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By NATION REPORTER

NEW Heritage party president, Chishala Kateka, has urged President Hakainde Hichilema to stop the self-praise because Zambians are able to see that he has failed to fulfil the campaign promises of improving the welfare of the people.

With help from an artificial language network, MIT neuroscientists have discovered what kind of sentences are most likely to fire up the brain’s key language processing centers.

Driven by the need for a better way to prioritize targets for drug development, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has led the development of a novel “genetic priority score” (GPS) that will integrate various types of human genetic data into a single easy-to-interpret score.

…Liverpool impress but facing spell without Mohamed Salah

WITH the highest expected goals in Premier League history and the joint-highest shots on goal this season, Liverpool are clicking into gear and developing into serious title challengers.

A busy summer transfer window, where they effectively rebuilt their midfield after the departures of Fabinho and Jordan Henderson, meant manager Jurgen Klopp probably did not expect his side to be top of the table on the opening day of 2024.

But, after only one defeat in their opening 20 games, they are.

A 4-2 win over Newcastle in a relentless and chaotic game, amid the wild rain and wind at Anfield, leaves Liverpool with a three-point lead over second-placed Aston Villa.

They are five points clear of defending champions Manchester City, who have a game in hand, and Arsenal.

“That is Liverpool’s best performance of the season,” said former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher on Sky Sports.

“Massive for Liverpool. Big result. That performance was absolutely outstanding.

“There’s been a lot of Premier League seasons but I can’t think of too many that have been as thrilling at the halfway stage as we have now, and so many teams in the title race.”

Former Manchester United defender Gary Neville said: “If you told Klopp at the start of the season that they would be a few points clear at the top, they wouldn’t have believed, but now they can start to believe.

“They are potential champions just because of where they are. Their manager is a sensational manager who knows how to do it and they’ve got three or four players that are world-class.

“If they get into that run-in, they’ll probably be the one team that Manchester City don’t want against them because they know they’ve actually beat them before.”

 BBC.

Liverpool now face a run of fixtures without Mohamed Salah, who will go to the Africa Cup of Nations with Egypt.

The final of that competition is on February 11, so if Egypt go all the way then Salah could miss eight games for Liverpool if they progress in the FA Cup.

That run includes Arsenal in the FA Cup third round on Sunday, and in the Premier League on February 4.

There is also the two-legged Carabao Cup semi-final against Fulham and league games against Bournemouth, Chelsea and Burnley.

Salah is Liverpool’s top scorer with 18 in all competitions this season. He has also set up eight goals for team-mates. –

…Sports PS Kangwa schools sports federations

By MICHAEL MIYOBA

GOVERNMENT has challenged Sports Federations to be creative and mobilise resources to help meet obligations for this year which promises to be a busy one.

Kangwa said resources will be scarce this year due to a lot of travelling which is expected because of a number of sporting events such as the AFCON, the All Africa Games and the Paris Olympic Games in France.

Kangwa said Government will not manage to fund everything alone due to the limited resources.

 “Government business closed last week Friday so ministries haven’t been funded so nonetheless our boys needed to be accommodated what happened?

FAZ had to come up with an initiative where they go and find a place for accommodation and then Government pays later because there is no money. The treasury has not released the money yet,” Kangwa said.

“There must be initiative on the association to say since there is no money, PS can you commit that we get accommodation and when the money comes you can refund us then we can pay that’s what we do and it is the same thing with air tickets.

Government may not have the resources now but the association has a good relationship with a good airline and they make a deal then we pay later so those are initiatives that associations must take because we can’t do everything for them,” he added.

Kangwa said Government had on several occasions gone overboard in certain instances and acquired debt in form of air tickets just to ensure that federations meet their international fixtures.

Kangwa said Government was determined to ensure that it does its part to support federations to meet obligations for this year.

He said the Ministry of Sports will however need to wait funding just like all the ministries as they receive funding at the same time.

“Government system works in a certain way. If the treasury has not released money today no matter what you do you can go anywhere, that’s how the system works but the money will be released.

As we want to support federations, we want them to meet their obligations and it is just that this is when now the government is kicking in, ministries are going to start getting funded.  Today is the second of January so there is no exception in government to say that there is a parallel system that releases finances for sports.

We have to wait like any other ministry, like education, agriculture, the time they get funded is the time we also get funded,” Kangwa said.

Kangwa however reaffirmed Government’s commitment to create an enabling environment to motivate the private sector to invest in sports development.

He said the government will work closely with sports federations and the private sector for the continuous growth of sports.

Since the turn of the century, US suicide rates have ticked up almost every year. Now, deaths by suicide are at their highest in more than 80 years, according to new estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

By NATION REPORTER

GIVEN Lubinda, the Patriotic Front (PF) vice president was on Monday barred from donating gifts to New Year babies at Chilenge Level One hospital by hospital officials for fear of losing their jobs.

By NATION REPORTER

THE Zambia Police yesterday sealed off the premises of the Patriotic Front (PF) secretariat in Lusaka in a bid to foil a protest which never was after a rumour on social media claimed that youths of the former ruling party were about to stage a march in protest for unknown reasons.

By NATION REPORTER

PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has implored Zambians to consider venturing into beef production because it is one of the best rewarding farming businesses in the agriculture sector.

By NATION REPORTER

INSPECTOR General of Police Graphael Musamba has advised opposition political parties to consider having indoor political rallies because there shall be no outdoor public gatherings until and unless the security situation in the country has improved.