WORLD CUP QUALIFER

NIGERIA

 Nigeria, the Africa champions will today take on the flames of Malawi in Calabar. They will be battling for the first spot of Group F. The Flames of Malawi are trailing the Super Eagles with two point. The last time the two teams met on June 9, 2012, the result was one apiece. The other teams in this group have no chance of qualifing from this group. For now, Nigeria seems the favourite to qualify from this group. Anyone who wins will today's match, will top the group and qualify for the next round of qualification for Brazil 2014.    

Fatai Rolling Dollar is gone

Fatai Rolling Dollar

  Pa Fatai Olagunju also known as Fatai Rolling Dollar is dead. He died yesterday from a brief illness in Lagos.  Nigeria's oldest musician was buried this morning according to Islam religion.

Shakira after bith

The sexy singer Shakira shares her experience after given birth to son Milan. She and her boyfriend Gerard Pique welcomed a bouncing baby boy four months ago on January 22. She said that she is trying to lose the body weight and the process is very difficult. She has been doing Zumba workouts to slim down. She is trying to enjoy the motherhood rather than stress about her post-baby body. 

Moyes appointed to succeed Ferguson

After the resignation of Manchester United coach, Sir Alex Ferguson, David Moyes has been appointed as the new coach of the club. David Moyes has accepted a six-year contract. His tenure at Old Trafford starts from July1.

Adventures of a Miss!!

 I got this from http://www.romancemeetslife.com/2013/05/adventures-of-miss-episode-11.html#more and would love to share it.

    I might as well tell him now, I mean since we are both on this honesty road it might make things a little easier. Will the fact that Bolaji slept with Zainab aver 8 years ago matter when comparing it to the fact that just a couple of months ago I was still out with Muhammad?
    At the time, I didn’t think Bolaji was taking me serious though, I thought I was just the poor girl he was dating that he knew he could impress easily till he found daddy’s business partner daughter to marry. I am so confused, I don’t want to lose Bolaji, and it’s not because of the money. In the past, I had to keep my emotions bagged up because I thought he would eventually dump me but I realized once I let all my feelings for him manifest, it was the most amazing thing.

Me: “I have something to tell you but like you said you have to listen and not try to fight me as well. So a couple of months ago…”
Who the hell is knocking at the door at this time and interrupting a conversation that took all of the liver in me to bring up? Bolaji gets up and walks past me to see who is at the door but I couldn’t hear who it was since I was in the kitchen. I walk closer to where I could see without been noticed after I heard shouting and surprisingly it is Muhammad.

Tribute to a great Icon

CHINUA ACHEBE

     This tribute was written by my friend and i would love to share it
My tribute to the Legend Chinua Achebe :
   When I heard that one of the men I respect the most (Prof. Chinua Achebe) has passed on, I was not in a hurry to comment on the matter because to give one’s parting words to a legend like Achebe one’s words must be chosen carefully and respectfully.
    I fell in love with Achebe through his works most notably “Things Fall Apart”, “No longer at ease” & ‘Anthills of the savannah’. On reading his works I knew instantly this was a genius a work and since then i paid special attention to the legend. I have said it many times and I continue to say that I consider Chinua Achebe the greatest writer of his time in Africa and beyond. His magnum opus “things fall apart” remains a timeless classic till tomorrow.
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A Lady Used as Bait By Robbers Arrested

Joy

  A native of Benin city, Miss Joy Ekhoutorwhen and her gang use unpainted cab to rob their passengers in Lagos. A one time prostitute joined the gang through her boy friend, Ali Ibrahim in August 2012.
  She was arrested by the police at Ikoyi Division, Lagos, southwest Nigeria.

  She was arraigned before an Igbosere magistrate’s court, Lagos on a two-count charge of felony to wit, violently obtaining the sum of N30,000 from Mathew Agwu inside a vehicle, and thereafter pushing  him off a moving vehicle.

Angry militants in Bayelsa

 In Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, angry militants who are under the Federal Government Subsidy Scheme were seen protesting on the street. They were setting cars on fire. 
The militants are reportedly owed over two months’ salary, and their peaceful way of expressing their grievances to the government seemed to be ineffective. The militants seen on Otiotio road, towards Yenezue gene in the state capital are setting up barricades as they continue their protest.
One of the angry militants was quoted by an eyewitness as saying “I didn’t surrender my weapons to be treated like this. I know how much I dey make that time”.
Meanwhile, the Joint Task Force, JTF has been invited to control the situation before it goes out of hand.

