always -- integrated into a single chip). According to research firm Strategy Analytics, Qualcomm had a 42% revenue share of the smartphone applications processor market in the first half of 2017. A significant part of Qualcomm's success in the smartphone applications processor market has been a result of its strategy of building a broad portfolio of processors with feature sets and cost structures tailored to everything from $100 smartphones all the way to $800-plus flagship phones. One problem that Qualcomm faces in the premium portion of the market -- a part of the market that highly values chip performance and features -- is that the most successful high-end smartphone makers are stepping up their efforts to design their own chips. https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/01/13/qualcomm-incs-prem...

In this report, ANTHONY AWUNOR writes that 2017 was particularly  a safe year for the aviation sector in Nigeria and that 2018 would be challenging for sector agencies, airlines and other stakeholders in sustaining the achievements made last year.  Sustenance of Safety Records  The next 12 months will be a year challenging period for stakeholders to sustain the safety achievements that were made in 2017 in Nigeria .This is because last year was a very safe year in aviation, being that Nigeria recorded no commercial schedule service accident. It was same in 2016 ; it is therefore, expected that agencies, airlines and stakeholders would want to consolidate on such achievement. According to the director general of NCAA, Mr Murtah Usman, such feat was made due to lots of hardwork, training, surveillance and inspections. https://leadership.ng/2018/01/14/2018-new-aviation-challenges-ncaa-faan-nama-others/

Power generation in Nigeria increased by 1,100 megawatts in four days despite last Thursday’s fire incident that affected the Escravos-Lagos Pipeline supplying gas to some power plants. While the nation’s current transmission capacity was put at 7,000MW, network operational capacity stood at 5,500MW. https://punchng.com/power-generation-hits-4327mw-despite-gas-pipeline-fire/