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Nigeria moved up to the 41 position in the World and retained the fifth in Africa in the latest FIFA Coca-Cola world rankings. The rankings released by the World Football governing body showed that Nigeria moved up three places from the 44 position in September, but maintained the fifth spot in Africa. It said that Nigeria had 721 points compared to the 696 in September. The report said that Tunisia became the new number in Africa and 28 in the world with 834 points while the former number on the continent, Egypt came second and 30 in the world with 818 points. Senegal is number three in Africa and 32 in the world with 815 points while DR Congo is fourth on the continent and 35 in the world with 751 points. African champions, Cameroon is sixth in the continent and 42 in the world with 718 points. In the top 10 ranked countries, Germany retained the number one position in the world with 1631 points while Brazil is second with 1619 points. Portugal is third, Argentina fourth, Be...

Actress Alyssa Milano has sparked a massive outpouring with a simple Twitter request that women respond “me too ” if they ’ve been sexually assaulted or harassed . More than 27 ,000 people replied , making “# MeToo ” the top trending topic through the day Sunday . The avalanche of painful personal stories comes amid a series of high profile sex abuse scandals — the latest one centred around powerful Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein . The intensity and breadth of the response highlighted that the problem reaches well beyond the rich and famous and features in the everyday lives of women around the world . “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too ’ as a reply to this tweet, ” Milano wrote . Many women appeared to be speaking out for the first time about abuses they had suffered and said they had to overcome feelings of shame and embarrassment to do so . – Broken trust – Others said they had been abused as children by relatives , or as a teenager by a perso...

Pep Guardiola says there is no chance that his Manchester City players will fall into the trap of over -confidence in their Champions League clash against Napoli despite their swaggering Premier League form . City demolished Stoke City 7- 2 on Saturday to move two points clear at the top of the table and are attracting rave reviews for the quality of their attacking football, with 37 goals in 11 games in all competitions so far . But on Tuesday they face a stern test at home against free - scoring Serie A leaders Napoli , who have had an even better start to their league campaign with eight straight wins, compared to City’ s seven wins and one draw. Guardiola , speaking after the Stoke victory , said over - confidence would not be a problem for his side , who are top of Champions League Group F after wins against Feyenoord and Shakhtar Donetsk . “If they think ( like ) that they will be stupid ,” he said . “But that is not going to happen . “I am going to show to my players on ...