Babies can hear syllables in the womb

I got this from BBC and would to share it.

Scientists say babies decipher speech as early as three months before birth.

The evidence comes from detailed brain scans of 12 infants born prematurely.
At just 28 weeks' gestation, the babies appeared to discriminate between different syllables like "ga" and "ba" as well as male and female voices.

Policeman shot himself accidentally

One needs to be very careful when there is a gun in your pocket. A retired New York State Police investigator,  56-year-old Robert Talbot of Ballston Spa accidentally shot himself in the knee while trying on new clothes in a department store dressing room. He suffered a self-inflicted gunshot wound from a .22 caliber pistol in his pocket. Although it examined that the injury is not life threatening.

Dead body in Cecil Hotel

Cecil hotel

  A dead body was found in a tank in which tourists  in Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles take water for bathing, drinking and brushing their teeth. The dead body was found to be Elisa Lam whose has been decomposing for more than two weeks.

 From the police report, the corpse was found by a maintenance worker at the hotel's rooftop water tank in which he was trying to figure out why the water pressure was low. The 21-year-old Elisa Lam was last seen in the hotel on January 31.

 The police are investigating the cause of her death.

Nigeria moved upwards

Super Eagles

After the glorious victory at the African Cup of Nations which was held in South Africa, Nigeria jumped 22 steps upwards from 52nd to 30th in the world. Nigeria claimed their third title in 19 years since they last won  the competition. In Africa, Nigeria is 4th best.
 Burkina Faso, the second best in the just concluded tournament, moved up 37 places to 55th in the world and 9th in Africa. Ivory-Coast, though beaten by Nigeria in the quarter final, moved 2 places upward to 12th in the world and remains number 1 in Africa. Hosts South Africa is 60th in the world and 10th in Africa.
 Click below to see first thirty ranked country in the FIFA ranking table for February

Oscar charged for murder

Oscar Pistorius

   On Thursday, this morning, South African Olympic and Paralympic track star Oscar Pistorius was charged with murdering his girlfriend, a model, Reeva Steenkamp at his home in Pretoria. The police found at his residence, a 9mm pistol and Oscar was taken into custody.
  His girlfriend was shot in the head and arm, although the circumstances were unclear. It was reported that he mistook her for a burglar.
   The 26 year old Oscar Pistorius and 30 year old Reeva Steenkamp for a year and have been communicating through social pages.

 

U-turn in Stephen Keshi's decision

Stephen Keshi

After the decision to quit as the coach of the Super Eagles, the winning coach Stephen Keshin has taken a u-turn in his decision. He made this statement on Tuesday morning. His change of mind was due to the intervention of the presidency.
 Earlier on, it was learnt that the Nigeria Football Federation had planned to sack Keshi before the match against Ivory-Coast and the NFF had chattered a plane for the Eagles to come back home when they heard that the Eagles are playing against Ivory-Coast.
The NFF is owing Keshi eight months salaries and an official car and also some amount of money meant for the competition.
 His statement is as follow
"My attention has been drawn to reports in the media that I have resigned my appointment as the head coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria," he said in a statement.
“While I have had cause to express my displeasure over some issues that happened in the course of our participation in the Afcon 2013, which my team won by the grace of God, especially concerning my relationship with the Nigerian Football Federation, I have since had opportunity to discuss the various issues with all concerned.
“I am therefore pleased to say that I have reconsidered my position and have decided to continue with my job. I want to thank the Honourable minister of sports, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, for his swift and kind intervention."
Keshi guided Nigeria to their first Nations Cup victory in 19 years on Sunday, and became just the second footballer to have won the trophy as a player and coach.

Salford crash

Scene of the crash

 In Greater Manchester, there was an ugly car crash involving seven vehicles in which two people lost their lives. 

 A red Audi was stolen during a burglary incident which took place at a house in Farnworth and was reported to the police. Few minutes later, the vehicle was spotted by a police patrol in the opposite direction and lost sight of the vehicle when they attempted to purse the car.
A few minutes later, police received reports that the Audi had collided with parked cars in Leigh Road, Boothstown, Salford, and that the vehicle had exploded in flames.

A number of homes on Leigh Road were also damaged during the collision.